Author: mbakirov

  • Random thought on unit testing.

    I have been watching this video today https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/BRK207?source=sessions and I caught myself thinking of a story from old times. Once I was fixing a very simple bug… And it was so simple and the scenario was so simple so I fixed it and then wrote the unit test. Big mistake. Needless to say, the bug…

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  • Calling One Azure Logic App Workflow from Another to prevent JSON being escaped

    Have you ever composed JSON in an activity, only to find that it gets all tangled up when you try to use it as the body in another workflow? It’s frustrating, right? When you put the JSON in the designer interface as the body, it gets escaped, transforming into a string with all { and…

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  • How to renew a SPFX certificate (gulp certificate)

    Ok so this happened today for me. Apparently on this computer I started working on spfx project more than 5 years ago and the certificate has expired.       I could not find how to renew it on the internet so here is how to do it:   gulp untrust-dev-cert gulp trust-dev-cert

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  • Bass/treble cut component

    Ok, this is a first post in my Guitar Wiring series. In this we will explore the bass/treble cut component. Normal tone control on a guitar cuts the treble. In some cases, especially when dealing with a bassy and boomy neck pickup, you might want to cut a little bit of bass. Using push/pull or…

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  • Changing SharePoint farm passwords

    Another recent case from the customer. What they had is a farm which was deployed with autospinstaller. https://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/ So they have quite a number of accounts for various SharePoint services , windows services and application pools.   So how should we change the accounts? The easiest way (that was implemented at the customer) is to…

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  • Case – broken export-spweb. (Understanding the solution package version and DeploymentServerType)

    Another case from the recent customer support work. The customer had a 3rd party solution with a list template, list and a web part which seemed to be created for SharePoint 14 (2010) originally and simply recompiled. (And I cannot change or recompile the sources).   The customer has SharePoint 2013 farm, made of 2…

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  • How to display correct document links in the search results.

    At the recent client project there were an interesting situation. They had a web part that was looking pretty much like a list with the only difference – it was a Content Search webpart and it was supposed to show certain the documents from all subsites. Pretty usual request. However, the client pointed out, that…

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  • How to add “View Library” link to the SharePoint Search results from file share

    Recently a customer asked me to improve one little thing. You know the “view library” link that appears once you search for the files in SharePoint? These guys had setup a search over a file share, but the library link did not appear there. Apparently the solution appeared to be rather simple. However, I did…

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  • How to deal with “Missing server side dependencies” error

    In this post I am going to show my methodology for dealing with the “Missing server side dependencies” error. I do not have a good way to deal with it online but one good way to deal with it on-premises. For this example I am using the SharePoint 2010, but the problem is the same…

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  • Sharepoint dev machine – keep your SQL databases sizes neat

    Ok, time to go back to the blog posting.   I do often create single-server SharePoint based environments purely for development purposes. In this environment we often face an issue of overgrowing databases logs. To make things worse, now I use SSDs in Azure, which are rather limited in size. So for DEVELOPER machine it…

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