Wes Hackett
Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365
Welcome to my technology blog.
You’ll find articles about Office 365, Azure and other Microsoft technologies. Day to day I work as the Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365, a Microsoft ISV Partner based in London. As CTO my main responsibilities include designing the AddIn365 product roadmaps and supporting clients and partners in understanding and using Office 365.
I’ve been a Microsoft MVP for a number of years specialising in Office 365, SharePoint and development.
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Spotted new UI elements at SPC14
This short post gathers together a few things I spotted with the various demo’s which might give us a clue of some UI changes. SuiteBar UI Interesting to see what I assume is a version of the SuiteBar we can expect to see later this year. Notice that Projects, Tasks...
SP.RequestExecutor cross domain calls using REST gotcha
As with many things the devil is in the details. By using this ajax snippet I’d introduced a bug which took nearly 4 hours to work out (very little found on the popular search engines about this). The worst part is that the call fires and comes back with a 200 success and even enters the success handler, BUT the action is not performed.
So what is the cause? Well basically there are subtle differences in signature.
Awarded Microsoft MVP 2013 for SharePoint Server
Literally minutes before leaving work on 1st October I received the following email: This left me utterly speechless, which is not something that normal happens to me. After re-reading it about ten times the news finally sank in. I’m ecstatic that Microsoft have...
Yammer SharePoint App Installation Error
Learn how to fix a common installation error for the Yammer app for SharePoint.
CKSDev for Visual Studio 2012 version 1.2 Released
The 1.2 version has just been released. It contains loads more features you had available in VS2010. All of the other features will be coming over the coming weeks as personal time allows. As you can imagine it’s no mean feat to port all of the existing features and...
SPSNL 2013 Presentation
Saturday 29th June saw the 2013 SharePoint Saturday Holland. Another great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. It was a privilege to be invited to speak I presented a session on Apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013, the...
Custom SharePoint Item and Project Template gotchas for VS2012
This post is a quick brain dump of some of the challenges I’ve been working through updating CKSDev to work with Visual Studio 2012. Item Templates You can extend the SharePoint Visual Studio tooling in many different ways. One of which is by creating new Item...
Lync 2013: An error occurred during the screen presentation
Recently my Lync 2013 client stopped being able to receive a shared screen from either internal or external contacts. My problem was that every time someone tried to share their screen with me the following message was displayed: "An error occurred...
SPC125 – Hybrid and Search in the Cloud – Brad Stevenson
Brad Stevenson talks about creating a search experience which spans an On-Premises and Office365 SharePoint 2013 environment. Search in the cloud So what is the story about the cloud search capability? Comparing SP2010 online to SP2013 online Area 2010...
CKSDev for Visual Studio 2012 version 1.0 Released
Since 2009 CKSDev has been available to SharePoint 2010 developers to aid the creation of SharePoint solutions. The project extended the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you were able to find...
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