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Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler

I have a passion for developing software, integrating systems, working with interesting tech and great people.

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SharePoint Online

Displaying page author on a SharePoint Page

I was looking at different ways to get the author of a publishing page in a Page Layout today. There is a control that SharePoint provides, which will give us the name of

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
Raspberry Pi - Building a PWM Fan Controller with DotNet IoT
.Net

Raspberry Pi - Building a PWM Fan Controller with DotNet IoT

I've had a heap of fun, and just a tad amount of pain recently building a PWM Fan Controller for my Pi. I really, really wanted to get all this to work with:

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
9 min read
spJsom - A library for SharePoint Development
SharePoint

spJsom - A library for SharePoint Development

spJsom is a fluent API that you can use in JavaScript or TypeScript projects. It hides the complexity of the JavaScript Client Side Object Model (JSOM).

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
6 min read
TypeScript

Webpack and Module parse failed: Unexpected token

Issue I've published a package to NPM lately, which includes source. I'm also using webpack in various apps to pull in that source. I found that when I reference code under a node_

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
Visual Studio

Visual Studio repeatedly prompting for password in Azure DevOps

I've had an annoying issue for a while now where Visual Studio won't properly connect to Azure Dev Ops.  I had been able to commit my git changes, but I couldn't see the

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
Authenticating with Twitter using RESTSharp
.Net

Authenticating with Twitter using RESTSharp

One of the things I really enjoy doing as a developer is integrating with other systems. Not sure why, but its satisfying seeing an external feed of data flowing to where ever I

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
3 min read
Building a Twitter Connector in C#
.Net

Building a Twitter Connector in C#

Previously I've built PowerShell based processes to bring in the user timeline feeds and push to Office 365/SharePoint Online solutions. However I now need to create a more advanced integration using c#

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
3 min read
Deleting Content Types and the "Content Type is still in use" error
PowerShell

Deleting Content Types and the "Content Type is still in use" error

I was doing some pre-migration activities, removing Content Types and un-used lists from SharePoint Online. One of the sites had a lot of lists / libraries and subsites, and I couldn't track down where

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
2 min read
PowerShell

Clearing the Recycle Bins in SharePoint Online using PowerShell

There comes a time, where manual clicking through the SharePoint navigation structure gets tedious. I found myself contemplating my life when Remote Desktoped to a slow, clunky workstation just to access SharePoint online.

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
SharePoint

SharePoint 412 (Precondition Failed) when updating metadata using REST

I have been working with uploading larger files lately with REST, and in an attempt to use concurrency control I stumbled on an annoying gotchya. I received an error along the lines of

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
2 min read
SharePoint

How to upload a file to SharePoint library using REST and jQuery

I really struggled to find a good example for this. An MSDN example shows how to do this using the App model, but what about from something running directly in your SharePoint site?

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
2 min read
iOS

Xamarin Error - AMDeviceSecureInstallApplicationBundle returned: 0xe8008015

I found that for no clear reason that I was receiving the following error trying to deploy to my iPhone 6 plus device, using iOS 12.1. AMDeviceSecureInstallApplicationBundle returned: 0xe8008015 This I've found

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
SharePoint

SharePoint Designer 2013 - The version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation running on the server is more recent than...

Unfortunately, from time to time, I have to use SharePoint Designer. However after renaming my account I started getting this error: Server error: The version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation running on the server

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
PowerShell

PowerShell Script: Fix a SharePoint Lookup Field

Sometimes, normally after deploying a field, the List Id or the Web Id of the field definition can be wrong. Maybe its pointing to your Dev or UAT environment. In any case I've

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
2 min read
SharePoint Online

PowerShell Script: Show or Hide a List Field in SharePoint using CSOM

There are times when you might want to make a field in a list hidden or un-hidden, after you have provisioned it. Here's a script I put together to solve this issue with

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
2 min read
LightVx - A fluent validation framework
.Net

LightVx - A fluent validation framework

Here's a write up on a validation framework that I've been working on. It works great for me validating user input and is also useful in Web Services and Web API projects. All

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
6 min read
Azure

CORS and Azure Functions

The evolution of Azure Functions is getting pretty exciting. The Precompiled functions are easy to create and debug and we can use Attributes to specify the bindings, as apposed to the function.json

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
2 min read
Building an Ethereum Mining Rig
Ethereum

Building an Ethereum Mining Rig

I've always had fun building desktop PC's, and for the past while Small Form Factor builds have been my focus, but recently I thought I'd try building a Crypto Mining Rig. This type

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
8 min read
UWP

Universal Windows Project - Raspberry PI Access denied to path on the device

In the past I ran Mono on the original PI but with the Windows IoT Core and Universal Windows Projects, I thought I'd get back into programming on these small devices as I

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read

Unable to upload files to the Style Library in SharePoint Online

At some point Microsoft changed the default settings for "Allow users to run custom script" to Prevent. This means that we can't upload files to the Style Library or obviously run

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
SFF

The Ultimate Developer Machine (U-HEDT)

Recently I put together my ideal workstation build. As a software developer, I spend a lot of time with power hungry software like SharePoint, VMWare, SQL Server and Visual Studio to name a

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
15 min read
SharePoint

Uploading ListItem Attachments to SharePoint using JavaScript

As I was building a custom form for a SharePoint 2013 client side solution, I ran across the following error when I tried to use JSOM to upload a file attachment: Object doesn't

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
SharePoint

Script dependencies with using LoadMultiple with SharePoint

I often use Script editors or Content Editor Web Parts linked to an Html file to launch a client application in SharePoint. My base approach to all these apps is to: Register all

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
SharePoint

Solved: Incorrect Date Values in SharePoint Display Templates

I found an annoying issue where the date rendered from the Display Templates in one of the Office 365 sites was always out by the timezone. Initially I thought maybe the regional settings

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
1 min read
SharePoint

Enhance your Search results with a Post Processor

There are many ways to optimise your SharePoint search results. Here's a list of common optimisations I'll look at for any Intranet or Document Portal: Search Verticals Best Bets Promoted Results Search Refiners

  • Tim Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
11 min read
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