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Years ago, I lost my Space Crusade manual. I combed the Internet to find people that had it, and could scan it for me. In return, I scanned most of my...

One Flow to handle them all - how to subscribe to multiple SharePoint lists with one Flow At some point - we think hmm how do we save a Flow as a template...

In this quick blog post - we talk about how we can tweak the “Modified By” user field and “Modified” datetime field in SharePoint list and document...

I can't think of a way to do "ForEach Property Of JSON" in MicrosoftFlow or LogicApps - so I came up with this method that involves XPath. Take example this...

When working with data in Power Automate, you may encounter nested arrays (arrays within arrays) —especially when dealing with JSON responses, SharePoint...

Parse JSON can be both intelligent and dumb. It can help you a lot and it can hinder you just as much. This blog post, we go deep and study the behaviour of...

Are you missing a SharePoint connector in Flow? Do you need that one extra thing that's only in PnP-PowerShell (because there are 300 cmdlets in...

This is a crazy one, and if you have read ALL my Microsoft Flow blog posts, you'll be familiar with all these pieces. We are going to connect them a...

This is #FlowNinjaHack 126 Sometimes, we have complex Condition blocks in Power Automate. And when we run the flow, it just shows “false”, which is a bit...

Less than one day after I wrote about Taking a picture with PowerApps and sending to SharePoint with help of Azure Functions - I was looking at Flow to do...

This is a problem I worked on with Fausto and is a common problem I see when working with rows of data in Microsoft Flow. Plan Scenario: Group By Doing...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] Photo by Sophie Elvis on Unsplash [/caption] For some reason, Flow (and LogicApps) doesn’t have a built in...

There are two Excel Connectors in Microsoft Flow. There’s a quirk to work with them. Plan Two Connectors How do we use them? What’s the problem we need this...

Problem: In Power BI data transformation, we have useful methods such as DateTime.UtsNow() and DateTime.LocalNow() they work great when running from a...

Starting in August 2025, we’ve begun to see this warning a lot in our Power Automate flows that uses HTTP Request (or Team Webhook) triggers. The old url...

We are introducing our favourite new child to the Flow Studio family of tools. This is Flow Studio MCP. Flow Studio MCP is a purpose-built MCP server that...

This is a blog post about how using Data Operations - Select in Microsoft Flow can dramatically simplify Create HTML Table or Create CSV. This is mostly...

Last week, XKCD (of nerd comic fame) produced this most excellent comic http://xkcd.com/now/ This complex looking image describes essentially an...

Hi, it’s 5am, I can’t sleep, I had these two Flow ideas that are really cool. First is a super fun trick with chunk() Select join() coalesce() No loops. No...

A very common request in Microsoft Flow for SharePoint is a trigger that only runs when a certain field has changed, or when it has changed to a certain...

I had previously wrote a method of using Microsoft Flow to subscribe to all the lists in a SharePoint site - and how to have them all call a second Request...

In Power BI we have the ability to use dynamic value within a text block, this allows us to create dynamic paragraphs with data that automatically update....

In this scenario, we have a Power Apps app that takes a query param() “AssetID” and determines whether the app should create a new item or update an...

Have you ever, really wanted to have your JavaScript perform a RunWithElevatedPrivileges against SharePoint Online? Do something that the current user just...

This is a quick post about how to make a few packages work together. Firstly, we have this SharePoint SSO Copilot Studio Sample....

What if I tell you - you can build your own Azure Function and use PnP to provision SharePoint Online sites without firing up Visual Studio? What if I tell...

This is the first of a few blog posts I wanted to cover in my 2015 Christmas break on the future of branding. I'll probably devote the next article to...

This is the simplest no code approach to the PowerApps image upload problem so far. Far simpler than with Azure Function, with custom connector, with hacked...

This blog post is divided into three sections: The easy, The Auth and The Complete parts. Microsoft Flow released a new power to Convert Files to PDF. This...

February and March was really busy for us here at Flow Studio. Catherine is now wearing multiple hats and helping on Flow Studio in so many needed areas....

This is a quick blog post, but also REALLY IMPORTANT , concerning Flow Studio App (flowstudio.app) - the main, root URL. What’s happening right now Right...

This is a walk through of the steps to create a self-service guest user sign up using Microsoft Forms and redirects to the Power App. Steps Create a...

Today, we are going to talk about a new technique (hack) to send any pictures from PowerApps to Flow. We will do this with a modified Flow Button trigger....

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash [/caption] I owe this blog post to several persons, so I will list their...

You know how the saying goes - if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Well, something broke in my Azure Pipeline for Flow Studio App a few days ago, and it took a...

This is a short post about running things in parallel. There are two angles to this: "Sometimes you fan-out to 50 parallels and want to run them as quickly...

Since July 2019 , Flow Studio has remained at its previous pricing of $20 per month per person and $200 per year . Over the years, we’ve introduced numerous...

Sometimes, after having written a selfie app in Silverlight (SharePoint 2010) , JavaScript (SharePoint 2013), even an Add-in (SharePoint Online) , you want...

This blog post covers additional explanation on how to subscribe to SharePoint WebHooks and have it running with only JavaScript in Azure Functions. The...

There’s been a series of updates to Flow Studio App on our development build, as I’m preparing to push this next stable build to production, I thought I’d...

We are happy to introduce a new feature update in Flow Studio app. “Diff Mode” Navigate to Diff on the left hand side. Use the top dropdowns to select your...

Another crazy idea while travelling on the train home. This one is so simple, in hindsight, I reckon others will come up with this soon. So I'm writing this...

I saw VSTS has " Send an HTTP Request to VSTS " a few days ago, and a quick test had me pulling back repo information in JSON. #FlowNinja new @MicrosoftFlow...

This is a long blog post, there are two parts: How do you make a SharePoint For Selected Item in Flow, and have it appear on the SharePoint Site Pages...

This is a blog post of a pattern that I've brooded over for months and finally came to an elegant solution. Plan Scenario: Bulk Insert / Update Doing...

I was inspired reading Alex Shlega and Hiroaki Nagao ’s posts on using code with custom connections. So I set out to give it a go and work on another common...

"John, what's this headline." This is just a love serenade to Microsoft's many engineers and teams. Thank you, for making these products that makes these...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Archana More on Unsplash [/caption] In this blog post, we capture all the events across an Office...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="530"] Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash [/caption] Today is a quick #FlowNinja post on a strange technique. Hiding...

Sometimes while browsing MS Graph permissions, you come across something like this: This is an Application Permission, it says "Send mail as any user" The...

Serge, April and me were discussing a problem with pulling out InfoPath Attachment from InfoPath form XML and writing them into a SharePoint document...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Jorigė Kuzmaitė on Unsplash [/caption] A question that has been in the back of my mind since my late...

This blog post is about two major updates to Flow Studio App and Flow Studio for Enterprise. MSAL v2 Update First one, we finally updated Flow Studio to...

Today's blog is about adding an additional method to SharePoint JavaScript Object Model (JSOM)'s ClientContext object, so we can use it directly like a...

In this post, we talk about how to get an access_token in PowerShell to talk to the Microsoft Graph, so we can run automated non-interactive scripts in...

Because Office 365 Groups is a key component of group membership in Office 365, there will always be an evolving story on how to manage it, extend it,...

I want to describe a method that I use to check if a user is a member of a group. Steps Call a REST webservice Reference MSDN for the correct...

I just pushed an update to my Simplest-Safest-Most-Future-Proof-Way to customize your SharePoint and SharePoint Online using UserCustomActionsConfigPage...

I had previously written how we can use Send Email as Anyone in Microsoft Graph , and as a bonus wrote a section on how we can use it to send inline images....

On March 22, I put my hand up to do demos for the Office Patterns and Practices Special Interest Group conference call. We talked about Azure Functions with...

This is a short(er) blog post, as I'm packing to get ready to sleep and then wake up early and fly to Brisbane for this weekend's Office 365 Saturday. We...

I wanted to blog about an interesting technique I was testing - how to call ExecuteSiteScriptAction from Microsoft Flow - and using that to provision...

I've tweeted out several small tidbits of using Microsoft Flow's HTTP action to call the Microsoft Graph. Hundreds of Graph APIs, dozens of Graph webhooks,...

I love challenges - I love hearing people say "We need a Delay until File Changed" action in Microsoft Flow. I agree. But those are the same questions that...

This is an idea that I've been brooding for a long time. Finally got a prototype implemented. We have a complicated looking InfoPath...

I've had several questions in comments about how to add CSS files using the Simplest-Safest-Most-Future-Proof-Way to customize your SharePoint and...

I had the pleasure of presenting at the Australian SharePoint Conference on Develop and deploy Silverlight + SharePoint 2010 Solutions . I had a blast,...

Sometimes, a rant (and warning, this particular blog post can only be classified as a rant) is just too long to be said in a 140 character tweet. A...

In a previous blog post I discussed using Picture Controls to host lots of images within InfoPath and manage the tooltip. InfoPath FormServer renders...

