S. J. Lewis 365 Solutions

SharePoint: Can’t deploy a Sandbox solution (WSP)?

Well I’ve been seeing these problems with one of my tenant and it turns out that Microsoft has rolled out a so called “fix”, to prevents Users from run custom scripts… How to enable custom scripts.

February 20, 2015
Virtual Machine: Configuring for daily development use

Every time I create or given a new Development Virtual Machine (VM) I find myself repeating the same steps…

October 14, 2014
Virtual Machine: SharePoint failing to create a Web Application

So your Virtual Machine doesn’t quite have enough resources to create a new Web Application using Central Admin, then you have two choices PowerShell or the workaround I’m going to describe today.

October 14, 2014
Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 3

In this post I want to talk about Fixtures and a major pitfall I’ve found when working with Chutzpah Test Adaptor for the Test Explorer.

September 15, 2014
Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 2

Last week I wrote about how to configure Jasmine to run within Visual Studio using Chutzpah Test Adaptors. However since then I’ve run into a number of issues for which I will share my thoughts in this post.

September 15, 2014
Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 1

This blog does not describe how to perform JavaScript TDD (test-driven development) or BDD (behaviour-driven development). It does however describe how to set-up Visual Studio and configure an App for SharePoint project to get you started.

September 8, 2014
Client-side Development Techniques with CQWP(s) and JavaScript…

The other day I was talking to one of my colleague John Holah about retrieving large amounts of data from a SharePoint 2010 Lists using “client-side” v “OOB” techniques for a particular client, who has set use a number of challenges/limitations: Our access is limited to Site Collections We cannot deploy server-side code Internet Explorer…

July 11, 2014
Cool Visual Studio 2013 plugin called Javascript Parser…

Found a cool plugin which improve support for JavaScript within Visual Studio 2013 and therefore help the performance of development process and avoid possible bugs. Excellent! However the best thing I like about “Javascript Parser” plugin is that I can now use the “// TODO: …” Task List Tokens in my JavaScript code just like we…

January 30, 2014
SharePoint Online: Facebook Social Plugin

Finally got round to testing the Facebook social plugin for Office 365 Public Site blogs and at first glance it would appear Users are limits to signing in with one of the following accounts: Facebook, Yahoo, AOL and Hotmail. However if you are like me and prefer to use your Windows Live account, well you…

January 28, 2014
Useful UI Branding tools for SharePoint 2013

Just thinking about branding my website and came across a tool by Microsoft called Color Palette Tool SharePoint 2013 which downloaded from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16806.color-palette-tool-sharepoint-2013.aspx And if you require inspiration for your theme one of colleges (Matthew Holden) pointed me in the direction Adobe Kuler https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

August 5, 2013