John Liu .NET

Planning and migrating from Squarespace to SWA + Astro

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

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.

AI Agents for Power Automate

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:16 GMT

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...

Announcing Flow Studio MCP

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:59:02 GMT

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...

Flow - lightweight fast template engine using Split twice

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:42:36 GMT

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...

Flow - character replace pattern with chunk()

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:17:07 GMT

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...

Flow Studio DevLog: reported for phishing and woes of Cloudflare

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:48:02 GMT

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...

About: The old trigger URL will stop working on November 30, 2025

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:54:50 GMT

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...

Diff Mode in Flow Studio

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:07:29 GMT

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...

Flow Studio Price Update 2025 & Introducing Flow Studio for Teams

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:15:47 GMT

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...

Mathematically Elegant way to Flatten an Array of Arrays in Power Automate

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:45:59 GMT

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

Upgrading SharePointSSO Copilot SPFx to Botframework-WebChat 4.18

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:58:33 GMT

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

A debug tip for complex conditions in Power Automate #FlowNinjaHack 126

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:06:44 GMT

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...

Updating AzCopy in Azure Pipeline

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:13:34 GMT

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...

Flow Studio App v1.2 Updates

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:23 GMT

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....

Updates to Flow Studio App in 2023 October

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 07:00:42 GMT

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...

Updating Flow Studio's Flow Diagram feature

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:17:17 GMT

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...

Tips on fixing Power BI dynamic value

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:12:08 GMT

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....

Power Automate API changes - v2 Admin scope now needs user_impersonation

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:48:42 GMT

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...

field notes using Power Automate with Power BI

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:22:50 GMT

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...

Turning a new chapter - the MVP Alumni post

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 08:28:13 GMT

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...

Using Power Automate to provide Timezone and Local Time to Power BI Dataset and Data Flow

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:01:51 GMT

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

Power Apps API changes - no longer accept Azure Management token

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:19:17 GMT

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...

Turning a new page

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:40:01 GMT

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...

Our Legacy

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:28:21 GMT

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...

Research: Power Automate comments are stored in Dataverse

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 21:24:11 GMT

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...

Parse CSV through Code in Power Automate Custom Connection

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:46:57 GMT

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...

Tiny forward steps for me and Flow Studio

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 05:42:29 GMT

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...

2021 - broken, I am missing you Lina Abidin

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:15:46 GMT

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,...

2021 - break and thrive

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:25:48 GMT

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...

Self-service Microsoft Form for external guests to use Power App

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:29:15 GMT

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...

Ninja List: The great migration of SharePoint Workflow to Power Automate

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 02:51:13 GMT

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...

How to provision SharePoint list and resources with only standard Microsoft Flow using ExecuteSiteScriptAction

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:30:06 GMT

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

ApolloServer, AzureFunctions and local debugging

Sat, 30 May 2020 01:11:20 GMT

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 -...

Where to find John presenting in May 2020

Sun, 10 May 2020 19:46:25 GMT

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...

Flow JAM Stack Episode 1 - sending data back with Flow as API

Sun, 03 May 2020 08:49:53 GMT

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...

Building modern public sites (JAM Stack) with Microsoft Flow

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:07:25 GMT

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...

Using Flow to create Microsoft Teams online events via Microsoft Graph

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:09:14 GMT

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...

Power Studio Update April 2020

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:55:32 GMT

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...

A group_by filter for liquid-node

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 03:04:10 GMT

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

Implementing a fast sort with Microsoft Flow using Parallel Compute

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:42:13 GMT

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...

Talks and Workshop at Difinity 2020 conference Auckland

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:42:42 GMT

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...

Flow - Format Number advanced tips and tricks

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:55:19 GMT

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...

Power Platform Governance with Power Clarity

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:00:22 GMT

[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...

Running Serverless Apollo GraphQL on AzureFunctions with cheap Azure Blob Table database(s)

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:02:25 GMT

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...

Redirecting SharePoint list's NewFormUrl and EditFormUrl to Power Apps

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:34:24 GMT

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...

True Governance of the Power Platform

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 22:28:34 GMT

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...

The Flow Studio journey - first lesson - seed money and salary

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:13:45 GMT

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...

M365 Developer Bootcamp and M365 Saturday Sydney

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:00:08 GMT

There are two events coming up soon in Sydney regarding the SharePoint, Office 365 and Microsoft 365 community and ecosystem. M365 Developer Bootcamp Sydney...

How do you bring your content to your readers?

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:03:53 GMT

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,...

Presentations at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia 2019 I’m looking forward to

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:41:22 GMT

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...

Presenting a roadmap to learning and mastery of Microsoft Flow at Collab365 Microsoft Flow Virtual Summit

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:14:34 GMT

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...

100 Flow-jutsu of the FlowNinja

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:10:24 GMT

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...

The Flow Studio journey and July price increase

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:07:51 GMT

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...

Getting started, a roadmap and mastery of Microsoft Flow

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:38:58 GMT

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...

Release of Flow Studio: Deploy & future Price Increase

Fri, 31 May 2019 14:55:59 GMT

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...

Join us for a free full day Sydney Microsoft App in a Day - June 7

Tue, 28 May 2019 02:52:03 GMT

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...

One Flow to handle them all - Part 2 figuring out the changes

Tue, 21 May 2019 08:45:30 GMT

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...

Workarounds needed to use the Excel Connector in Microsoft Flow

Sat, 18 May 2019 12:19:23 GMT

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...

Flow Studio 1K users - time for a roadmap update

Fri, 10 May 2019 00:03:12 GMT

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...

Flow Studio features in April that will help us mitigate a disaster

Fri, 03 May 2019 13:42:48 GMT

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...

A Power User friendly method of connecting hundreds of sites, list and libraries to a single Flow

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:19:50 GMT

[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...

Azure Global Bootcamp Sydney - this Saturday!

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:02:37 GMT

[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...

Upload Image from PowerApps to Flow to SharePoint via an Unused Outlook connector

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:22:50 GMT

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...

One Flow to handle them all - how to subscribe to multiple SharePoint lists with one Flow

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:09:16 GMT

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...

Sadly, I can't make it to MVP Summit 2019

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:00:05 GMT

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...

On using Microsoft Flow as a pre-ETL step for Power BI

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:15:03 GMT

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2087"] Photo by WeRoad on Unsplash [/caption] A topic I’ve presented a few times to an Power BI crew is the concept...

