Category: Visual Studio

Today in Visual Studio I tried to clone a repository and I got : Git failed with a fatal error: repository ‘xyz’ not found After a bit of trial and…

In recent months I’ve really started to like the OfficeDev\PnP initiative on Github. The following 4 projects give a great start for provisioning sites: https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP-Provisioning-Schema https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP-Sites-Core https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP-PowerShell https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP It is now possible…

My Problem Today when I tried to deploy my sandbox solution I suddenly got the following error: Remote SharePoint site connections are not supported. The site I tried to connect…

Deploy my display templates I’ve been struggling for a while to deploy my display templates. This article does explain how to deploy the templates however when I try to redeploy…

Today I tried to get the TemplateID for starting a workflow from the ribbon in SharePoint 2013 workflow. Some Background To start a workflow from a SharePoint ribbon a URL…

So I had a reusable SharePoint Designer list workflow deployed in SharePoint 2013. The process that I’m implementing is creating project sites using web templates created in Visual Studio 2013.…

Content types in SharePoint can be extended by creating a new feature which deploys an element file with the following content: <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">     <ContentType ID="GUID"         Name="Text"         Group="Text"…

Deployment timing out A SharePoint deployment timing out can be quite annoying. First of all, this is something that shouldn’t really happen, in my case the VMs that we were…

There are a couple of blogs out there about exporting reusable workflows but none of them really cover the problems that I ran into recently. Exporting workflows First of all the…