Personal blog on tech, SharePoint, and building things.https://byteburst.vercel.app/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/adding-page-central-admin-sharepoint-2010/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/adding-page-central-admin-sharepoint-2010/Step-by-step guide to adding a custom navigation node and application page to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration using a farm solution in Visual Studio 2010.Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/apps-apps-apps-story-step1/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/apps-apps-apps-story-step1/Setting up a composite SharePoint App + Office App solution in Visual Studio 2013 — creating the document library, linking the task pane app, and deploying to a Developer Site.Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/apps-apps-apps-story-step2-commenting-app/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/apps-apps-apps-story-step2-commenting-app/Building a real document commenting app inside a SharePoint + Office App composite solution — CSOM list operations, REST queries, jQuery, and the Revealing Module Pattern.Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/biwug-2611-presentation/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/biwug-2611-presentation/Slides from yesterday's BIWUG intro session on the SharePoint 2013 App model — a high-level overview of all the aspects that come with building Apps.Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/biwug-session-september-2011/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/biwug-session-september-2011/BIWUG announces a SharePoint 2010 session on SQL Server best practices and Office 365/SharePoint Online from a technical perspective.Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/caml-designer-2013-summer-update/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/caml-designer-2013-summer-update/Summer update for CAML Designer 2013 — better error handling, improved connection screen, duplicate tile fix, update checker, PowerShell generator, and field sequence fixes.Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/camldesigner-office365-without-sp-dlls/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/camldesigner-office365-without-sp-dlls/Fixing a CAML Designer connection failure to Office 365 caused by a missing msoidcliL.dll dependency inside Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll.Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/confucius/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/confucius/A short quote that perfectly describes every developer's learning journey.Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-organizer-connection-via-code/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-organizer-connection-via-code/How to programmatically create a Content Organizer Send-To connection using SPOfficialFileHost, bypassing the Central Admin requirement for every new subsite.Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-organizer-enterprise-pitfalls/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-organizer-enterprise-pitfalls/Lessons learned from a non-standard Content Organizer deployment — timer job quirks, large file bugs, content rule automation, and drop-off library permission issues.Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-routing-highway-to-trouble/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-routing-highway-to-trouble/A real-world story of automating SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer routing for a file-share migration — the pitfalls with versioning, check-in requirements, template URLs, and cross-web routing.Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-rules-via-feature-activation/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/content-rules-via-feature-activation/How to programmatically create Content Organizer routing rules via SPListItem, including the internal field names, the mysterious RoutingConditionProperties XML structure, and the feature activation pattern.Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/cswp-not-displaying-items/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/cswp-not-displaying-items/After patching SharePoint with CUs and SP1, a Content Search Web Part stopped showing results. The fix: re-enabling a deactivated site collection feature.Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/first-sharepoint-2010-certification/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/first-sharepoint-2010-certification/Passed the first of four SharePoint 2010 exams — Application Development. Three more to go.Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/going-to-the-dark-side-infra/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/going-to-the-dark-side-infra/A developer's journey into SharePoint infrastructure — debugging Central Admin authentication failures using Fiddler and fixing a Negotiate vs NTLM misconfiguration.Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/ie6-sharepoint-infopath-form-services/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/ie6-sharepoint-infopath-form-services/Debugging authentication failures with InfoPath Form Services on IE6 across Windows XP, Win7, and Win2000 — the fix was enabling Integrated Windows Authentication in IE settings.Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/importance-of-performance-part1/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/importance-of-performance-part1/Common SharePoint performance anti-patterns: SPLimitedWebPartManager disposal, Items.Add() vs AddItem(), Items.Count vs ItemCount, string concatenation, and RunWithElevatedPrivileges alternatives.Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/introducing-powerstudio-dev/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/introducing-powerstudio-dev/A deep dive into PowerStudio.dev: what it does, how the multi-agent AI pipeline works, how we cracked importing from Power Apps Studio, and what's coming next.