Using the Workflow Definition Language in Microsoft Flow 30 June 2017 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Flow I’ve been playing with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow since the first time it was introduced. And I must admit, I really love the way you can create mobile apps and flows in just a couple of minutes. I agree, once you really get in there, you bump into things that are still missing. But hey,... [More]
Creating A Self-Signed Code Signing Certificate from PowerShell 18 May 2017 Tommy-Vanhee PowerShell In PowerShell, being able to execute scripts depends on the execution policy of your machine.You mig [More]
Deciding when to do a differential backup 02 May 2017 Nico-Jacobs SQL Server SQL Server allows for differential backups, which only backups extends modified since the last full backup. The advantage of these differential backups is that if only a small portion of your data has changed since the last full backup, you need less time and storage for your backups! The disadvanta... [More]
Angular Language Service 02 May 2017 Diedrik-De-Mits One of the best extensions you can find for your Angular programming needs is called the "Angular La [More]
Watch out with calculated DateTime fields in CSOM 25 April 2017 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem SharePoint Development var localDateOnlyValue = ctx.Web.RegionalSettings.TimeZone.UTCToLocalTime((DateTime)item.FieldValues["DateOnly"]); ctx.ExecuteQuery(); I recently came across a baffling issue when using CSOM to connect to a SharePoint Online list to retrieve values from a Date and Time field and another field ca... [More]
Using Azure VMs as remote R workspaces in R Tools for Visual Studio 02 March 2017 Nico-Jacobs R, Visual Studio Running R on your local laptop is easy: you just download one of the R distributions (CRAN or Microsoft) and kick off RGui.exe. But if you’re a Microsoft oriented developer or data scientist you are probably familiar with Visual Studio. So you download and install R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) an... [More]
Creating histograms in Power BI was never easier 21 November 2016 Nico-Jacobs Power BI Power BI Desktop contains since the October 2016 release a binning option (under the group option). With this option it becomes super-easy to create a histogram. Let’s demonstrate: First assume you made a data model containing the DimProduct and the FactInternetSales table of the AdventureworksDW sa... [More]
Applying JSLink on a Dashboard page 01 July 2016 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem In this article I will discuss the issues I came across with when trying to apply jslink on a SharePoint dashboard page. For me, a dashboard page is a page on which you put multiple web parts, in order to get a global overview on a certain entity. In order to demonstrate this, consider that you kee... [More]
Seamless integration of Microsoft Word and Microsoft SharePoint Online with the new SharePoint Add-In Export to Word 16 June 2016 Lieven-Iliano BRUSSELS - June 17th 2016 - U2U today announced the release of the Microsoft SharePoint [More]
What’s new in SharePoint 2016 CSOM (DocumentSets) 11 March 2016 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem SharePoint 2016, SharePoint Development With SharePoint 2016 RC available, it’s interesting to see what new additions we have in CSOM and/or REST APIs. Doing some research in the differences between the SharePoint 2013 RTM CSOM and SharePoint 2016 RC CSOM, I noticed several differences. This post will describe the differences related to D... [More]