Category Archives: Blog Posts

Microsoft Forms Web Part error: “This is not a valid form link.”

Last week, I was building some simple request forms using Microsoft Forms and I wanted to embed one on a modern SharePoint Page. I created, the form, added the Microsoft Forms web part, but when I pasted the link to the form, I got the following error: This is not a valid form link. PleaseContinue reading “Microsoft Forms Web Part error: “This is not a valid form link.””

Using the Developer Console to exit SharePoint Classic Mode

For some reason on one of my tenants, the “Return to Modern” link simply doesn’t render any more and it hasn’t for months. I don’t go back to Classic Mode very often but it’s a necessity to remove an SPFx package still. Once I remove my package, I get stuck in Classic Mode. I’m notContinue reading “Using the Developer Console to exit SharePoint Classic Mode”

How to: Provision Lookup Columns and Projected Fields using PnP PowerShell

If there is anything that is hard to work with in SharePoint, it’s lookup columns. While it’s so easy and simple to create them through the SharePoint user interface (well the classic interface), they are incredibly complex to provision programmatically. I remember struggles behind provisioning lookup columns going back as far as 2007 if notContinue reading “How to: Provision Lookup Columns and Projected Fields using PnP PowerShell”

How to: Setup CI / CD in Azure DevOps with the help of SPFx Generator

Updated: January 20th, 2020 – Refer to this post to use the latest version of PowerShell and certificate authentication. This post will be updated in the future to include those updates. Updated:May 28th, 2019 to use SPFx 1.8 and node.js v10 Updated: May 8th, 2019 to include use of SecureString There are a lot ofContinue reading “How to: Setup CI / CD in Azure DevOps with the help of SPFx Generator”

SPFx Basics: Debugging web parts on any page

Many experienced SPFx developers know you don’t have to debug your web part in the workbench in SharePoint Online. While the workbench is great, there are certain things that you just can’t test there such as application customizers and full-width web part zones. In the past six months or so, I’ve mentored a number ofContinue reading “SPFx Basics: Debugging web parts on any page”

Announcing the deprecation of DotNetMafia.com

My blog site DotNetMafia.com has been around for quite a long time.  It started as a conversation at a bar by Kyle Kelin, the Dot Net Mafia’s original purpose was to provide a site to rank and review recruiters known for being shady and lying to both candidates and clients.  That concept never took off butContinue reading “Announcing the deprecation of DotNetMafia.com”

Using Ionic Framework with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

For those that know me, you might have heard about my extensive use of Ionic Framework, a mobile app platform, to build various side projects including BrewZap and HappenZap. If you aren’t familiar with Ionic Framework, it’s a node.js based development framework for mobile apps. Ionic was originally built using AngularJS and then modern versionsContinue reading “Using Ionic Framework with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)”