In a previous blog post , I wrote about connecting to Microsoft Graph with Resource Owner grant. That particular authentication scheme is for delegate...

( originally published on Telerik Blogs ) In July, we were at a junction. We had just wrapped up a new SharePoint On-Premises module with Angular v1.4 and...

Web technologies evolve, and we are on the edge of a new stack, it is called JAMStack. Javascript API Markup In the world of JAM Stack, we create serverless...

We are seeing a very strong interest and response in our release of Flow Studio MCP . So we want to get the word out more. AI is rapidly moving beyond...

Hello, I’m John Liu, #FlowNinja I am both MVP in Office App and Services (SharePoint) and Power Platform (Flow), I’ve been writing tools to help (4000+ in...

SharePoint 2010's April 2014 CU introduced a bug with copy and paste. Bform.debug.js 381,869 11-Feb-2014 12:37 Bform.js 249,012 30-Jan-2014...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] Photo by Sebastian Boring on Unsplash [/caption] We need to get this disclaimer out of the way first - this...

Microsoft Flow has a fairly good UI update today, and with this a few “hidden” built-in triggers appeared. The GeoFence Trigger is not available yet. But...

So I previously asked aloud "Can we simplify this further" - It turns out you can. You can deploy a PnP-PowerShell from scratch in 1 minute. And since we...

I wrote previously about the Simplest way to add script to your SharePoint and SharePoint Online. Although this is a simple, stand-alone page, it is...

There's no good title to this post, there's just too many pieces we are connecting. So, a problem was in my todo list for a while - I'll try to describe the...

It really can't hurt to play with the crazy XPath capabilities within InfoPath. This is documented in many places, starting:...

Update thank you to Johannes in the comments. This is called Email Sub-Addressing . I was catching up with my brother, and he showed me a pretty cool trick...

I wanted to write about spservices.codeplex.com from Marc D Anderson - we've found ourselves using this really special library time and again across...

This blog post details how to access your Webcam via Javascript through the browser, and upload that content to a SharePoint library. Then, with an added...

We are living right now in a strange time. At home, and virtual events are replacing the traditional physical events. I’ve agreed to several events and will...

TOC: Azure Logic Apps Build SharePoint Workflows by clicking buttons [This article] Introduction SharePoint Online Office 365 Connect them all Hybrid...

I’ll be presenting at Difinity Conference 2019 Auckland on several presentations. Difinity is the largest Microsoft Data Platform conference in New Zealand....

November 29, 2014 was a great day for SharePoint Saturday. I presented "Develop and Build Workflow Apps in SP2013. Wait, Workflow Apps?" - which is a...

Hello, Kia Ora Auckland. I’m glad to be returning to New Zealand on February 17-20 for the Difinity Conference in Auckland. I try to tell people that I’m...

This is a write up of various ideas and thoughts that I've shared over Twitter separately, but needed to be linked together and the example steps needs to...

String xml = ""; FormTemplate template = this.Template; using (Stream s = template.OpenFileFromPackage("template.xml")) { ...

There has been recently a major change to the API and authorization that Flow Studio uses to access the Power Platform. As we have just pushed the update to...

jQuery has a special function $.Deferred - which lets you create an Deferred object to build Promise(s). We use this to simplify everything we do in...

Upon reaching a numerical significant milestone of 100 FlowNinja flow-lifehacks. I wanted to review the full list and provide that list here for your...

In some companies, paper documents are scanned into TIFF formats and stored electronically. To search for them, you'll need to enable the TIFF OCR iFilter...

"The provided App differs from another App with the same version and product ID" Ever since the beginning of 2013, we have this this problem when you deploy...

How to disable the backspace key using Javascript/jQuery for an InfoPath browser form in SharePoint 2010. The problem One really troubling problem...

Sorry about the catchy headline. I will start by saying I am perfectly ready to see a response post containing 20 things in Azure Logic Apps that we wish...

Wanted to write again, and let everyone know what I’ve been up to. I ended up taking a break through most of 2021 and 2022 simply resting, recovering, and...

This is a public service announcement for all office devs. If you are using ADALJS - you need to upgrade your project to MSAL . It is awesome. It has...

I will be presenting "Introducing PhantomJS: Headless Browser for your SharePoint/Online" in the SPBizConf on 18 June....

We'll be needing a small web app to track office foosball championships. Currently it seems Ben and Roman are on the top. Zhilla is incredibly good too, but...

Tonight's Silverlight play involves Silverlight 4 Web Cam API, and SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model. SILVERLIGHT 4 WEBCAM API Silverlight 4's WebCam API...

Hi, today’s post isn’t a technical post, this is probably more of a “I need your help post”. So this is something I find really difficult to write about,...

There's a bug with Promoted Links web part in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, and I have no idea how long it's been there. This post is about a simple...

MicrosoftGraph represents SharePoint Document Libraries as "Drives" and Folders and Files as "DriveItems". It has ability to copy these objects. I did...

Doing quite a bit of client-side JavaScript (AngularJS in fact) and checking in and out lots of files that sit within Style Library. At the end of the day,...

This is a post I wrote late last year, and applies to the Managed Metadata Fields in Nintex Forms via some "JavaScript middle-tier magic". ...

So it is said - there's always a SharePoint or Office 365 Saturday every Saturday around the world. O365 Saturday Adelaide / SPS Saturday Adelaide In less...

Climbed out of bed at 4am and drove myself and colleague Jumpei on a laughter-filled trip down to Canberra, where we had lots of fun at the SharePoint...

I'm in a celebrating mood - Flow released Export and Import. This is a great day. https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/grow-up-to-logic-apps/ So I'm going...

Was looking for a quick tutorial for creating a Custom WCF Service for SharePoint 2010. For some reason couldn’t find one, so I sat down and try it...

Element MyValue from namespace http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Services cannot have child contents to be deserialized as an object. Please use...

Merry Christmas holidays and happy new years. This is a bit of a holiday reading, I wanted to start by give you the sense of what I’ve been tinkering as an...

Andrew Connell "the future is unclear at best, realistically pessimistic and a dead-end at worst" "I do not use InfoPath any more & I do not...

As I'm posting this blog entry, our ( SharePoint Gurus ) first Office App (Add-In) would be available on the store. I might let you in on a secret - it has...

I've taken a short break from writing blog posts - I haven't been idle, I have been writing something . Hopefully to be able to share it with everyone soon....

Here's the latest screenshot from this project on http://spaspa.codeplex.com I've put in buttons that allows you to edit a list item,...

I'm actually pretty terrible at gambling the future of Technology. But I like writing these posts because it makes me sit down and think. User Experience:...

I'm now a Nintex vTE (Virtual Technical Evangelist). Continuing my company SharePoint Gurus ' strong partnership with Nintex . I had the pleasure of...

This is the second post on building a group management tool with Flow and MSGraph. In this post we talk about how to get a list of all your groups and copy...

Recently started doing some work on Sharepoint, it's really tough to love Sharepoint. At a glance, it seems that this is just a technology that's build on...

This is a bit of trial and error, but works very well at the end, so I want to publish this and share the syntax. Related References:...

Or, how do you remove /Pages/ from SharePoint URL. Almost all the hard work is done by Waldek Mastykarz (@waldekm)...

I wanted to jog down some notes that’ll help with local debugging of Apollo Server with Azure Functions. Firstly, due to changes to Azure API routing -...

http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2920804 Assume that you create a SharePoint 2013 workflow by using SharePoint Designer 2013, and that the workflow...

So I spend an evening playing (I actually have a lot of fun exploring these things) and figuring out how the pieces of SharePoint, PowerBI and Flow are...

Silverlight 5 was quietly released to the world to very little fanfare, considering the looming Windows 8 launch with WinRT next year, and the world (at...

This is probably the best best tip I'm going to share so far with regards to Sharepoint. Think of Sharepoint as a pre-built framework on top of ASP.NET, if...

But without hair it's pretty difficult.

Shortly after the March Azure Functions demo , I reached out and asked Patrick about coming back to do a follow up focused on JavaScript - specifically...

This is a post about combining two steps I've blogged recently. Combined they form a technique that can be used with approval workflows to provide a point...

Presented an updated version of my Silverlight and SharePoint solutions talk in the Sydney user group tonight. I don't think I timed the presentation well...

This updated blog post describes how I go about building a threaded, inline comments system for any page, using a SharePoint Discussion List as the backend...

I had an awesome time presenting Building your own custom REST Services and consuming them with jQuery AJAX in the Australian SharePoint Conference...

Being a consultant is: Walking on a tight rope Crazy business requirements people on one side Poor internal dev teams (the maintenance guys) on the other...

The Problem I love Nintex UDA - it lets me push commonly used logic into a reusable User Defined Action. Then lets me reuse it in multiple...

Disclaimer. This post is about an unsupported hack. Over at Nintex Community ( registration required ), there was a question about how to change the Nintex...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] Photo by James Ree on Unsplash [/caption] I’m presenting a talk on Azure Logic Apps (and Microsoft Flow) this...

