Author Archives: gavinbarron

Slot switching Azure Website from VSTS

Posted on October 14, 2016 by gavinbarron

In my last post I covered off how to set up a simple release process that deploys to an Azure Website in classic mode. That process involved an explicit web deploy to each slot. What might be useful for some … Continue reading →

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Minimal path to awesome–VSTS Release Management and Classic mode Azure Website

Posted on October 2, 2016 by gavinbarron

I’ve been doing a whole lot of work with Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online, and making heavy us of the Release Management feature as I discussed recently on the Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 146. As this can … Continue reading →

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The future of SharePoint development is cloudy

Posted on May 4, 2016 by gavinbarron

I’ve seen the future of SharePoint development and it’s decidedly cloudy. And that’s a good thing, no, that’s a great thing for the health of the SharePoint developer community. A few months back I was fortunate enough to be invited … Continue reading →

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Migrating questionable date strings

Posted on February 12, 2016 by gavinbarron

I’ve been having a lot of fun with data migration lately /s Anyway I have an evil source database that has free-form strings that allegedly represent dates. I look at this data and think to myself, this is why we … Continue reading →

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Don’t get burned by Redis ConnectionMultiplexer; A sample wrapper

Posted on July 11, 2015 by gavinbarron

Every had a latent bug go undetected and then jump up and bite you? Yeah, not the nicest feeling. I’ve been working on a pretty interesting project that now makes use of Redis to provide a caching layer as the … Continue reading →

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Update the installed certificate for an Identity Provider

Posted on July 8, 2015 by gavinbarron

If you use ADFS or some form of federated identity in SharePoint eventually you’re likely to need to update the certificate you have installed. This is because SharePoint holds a copy of the public certificate to verify the incoming SAML … Continue reading →

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Browsing localhost using “Project Spartan” AKA “Microsoft Edge”

Posted on July 6, 2015 by gavinbarron

I’m using Windows 10 as my primary OS now, maybe that’s a bit nuts but hey 10162 is a lot more stable than some of the early builds, and the driver support is pretty good now too. I fired up … Continue reading →

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Page mode and JavaScript

Posted on October 31, 2014 by gavinbarron

So I ran into a scenario recently where a customer had a jQuery script making some DOM modification which they wanted and everything looked good. Until you went to edit the properties of some web parts. Unfortunately due to the … Continue reading →

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SharePoint MVPs do an AMA

Posted on October 24, 2014 by gavinbarron

Are you a redditor? If you are start collating some questions for the SharePoint MVP AMA which will be held on October 30 6am (October 29 at 1pm EST according to the post in /r/sharepoint). If you’re not a redditor … Continue reading →

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Why do I need to use SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates?

Posted on May 21, 2014 by gavinbarron

We have a customer who has a couple of custom feature bound onto a WebTemplate that was giving them grief when they attempted to provision sites from this template via PowerShell but worked just fine when using the web UI. … Continue reading →

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