#FlowNinja hack 78 - modifying Modified By and Modified time with Microsoft Flow

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:15:12 GMT

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...

Difinity Conference 2019 Auckland - Hackathon Workshop, Flow and PowerApps

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 05:41:56 GMT

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

MS Ignite the Tour 2019 Sydney - MS Flow x2

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 05:12:27 GMT

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

I hope team Office give Delve a second chance

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:05:30 GMT

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Jay Wennington on Unsplash [/caption] Office Delve was the first product to use the Office Graph –...

How to implement Sort with Microsoft Flow in 3 actions within a loop

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:36:37 GMT

[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...

Hot-patching our dependencies with patch-package

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:02:06 GMT

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...

Bad JavaScript. Expected '(' in our webpack eval chunk

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:14:08 GMT

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:...

Migrate Angular SPA from ADALJS to MSAL because it is awesome

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:31:46 GMT

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...

Flow Studio subscription discount finishes very soon

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 01:14:14 GMT

[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...

Flow Studio trial ends soon, what's next?

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 01:23:58 GMT

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...

Sending email with inline images via MicrosoftGraph and MicrosoftFlow

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:50:30 GMT

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....

Resolving Google DNS problems with hosting *.app from Hover on Azure

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:26:39 GMT

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...

Decode InfoPath attachments with a bit of JS AzureFunctions

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:53:56 GMT

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

Hiding your Microsoft Flow valuables I mean variables out of sight

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:21:17 GMT

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

Flow Studio Subscription FAQ

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 02:13:40 GMT

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...

Flow Studio has a new logo

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 01:48:05 GMT

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...

Microsoft Flow HTTP Trigger <> Request Trigger, and you probably don't want to use it

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 23:15:25 GMT

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...

Two free tickets to great Office 365 and SharePoint events in Sydney in the next month

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:24:12 GMT

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash [/caption] I wanted to write about two free upcoming events regarding Office...

From Office 365 to Azure Event Grid, the events must Flow

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:12:50 GMT

[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...

The curious tale of the result() function in Flow and LogicApps

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:50:49 GMT

[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...

Make a wishing wand - why we need a MicrosoftFlow Custom Connector for MSGraph $Batch

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 23:46:15 GMT

[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...

Office 365 Saturday Adelaide - 2018 September 15

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:46:10 GMT

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...

Microsoft Graph Community Call September 2018 - $Batch and Flow

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:43:06 GMT

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...

The future of Flow Studio - Trial

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 03:28:03 GMT

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....

Post-DWCAU Conference - 7* flows in 1 hour

Sat, 18 Aug 2018 23:27:16 GMT

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

The simplest No-Code Solution to Save Picture Files from PowerApps to Flow

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:10:58 GMT

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....

Speaking and Hackathon at Digital Workplace Conference Australia - Melbourne

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 05:08:38 GMT

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...

Flow For-Selected-Item trigger and SharePoint Site Pages, in a detective story

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:56:04 GMT

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...

Office 365 Saturday Canberra 2018 #O365CBR #SPSCBR

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:11:00 GMT

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....

10 Things in Microsoft Flow that isn't in Azure Logic Apps

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 10:39:13 GMT

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...

A Thesis on the Parse JSON action in Microsoft Flow

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:33:35 GMT

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...

How to get live FIFA Worldcup results via Microsoft Flow into your SharePoint Intranet WebPart

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:32:32 GMT

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...

Do bulk insert/update in Microsoft Flow with two simple elegant filter-arrays

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 13:35:19 GMT

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...

Do Group By in Microsoft Flow with two simple elegant loops

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:13:03 GMT

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...

Save all your Flows to VSTS via HTTP REST in 8 actions

Sun, 27 May 2018 13:56:06 GMT

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...

Building a tool to help everyone with Flows: Flow Studio

Wed, 23 May 2018 17:07:27 GMT

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: SharePoint Trigger on specific fields changed via SP HTTP Request

Sat, 05 May 2018 07:03:20 GMT

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...

How to use Select to simplify Create-HTML-Table and Create-CSV in MicrosoftFlow

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 12:32:00 GMT

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...

Run Any PnP-PowerShell via Drag and Drop Zip to AzureFunctions

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:03:36 GMT

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...

Run any PnP-PowerShell in one AzureFunction from Microsoft Flow

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:27:25 GMT

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...

Test yourself. A MicrosoftFlow Expressions Quiz!

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:26:18 GMT

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...

Two complementary MicrosoftFlow podcasts in March, and Two Plateaus of MicrosoftFlow

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:02:58 GMT

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...

Design a "Delay until SharePoint File Changed" HTTP+Webhook for MicrosoftFlow

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 05:41:11 GMT

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...

How to automatically enter MVP timesheets with Microsoft Flow

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:10:39 GMT

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...

Bulk-copy files across site collection in MicrosoftGraph with MicrosoftFlow, in parallel and in batch

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:35:38 GMT

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

Send mail as anyone - #MicrosoftGraph and #MicrosoftFlow (bonus: inline image attachments)

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:42:02 GMT

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...

Serverless Parallelism in Microsoft Flow and SharePoint

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:48:31 GMT

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...

Setting up MSGraph Webhook with HTTP Action in MicrosoftFlow

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:10:06 GMT

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,...

Betting on 2018 - level up our Serverless in Azure

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:03:14 GMT

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...

Office 365 Groups Management As A Service: Episode II: Know your groups with Flow, MSGraph

Mon, 25 Dec 2017 16:37:39 GMT

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...

Office 365 Groups management as a service - Flow, Functions and MSGraph

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:53:21 GMT

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,...

Taking PDF snapshot of any SharePoint list item for approvals with Flow

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:29:52 GMT

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...

You must copy all your Flows to SharePoint - simple ideas are the most brilliant

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 23:46:13 GMT

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...

ForEach Property in #MicrosoftFlow JSON. With XPath? #microblog

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:35:06 GMT

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...

Microsoft Flow makes everything Awesome. Yes, including InfoPath #microblog

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:39:23 GMT

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...

Sending Custom Actionable Messages via Flow

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:45:41 GMT

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...

Difference between beta, edu and v1.0 of MSGraph #microblog

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:38:02 GMT

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

I'm speaking about Serverless Flow and Azure Functions at Collab365 Free Online Conference

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 07:28:24 GMT

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...

