Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
If you read my blog you are probably working with IT everyday and are familiar with the fact that all your family members (and extended family) use you as the family IT help desk - if only you could charge them your hourly rate... A frequent family help desk call is the one you get... Continue Reading →
Have you got a list of leads, potential customers, or existing database of people and want to identify or target those that are using Office 365? I can think of one or two scenarios where this would be handy! Microsoft have a free modern Excel Add-in called "MX Lookup" (available in the Office Store) that takes... Continue Reading →
When developing against the Microsoft Graph you may find yourself experiencing HTTP 429 Error Codes now that resource throttling is being implemented in different areas of the Graph. I came up against a strange and somewhat misleading one this week which is worth being aware of if you are using the Graph to access SharePoint lists... Continue Reading →
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a great tool for editing Markdown files. It's not immediately obvious that VSCode comes out of the box with the capability to preview Markdown files and even provide a side by side live preview view so you can see the result as you are modifying the file. In VSCode opening... Continue Reading →
The last few years have seen an explosion in the number of tools available for us to communicate not only at a consumer level, but also in the context of our workplace both internally within companies and externally between companies. I primarily work with Microsoft technologies, but even within that small sphere the options are... Continue Reading →
Excited, proud, honoured, humbled, grateful, stupidly happy.... all emotions that hit me simultaneously as I opened the email that gave me the news that I had been presented the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for my work in Office Development. I've been incredibly fortunate to work with some really awesome people both in the... Continue Reading →
I had a great time on my first visit to the Newcastle Coders Group this week. It was nice to meet some passionate developers and hear what people are up to outside of my usual Microsoft sphere. Thanks for having me talk about modern Office add-in development. Here’s the slide deck from the evenings talk.... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Sydney SharePoint User Group on the topic of transitioning to the modern Office Add-in development model. We discussed: The existing COM/VSTO Office Add-in development model The reasons and drivers for needing a new development model What the modern Office Add-in development is and how it... Continue Reading →
The Transition to Modern Office Add-in Development Microsoft SharePoint is developed by the same team responsible for the Microsoft Office desktop applications. There has always been a strong connection between these products. Up until recently, developers who wanted to integrate Word, Excel, PowerPoint with SharePoint would use the COM add-in model. But now Microsoft has... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 