Cloud, Productivity, Tech and all that interests me
Last week I participated in OpenHack DevOps organized by Microsoft in Stockholm. It was a three day event from 5th – 7th February 2019. The hackathon was focused on Azure DevOps. The format of the event was of-course like a hackathon. Participants were divided into teams (4-6 each). The content was set as challenges (total […]
In my recent project, I’m providing some integration services (APIs) that are used by the web application to fetch data from source systems. This is a legacy project that I inherited. To be honest, this was a PoC and we all know how PoCs are developed and very often continue to be used in production. […]
Check out my GitHub repository if you want to dig into the source code directly. WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) has served us for a long time when it comes to talking to many LOB systems (SAP etc.). You might have love or hate (though if I have to guess, it would be on hate side) relationship […]
Azure Analysis Services is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that provides enterprise-grade data models in the cloud. Use advanced mashup and modeling features to combine data from multiple data sources, define metrics, and secure your data in a single, trusted tabular semantic data model. The data model provides an easier and faster […]
As developers, we are all guilty of leaking sensitive information of our applications and systems more than we would perhaps like to admit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about breaking the NDAs with our clients but about those little connection strings to our databases and keys to our storage accounts where we hold […]
Scenario/Problem: Recently I was faced with a situation where I wanted to know the owner of the Personal Site in SharePoint. While it’s fairly straightforward to identify the personal site by the WebTemplate property in the corresponding SPWeb object but there was no property that could simply pin-point the owner of the site itself. If […]
Scenario When you provision a Managed Metadata (Taxonomy) field in SharePoint, it creates a hidden field (of type Note) along with the main taxonomy field. What happens when you delete that field? You would expect the other one to be deleted as well, right? Not that easy SharePoint for some reason doesn’t delete that hidden field. So […]
Scenario: When you go to the newsfeed in your personal site (mysite newsfeed), you can write post and target it to different sites you are following or on your personal feed. Recently, I had to built the same functionality for one of the projects. The ideas was to build the UI using SharePoint’s REST APIs and […]
Scenario: I have a custom list definition based on which I want to create some lists and associate OOB approval workflow with them for content approval. In the schema.xml file for my custom list definition (based documents library i.e., basetype=1), I set ModeratedList=“True” attribute among others (see in the code snippet below) <List xmlns:ows=”Microsoft SharePoint” […]
Scenario: I have a custom web template that is used to provision the site. Among other things (branding etc), a custom documents library is provisioned whenever a new site is created (also based on my custom documents library template). Besides creating the custom library, I need to associate the OOB Approval workflow with the library that […]