Responsive SPFx Controls with Fabric UI React
Have you ever built a control that you want to have behaving differently depending on whether you're working on a mobile device or a desktop? For example, showing a callout…
Staying Signed Into Multiple Office365 Tenants with Google Chrome Profiles
As a SharePoint developer working with multiple customer tenants, I find myself logging in and out of different accounts continuously. At best I could use InPrivate windows to be signed…
Why can’t I create a new site collection in SP Online ?
This week I encountered a strange feature of the SharePoint Online Admin module. I was trying to create a fresh site collection to migrate an existing site collection to, but…
The Mystery of the Empty Search Result Fields
Today my colleague Roel and I ran into a problem that had us baffled. To set the scene; we were migrating a news aggregation platform to Office 365 consisting of…
Pro Tip: where did my deleted SharePoint Hosted Add-In listitem go to?
A client for whom we had built a SharePoint Hosted Add-in consisting of multiple inter-connected SharePoint lists, deleted a list item from one of the lists. This list item was…
Working with SPFx projects in Visual Studio 2017 (or: how to avoid Visual Studio Code)
I like the SharePoint Framework. It's new, it's fast and it's miles ahead of what we've had before. I even like Node.js, NPM, Yeoman and the rest of the development…
What happened to the SP Online Social REST API?
Last month I encountered a strange issue with the SharePoint Online REST API when trying to implement a feature for a social intranet we are building for one of our…
Upgrading SPFx 1.0 React WebParts
When the SharePoint Framework first came out I spent a good amount of time porting over ‘old’ webparts to the new Modern standard. When someone discovered a bug in one…