Category Archives: Tips

Short tips and lifehacks

Two Hidden Gems for SharePoint developers: File Browser & File Picker

Posted on January 23, 2026 by Dan

Did you know you can show SharePoint in an iFrame or a popup to let users browse libraries and pick files? Microsoft offers two controls: File Picker (/_layouts/15/FilePicker.aspx) File Browser (/_layouts/15/FileBrowser.aspx) You can embed these aspx pages in an iFrame … Continue reading →

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Advanced declarative agent can’t be deployed

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Dan

I was trying out Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit in VS Code, building an agent using TypeSpec, but it failed to provisioning to my M365 developer tenant, with the following error: Error: Deployment blocked: Advanced declarative agent can’t be deployed due … Continue reading →

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How to get “order” and “level” for pages in OneNote Graph API

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Dan

Quick tip: To include the order  and level  properties when getting pages with the Graph OneNote API, you need to add ?pagelevel=true  to your request. This is not mentioned in the documentation.

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Moving Term Sets Accross Site Collection Maintaining Term ID:s

Posted on May 28, 2025 by Dan

In SharePoint we have the Term Store for managing reusable terms. Besides tenant level term groups, which are available to all site collections, each site can have their own group. There are situations when you need to move term sets … Continue reading →

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New-MgOauth2PermissionGrant : Missing property: clientId

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Dan

I was trying to add some permissions to the (new) SPFx app. This is done using the New-MgOauth2PermissionGrant  cmdlet. All examples shows using it with -BodyParameter :

But this did not work for me. All I got back was an … Continue reading →

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Azure Functions suddenly returning 403 when called from SPFx

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Dan

Microsoft has recently made a change to SharePoint Framework that might break existing solutions that use an Azure backend (e.g. a Function App) that is secured to only allow requests from SPFx apps. For us, our Azure Functions suddenly started … Continue reading →

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Using emojis for easier JavaScript debugging

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Dan

I normally don’t care much for emojis, but lately I’ve found them to be helpful when working with JavaScript. The JavaScript console may not be the most elegant way to debug, but it’s the quickest and sometimes only reasonable way … Continue reading →

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Better cache management in ASP.Net Core (LazyCache/FusionCache)

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Dan

LazyCache and the newer FusionCache are two great libraries that simplifies working with caching in ASP.Net Core. Something I’ve often been missing though is the ability to dispose of the entire cache, not just single items. (My understanding is that … Continue reading →

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A faster way to get effective permissions with PnP Core

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Dan

PnP Core SDK has built in functionality to get effective permissions for a user on a list item in SharePoint:

This is pretty slow; typically ~1000ms. So I tried calling the REST API directly instead:

Turns out this … Continue reading →

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Searching with Microsoft Graph Client Library for .NET

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Dan

Using the MS Graph SDK for .NET is convenient but I find the documentation and examples pretty lacking. So when wanted to use the Search endpoint it took me quite a while to figure out how to make it work. … Continue reading →

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