On 22nd of May I had the pleasure of presenting O365 Saturday Perth. In the past years, we have called this SharePoint Saturday. We re-branded the name and...

This is an Intermediate level discussion on AngularJS Extend, Computed Property in general, and a fairly complicated binding bug that needs some new...

Adding an account Go to settings | email + accounts | add an account | Outlook Provide Office 365 login email and password Once setup, the account...

This is an exercise to play with the REST interface, which works extremely well with InfoPath 2010. Scenario We have a postcode list. Filled...

Our good old friend SharePoint Designer is old, but I still find it useful for editing JavaScript files in development for quick tests. Because SharePoint...

Problem: You call an XML web service with Nintex Web Service or Web Request actions. You get back a lot of XML, and it is very difficult to...

So, I've been head-down, deep building a tool to help everyone make better Microsoft Flows It doesn't have many bells and whistles, it is still in very...

Microsoft Flow's most recent update added ability to query and update SharePoint File property . This is actually really timely, as I wanted to combine this...

I spewed coffee all over my screen. Each user in Office 365 gets 2000 Flow runs pooled. This is my personal playground tenant, I've got 10 users licenses...

Do we like the SharePoint content editor web part? Yes! What if there's a way to add your own HTML in your InfoPath form, and have it appear for both...

Join Microsoft MVPs John Liu and Paul Culmsee - two of Australia’s Power Platform MVPs in Microsoft’s App in a Day event on June 7 right here in Sydney. I’m...

2012 will be the third Australian SharePoint Conference [ agenda ], and my third time speaking at this fantastic event. In my opinion, the AUSPC conference...

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip up to Brisbane. I got to see some friends, saw my sister and presented PhantomJS with SharePoint and SharePoint Online. The...

I wrote this as an email to colleagues. But it got so long and exciting with pictures I decided to publish it. There are no spoilers and I don't know any...

In the future, when you take a picture of something, the camera generates a 3D scene of it and stores it in memory. Camera will need 2 lens to work out the...

I have been working at a client learning, testing and building Power BI reports, datasets, dataflows, datamart and dashboards for the last 8 months. With a...

The name-of-your services on Local Computer started and stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance...

In InfoPath (and in Windows in general), a newline is two characters \r\n (carriage return, followed by a newline character). You can't easily use \r...

To build complex, but maintainable Flows, it is important to be familiar with this next step. The Flow blog calls this Nested Flows , so I will stick with...

We've been running Angular 4 (via ng-cli) on our SharePoint On-Premises environment for a while, I wanted to just take a short time and jog down our battle...

I wanted to write down some of the better practices I've settled with since using KnockoutJS for nearly two years now. A lot of these has to do with just...

I wanted write about two things. I still wanted to do a summary of SharePoint Saturday Adelaide 2014, but I will have to do that later, perhaps...

I added Stripe subscription to Flow Studio today. I also became my first customer (as I’m testing the integration). Time for this FAQ How much is a Flow...

I'll be presenting a new topic for SharePoint Saturday Perth this year, on SharePoint and TypeScript. While I had begin planning to work with...

Oh VSeWSS how I've NOT missed you. I was compiling an old solution package for SharePoint 2007, this solution has 6 web parts but the WSP package's...

USA Best Console Deals http://deals.dell.com/compare/X500GOWFALLTD $299 Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Bundle (that's 4 games) Fallout 4 (and Fallout 3 code...

A (near) perfect project for 2008 would be: Use WPF for front-end (or WPF/E silverlight) Use LINQ for business tier (C# 3.5) Use SQL Server 2008 for the...

As promised, the PowerPoint and solution files for my session for the Sydney SharePoint User Group October session. Sorry I spelt "Summery"...

Nothing beats mythical errors that happens on the client side, but not on your development machine. This post follows yesterday's post on configuring...

var dictionary = new Dictionary< string , string > { { "key1" , "value1" }, { "key2" , "value2" }, { "key3" , "value3" }, }; var list = new List< string > {...

This is also a quick blog post. Let me tell you the tale of patch-package. Not many people have heard the tale of patch-package. Many prefer to walk the...

Because XML is case sensitive, in InfoPath you have the problem that field may not be equal to another field during text comparison due to their case. One...

Sometimes, I do get to do some on-premises farm stuff. Because deep in my soul, I'm a hardcore dev. Muahaha. Scenario In InfoPath, we want to be...

So I was minding my own business working, and suddenly, a command prompt popped up, blocking my work for a few seconds and then disappeared. ...

Was looking at a problem with Andy regarding using SmtpClient.UserDefaultCredentials = true, and sending emails within an authenticated WCF service. We can...

Here was an interesting problem, what was wrong with the following code, which works fine in IE but not in FireFox < map id ="mymap" > < area ... /> < area...

I put together a video to celebrate the new update in Microsoft Flow (Power Automate) and Logic Apps - formatNumber() The video explains 3 tips and 2...

Alt Title: Windows Media Player playback too Bright Sometime last week I recorded an online session for the upcoming SPBiz Conference . I did this using...

Flow Studio https://flowstudio.app has a new logo! I don’t know why I’m so happy about this, but I am. Did you draw that John - yes on the back of an...

This is a late (and extremely brief) update for the session TypeScript: JavaScript for the SharePoint Dev Guy that I presented at Canberra. The updated...

This is a fun one. Use the undocumented msxsl:utc function, which checks / converts a date into a normalized representation. So, what will happen if...

I finished listening to the Hyperfish Microsoft Flow podcast from Jon Levesque and Jeremy Thake this morning, this was recorded around the same time where I...

This is a Sway post. It is a short demo of an upcoming discussion on: App for SharePoint Web Cam HTML5 And SharePoint Libraries

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400"] Clear the FOG - let there be Clarity [/caption] Some asked me recently how does my SaaS product Power Clarity...

Form Server provides quite a few very interesting Query parameters to allow us to influence how it will behave when rendering the form in browser....

PowerShell v3 has a new syntax I quite liked: $badIDs = "73574929","73573581","73575402","73576325","73575586","73575377","73574920" for($i = 0; $i...

From time to time, people ask about how to embed JavaScript within InfoPath - there are all kinds of reasons why you'd want to do this, and in this...

A quick summary of part 1 : Environment (tools) Creating Silverlight project Creating XAML Hooking up Silverlight databinding to mock data Implement real...

I’ve been working on an InfoPath solution that requires both Offline and Online capabilities. Problem and Background An InfoPath form has two components –...

MSDN has quite a thorough topic on optimizing a Sharepoint Server for public facing site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727371.aspx I would just...

This Saturday - 14 July, we'll be converging on SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday Canberra . I'm planning to take my time and drive down for the weekend....

This is a very short blog, but it appears that the GlobalNavigationNodes member on the PublishingWeb class has moved in SharePoint 2010....

Hi everyone. This is somewhat serious, and I really need your feedback. I wanted to write this down and project my intentions clearly and well in advance....

I’ll be presenting at Microsoft Ignite the Tour 2019, Sydney on two Microsoft Flow presentations. Advancing the Flow - understand expressions in Microsoft...

As I still see myself a newcomer in the SharePoint community compared to our many elders, I still hold my breath every year come Jan 02 when my MVP gets...

Summary: Enum Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.RecycleBinItemType.Web was added in Silverlight Client Object Model SP1. No other significant changes...

The Error If you copy Workflow or Workflow Custom Activity objects between your SharePoint VSNET projects, sometimes you would see these errors: Project...

I've just received email that I've been rewarded with Microsoft MVP for 2017. I am thankful to be counted with some of the smartest people that does what we...

This article covers how to go about packaging a webpart for the Silverlight XAP file and deploy it to Web Part Gallery. In the previous article I described...

The wonders and pains of Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq.Util.GetFriendlyName I'm doing some more work with SharePoint as a Single Page Application (...

Technique 2 — Building a Lightweight Template Engine (Using Split Twice) Take this example (using a handle-bar stil syntax) ABC {{def}} GHI {{jkl}} MN Using...

Github tweeted a link to a NPM NodeJS CLI project that uses data from http://football-data.org. Seeing that, I decided we need to build a SharePoint Modern...

Sometimes, when working with XSL (for example, in a content query webpart), you would like to limit the number of characters returned in a field in the...

I had an absolute blast presenting Knockout , AJAX, jQuery, SP2010 REST services, and spservices tonight at the February 2012 Sydney SharePoint user...

In this follow on episde, we dive a fair way in to see how we can customize Flow’s Request trigger to build a web service (API endpoint) that can be called...

We are late on the boat. But I'm describing the journey for us, and we are truly on the boat. So in mid 2014, SharePoint Gurus decided that we'll move...

public class EventArgs<T> : EventArgs { private T t; public EventArgs(T t) { this .t = t; } public T Value { get { return t; } set { t = value ; } } } To...

I had a wonderful time in Melbourne at the Digital Workplace Conference, hosted by Debbie Ireland and Mark Rhodes . A big thank you and congratulations for...

A strange gotcha in InfoPath concerning which event runs first. Create an InfoPath form, with a field. Create a Form Load rule, that sets this field...