From Office 365 to Azure to Minecraft, connected with Flow

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:36:29 GMT

"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...

Flow Admin Center - Do a spring cleaning of your Flows

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:58:56 GMT

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...

Serverless connect-the-dots: MP3 to WAV via ffmpeg.exe in AzureFunctions, for PowerApps and Flow

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:25:25 GMT

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...

Generate Any PDF Documents from HTML with Flow

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:45:26 GMT

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...

Two ways to convert SharePoint files to PDF via Flow

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:56:27 GMT

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...

Angular 4, SharePoint On-Premises, localhost development and SP-REST-Proxy

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:19:53 GMT

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...

Gaps between PowerBI streaming tiles and SharePoint

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:43:30 GMT

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...

Auto-Classify Images in SharePoint Online library via Flow for Free

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:13:12 GMT

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...

Flow to MS-Todo, then all your tasks to Flow

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:06:49 GMT

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...

Building Binary output service with Cognitive Services and Microsoft Flow

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:20:52 GMT

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...

One Connection to Proxy Them All - Microsoft Flow with Azure Functions Proxies

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:00:30 GMT

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...

Building binary (non-JSON) webservices with Flow

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:03:48 GMT

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...

Nested Flow (Reusable-Function) cheatsheet for Microsof Flow

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:27:20 GMT

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...

JSON cheatsheet for Microsoft Flow

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:05:00 GMT

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...

Speaking at Digital Workplace Conference Australia 2017

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:42:19 GMT

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...

Reusing functions in PowerShell AzureFunctions

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:25:51 GMT

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...

AzureFunctions Work Fan-out with Azure Queue in PowerShell

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:12:03 GMT

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 -...

Are you Cloud-Curious or Cloud-Serious? Azure Functions in DWCNZ 2017

Thu, 25 May 2017 12:44:33 GMT

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

Taking a picture with PowerApps and sending to SharePoint with just Flow

Mon, 08 May 2017 13:22:15 GMT

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...

Taking a picture with PowerApps and sending to SharePoint with help of Azure Functions

Sat, 06 May 2017 23:43:21 GMT

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

April PnP JavaScript special interest group call and Azure Functions demos

Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:20:02 GMT

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...

If anyone asks is Microsoft still investing in SharePoint - show them this.

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:00:00 GMT

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...

March PnP special interest group call and Azure Functions demos

Sun, 02 Apr 2017 14:40:35 GMT

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...

Simple custom Angular (Angular2) Pipe that extends Number

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:48:56 GMT

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...

O365 Customizations in the year 2017

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:25:37 GMT

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,...

AzureFunctions, PowerShell, MS Graph and AppOnly permission

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:38:49 GMT

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

Where is SharePoint Customization going in 2017

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 01:26:08 GMT

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:...

Azure Functions and Punch Cards

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:51:54 GMT

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...

Interact with Graph and make O365 Groups with AzureFunctions PowerShell

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:46:23 GMT

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...

How to tell WebPack Uglify to support IE8

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 06:47:27 GMT

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...

Thankful for MVP 2017 and 2016 in Review

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:17:01 GMT

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...

Running OfficeDev PnP cmdlets in 32bit AzureFunctions

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:46:48 GMT

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

Build your PnP Site Provisioning with PowerShell in Azure Functions and run it from Flow

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:12:46 GMT

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...

Building Sandbox Solutions without Code Assembly

Mon, 17 Oct 2016 04:21:20 GMT

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

Access Denied when expanding ListView Grouping

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:41:46 GMT

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...

Preparing Your Toolbox for the SharePoint Framework

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:39:10 GMT

( 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...

Working with SharePoint WebHooks with JavaScript using an Azure Function

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:54:36 GMT

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

All Demo Downloads will be on Github - blog housekeeping

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 02:22:02 GMT

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....

Azure Functions, JS and App-Only Updates to SharePoint Online

Fri, 20 May 2016 17:33:00 GMT

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

Hype Level Insane - #FutureOfSharePoint

Wed, 04 May 2016 04:32:25 GMT

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...

AU Digital Workplace Conference - loving SharePoint and community

Tue, 03 May 2016 12:15:07 GMT

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...

SharePoint Events and news catch up for Australia - April/May 2016

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:52:06 GMT

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

UserCustomAction-ConfigPage adding CSS file links

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:50:08 GMT

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...

SP2013/2016 Responsive-UI and UserCustomActionsConfigPage

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:16:12 GMT

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

ngSydney, Office Add-ins and lots of AngularJS

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:47:57 GMT

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...

Update on SharePoint and Office Development - 2016 Feb edition

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:58:47 GMT

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...

Publishing UserCustomActionConfigPage on GitHub

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:23:44 GMT

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...

Creating Multiple Custom Email-Alias Addresses with one Outlook account

Thu, 07 Jan 2016 13:57:06 GMT

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...

Thank you MS for MVP 2016

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:35:43 GMT

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...

Set Window Title in Nintex Forms for O365

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:46:33 GMT

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

The easiest way to add Script and Brand your SharePoint and SharePoint Online

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:47:43 GMT

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...

Yet another fix for "App with the same version and product ID" on-premises

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:37:44 GMT

"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...

Convert SharePoint JSOM's ExecuteQueryAsync to Promise in the Prototype

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:39:57 GMT

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...

2015 Xbox One Black Friday Edition

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:35:11 GMT

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...

Enabling LastPass bookmarklet with Microsoft Edge

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:28:42 GMT

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...

Thinking with JS Promise and Promises

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 04:36:31 GMT

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...

Racing to the Races - Putting our Office App out there

Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:57:38 GMT

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...

Posting to Office 365 OneNote via PowerShell

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:23:09 GMT

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...

PhantomJS for SharePoint and Office365 at Collab365

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:38:45 GMT

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...

Office 365 Saturday 2015 - Melbourne

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:01:42 GMT

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

Fixing SharePoint Promoted Link's New Tab Launch Behaviour

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:29:54 GMT

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...

AngularJS - Logging Client Side Stack Trace

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:35:26 GMT

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

AngularJS $http and logger Circular Dependency

Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:46:12 GMT

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

PhantomJS and Office 365 Brisbane

Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:18:20 GMT

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...

AngularJS Extend and Computed Property

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:46:00 GMT

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

Notes on KnockoutJS Mapping and ViewModel style guide

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:34:56 GMT

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...

