Continuous Deployment of SharePoint Apps (a.k.a Add-Ins) is tricky. The app package is intended to be created for every environment because it must contain a client id and secret. There is also no simple way to automatically trust the app. … Continue reading How to deploy SharePoint Apps with VSTS Release Management
Problem If you create an MSDeploy package for a SharePoint or O365 AddIn (a.k.a App) in a team build the package does not include all files (like i.e. language resources). Reason This seems to be a bug in MSDeploy. If you build the app only with /p:Ispackaging=True everything works fine. You get a web package inside the app.publish folder that contains all files. If you work with multiple Publishing Profiles and specify an explicit profile strange things happen. /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=NameOfPackageProfile You still get the package but if you look inside the package the folders are missing. Solution If you can … Continue reading Missing files in MSDeploy package
I had no support for Visual Studio 2015 in my first beta. I fixed this and added a pester test script to test the init.ps1. I also notices that there are problems with older versions of SharePoint on premises. Therefor I created a second nuget package. The original package SPOEmulators now uses the dependent package Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM as the source for the CSOM assemblies (version 16). The new package SPOEmulators (on-premises) directly references the version 15 of the CSOM assemblies. For details how to use the SPOEmulators refer to the readme on github.com or to my original post here. Continue reading SPOEmulators 0.2-pre released on nuget
Today I published the first beta of SPOEmulators on NuGet.org. The project is open source (MIT license) and is available on GitHub. SPOEmulators is a framework that helps you to write unit and integration tests against Office 365 or SharePoint on premise using the client side object model (CSOM). It uses the Microsoft Fakes Framework to emulate the SharePoint or O365 CSOM. The benefit is, that you an write your tests against the real backend as integration tests. If your code works you can add a little more effort to convert the test to an isolated unit test. Like this … Continue reading SPOEmulators beta available
I’m not trying to cover all relevant aspects of SharePoint announcements that are made the last days on Microsoft Ignite – I’m sure you’re all following it closely. I just want to highlight the most important aspects for SharePoint developers and the impact they have on my work. Provisioning Engine The Office365 Developer Patterns and Practices group announced a provisioning engine for provisioning SharePoint artifacts (sites, lists, fields, content types etc.). It takes a xml file with a custom syntax as the input and provisions the content using the API. It also works both ways – you can use the … Continue reading Side notes for SharePoint and O365 developers from #MSIgnite
The xSharePointProvisioning module contains DSC resources to provision SharePoint artifacts using the Client Side Object Model (CSOM). There are two versions: one for O365 and ne for SharePoint on premise. Currently the following resources are in the package: xList Ensure a list with a specific title and description at a given URL. If the list does not exist it will be created with the specified template. xField Ensure that a list at a specific url has or has not a specified field. XListItem Ensure that a list at a specific url has or has not a list item with the … Continue reading xSharePointProvisioning Module – PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
If you use ApplicationInsights in your SharePoint Apps you might also want to include it in all sites of the hosting web. You can do this by injecting the corresponding JavaScript using the client side object model (CSOM) and UserCustomActions. Go to https://portal.azure.com/ and open your ApplicationInsights-Application or create a new one. Go to “Quick start” – “Get code to monitor my web pages” and copy the code insight the script tags. Save the script to a JavaScript file and upload it to your O365 site (i.e. to /Style%20Library). Use the following PowerShell script to inject the JavaScript file without … Continue reading Add ApplicationInsights to your O365 SharePoint sites
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