Many that uses WebPack also applies the UglifyjsPlugin. By default, UglifyJS doesn't support IE8. There's a few problems that we'll see: IE8's non-standard...

Scenario You have created a wonderful, responsive-design, HTML5 MasterPage for your SharePoint 2010. It works really well. You even did a...

Sydney SharePoint user group is 21st of February. Where I'll be presenting Knockout, AJAX and REST services. To many of us...

Dependency Requires Knockout jQuery (for setting text()) ASP.NET (for the formatting functions). ko.bindingHandlers.date = {...

If you follow the instructions on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/21/update-to-debugging-sharepoint-2013-remote-events-using-visual-studio...

In the past week - total number of Flow Studio users crossed over 1000. We have 1000 users! We want to thank you, Flow makers, for your support. When you...

I had an idea a while ago that a Quiz built with Microsoft Form would be a great way to learn and improve our knowledge of Microsoft Flow expressions. For a...

There is always an relevant tweet. Tomás Lázaro ‏ @ tomzalt May 22 The book Javascript Ninja has a Samurai on the cover. That happens because JS is...

I had a fantastic time at Digital Workplace Conference in NZ. Highlight Sessions Keynote by Sarah Bowden on Digital Transformation And Christian Buckley 's...

The SharePoint Object Model has: SPContext Members SPContext.Current (static) SPContext.Site SPContext.Web SPContext.List By comparison, the SharePoint...

Microsoft has begin to move and has blasted off with the SharePoint 2010 sneak peek website – I can't help but think the timing was strategic...

Source http://blogs.computerworld.com/rumor_macbook_updates_to_include_glass_trackpad_other_goodies I've got to say the multi-touch glass screen on the...

This is an InfoPath technique that I've recently started using, and is pretty awesome. Problem: InfoPath is great with rules and fields, but...

I wanted to write up a summary of this presentation that I've had the chance to present at two recent events: SharePoint Saturday Perth...

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As Microsoft wrapped up #MSIgnite 2015, reveals SharePoint 2016, we can now safely say that the future is coming, and it is completely Hybrid. Say it with...

I like SQL Metal. Anything that can save me time to write more app is good in my book. I do find it extremely odd that I can't exclude tables/view/sp from...

I have a big blog post in the works for a significant dive in Microsoft Flow functionality. But I realized that before we get there, we need to GET GOOD at...

UPDATE: There seems to be an issue when loading this template in VS.NET - sometimes there's an error that prevents the rest of CKSDEV from working...

Philosophical difference between code-behind and the ViewModel Because VS.NET is firstly a visual tool, it tries very hard to give developers an easy...

This is a long series of blog posts on developing, debugging and deploying Silverlight and SharePoint solutions....

This is actually something really, really long overdue. v5 is from the year 2008. That is SEVEN years ago. You will notice: Responsive Design Comments are...

I visited sunny Melbourne (so strange!) for Office 365 Saturday last weekend, covering PhantomJS and SharePoint. We also geeked out in general around the...

Did a bit of clean up and finally I've got what I can call the first awesome screen shot. This is a Single Page Application deployed to SharePoint, and...

Just finished my presentation earlier tonight in SDDN regarding Silverlight and SharePoint. I had some initial reservations whether true Silverlight...

Examples on MSDN shows the full TSQL syntax for XPath query in a TSQL statement, this has been supported since SQL Server 2008. SELECT...

I wanted to write a blog post because I don’t know, I guess you are a technical person that reads my blog, and you might be interested in my journey from a...

ASP.NET MVC2 makes it extremely easy to upload a file to your controller. Scott Hanselman blogged about this in detail...

First of all, I know this solution exists. My particular attempt is to provide a much simpler solution Address large-image blowing up your page...

This is a quick blog post - special thanks to Simon Waight who looked into this with me and gave me some nudges towards the right direction. The solution...

IsDocumentWritable Nintex Workflow has a fairly useful function "IsDocumentWritable" that checks if the current item that the workflow is...

I've used and hated Microsoft Live Spaces for blogging. Finally Microsoft did what they should have done years ago, they killed it. They are getting...

Hi again. This is a rather delayed blog post summarizing SharePoint Saturday Sydney #SPSSydney that was held last weekend on 7th August 2010. This was...

I went to my first ngSydney meetup on Wednesday night, and presented a short session on Office-Addin with AngularJS (I also throw in Graph API) and ran over...

This is a quick blog post for resolving an issue this morning from webpack uglified/minified JavaScript. The error happens in IE and Edge, it simply says:...

Here's a real life example of a quick design iteration that we went through with promises this week. In AngularJS (but this applies to any JavaScript), we...

I had a Flow hack a while back to have a Flow button that will instantly create an online teams meeting. Recently, I adapted it into a trigger event that...

I had planned to post this as soon as I finish my session - but you know, conference. Lots of friends come visit during these events and the evenings...

Benefits of using Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode Version Control in SharePoint (vs. BIDS project saved in TFS). Having...

I’m quite a fan of having a validation summary block in InfoPath, similar to how one would have validation in ASP.NET. To start, we can create sections...

Now that a confirmation of the NDA situation seems to be in place, let me shout from the top of the rooftop....

Scenario: You have a working and functioning People Search page, and it's used to show information (and lovely photos) of your employees and acting...

In my current project I'm having the pleasure of working with the Silverlight RadScheduler control. While you may read and feel it is a very bloated...

I watched this YouTube recently, Neil DeGrasse Tyson was being interviewed and was asked a question: what would you do as a nation to increase scientific...

Earlier today I delivered possibly my best TypeScript session ever at SharePoint Saturday Melbourne. The attendees were great, and I feel like...

It all started with… LEGO My brother and I grew up around LEGO, dad says that's because he wanted to play lots of LEGO but couldn't...

Sometimes, your InfoPath doesn't show you all the data connection files available in your SharePoint data connections library: In this screenshot, it...

Here's something I have wanted to write for a long time, both as Thank-You to Marc Anderson's work on SPServices, as well as for personal learning of...

It's that time again! I'm down in Melbourne for SharePoint Saturday later today on July 27. I'm presenting TypeScript and SharePoint, with...

Quick blog. How I fixed InfoPath 2010 Debug/Preview error, after installing Office 2013. InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in...

This is a guide of links and gotchas of how to post a new page to your OneNote document sitting in Office 365. Lots of this was learning for me, so thank...

I’m a big fan of quickly making changes to my SharePoint JavaScript file in SharePoint Designer and then test whether they work correctly in the...

Error [$injector:cdep] Circular dependency found: $rootScope <- $http <- logger <- $exceptionHandler <- $rootScope <- $location <- routehelper TLDR: If you...

On this new project we've designed a database from the ground up. And we've done a lot of interesting design in the system, such as implementing one-to-one...

I have to confess I haven't had so much laugh in SharePoint for a long time. OK, here's the problem: I'm calling a custom REST service that I've developed -...

The announcement of SharePoint 2016 should not come as a surprise (Office 2016 was previously announced, and SharePoint has always been a product...

Having established that you need Silverlight to have a richer UX, let's look at how you can support other platforms. Cross-platform compilers...

I do not like where Chrome browser is going, and I'm typing this on Chrome. Let me explain, there are a few pieces in this puzzle. Language and API...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash [/caption] This will very brief. At the end of this weekend - Most of the...

Interrupting the usual tech blog to talk about an awful thing that happened tonight. I got home around 8pm – we got ready to head out for a quick dinner out...

This is an old trick relating to inserting special characters (such as carriage returns) and tricking InfoPath to stop removing them! ...

This is my first time in Perth! Hello Perthites! I even took a train to Cottesloe beach - a very nice beach, I watched the sunset and did what any...

So Microsoft has an outage in their data centre for Bing travel. I've heard great amazing stories over the grapevine about this one, but...

Here’s a group_by filter for liquid-node Use this like so

One of the problems of Microsoft's Edge browser not supporting Extensions right now is that password management with tools like LastPass can be quite...

The Microsoft MVP Summit is next week. I'm here at 6AM slaving away cracking on this Swagger API file so that we can all have the awesomeness of...

I wanted to write a quick blog post letting everyone know I've put my hands up to present a 10 minute demo on using a Custom Connection for Microsoft Graph...

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Disclaimer: This is not the recommended workflow. As a developer you should use VS.NET 2013 and build SharePoint projects. You can then...

A quick summary of part 2 : How to attach debugger, check network traffic with Fiddler Do your VIEWFIELDS, FILTER and SORT on the server LINQ is converted...

Error: LoadDocumentAndPlayEventLog failed with unhandled exception System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an...

Is that I'd get a project where I don't need to touch ASP.NET or JavaScript or fiddle (something people use the less polite word f*ck) with AJAX for a whole...

On Friday afternoon I drove down to Canberra for SharePoint Saturday. It really was a wonderful afternoon. Building SharePoint 2013...

I went home last night and Wifey told me we've lost another fish. This is our second fish that we've lost since we've taken custody of the fish tank of a...