Clearing SPD Cache from SharePoint Designer

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:51:00 GMT

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...

Moving Everyone and Everything to AngularJS

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:31:14 GMT

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...

Presenting "PhantomJS" at SPBizConf free online conference on June 18.

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:46:31 GMT

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

Recording Playback Woes with Windows Media Player

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:31:02 GMT

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...

Office 365 Saturday Perth #O365PER summary

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 04:01:53 GMT

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...

Nintex Work Inspired Breakfast Seminar - Sydney

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:23:41 GMT

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

Nintex Workflow - Lazy Checkin Everything Workflow

Thu, 21 May 2015 07:39:13 GMT

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,...

A Hybrid Future for On-Premises

Mon, 11 May 2015 12:51:46 GMT

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...

SharePoint Add-in: Accessing Webcam with Only Javascript

Tue, 05 May 2015 12:06:07 GMT

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...

InfoPath Javascript - fixing image control tooltip.

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:21:18 GMT

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

App for SharePoint: Web Cam

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:58:52 GMT

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

[Meta] Updating johnliu.net from Squarespace v5 to v7

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:41:04 GMT

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...

Azure Logic Apps: Build SharePoint Workflows by clicking buttons: a picture guide

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:16:54 GMT

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

Nintex Workflow - Modifying your Farm UDA

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:38:29 GMT

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...

Nintex Form - working with managed metadata fields

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 02:14:38 GMT

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". ...

taskeng.exe command prompt - get out of my face

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:33:42 GMT

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. ...

Working with XML in Nintex Workflows (simplified)

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 04:12:47 GMT

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...

Feb 2015 CU SP2013: Workflow CurrentSiteUrl is fixed

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:40:40 GMT

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

SharePoint 2016 - debunking confusion and concerns

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 02:29:37 GMT

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

Microsoft MVP Community Camp 2015

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00:32 GMT

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...

Quick - TSQL select XPath from XML Data Type with namespace

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:39:08 GMT

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

So, this is what can happen if you hack SP javascript files

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:54:25 GMT

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...

SPD2013 Workflow - how to check user is member of group

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:16:08 GMT

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...

TypeScript Definition file for SPServices v0.1

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:26:30 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Sydney 2014

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:25:10 GMT

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...

Style recommendation for writing CAML in C#

Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:29:30 GMT

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...

And I say to ASHX for SharePoint: make me a folder.

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:13:29 GMT

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...

Copying SP2013 Workflow XAML files between VSNET projects

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:06:57 GMT

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

SPS Canberra 2014 - Building SharePoint 2013 Workflows Apps (post-show notes)

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:30:52 GMT

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

Setting up Azure Service Bus for debugging SharePoint 2013 Workflows

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:11:36 GMT

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...

Small Powershell Adventures -NotIn and Arrays

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:54:30 GMT

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

KO binding for two SharePoint rich text editor controls

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:39:53 GMT

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

Demystifying SP2013 Workflow AppStep

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:19:06 GMT

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

SP2013 Workflows and WSPublishState does not exist

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:40:05 GMT

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...

TypeScript presentation (take 2) at SPSMEL

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 13:04:05 GMT

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

jQuery Promise syntax to wrap SharePoint SP.SOD

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 02:57:59 GMT

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...

Nintex Workflow Inline Function to check if SPFile is locked

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:59:15 GMT

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

Reading InfoPath template's default values in code

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:49:00 GMT

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

Wrap up: SharePoint Saturday Adelaide and Brisbane

Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:06:37 GMT

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...

SP2010 Forcing previously deployed file to update to latest version in site definition

Tue, 27 May 2014 07:27:09 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturdays in Australia

Mon, 19 May 2014 11:35:40 GMT

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...

IE11 (+Win8.1.1) F12 Developer Tools for the SharePoint Dev

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:38:29 GMT

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,...

3 sessions in //BUILD on TypeScript

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:24:18 GMT

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

The Microsoft MVP Community Camp is happening next Saturday March 22. What is it?

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:36:31 GMT

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

Building a 2013 No Code webpart for XKCD.com/now

Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:57:38 GMT

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

Using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow to copy file via REST on Office 365

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:39:18 GMT

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:...

InfoPath's future and what everyone's saying

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:52:15 GMT

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...

Building No-Code Sandbox WebParts for the past, present and the future [Proposed Session Outline]

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:09:38 GMT

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

Using spservices to create discussion and reply in a Discussion List

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:59 GMT

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...

Living with the Surface RT for 4 weeks

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:35:38 GMT

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...

2014 begins with a SharePoint Server MVP Award

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:48:18 GMT

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...

SPSSYD 2013 and special thanks to Brian Farnhill

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:54:00 GMT

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

InfoPath - binding Linked Picture Display Text for dynamic tooltips

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:11:38 GMT

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...

Using VSNET 2013 and write TypeScript directly to any SharePoint via WebDAV

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:54:37 GMT

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

InfoPath - missing data connection files

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:01:56 GMT

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

Fixing Facebook preview picture of your SharePoint site

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:31:34 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Canberra 2013

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:30:03 GMT

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...

Introduce your drastic UI changes... slowly

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:50:37 GMT

We are in the middle of a somewhat sudden rebranding exercise. One of the main colours that was used prominently in the previous theme of the...

SharePoint Saturday Melbourne 2013

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:08:46 GMT

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...

Chrome, the Trojan Horse we didn't know about

Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:57:12 GMT

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...

Australian SharePoint Conference 2013 Melbourne

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:30:26 GMT

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...

ContentType Workflows not being updated in the Site Collection

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:47:13 GMT

This is a problem we've been seeing for a long time in our development and production server. It is hard to describe the error, but there are a...

Modifying CSS Styles based on InfoPath field without code

Mon, 27 May 2013 09:40:29 GMT

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...

Windows 8 - Export Google Reader OPML for Bing News

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:57:58 GMT

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...

Retrospective - Australian SharePoint Conference Sydney 2013

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:47:17 GMT

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...

InfoPath - reading template.xsd in code for type checking

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:01:32 GMT

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...

3-step fix Nintex WorkflowDesigner.aspx with your custom system masterpage

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:25:12 GMT

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

Building SharePoint solutions with Microsoft's TypeScript: why and how

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:07:56 GMT

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...

