Damon Armstrong 09 October 2018

Introduction to Vue.js with a Single Page Application (SPA) in Visual Studio

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Vue.js is a versatile JavaScript Framework that has many benefits for the developer building .NET web applications. It is, however, not easy to get started with this framework. In this article, Damon Armstrong provides an introduction to Vue.js.… Read more

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Damon Armstrong 08 August 2018

WPF Menu Displays to the Left of the Window

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I remember the first time I used WPF. It was a while ago. So long ago, if I am remembering correctly, that there was no text box control. No, I am not joking. Microsoft stated that the workaround was to simply create your own textbox using WPF because it was so easy and awesome. I distinctly … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 19 April 2016

SharePoint’s Way of Saying Your String is Too Long

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I accidentally defined a field in a SharePoint list as a text field instead of a multiline text field and when I went to save a very long XML string into that field I received the following message: Invalid text value. A text field contains invalid data. Please check the value and try again. Since … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 19 April 2016

How to Configure Mapped Properties for Users in O365

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I was troubleshooting one of our products in O365 and ran into an issue where search results were not coming back. So I popped open the SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool and started to look into the problem, and about two minutes into the process I remembered that SharePoint search is infuriating. My query worked … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 05 February 2016

Fixing the "The operation took too long" Error in O365

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I was attempting to deploy a provider-hosted application to my O365 instance and it was failing with an extremely helpful message reading “The operation took too long”. In the past, we’ve seen situations where a remote event receiver took too long to execute, but the message that comes back says something about the remote event … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 28 January 2016

Fixing the File Not Found Error Opening a SharePoint Site with Spaces in the URL using Site.OpenWeb

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I was investigating a bug in the SharePoint app I’m working on where a function was failing on sites with URLs containing spaces. Although I’m not a fan of creating sites with spaces in the URL, SharePoint lets you do it so it’s going to happen. At first, I thought the issue would be easy … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 14 January 2016

Making SharePoint App Access Token Caching work in MVC

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I’ve put together a couple of SharePoint Apps that use MVC to run the remote web application. When you use MVC for a SharePoint remote web, Visual Studio automatically includes some helpful files to help manage the SharePoint access token. I decided to go ahead and try to use these files to help me out, … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 13 January 2016

Utility for Renaming Visual Studio Windows

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Gimmal has a wide array of products, and most of those products have gone through multiple releases. This means that I often find myself running two or three instances of Visual Studio with different versions of the same solution. Trying to tab between them while keeping tabs on which version goes with which instance can … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 06 January 2016

SharePoint CSOM: Fixing the “Value does not fall within the expected range” Error Calling GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl

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There are times when you just need to get a reference to a folder in the master page gallery of a site collection using CSOM, and that’s where I found myself the other day. I had a SharePoint context, so I attempted to get my folder using: var folder = clientContext.Web.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl( "/_catalogs/masterpage/SomeFolder") Unfortunately, instead … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 23 November 2015

Missing or Invalid property value for $(MsDeployServiceUrl) Building SharePoint Apps

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I was using an automated build to package up a SharePoint App when I received the following error: Missing or Invalid property value for $(MsDeployServiceUrl) I used grepWin to search through our project files looking for any references to this value and found none, leading me to initially believe that it was in fact missing. … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 20 October 2015

Getting the Absolute URL of a File in CSOM

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Sometimes you need the absolute URL of a file in SharePoint, and if you happen to just have the absolute URL then you are in luck. I suppose, however, that if you already have the absolute URL then you wouldn’t be here reading about how to to get it. It’s more likely that you have … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 05 October 2015

Key Points to Know When Using SP.SOD.executeFunc and SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded

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So there I was trying to get SharePoint’s script on demand (SOD) working correctly and I thought I had it all figured out. I ran across a post called SharePoint Scripts on Demand which covers the topic very thoroughly, but there is some behavior between executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded and executeFunc that I don’t think is really clearly … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 16 July 2015

An Odd Behavior with the ServerRelativeUrl Property in CSOM

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I was attempting to build a query using the ClientContext.LoadQuery method because it has some performance benefits that make it a useful approach for querying SharePoint. I was attempting to query a specific list using the ServerRelativeUrl property on the RootFolder on the List, but I only had the site-relative URL of the list. So … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 09 July 2015

How to Start JavaScript Debugging at Just the Right Time

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Here is the scenario: you have inherited a project and you need to debug some issues with JavaScript on a page when a user clicks a button. You have no idea where that JavaScript resides and you don’t want to pour through a bunch of files to figure it out. You know the error occurs … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 16 June 2015

Incorrect Client ID in SharePoint App Package

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Interesting issue today. I was attempting to install a SharePoint app today and ran into the following error: 8fff7a1f-f0ea-4d73-8c7d-aa97279b6d20 Stack trace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPUser.get_UserToken() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Lifecycle.SPAppLifecycleEventCalloutTask.CallRemoteEventReceiver(Uri url, SPAppInstance instance) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Lifecycle.SPAppLifecycleEventCalloutTask.CallRemoteEventReceiver(SPAppInstance instance) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Lifecycle.SPAppLifecycleEventCalloutTask.Deploy() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAppTask.DeployOperation() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Lifecycle.MonitoredTaskExecution.DoTask() at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx) … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 22 April 2015

High Trust Certificate Error Adding App to Site in SharePoint

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I was deploying a SharePoint App-Model app in my development environment. It went into the catalog just fine, but it failed when trying to add it to a SharePoint site. It uses a remote web and has application install event receivers. The helpful error message that came back just said that the event receivers failed … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 12 March 2015

Fixing “An update error has occurred” When Modifying Alternate Access Mappings in SharePoint

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A while back, I made change to my SharePoint configuration to modify my alternate access mappings. For some unknown reason, the mappings keep reverting back to their original state and when I go to modify them again, I get the following error: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 17 February 2015

Get-WFFarm and Troubleshooting Register-SPWorklfowService

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I was helping a colleague configure workflow on his SharePoint development environment when we ran into an issue running the Register-SPWorkflowService cmdlet: Register-SPWorkflowService : An internal error occured. For more details, please see the server logs. Client ActivityId : af6ae27e-02cc-4aed-914d-a59d21d23427. At line:1 char:1 + Register-SPWorkflowService -spsite https://siteUrl/sites/Site ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...WorkflowService: … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 16 February 2015

Fixing the “Content Processing Pipeline Failed to Process the Item" and "Cannot Load Wordbreaker for en or the Fall Back" Errors in SharePoint Search

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I was attempting to search for something in my development SharePoint farm and couldn’t find it. So I ran the crawler and attempted again. Still couldn’t find it. After poking around, I saw in the error logs that I had 5000+ errors during the search crawl, most of which said something about “the content processing … Read more

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Damon Armstrong 10 February 2015

SharePoint Apps: Blank Page Displayed when Navigating to App

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I was trying to get a SharePoint app up and running in our environment but was running into a bit of an oddity. After clicking on our App’s icon in Site Contents, I was taken to a blank page. It wasn’t a SharePoint error page. It wasn’t an IIS error page. It was just a … Read more

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