C# 2.0 gave us this: private string _property; public string Property { get { return _property; } private set { _property = value; } } C# 3.0 gave us this:...

It’s really exciting for me to be back at the Digital Workplace Conference again in 2019, this is one of the first major conferences that I was very...

Avid InfoPath form creators will no doubt know the trick to create sequential numbers for use in filenames. The steps typically includes: Create a field...

I've been pretty unhappy with the data that's been thrown back and forth between a RIA DomainService and the Silverlight client. I feel it's too big,...

It is the year 2017 - watch out, because O365 customizations are full speed ahead. This is a MS Australia Ignite 'lightning talk' for Meetup Madness (sorry,...

Disclaimer, I have not tested any of the following code. Write the following extension method: public static int ToInt( this A a) { return...

I had the pleasure of presenting REST services and AJAX at Canberra again. It was a fun and sunny day that started at 4am in the morning, and packing...

I'm in the strange and calm interlude between day 1 and day 2 of awesomeness in the annual Australian SharePoint Conference (AUSPC) 2012. Day 1 has been a...

So I was looking at my wife Lina using her Facebook and saw this ad on the right: I exclaimed oh wow – Facebook told the advertiser what her husband’s name...

Summarized from: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8DeveloperPreviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx...

In a little less than a month on August 15-16, I'll be presenting in Melbourne at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia 2018. www.dwcau.com.au (I still...

Let the hacks begin! Windows 8's Bing News app was updated in the last few days and with this new version, an ability was added to allow us to add our own...

I suddenly found myself needing to write a very simple upload method in our MVC controller. The uploaded file is in CSV format. The question that...

This is apparently a computer story, but is actually also very much a human story. In which we explore the relationship between Azure Functions and Punch...

This is a Flow Studio startup post. A few weeks back I locked myself in a room and added subscriptions to Flow Studio. In less than two weeks, the initial...

I was attending an MVP community event, and a few non-office MVPs asked me, hey is Microsoft still investing in SharePoint? Is there anything new coming...

Actionable Messages is a way that we can send a small bit of JSON within an email message, it gets picked up by Outlook (Web, App, Desktop, Mobile) and...

New day, new croissant. I'm really thinking whether to go out and buy a USB drive, I wonder how much they cost now per Mb. Blend being unusable for WPF/E...

This is #FlowNinja hack 112. Parallel Compute Sort. I had written about how to sort with a variable (this is insertion sort) back in 2018 How to implement...

Or, what happens when you stuffed up and need to clean up a lot of sites created by accident. Story I have a feature receiver stapled to my site...

InfoPath is an ideal tool for XML forms. Whenever you have forms, invariably, you have little helper icons to suggest text to your users regarding how...

I'm composing this post on a sleepy Friday morning, still in Melbourne, on the day after the Digital Workplace Conference (Also Australian SharePoint...

Microsoft MVPs in the Asia region continues with various events in 2015. The first event is the MVP Community Camp held at the start of the...

A SharePoint 2013 workflow essentially can run as two different accounts. The current user, or AppStep (which runs the action as the Workflow...

In little more than 3 more days, we'll be meeting up again in SharePoint Saturday Brisbane! I'll be presenting again on the Developer track on how to...

Hi Apple, When I first got my iPhone it truly was a thing of joy. New apps were being created and continued to blew away my expectations of what a phone can...

WARNING I do not recommend packaging and deploying content types . Site columns are fine, but it is best to leave InfoPath content type to SharePoint -...

I was doing some geocoding via the Bingmap service, and received results of GeocodeLocation type. I incorrectly assumed that since these...

I’ve been holding onto some slimmer of hope, may be I could still make the trip. Alas, it’s time to face reality and write down this blog post. I’m...

[Previous Working Title: Build amazing web parts using only JavaScript and evolving your code with any version of SharePoint] I've modified the...

I've been playing with Silverlight for perhaps 2 weeks now. Evaluating it for a business application, here are some findings: Silverlight 1.0 It's just...

I have a lot of friends in the SharePoint community, and I see a lot of SharePoint related links shared in my social circles. Sometimes, these...

InfoPath is the world's most advanced XML-based form system. Each InfoPath document is a fully structured XML file, and the template contains the XSD...

Working on a client’s SharePoint site – I wanted to pop into the IIS configuration screen: Now when your IIS manager shows you a blank page – you know...

Microsoft APAC is hosting a simultaneous event in multiple cities around Asia and Oceania. It is named the Microsoft MVP Community Camp....

Been pouring through all the new goodies in SharePoint 2010 like a kid opening his first Christmas present - So much fun, so little time. A few people have...

In the best scenario, nothing ever fails. Your code and logic doesn’t fail, flows don’t fail, SharePoint doesn’t fail, Azure doesn’t fail. Some days like...

For a while now, I've been experimenting with a simple HTML editor for my forms. Something to work with JavaScript databinding, in my...

This is a fun exercise to apply some simple Javascript DOM manipulation with JQuery to improve the reordering columns experience in SharePoint's Edit View....

A recent conversation got me thinking about making some predictions for 2018. This isn't so much a "ha look I'm right in 2019" post. This is more about...

When you publish an InfoPath Form through Central Administration, a few things happen: Central Administration creates a WSP package for this form. Central...

I spend the evening hunting down why every time I run Office 2010 in my demo machine, it would first launch configuration... Always configuring......

This is a quick blog post, in response to Zac Gorman's excellent Magical Game Time comic. http://magicalgametime.com/post/19718347285/ill-stop-when-ive-saved...

Office 365 licensed PowerApps and Microsoft Flow lets you have 1 custom connection. I think that's cute. I also think that limitation is absurd, considering...

Hello, you. This is a very personal post. 2020 was tough on everybody, and it looks like 2021 may eventually bring a little bit of reprieve. I only have a...

Hope you enjoyed the session and all the wonderful sessions through out the day. I hope I've also given you plenty of ideas on how you can mix and...

Sometime in the early hours of the 2nd of January (I live in Australia time), I received a confirmation email from Microsoft that I've been awarded MVP for...

Column 'WSPublishState' does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user. This is a quick blog of something that troubled me for nearly an...

So I screwed up. In my zeal to make sure my blogs are fully spell-checked, I added a misspelt word to my Windows Live Writer user dictionary. There are no...

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Some of the service application administration pages in SharePoint 2010 are incredibly hard to get to. Hands up who knows - in their head right now, without...

I got quite a bit out of brother Ron's memorial service. Although there was a strong sense of loss, I am extremely glad he has finished his course and ran...

Nintex Workflows supports a Regular Expression action. This action has a very simple configurable UI with only the "Ignore case" option. But...

I know this sounds crazy. The network troubleshooting wizard actually works. So I was on a designer’s machine and she was really having trouble...

I did a bit of house keeping and tidied up all the collected blog posts on developing Silverlight applications on SharePoint 2010, and put them all under an...

Bad start to a day sucks a lot. Every morning I have to make a choice of which bus stop to go to, to catch my bus. Let's ID them as bus stop A and bus stop...

I find this interesting - source: digging around MicrosoftTeams powershell and Mikael Svenson's blog post on enabling Teams programmatically . What's funny,...

We keep making Flow Studio MCP better for agents and Power Automate: clearer errors, safer updates, JSON flexibility, and smaller edits.

A few months ago I wrote that I’m turning a page, I’ve found motivation to move forward again, and have begin to actively change my destiny (instead of...

Use preceding:: XPath expression to hide the repeating row label after the first occurrence. Result: Rule: count(preceding::...

tl;dr When you sign up and register on the App Hub for Windows Phone 7, make sure you use your Australian LIVE ID. History I've had a LIVE ID forever...

Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd? Join me and 120 other speakers from around the...

http://silverlight.net/forums/t/3015.aspx A comparison of SilverLight 1.0 vs Flex/Flash Some of the SilverLight limitations no longer apply in SilverLight...

I went out and met a bunch of people over the farewell of a good friend and past colleague over a really fun project I was on. Over drinks I heard a really...

Thank you for attending my session on Building Custom REST services and consuming them with jQuery AJAX. I hope you enjoyed the session and...

I'm in the middle of installing everything to get my new laptop (still not working right) , and came across a problem where I couldn't open a particular web...

We covered how to do binary webservices with Microsoft Flow. A question then lingers in my mind. If you can push binary data into a Flow, and within the...

Here's the deal. I want to bind the dropdownlist to a List<Blob>. But I want the dropdownlist to have an initial empty field. Most people do this:...

I was talking initially to Murali - the first person that I chatted with regarding my defective Dell Inspiron laptop. When he could not authorize someone to...

I had this idea that popped up when I was listening to the current .NET Rocks - The Future of Web Development Panel. I was listening to the panel lamenting...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a concept of security zones. It can guess which servers that you are visiting belongs to the corporate...

No blog for the weekend. Having a quiet morning to prepare my tasks. Got back a review - I think there was a lot of miscommunication between the parties...

System Checks: The .NET 3.5 Framework is not installed. You must install the .NET 3.5 Framework Feature before continuing. I love how TFS 2010...