Making InfoPath 2010 Preview/Debug work again

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:42:02 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Perth - Building SharePoint solutions with TypeScript: how and why.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:22:28 GMT

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...

TypeScript and SharePoint - definition files

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:13:16 GMT

One of TypeScript's strengths is that you can use the ability to define Interfaces to produce Type Definition files for JavaScript. These...

Example uses of SPServices, JavaScript and SharePoint

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:41:36 GMT

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...

InfoPath - Form stuck on Installing, Upgrading or Deleting

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:34:23 GMT

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

Nintex Workflow - using all Regex options in your actions

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:53:42 GMT

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

Removing HomeGroup icon from Windows 8 desktop

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:41:28 GMT

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...

How to create your Windows 8 Start Button with PowerShell

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:50:47 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Sydney 2012

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:26:26 GMT

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...

InfoPath form load rules and loading event order

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:26:28 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Canberra 2012

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:50:37 GMT

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...

SharePoint - showing Contacts in People Search results

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:50:28 GMT

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...

XML deserialization - cannot have child contents to be deserialized as an object

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:21:00 GMT

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

InfoPath 2013 uses new Online Pictures instead of Clip Art

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:10:13 GMT

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...

SharePoint - The object has been updated by another user since it was last fetched - while updating Site Columns

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:24:31 GMT

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...

Windows 8

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:48:50 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Melbourne 2012

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:41:48 GMT

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...

SP2013 Custom services deploys and runs on v15

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:56:57 GMT

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...

SP2013 - Pin your SharePoint Root 15 folder

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:23:41 GMT

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

The SharePoint Pinterest-style Image Library

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:17:45 GMT

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...

Test your C#: Generic overloaded constructors

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:31:22 GMT

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

SharePoint Saturday Adelaide update

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Brisbane update

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:36:50 GMT

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

SharePoint, why is listdata service using strange names?

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:56:59 GMT

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

SharePoint Saturday Brisbane 02-June-2012

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:02:35 GMT

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...

SharePoint in a single page, now with List Item edit

Fri, 25 May 2012 06:22:25 GMT

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,...

VS.NET 2008, VSeWSS 1.3 and SafeControl

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:44:44 GMT

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...

SharePoint Single Page Application day 4

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:43:34 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 as a Single Page Application (teaser)

Thu, 03 May 2012 17:11:11 GMT

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

InfoPath - creating a custom FormServer page to embed your own JavaScript goodness

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:38:49 GMT

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...

InfoPath 2010 - query using the REST interface

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:05:45 GMT

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

SharePoint - stripping HTML tags in XSL

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:29:03 GMT

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...

SPSPerth 2012 Update

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:30:17 GMT

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...

SharePoint - Recursive delete SPWeb PowerShell script

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:44:11 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday 2012 public announcements

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:57:41 GMT

A new year means more SharePoint Saturdays! In Australia, first up, is SPS Perth . This will be held on April 21st. In just 3 weeks' time. This will also be...

InfoPath, custom WCF Service, Word and Open XML SDK (outline)

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:57:11 GMT

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...

InfoPath - disabling backspace key in browser form

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:48:13 GMT

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

Re: Sorry dad, you'll understand, someday

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:55:21 GMT

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...

AUSPC 2012 summary

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:13:18 GMT

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

AUSPC 2012 quick update

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:48:25 GMT

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...

Dummy guide to install Win 8 on VHD for Boot to VHD

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:42:28 GMT

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

Knockout binding formatters for date and currency

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:15:19 GMT

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

InfoPath - creating sequential filenames without an extra column

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:04:06 GMT

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...

SSPUG retrospective: Creating Knockout user experiences in SharePoint with JavaScript

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:46:42 GMT

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

Curiosity drives creativity. The only limit for your kid are there because you put them there.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:29:24 GMT

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...

Creating Knockout User Experiences in SharePoint with JavaScript and REST services

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:40:59 GMT

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

InfoPath how to copy a repeating section using rules

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:17 GMT

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...

Pretty up SharePoint 2010 mysite with showModalDialog (updated)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:39:01 GMT

[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...

SharePoint - JavaScript current page context info

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:38:20 GMT

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

Australian SharePoint Conference 2012, March 20-21, Melbourne

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:11:36 GMT

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

InfoPath - LoadDocumentAndPlayEventLog NullReferenceException

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:37:59 GMT

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

SharePoint - here is a REST service Project Item template

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:08:44 GMT

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...

InfoPath - check leap year using expression

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:17:00 GMT

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...

Pasting pictures from clipboard to SharePoint in browser, via Silverlight 5

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:09:05 GMT

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...

The blogger's eternal struggle for blog reader comments

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:24:34 GMT

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...

SharePoint - disguise your long running AJAX calls

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:02:38 GMT

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 -...

InfoPath - removing newline (CRLF) using rules

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:01:35 GMT

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...

InfoPath - Concat SharePoint list with the Eval function (aka Voodoo)

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:19:54 GMT

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

InfoPath - managing lots of tooltip in your browser form

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:02:15 GMT

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

InfoPath - packaging site columns and content types

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:05:41 GMT

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 -...

SharePoint Saturday Melbourne update

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:03:20 GMT

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...

SSPUG - REST Service and jQuery AJAX

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:27:14 GMT

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

IANAL but I understand CC

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:36:02 GMT

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...

SharePoint - Starting Site Workflows Manually

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:36:25 GMT

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...

Hacking SP.UI.ModalDialog to download ReportServer PDF

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:18:53 GMT

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...

InfoPath - an example of using an XML file for special characters

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:50:29 GMT

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

SPSCBR - REST Service and jQuery AJAX

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:57:25 GMT

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...

InfoPath - abusing a secondary datasource as temporary variable

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:24:05 GMT

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

WindowsPhone 7.5 Mango and Office 365

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:26:11 GMT

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

InfoPath - how to do case-insensitive text compare

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:17:02 GMT

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...

InfoPath – designing verification form

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:13:18 GMT

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...

SP2010 pretty up mysite with showModalDialog

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:54:30 GMT

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

My Geek Origin story, creativity meets engineering

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:00:52 GMT

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...

Changes in SharePoint Client Object Model Redistributable SP1

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:09:39 GMT

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

WindowsPhone 7.5 Mango is so GOOD

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:15:58 GMT

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

InfoPath 2010 close the browser window

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:39:13 GMT

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...

10 InfoPath tips for SharePoint developers

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:35:53 GMT

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...

