Quite often customers ask me about how to create custom Workflow Custom Actions, for SharePoint Designer 2013, using Microsoft Visual Studio. Because on the network there are a lot of contents, some of them not very complete or clear … let me try to clarify this topic, or add some more entropy 🙂 … Thus, […]
Read moreMany times I have been asked by customers about how it is possibile to update an X.509 Certificate bundled with a Trusted Identity Provider. It is a common request, and a common need … because certificates expire based on a schedule. Here you can see a sample PowerShell code excerpt to update the certificate of […]
Read moreYesterday at the Build 2013 Conference Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview, as well as the availability of Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 Preview, and .NET 4.5.1. Since yesterday, are also available some new VM models in the Windows Azure VMs IaaS offering. One of them is really interesting from a […]
Read moreToday, at the Build Conference 2013, Microsoft announced – as it was expected – the availability of a preview of Visual Studio 2013, together with the new .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Windows 8.1. Here you can find further information about .NET 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013, while here you can find a preview of the […]
Read moreHere you can find an updated version of the white paper I wrote about deploying a SharePoint 2013 lab via PowerShell on Windows Azure VMs. These contents will be illustrated and explained in my session about “Deploying Microsoft SharePoint on Windows Azure VMs” (SES-B320) at TechEd Europe 2013.
Read moreA customer of mine asked me how to upload a file, using CSOM from .NET, into a target library/folder regardless the target folder already exists or not. Here you can see a code sample, which leverages the ExceptionHandlingScope available in CSOM. static void FileUploadWithExceptionHandlingScope() { ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext(“http://demo-sp2013.sharepoint.local/sites/DemoSite/“); ExceptionHandlingScope scope = new ExceptionHandlingScope(ctx); […]
Read moreAs Somasegar announced last week, Microsoft has just released the RTM version of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, which are available here: OfficeDevToolsForVS2012. These tools provide many useful templates, and IDE extensions for developing Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 apps and solutions. It was already available a Preview 2 version of […]
Read moreHere are the demos of the session I’ve just done at the European SharePoint Conference 2013. Enjoy!
Read moreThanks everybody for attending my session about Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint 2013. Here you can find the demos I showed during the talk. Moreover, many people after attending the session asked me about how to configure a S2S (High-Trust) scenario for Provider-Hosted apps and how to debug RERs running on a Autohosted SharePoint app. […]
Read moreHere you can see how to consume, via CSOM, a SharePoint site hosted on SharePoint Online/Office 365 using PowerShell. First of all you need to load the CSOM libraries in the PowerShell context. Add-Type –Path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll” Add-Type –Path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll” Then you need to reference the […]
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I'm a Solution Architect, author and trainer, focused on Microsoft 365 development and customization. I'm based in Italy, but I work wherever it is needed. I'm a Microsoft Certified Solution Master on SharePoint and an MVP on Office Apps & Services.