I had the opportunity to work a lot with jQuery at a project during 2007-2008. Back in those days, we were mixing a lot of the jQuery code with ASP.NET...

About to head off to a client to do about a week’s branding work. I was loading my SharePoint laptop with all the tools that I think I’ll need. ...

Because JIRA search just sucks that bad. We need extra help. Here's an idea. When you name a ticket for a task that you need to do in your project, pick a...

When I was overseas in Asia I had an opportunity to observe some "undisciplined software development". I think it is a cultural issue. The project is driven...

For years, we all thought this was impossible. You had to use code. I somehow woke up with an idea on how to do this, and set about testing and...

Spend a whole day trying to work around a simple issue. I give myself one html page. No server side code. Write a javascript/css based approach to pull data...

Microsoft just released a new control PivotViewer for Silverlight. http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/pivotviewer/ If you haven't seen this yet - go check...

Sandbox Solutions are still supported in SharePoint. But the subtle distinction is that Sandbox Code Service is switched off. So solutions with Sandbox Code...

And I’m well equipped for this weekend, I’ve got two fun activities to do: Go camp out in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/...

This entry is about a week overdue, nonetheless I shall post it now: In the global.asax, before page execute, do this: protected override void...

Thank you all for attending SharePoint Saturday, giving up your time. Sydney marks the last of the 6 SharePoint Saturdays that I've had the privilege...

Out of curiosity, and because I think listing outstanding comments might be a product feature in Flow Studio, I did some research, experimenting with REST...

Ok, baby won't sleep, keeps waking up every 15 minutes when we put him to bed. He screams so we do the usual checks: Is he comfortable? Diapers ok The cot...

Nikhil here describes a mini behaviour framework for SilverLight, and then proceed to implement a DefaultCommit, AutoComplete and TextFilter behaviours that...

We have some old virtual machines with VS.NET 2008 installed, used to build and maintain packages for WSS3 / MOSS 2007. Now that we have a nice new...

Is gone. Lina and I went to New Zealand for a visit, with our unborn child (the little guy is probably sleeping through the whole trip). I don't know if I...

I understand CC, I think, I am not a lawyer. I was encouraged by @aeoth's rant on twitter to add a license clarification to my blog, since I've always held...

I like blogging about what I'm doing, but in some aspect, there are different areas that I would like to blog about: Software Development Some really...

I wonder if this is a game breaker. Many corporate Exchange servers use a self-signed certificate, and push that certificate into client PC's root CA...

Strange happenings. SVN died pretty bad for me last night. The issue? I wasn't using the latest version 1.4.3 (I was still on 1.4.2). Honestly, I was not...

So I really like using PnP-PowerShell to chain up and perform complex operations in Office 365, and linking them up with AzureFunctions and Flow. Scenario -...

Because Silverlight is compiled against a separate set of Silverlight runtime, we can not reference or share a common library between a Silverlight project...

How do you get even with the BA's for giving you a 14 page functional requirements specification? You give them back a 15 page testing script! ;-) Ah...

Silverlight has always been about Business Apps since version 2. HTML 5 - well I don't think this will ever be suitable for Business Apps. ...

Determination. I'm determined to get my unit of work completely finished by today and hand it in for review. It is a very big unit and I don't know when the...

I was preparing this list for our April Sydney SharePoint Usergroup event. April 28-29 Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne This is the annual...

Someone asked what is a SharePoint architect: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/654318/what-knowledge-should-a-software-architect-have-about-sharepoint/...

All signs points to Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming within the week: http://blogs.msdn.com/swiss_dpe_team/archive/2008/06/03/silverlight-2-beta-2-available-later...

In solution, select the Feature. Change the Folder Name property to new name. Press Enter - VS.NET will try to help you rename everything...

A customer reached out regarding Flow Diagram in Flow Studio - there was a bug preventing it from being generated. This was probably an issue that had been...

We probably all know that SharePoint 2010 allows you to create a new type of workflow: Site Workflow, these workflows are not bound to a list. Site...

We have a situation where we want to let our users click a report server link, but the report can take (depending on parameters) anywhere between 5 to 30...

In my opinion, if the Windows 7 SP1 login screen had looked like this, it’d be a lot better. Microsoft seems so… uncool sometimes. For comparison,...

This blog post is about all the new nifty features I'm finding in the latest IE11 F12 developer tools. I updated my Windows to 8.1 update 1,...

We have released Flow Studio v0.1.91 “Flow Studio: Deploy” This is a super productive feature that we’ve been working on for a while. You can think of it as...

Here’s an amazing question asked by Diadistis on StackOverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/653730/gc-collect-in-a-loop Won’t go into details you got...

Quit WoW (raiding too stressful, RL work taking up too much time) Started playing LOTRO (no more raids this time) Workload is heavy but I'm having fun...

Getting to work early has a very different feeling. Feels more relaxed, not rushed. And I could take time to enjoy the surroundings. I think I like it quite...

I'll be speaking at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia ! 23-24 August in Sydney. This is a conference that's near and dear to me - and I've had...

Hire out accessible office building balconies in Sydney, or park space Get a bunch of beach chairs Put up lots of beach umbrellas (for the sun and rain?)...

This is the second time I've been bitten by this error. Exception: The object has been updated by another user since it was last fetched And both...

Nooooo they look so pretty. I need to get another Dell Inspiron soon. Last year I bought a DELL inspiron laptop, I had some initial problem with its LCD,...

The client had a pretty "simple" situation where: We want to create a Request list where different people in the company can add requests, but assign it to...

Quick blog. On every SharePoint page there's a javascript context variable: _spPageContextInfo { webServerRelativeUrl : "/ProjectWeb", webLanguage : 1033,...

A picture is worth a thousand words. In the latest version of spaspa.codeplex.com , I created a separate Knockout Template and bind the Images library...

Quick blog. I'm keeping an eye on TypeScript sessions in //BUILD TypeScript by Anders Hejlsberg. Is probably the introductory session at...

A small tribute to brother Ron Topsom. On Monday (April 2th 2007) afternoon, I lost a brother and a friend. Ron Topsom was someone that looked after me as I...

public static T? TryParse<T>( this object obj) where T : struct { if (obj == null ) return null ; T? result = null ; TypeConverter converter =...

While composing my earlier blog about Silverlight + SharePoint +CAML best practices , it dawns on me that it would be quite possible to build a helper...

Rules to better code Unit Test everything! Refactor mercilessly. Go home early and get a good night's sleep. Use coffee but only if necessary (ie, writing...

I am cheating, I post three blogs on the same date but just title them differently. After being addicted to TiddlyWiki and using it as my notepad...

This blog post is quite personal and doesn’t have much to do with tech. So if that’s not what you are here for, wait for the next blog post. This is...

Here are 10 nice tips designed for someone that's familiar with SharePoint, but may be new to InfoPath. Having brooded over the idea for a...

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I had this error "The operation could not be completed" when trying to connect to a SharePoint List as an external data connection in InfoPath today. Show...

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/05/05/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-sp1-beta.aspx Half way down - see the script combining feature. I...

Error exporting the list named "Forms" at the URL: Forms I have problems this afternoon saving a very small site as a template for deploying, and was...

What is a Single Page Application? Essentially, an application disguised as a single web page. Like the official "Twitter" web...

This is a short post on something that we did in the days of Silverlight 2~3, before we have RIA services. Consider two method signatures on the service:...

John Sonmez made some comments that scrum had become all about money in his post: http://simpleprogrammer.com/2010/03/31/scrum-for-the-money/ I highly...

Need string formatting functions. http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-format/ Is the right direction to start, but it doesn't do it...

This is a true story that happened a few years ago. A church friend asked me to fill out a survey regarding acupuncture. The questions were like this. Have...

We rotate through different topics and presenters in the Sydney SharePoint user group. But I finally got my turn to present a developer topic, and I wanted...

Some recent changes with AzureFunction created a small problem - x64 functions are not available in the starter-consumption plans. The situation is not game...

This is a pretty simple blog. Take one of the examples I've been using often: https://github.com/johnnliu/azure-functions-o365/blob/master/sharepoint-list-em...

We have a lot of code that looks like this in our new Angular (Angular2) module: The main reason is that we just want to display numbers in 1.2 million, not...

PS C:\> (get-item env:path).value.split("") | where { $_ -ne "" } | where { test-path( join-path $_ "msbuild.exe" ) }...

From jQuery, we get $(document).ready which is wonderful. From ASP.NET, we get the UpdatePanel control which is fantastic. One of the common problems that...

I wanted to write an update about Flow Studio, my personal journey so far as a single founder, and announce that there will be a price increase at the end...

I'm just going to blog it so I don't need to remember it. powershell -nologo -command "& {c:\test.ps1}" executes the powershell script from old command...

Looks like my Dell Inspiron is really heading for the trash can. Dell customer care has got back to me with some model numbers that the out of warranty...

# filter directories, look for cs files. $files = get-chilitem . -include *.cs -recurse $regex = new-object -type System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex...