REMIX thoughts: where HTML5 and Silverlight fits in with SharePoint

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:57:15 GMT

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

InfoPath 2010 - embed HTML for rich and web forms

Mon, 30 May 2011 02:00:00 GMT

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...

InfoPath FormServer - initial view and parameters via URL

Fri, 27 May 2011 02:15:39 GMT

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....

Rich and Reach - plenty of other successful ways

Mon, 16 May 2011 09:30:24 GMT

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

SharePoint - Improve EditView Column Reordering with JQuery

Mon, 09 May 2011 15:10:16 GMT

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....

SharePoint 2010 - Simple LightBox effect for large images

Mon, 09 May 2011 11:40:32 GMT

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...

InfoPath rule based repeating section date validation

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:56:01 GMT

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...

Rename multiple files in Office 365 via Silverlight Client Object Model

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:51:01 GMT

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...

Rich or Reach, pick one

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:52:16 GMT

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...

Line break in InfoPath web browser forms

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:40:03 GMT

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...

Script and Link in SharePoint CQWP XSL Style Sheet

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:46:57 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 loads hidden Silverlight?

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:05:21 GMT

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...

Setting up a draft save location for InfoPath web forms

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:28:17 GMT

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...

Adding a warm-up step to your SharePoint project deploy action

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:59:47 GMT

VS.NET 2010 allows a lot of awesome control over the exact steps that occurs when you deploy your project to your development environment. Figure:...

InfoPath - Using preceding:: XPath expression to hide repeating row label

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:29:53 GMT

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

Silverlight and SharePoint

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:43:45 GMT

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...

Updating VS.NET 2008 Professional to use TFS 2010

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:49:19 GMT

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...

Installing TFS 2010 on 2008R2

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:43:15 GMT

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...

Aussie WP7 App Hub - use the right Live ID

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:23:55 GMT

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...

Reminder: move your Windows Live Spaces blog

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:08:54 GMT

Just a reminder that before the end of this month (March 2011), you will need to migrate or download a copy of your Windows Live Spaces blog. For me, I had...

We Love Windows Phone - I really do

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:19:01 GMT

This is an emotional blog. But also a blog of acceptance since I found peace at the end. History I'm a long time listener of the Windows Weekly podcast ,...

SharePoint central administration tip - use those resource links

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:53:37 GMT

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...

Can't save SharePoint 2010 site as template with a library called Forms

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:07:37 GMT

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...

SPD 2010 conditional formatting to hide columns based on a related column in the list

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:46:02 GMT

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...

Windows 7 SP1 login screen

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:50:28 GMT

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,...

Office - fixing the repairing problem when opening Word or Access

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:12:41 GMT

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

SharePoint 2010 Branding tools

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:06:08 GMT

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. ...

InfoPath exception occurred during loading of business logic for central published form

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:40:11 GMT

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...

Space Crusade Resources - Reloaded

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:05:16 GMT

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...

Giving SharePoint a Silverlight Metro UI facelift!

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:25:58 GMT

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

SharePoint's Silverlight webpart defaults to WindowlessMode

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:36:30 GMT

Because SharePoint’s Silverlight webpart defaults to windowless="true", there are some features of Silverlight that won’t work as you’d expect out of...

InfoPath 2010 COM Add-ins not available in Form Design

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:16:56 GMT

In a previous life, I wrote Outlook and Word Add-ins to automate/extend those office apps. I was looking up whether there’s a way to script or create a COM...

SharePoint 2010 WCF HelloWorld Service and InfoPath

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:51:46 GMT

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...

SharePoint and Reporting Services Integration, the good, the bad, and the ugly

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:40:00 GMT

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

Automatic Relink InfoPath Forms Event Receiver

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:35:57 GMT

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

Silverlight + SharePoint - add to web part gallery

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:34:50 GMT

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...

Silverlight + SharePoint 2010 - package XAP file in a sandbox WSP Solution

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:20:47 GMT

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

InfoPath - external data from SharePoint List error

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:52:55 GMT

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...

SharePoint: automatically sign in with my Windows User Account in IE and FireFox

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:26:58 GMT

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

Write blogs with Windows Live Writer, and schedule publish to look like a PRO!

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:58:49 GMT

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...

PowerPoint is for code too

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:33:31 GMT

This is a follow up post to Outlook (and blogs) are for code , from my colleague Peter Gfader . I have this problem with PowerPoint I paste code into...

OneNote - screen clipping + OCR

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:40:56 GMT

I have to admit that I'm really new to OneNote, but more and more I realize I don't know how I get by without it before. Here is a OneNote special...

SharePoint and Office 365 - Joel Oleson predicts 2011.

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:06:10 GMT

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

SharePoint 2010 - Quick Fix for Ribbon Page Layout switch JavaScript error

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:28:40 GMT

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...

Windows Phone 7 - enabling wireless sync

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:36:37 GMT

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

Silverlight is for Business Apps, HTML5 is for Flash

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:26:17 GMT

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. ...

Windows Phone 7: Exchange with Self-Signed Certificate

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:58:26 GMT

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...

Windows Phone 7 - can I switch off the iPhone yet?

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:40:58 GMT

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...

Windows Phone 7 - SharePoint and Exchange

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:34:37 GMT

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...

Windows Phone 7 - need Zune

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:14:18 GMT

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....

Windows Phone 7 : Facebook error 85FB4400

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:20:06 GMT

Connecting and synchronizing my Windows Phone 7 - most things are smooth, but not everything. Here's a few posts quickly listing my issues: My...

Silverlight + SharePoint 2010 - did you just deploy customizations to SharePoint via the document upload?

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:13:43 GMT

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

Microsoft Live Spaces goes to WordPress

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:06:39 GMT

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...

Silverlight - gzip compression for your Domain and Duplex service(s)

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:51:09 GMT

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,...

Silverlight GeocodeLocation SerializationException when calling RouteService CalculateRoute

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:12:45 GMT

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

MVC2 - File upload with HttpPostedFileBase

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:50:08 GMT

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

VB.NET - there are times when you have to keep an open mind

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:25:16 GMT

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...

TIP - Silverlight - InitParams and ApplicationLifeTimeService(s)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:00:13 GMT

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...

