Category Archives: SharePoint

Docker on Windows – Mounting Volumes

Posted on March 6, 2017 by gavinbarron

If your using Docker on Windows and looking to share folders between your host machine and your running containers you’ll likely want to us the –v flag to mount a volume like this: Luckily the error message is nice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Docker, SharePoint, SPFx | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Development, News, SharePoint | 2 Comments

SharePoint 2013 Search: Add User Profile Properties to the Full Text Index

Posted on April 14, 2014 by gavinbarron

We would like to allow users to search on values stored against user profiles without needing to use an explicit managed property search, i.e. they just want to type in the keyword and have the relevant people returned. Pretty much … Continue reading →

Posted in Search, SharePoint, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Extracting a full list of users from SharePoint

Posted on February 20, 2014 by gavinbarron

I had an interesting ask from a customer the other day. “Can I get a report of all the users in the system along with some key pieces of data that is stored on their user profile?” Sure there are … Continue reading →

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Name ActiveX controls for public sites AKA go away name.dll prompt

Posted on September 6, 2013 by gavinbarron

So, I use Chrome, there I said it. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Anyway when I’m browsing the web using what is, in general, a pretty good browser I’ll every … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, SharePoint | 3 Comments

SPDisposeCheck: Do not use for SharePoint 2013

Posted on August 8, 2013 by gavinbarron

I like many SharePoint developers out there I am user of SPDisposeCheck. My team and I use this as in our Continuous Integration builds as one of our quality checks on to determine if our code is passing the checks … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practice, Development, SharePoint | 4 Comments

Practical Guide to Public Facing sites

Posted on April 17, 2013 by gavinbarron

This year I presented a second session at the New Zealand  SharePoint Conferences, on “A Practical Guide to Public Facing web sites”. As promised in my session here is the slide deck.

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Writing testable SharePoint code: New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Conferences

Posted on April 16, 2013 by gavinbarron

This year I was lucky enough to be invited back to present at the New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Conferences, this time on “Writing Testable SharePoint Code”. As promised in my sessions here is the slide deck and, more importantly, … Continue reading →

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Setting up Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013

Posted on December 19, 2012 by gavinbarron

VS2012 Update 1 is great it adds the Microsoft Fakes framework for stubbing out SharePoint dependencies and other really useful tools for SharePoint development. If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 you should be using Update 1; but it doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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I’m an MVP for SharePoint Server!

Posted on July 17, 2012 by gavinbarron

Wahooo! A couple of weeks ago I got one of the coolest emails I’ve received in my professional career, it read: Dear Gavin Barron,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given … Continue reading →

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