I was discussing hiding columns using SharePoint Designer 2010 and thought I'd dig into the UI a bit more to see if there are any special tricks, as well as...

This is an old story. About a year ago, I had someone who smash through my car's right side-mirror. I called up NRMA and asked about their policy "if it's...

SharePoint is a big product – and getting bigger. People have wondered – how do you stay on top of all the new developments? This is one trick...

A couple of weeks ago, the first batch of MCM: SharePoint were announced. Curiously, I went to see what it takes to be a SharePoint master. Initially, I had...

http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/1438/earth_lights_lrg.jpg This is a NASA image of the world at night, I'm guessing since you can't take the picture in one go,...

1. Your content editor is trying to change page layout via the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 Figure: Click Page Layout in the Ribbon 2. But they get a...

After reading yet another Dell monthly newsletter, I decided to reply to it. I figure it’s rant-worthy. Hi Mr Dell, When I purchased my laptop, I was after...

I'm a pretty strong believer that anything related to the development should go on the project Wiki. Most people will agree on a few obvious topics: Rules &...

This is an article expanding on a comment I made previously on the Microsoft InfoPath forums. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomi...

It’s very early Sunday morning and I’ve just returned from an red-eye flight home from a week spent in Perth with Paul, Ashlee and Terrie Culmsee, meeting...

How do you close the browser window (or tab) completely when you close an InfoPath browser form? Quick steps: In your URL to open your form, specify the...

After being annoyed with Outlook... well, forever... for always autocorrecting my code in my emails, it suddenly strikes me to find the auto correct...

My wife told me something scary. We were cooking some eggs on our gas stove last night to add to our dinner. We had the fire on the smallest setting....

I realized what I need. A transformers desktop. When you double click a folder, it does a massive transformation sequence to open up! :-D The movie broke...

# build msbuild /t:Rebuild /v:q # kill aspnet get-process aspnet_wp | kill # reset iis iisreset # clear log4net logs del -force c:\logs\*.* # poke the...

Congratulations to Microsoft Australia for pulling off another really great REMIX event. My biggest take-home thoughts came from the combined session...

I received an email reminder from the client recently. "Please don't plug external/personal laptops into the corporate network, this is against the...

This is a simple tip. The list template stuffed up a list and you cannot get to it in site library and lists. The backdoor way to remove...

Cannot specify both Name and x:Name attributes I think this is a bug in Beta 2, where you can't set x:Name for a UserControl, and then in the parent XAML...

Across the new years holiday, I took a long four week holiday off in Indonesia with my family and in-laws. Previously I have always taken my...

SharePoint 2010, you can finally do List Joins in CAML. This would be a great boon to the type of views that you can create in SharePoint and in code....

A user with partial permissions to a list gets Access Denied when expanding ListView grouping. This is a bizarre bug. The setup Take your basic SharePoint...

I interrupt my usual rant about .NET (and Dell laptops) to bring you a rant about my iPhone. Story begins like this... So we had a bit of a DNS hiccup with...

I parked it on the main street outside my home. I didn't take it to work this morning. I'm sure I have to go look for it again tonight, must be towed away...

One final check-list before turning the iPhone off: Contacts - via Exchange - OK Mail - via Exchange / Gmail - OK Safari - will be so glad to see it...

It has been a very hectic few days. A lot of changes from staging that had to be merged in. Didn't have much to blog - got lots of little notes here and...

Keith, my firstborn son, eh has been born. Lina had some issues over the entire weekend leading up to the birth, but finally contractions started just past...

Here's a nice pretty diagram of the various components of modelling a (any) world. In my case here, the world is a virtual world. You would noticed quickly:...

One of the first Silverlight "tools" I build for SharePoint 2010 was a tool to rename multiple files in a SharePoint document library with regular...

Before I go on, I have to say I find the Start Menu unnecessary. There are already many ways to get to your Start Screen: Throw mouse to lower-left...

This is a quick description of how you can set up a draft Forms Library for letting your users save their InfoPath web forms quickly. Create an...

Many companies now have Wiki's. A lot of wiki's can do with a nice clean-up bot to do maintenance. So the plan is this: Write a wiki bot. Go from a...

I wanted to share our most recent newsletter for Power Studio (previous Flow Studio) and Power Clarity. It was supposed to be monthly, but everything’s gone...

I’ve been taking little tiny steps forward, this is a good time to share what I’ve been up to. Flow Studio There are several Flow Studio updates in the...

Great news everyone! Collab 365 Global Conference Collab 365 is a free online conference that's just around the corner - this is run by the team behind last...

I had a pleasure of flying down and presenting at the SharePoint Saturday Melbourne event. Had a great time, met many new people and presented my talk...

I was reviewing http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR07 regarding SharePoint client object model tonight, in consideration of how the client object model...

I was reading my web ad's again (because I turned adblock off - I'll talk about that some other time). There's this ad that hits me again and again. "Can't...

So there I was, sitting in the front row of the Power to Developers event in Sydney Convention Center. A really great place by the way - it's like 5 minutes...

I fired up my SP2013 VM to do some simple tests tonight, I wanted to know if the REST services that I've built and demo'ed for SharePoint 2010 would...

On the verge of launching a new release of a public SharePoint website and I came across this list (from shanselman's twitter actually). 15 Essential...

Ok, heaps of update, stay with me. (This is what happens when you don't blog for a while - but you ain't getting no apologies from me!) .NET stuff Having...

I have this love-hate relationship with InitParams Like Pre-download values to Silverlight, so it's available to the client before Silverlight even starts...

Was asked over a company coffee thing. "Oh you are interested in WPF" "Yea" "What are you planning to do with it?" "Eh?" "What is your next step?" I was...

Define: Archaeology A discipline involving the study of the human past through its material remains. This is probably not an uncommon scenario: You have an...

Did quite a bit of blog reading tonight, mostly related to SharePoint, and it has prompted me to reflect the last 3 years and how my attitude towards...

I wrote a much better version of the Get & Do that I'm happy with. Here's the code below. // Using this: private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)...

Martin Fowler 's latest article on CrossPlatformMobile is a great read, he argues based on history with Java and Smalltalk, that the best solution for Cross...

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com had a face lift. I decided to go have a quick look and make some comments. Nice bits The site looks cleaner It is running on...

Disclaimer: Totally, unsupported. OK, that's out of the way, let me describe the problem. SharePoint 2010 ships with this pretty mysite. Packed with...

Giving up caring about the US Election. Being following the US Election, and sadly I stopped caring when Ohio and Taxes voted for Hillary Clinton. With the...

Exhibit A: Windows Explorer looking at the pictures in my iPhone. Notice that almost ALL of them are upside down, this happens very often when...

I've had my Dell Inspiron laptop for over 2 years now. And I've always thought it was a pretty good machine and I'm pleased to have used Dell. I've pretty...

There could literally be thousands of reasons for why GMail seems to be running slower and slower for me: FireFox Extensions? I use FireBug (which Google...

The SharePoint Team blog announced a major bug with SharePoint MOSS SP2: This is funny, but extremely serious and important. During the installation of SP2,...

First, pin your SharePoint Root (Folder 15) to Start screen Enjoy WinKey-15 productivity

I do have FriendFeed, but I think too little people know about FriendFeed ( http://friendfeed.com/johnnliu ) - but it's a very techy solution. I think...

New day, new craziness. Dinner overnight was pretty good, it was great to catch up with a new couple. Having lunch with wife rocks, I'm really looking...

This would be an on-going effort as I gather more details. But at the moment I'm publishing what I have. Different capabilities 2007 WSS3 2007 MOSS...

Microsoft once mentioned a line break trick using rules in InfoPath. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2005/03/04/385577.aspx The main problem we're...

Testing InfoPath, I try to do the simplest thing – publishing an InfoPath form to a SharePoint as a template, and allowing it to create a new library...

Cross Posted from Do you turn off auto update on your SharePoint servers? A recent Security Hotfix has broken SharePoint WSS3 stand-alone installations....

So continuing my InfoPath self education. I publish a new version of the InfoPath form to the Forms Library I then create a new form based on this template...

Surprise! PictureBox in Windows CE doesn't support transparency. Diving into yet another old forgotten corner of the .NET compact framework. And just...

So, a few days ago, one of my favorite TFS/Outlook add-on stopped working. Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly...

Out of the box - SharePoint provides quite a few different Workflow Actions, but strangely missing was a Workflow action that can loop through and update...

This morning, I found a HomeGroup icon in my Windows 8 Deskotp. I'm not actually sure what happened and how it appeared. I am pretty sure it...

Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed: Could not load type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker' from...

My little baby's coming together. I can't wait.

A question was asked in the SharePoint 2010 Infopath forums: "I am using Infopath2010 and developing a form where there are multiple sections. In each...

I want to add a star to the end of a label for mandatory fields in the DOM. .mandatoryIndicator { font-color: red; } var star =...

I have a situation where the code looks like: ( ( TextBox ) ( _someParentControl.FindControl( "_childControlId" ) ) ).Text = "SomeText"; ( ( TextBox ) (...