Silverlight - sharing a common class between Silverlight and .NET

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:17:04 GMT

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

Silverlight - the magic of Silverlight RIA Toolkit

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:09:31 GMT

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

Silverlight - RadScheduler and required field data validation

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:11:52 GMT

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...

SharePoint enable iFilter for TIFF OCR

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:23:56 GMT

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...

SharePoint Saturday Sydney

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:04:06 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 GlobalNavigationNodes Moved

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:00:17 GMT

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

SharePoint 2010 with IIS URL Rewrite 2.0

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:11:44 GMT

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

Sydney SharePoint User Group 20 July 2010

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:47:03 GMT

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...

Silverlight - code behind back to MVVM

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:50:32 GMT

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...

SharePoint ClientContext.List is missing?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:19:01 GMT

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

SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 Webcam

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:15:25 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 - Update All List Items SharePoint Designer Workflow Action

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:52:41 GMT

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...

Silverlight - merging detached object back to the attached data context

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:57:40 GMT

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:...

SharePoint 2010 - Configuring List Item Permissions with Workflow

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:36:09 GMT

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...

Windows Live Messenger wave 4 - redir.us freaks me out

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:33:38 GMT

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...

Silverlight PivotViewer and SharePoint

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:53:26 GMT

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

Silverlight Unit Testing - adding a timeout to EnqueueConditional

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:22:30 GMT

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

Silverlight first asynchronous test run twice

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:46:34 GMT

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

Silverlight Unit Testing Framework - modify/remove Tag Expressions dialog

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:41:59 GMT

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

C# Anonymous Delegate Syntax

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:35:43 GMT

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

Windows Live Photo Gallery (beta)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:49:25 GMT

The nastiest part of the whole Windows Live Wave 4 Beta experience so far has been concentrated on the installer - though not all Microsoft's fault, I did...

Windows Live Wave 4 Beta - Error 0x8104000b WaitForCatalog

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:04:32 GMT

0x8104000b Source: WaitForCatalog. Couldn't setup the installer. Check to make sure you are connected to the internet. Had this nasty installer bug that hit...

Develop and deploy Silverlight + SharePoint 2010 Solutions (part 3 - light it up)

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:07:52 GMT

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...

SharePoint: Do you turn off auto update on your SharePoint servers?

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:08:55 GMT

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

SharePoint MOSS 2007 - Style Library - File Not Found

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:55:42 GMT

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...

Develop and deploy Silverlight + SharePoint 2010 Solutions (part 2)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:04:57 GMT

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

Develop and deploy Silverlight + SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:33:39 GMT

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

Silverlight + SharePoint: helper classes

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:07:11 GMT

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...

Silverlight + SharePoint + CAML - best practices

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:02:30 GMT

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

MCTS exams - what are these certification trying to solve exactly?

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:48:35 GMT

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,...

Outlook (and blogs) are for code

Mon, 10 May 2010 01:47:26 GMT

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

Windows 7 Troubleshooting Wizard is not a myth

Fri, 07 May 2010 01:28:29 GMT

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...

Certified Scrum Developer

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:08:36 GMT

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...

For the love of SharePoint

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:32:39 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 CAML List Joins

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:14:20 GMT

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....

Apple iPhone drivers are pos

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:17:34 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 beta TaxonomyPicker in EventLog

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:46:23 GMT

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

SharePoint: referencing SCRIPT done right

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:42:52 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 missing Alert Me

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:41:33 GMT

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...

SharePoint – download file size missing and document library

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:45:18 GMT

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...

iShare is free. Get it now.

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:30:21 GMT

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:

SharePoint 2010 vs. 2007 comparison chart (ongoing effort)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:58:47 GMT

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...

WindowsCE – deploying to the device

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:05:20 GMT

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...

Windows CE – building a transparent picturebox

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:59:19 GMT

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

Buying games from PopCap - I am required to tick newsletter

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:31:11 GMT

I'm quite used to ticking Terms and Conditions. This PopCap checkbox has additional strings attached: You are required to receive the...

XP vs. Scrum

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:31:39 GMT

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...

VirtualBox – actually quite nice

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:16:04 GMT

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...

Always blog it if you had to write anything down

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:46:42 GMT

Martin said something recently in an email that really echoed with what I think. Always blog it if you had to do it… it serves as both a reminder to...

SharePoint 2010 – renaming features and web parts in VS.NET 2010 SharePoint Solutions

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:18:18 GMT

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

SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:30:35 GMT

Was working on a presentation on SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight. Finally, I get to marry my two favourite technologies in one awesome demo. There's...

ASP.NET "5.7.1 Unable to relay for email" when SmtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = true

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:31 GMT

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

SharePoint 2010 Speed, and Boot to VHD

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:39:37 GMT

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...

ATI x64 driver fail - Catalyst Install Manager has stopped working

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:27:33 GMT

This could possibly be the last ATI product that I'd purchase. For almost as long as I could remember I can not get the ATI drivers to install. Download...

The iPhone design flaw

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:16:47 GMT

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...

SharePoint 2010 – sneak peek

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:19:10 GMT

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...

Google hates Bing and is evil? Surely not!

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:04:13 GMT

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...

WOW - WTB a guild airship

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:17:26 GMT

Dear Blizzard, All I want for Chrismas is a giant guild airship. It is well understood that Blizzard's response to player housing (or guild halls) in WOW...

SharePoint – Blank IIS manager, events 6398, 6482, 7076

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:01:54 GMT

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...

Facebook – tattoo ad and privacy?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:07:09 GMT

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...

A lot of regrets for one evening

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:40:53 GMT

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...

Ah another weekend is upon us…

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:14:04 GMT

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/...

serverfault.com hasn't launched and I hate it already

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:33:35 GMT

http://serverfault.com/ launched , and I hate it already. edit : SF.com is Open to Public, so this should have read: serverfault.com hasn't launched yet and...

FreeRealms TCG - the nature starter deck

Sat, 23 May 2009 04:09:58 GMT

I'm playing a nature starter deck and have no trouble beating the npcs - currently going around collecting more cards. Here's the general idea to have a...

FreeRealms TCG notes

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:04:54 GMT

Name location Trick1 Tournament2 Creature3 Resource4 - Ernie MorningGlory Sam Potts Sanctuary Order Creature Wolf companion x3 Order Resource Sports Shades...

SharePoint: MOSS SP2 Major Bug

Fri, 22 May 2009 12:04:24 GMT

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,...