I don't know if I had blogged this before, anyway, I've owned johnliu.net for a couple of years. In 2006, It expired into redemption period (because I've...

Help! I added some script and link tags to my XSL style sheet for my Content Query Web Part, and now SharePoint has stopped working! Problem...

When you add a choice or lookup to the CommonViewField for a ContentQueryWebPart, if you had ticked the allow multiple-values checkbox, the CQWP will return...

A good source code merge program is different from a basic text merge program. A source code merge program needs to understand that it is computer code it's...

I've finished one leg of my journey at Oakton www.oakton.com.au and have decided to return to my old company www.ssw.com.au to continue my consultant dream....

Windows 8 is coming, and I wanted to say something to set people's expectations right. I think it'll help people align their views and appreciate this...

I find the .NET anonymous type a bit weak in terms of a few more features: Can't inherit/implement an existing type var x = new : IMyInterface { Number = 1,...

In the effort to save key strokes, sometimes I wonder if C# code is becoming a bit unreadable. Exhibit Original: private void VMIsConnected() {...

https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/Pages/SharePoint-2011-Predictions.aspx I echo strongly Joel's excitement in the cloud space regarding...

A client called up - after they performed a site collection export and import (in order to duplicate a site), the Publishing features we developed for them...

Colleagues send me links via MSN to a web page, and I see Immediately started freaking out - what is rdir.us? Not many people have written about this - the...

I was digesting Scott Gutherie's blog on Silverlight 2 Beta 2 We ultimately expect to ship over a 100 controls for Silverlight. It really made me wonder, do...

This is a tip for myself: For the weird reasons I could not understand – if your IIS7/Vista doesn’t have a handler for .svc all of a sudden – you can...

Ha ha look at this: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=6a125986-6550-4ce9-9c71-9a0fbbc3443f&bt=9&pl=8

I wanted to thank Brian Farnhill for organizing SharePoint Saturday (SPS) events in Australia faithfully for the last few years. SharePoint Saturday...

The statistics capabilities for Windows Live wetted my appetite for better statistics reporting. Why on earth: Record only up to the last 3 days No user...

Most people probably have a Hotmail account, but like me, probably haven't visited it for quite a while. Anyway, they unleashed a new version recently that...

Wireless sync is configured via the Zune software. Have your phone join the wireless While plugged into the PC, navigate to: Zune | Settings | Phone |...

Commit early, Commit often. We're nearly the end of one build phase. And a lot of people are committing their changes into version control. For each person...

Our scenario is pretty simple – we have a package that includes some JavaScript files. We had them deployed to /Style Library/ similar to our CSS...

I'm observing a pretty odd behaviour - the first test of my MVVM is running twice. Exhibit Original code: [TestMethod, Asynchronous] public void...

This question comes up a lot when people have heard both buzzwords and have trouble working out which one is better for them. One good chart I found is this...

A practical look at how we planned the move from Squarespace to Astro on Azure Static Web Apps using agents: inventory, redirects, content migration, comments, and launch readiness.

I told myself this eventually would happen, but I still am not prepared for it when it did. How can anyone be prepared for what happens next. On March 25th,...

This is a really strange one. I can’t fully explain it, but I totally stumbled upon a workaround. I publish an InfoPath form with domain trust...

In the last few years, Microsoft Flow has taken off like a storm. It is one of the most versatile product, but also quite tricky to completely cover because...

Noticed something odd with SharePoint today – was downloading two zip files from the same SharePoint document library. I’m told the sizes are 25mb and...

A while back we had an email conversation where there was a Silverlight plugin crash on one of our publishing pages, this happens occasionally while running...

[This is an updated article from /blog/2011/8/3/sp2010-pretty-up-mysite-with-showmodaldialog.html .] SharePoint 2010 My Site SharePoint 2010 ships with this...

All the Flow you can eat! https://events.collab365.community/microsoft-flow-virtual-summit-agenda/ I managed to squeeze in last minute with a session on “A...

I came across some sample CAML code a while back, and have been following their way of defining CAML in C# Today a colleague commented on my code and...

The InfoPath 2013 Preview doesn't really have many new features. But this one little one made me smile. In InfoPath 2013, the Clip Art ribbon...

A colleague mentioned a site quitext.com which is a quit smoking support website. They send you daily SMS' to help encourage you to quit smoking. You can...

So the guys at work are pretty sold on jQuery now. Everybody who've used it don't want to go back to vanilla JavaScript (just as I predicted). One of the...

There's pros and cons to everything. I own a static IP address. This is a good thing. It allows me to use a really old Pentium 2 computer to run my own...

Prepare to be assimilated by the Borg. http://blogs.msdn.com/groove_development_team/archive/2009/05/13/makeover-for-groove-sharepoint-workspace-2010.aspx...

I checked in some code. Moments later, my colleague asked me: "did you check in the service reference for this...

A very quick blog on some pointers when deploying your .NET Compact Framework application to a device. Assuming that you've got your windows mobile...

Thank you attendees for yet another super conference. It was quite a lot of fun presenting TypeScript for SharePoint. I've got lots of feedback...

This upcoming series of articles promise to be far more exciting than the title. Scenario How do you use an InfoPath form document to populate a word...

Just walked out of a MCTS exam, the one in question is actually 70-630, after 30minutes. The exam was allocated 2hours. I'm full of mixed feelings. Relief,...

Running SharePoint on IE8 – JavaScript errors when using the rich text editor. 'null' is null or not an object – in form.js The...

A blog post a day keeps writer's block away. I sat down to write a bunch of blog posts tonight, but instead of having everything published at once, I...

Everybody is blogging about it. I'm not there, but still the amount of betas rolling out from Microsoft is making me very happy. ASP.NET MVP beta 2 IE8 beta...

Since a lot of Silverlight work is asynchronous in nature, the Silverlight testing framework has many helper functions to essentially do "non blocking wait...

//a piece of testing code, I think there's plenty more work to do. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { new List<Control>(new Control[] {...

Our regular morning project scrum was cancelled for today, as I went back to my desk, I noticed that my Office Communicator has updated my status to "In a...

Call you what you will, dead line pixels, LCD defect/failure. I woke up last night to use my laptop to do some emails, and behold, what's this wierd blue...

I actually learn of VirtualBox via Twitter. That's one of the things I realize from Twitter – people talk about things they like. One person...

Going to spend this next week seriously giving SquareSpace a twirl. I'm looking for: Easy maintenance Import from spaces.live.com without doing something...

This post is going to be a bit negative. For users looking for Enterprise features in the first version of Windows Phone 7, I think I have to...

There's a redirection to my real blog that I have had for quite a while. It is on my main website at johnliu.net The blog is here: johnliu.net/blog/

I think I'm about to give up. I've spend the last 2 weeks of my life fighting with CommunityServer, and as far as I can determine, this is a product that is...

Tim Kremer's iPhone SharePoint client is currently free. Get it now. More details in my next post. Here's a picture of it with our intranet:

Went to a mandatory AGILE methodology meeting session currently being pushed by the client. Personally I consider myself already sold on Agile...

So far so good, I like the very clean looking interface. It also makes posting pictures a lot easier (at least for me). Here's a sketch of a evil warlock in...

Was at UTS teaching SharePoint when an interesting problem striked. The students couldn't see Alert Me on their ribbon bar. My initial thought was that the...

I had a great time in Melbourne and presented my session on Building Custom REST services and consuming them with jQuery AJAX. Thank you for...

The default Silverlight Unit Testing framework project has a lovely Tag Expressions welcome dialog that lets you decide (within 5 seconds), whether you want...

I love languages. Here's one for a language nut. public class Response<T> { private T result; private string...

Ok, I'm running into brick walls. I'm trying to do this: from p in Products join i in new [] {1,2,3} on p.Id equals i select p I get NotSupportedException...

HR is an interesting business, here's how I see it (fails to) work: Client: Your consultant X is fantastic, he's a legend. Team Lead: He's an asset to the...

After a bit of hiccups with installing windows live (the live version) as opposed to the beta I was using. I'm glad to report that it is now working...

I love Zune software - it is so much better than iTunes. But actually to use and synchronize your Windows Phone 7 you don't really need Zune at all....

I think I'm in love. It came across to me that I would benefit from having a private wiki (I often use one of the free .NET wiki packages anyway)....

Hot on the trail of the previous quiz. There's a default operator in C# (2.0) Do you know what this does: Type t = <anything>; object x = default ( t );...

<%@ Application Language= "C#" Inherits= "Microsoft.Practices.CompositeWeb.WebClientApplication" %> <script Language= "C#" RunAt= "Server" > protected...

So here I continue my rant about pirates of the burning sea. Wifey spend most of yesterday working out which facilities we'll need to produce a ship between...

Andrew Connell 's white paper on Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint Server 2007 just went up on MSDN. The following...

One of the really nice thing about self-documenting code came from (as far as I'm aware, although they probably borrowed it from elsewhere) Java's javadoc....