SharePoint – InfoPath /cache clearall

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:37:12 GMT

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...

SharePoint – InfoPath / Forms Library missing

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:19:49 GMT

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...

SharePoint – how do you stay on top of all this stuff?

Thu, 21 May 2009 02:39:01 GMT

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...

SharePoint – thoughts on sharepoint.microsoft.com

Thu, 21 May 2009 02:18:42 GMT

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...

SharePoint – Microsoft Certified Masters, and why I should care

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:28:00 GMT

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...

Migrating from Windows Live Spaces to SquareSpace - outline

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:51:46 GMT

This is going to be a series of blogs, and hopefully release source code for getting your blog out of Windows Live Spaces. I want to split this into two...

SharePoint: Groove assimilated by the Borg (aka SharePoint)

Thu, 14 May 2009 02:58:29 GMT

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...

What am I looking for in SquareSpace

Sun, 10 May 2009 15:58:01 GMT

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...

SharePoint - service pack 2 thoughts

Mon, 04 May 2009 05:00:22 GMT

SharePoint service pack 2 came out a couple of days ago, for some reason I was really excited about it and even woke up checking twitter regarding any...

IIS7 WCF .SVC 404

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:31:34 GMT

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...

SharePoint - On the verge of launching a new release of a SharePoint site

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:07:56 GMT

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...

SharePoint – thoughts on MSDN “Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint Server 2007”

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:38:05 GMT

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

SharePoint – IE8 standards mode causes trouble in SharePoint

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:56:49 GMT

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

So you want to be a SharePoint architect

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:42:23 GMT

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

Bad Microsoft (System.Web) code got owned by StackOverflow

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:17:31 GMT

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...

SharePoint – Name ActiveX Control error.

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:37:05 GMT

This error pops up on SharePoint MOSS publishing websites that are in the Internet security zone for IE browsers. This is because the core.js file wants to...

Javascript - jQuery + ASP.NET – post-AJAX events

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:15:16 GMT

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...

re: Dell Newsletter

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:54:19 GMT

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...

SharePoint - Cannot get ghost document

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:31:27 GMT

We chased a fun bug in the afternoon after we deployed our new package to our staging server. Symptom: Our customized Content Query Web Parts stops...

SharePoint – for those times when you really got to kill a list

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:00:12 GMT

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...

The new flood of stuff coming out of Windows Live are really nice

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:10:57 GMT

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...

SharePoint - ContentQueryWebPart, CommonViewFields and Multi-value choices

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:02:07 GMT

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...

Lemmings 4D game

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:13:48 GMT

I'm pretty sure Lemmings stopped at 3D. But I think there's room to make a 4D game: Implement in SilverLight - Utilize the harddrive - add special tools...

Windows Live configuration sync

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:11:44 GMT

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...

I twit now (oh and I still blog)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:49:59 GMT

I'm sorry I'm probably very very late to the bandwagon, but there's a few reasons for this: Just ain't very keen to login to Facebook all the time to just...

SharePoint: Error when adding a new page based on a customized (broken) page layout

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:12:03 GMT

Exception: No parameterless constructor defined for this object. at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean...

Didn't know it could be this difficult to pull something out of the GAC

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:24:14 GMT

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...

Late blog (as in, not a live blog) Australia Power To Developers event

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:58:32 GMT

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...

SharePoint, WCF Service, .NET full/partial trust

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:38:46 GMT

Security Exception: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers Scenario: We wanted our SharePoint webpart to do some complex logic that took...

Windows Live Mail (Hotmail) has a nice new look

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:16:26 GMT

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...

Consuming WCF WebService from jQuery AJAX (with JSON)

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:59:53 GMT

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...

Seriously thinking to split this blog

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:01:52 GMT

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...

Software Architecture

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:20:39 GMT

An architect's work is to see a pattern through the mess of business (or software) processes and come up with the simplest design . - heard on .NET Rocks...

Code Archaeology

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:15:21 GMT

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...

iPhone special: No contacts in the contact list when I couldn't talk to my Microsoft Exchange server

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:58:57 GMT

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...

An injustice

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:47:11 GMT

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...

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException when opening a visual studio web project

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:31:32 GMT

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...

jQuery + Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:13:50 GMT

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...

Cheating Live ads

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:01:13 GMT

I try to use Live Search (people think I'm crazy). I figure if I use it enough it'll learn and become a better search engine. I was looking for Flight...

Sharing a little gem - ASP.NET Javascript String.format

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:06:05 GMT

When you are working with ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft injects quite a bit of Javascript framework stuff. Most ASP.NET developers don't dive into these libraries...

New MacBook to have glass trackpad (End of September)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:32:30 GMT

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...

HTML map and area tags not working for FireFox

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:20:53 GMT

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...

Customizing CSSLink and ScriptLink for public Sharepoint site

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:51:32 GMT

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...

The best way to learn to customizing Sharepoint for an ASP.NET guy - use Reflector

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:17:04 GMT

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...

Tough to love Sharepoint

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:19:28 GMT

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...

Where is the DataRepeater for Silverlight?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:05:57 GMT

I came across a really puzzling thing while playing with Silverlight tonight, try as I might, I couldn't find a DataRepeater style of control. Basically,...

Starting another journey, again

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:30:04 GMT

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....

Your windows service started and stopped

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:59:47 GMT

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...

this.consulting.life

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:51:35 GMT

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...

Quick tip: Initialising Dictionary inline

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:16:59 GMT

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

Generic EventArgs implementation (but isn't really all that useful)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:20:47 GMT

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

A camera of the future

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:24:19 GMT

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...

Missing entry: setting DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern across the entire ASP.NET application

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:30:27 GMT

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...

Updating from SilverLight 2 Beta 1 to Beta 2

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:46:10 GMT

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...

Modelling the system

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:27:45 GMT

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:...

Inspiration strikes - RTS Chess

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:44:33 GMT

Chess is typically a turn-based game. You move, my move, your move again. I had this inspiration to make a RTS chess, how would it work? Take normal chess...

Do we really need that many controls in Silverlight?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:17:44 GMT

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...

Lack of statistics for Windows spaces.live.com

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:57:16 GMT

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...

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 coming really soon

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:45:29 GMT

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...

Polaroid Picture Add-On for Windows Live Writer

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:54:21 GMT

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

Doing a simple timeout page with WebClientApplication

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:08:09 GMT

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