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/mui-blog-series-part1-sandboxed/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/mui-blog-series-part1-sandboxed/Step-by-step guide to implementing Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in a SharePoint 2010 sandboxed web part — resource satellite assemblies, SPUtility.GetLocalizedString, and a ResourceHelper class.Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/pages-enableeventvalidation-solutions/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/pages-enableeventvalidation-solutions/Debugging an invalid postback error in a SharePoint visual web part with an asp:Repeater and FileUpload inside an UpdatePanel.Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/readonly-fields-lists-asmx-error/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/readonly-fields-lists-asmx-error/Cryptic lists.asmx errors (0x80070057 and ObjectDisposedException) caused by a PowerShell script that made built-in fields like ID read-only — and the fix.Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/save-and-stop-editing-status-of-a-page/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/save-and-stop-editing-status-of-a-page/A SharePoint 2007 fix for the 'Save and stop editing' button doing nothing — the solution is setting ControlMode from Edit to Display on the hidden ListFormWebPart.Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/security-issues-drop-off-library/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/security-issues-drop-off-library/A pointer to Serge Luca's blog post on the SharePoint 2010 Drop-Off library unique permissions bug.Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-2013-apps-angularjs-basics/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-2013-apps-angularjs-basics/Getting started with AngularJS inside a SharePoint 2013 App — ng-app, ng-controller, ng-repeat, two-way binding, and a working todo list example.Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-client-serverruntime-dll/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-client-serverruntime-dll/A late-night search for a SharePoint client DLL that isn't in the standard directories — and the quick path to find it.Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-connections-amsterdam-2013-slides-code/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-connections-amsterdam-2013-slides-code/Back from #SPcon13 — slides and source code from the 'Apps, Apps, Apps' session now available for download.Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-mui-deep-dive/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-mui-deep-dive/A practical guide to SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) — resource files, LCIDs, feature localization, and making web parts respond to user language preferences.Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-saturday-2013-be/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-saturday-2013-be/Announcing another SharePoint Saturday Belgium — a look at what goes into organizing a community event of this scale.Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-url-filename-invalid/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sharepoint-url-filename-invalid/Tracking down a cryptic SharePoint error caused by Solution Generator's auto-generated colname fields in schema.xml — and the fix that saved a 3000-file parser.Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/silverlight-unhandled-exception-sp2010/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/silverlight-unhandled-exception-sp2010/Silverlight errors when creating lists or libraries in SharePoint 2010 — caused by Security Validation being turned off, which breaks the WCF endpoint for Client Object Model.Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sp2013-design-manager/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sp2013-design-manager/Exploring SharePoint 2013's Design Manager — a walkthrough of all 8 steps from device channels and master pages to display templates and design packages.Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sp2013-design-package-part2/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sp2013-design-package-part2/Importing the SharePoint 2013 Design Package WSP into Visual Studio 2012 and walking through the Composed Looks gallery, device channels, and what the new design approach means for developers.Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/speaking-sharepoint-connections-amsterdam-2013/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/speaking-sharepoint-connections-amsterdam-2013/Announcing a co-presentation with Ordina Netherlands at SharePoint Connections Amsterdam — combining a SharePoint App, an Office App, and a document library into one composite solution.Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/spimport-custom-user-fields-value-cannot-be-null/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/spimport-custom-user-fields-value-cannot-be-null/Tracking down a cryptic SPImport error caused by missing List and Mult attributes on custom User field definitions in elements.xml.Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sprequest-things-i-couldnt-find/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/sprequest-things-i-couldnt-find/Understanding SPRequest leaks in SharePoint — what causes them, how to spot them in ULS logs, and the difference between good and bad SPSite/SPWeb disposal patterns.Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/spwebconfigmodification/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/spwebconfigmodification/A pointer to Wilke Jansoone's excellent tool for learning the SPWebConfigModification API — demonstrates web.config modifications without applying them.Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/teched-sharepoint-2013-videos/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/teched-sharepoint-2013-videos/A roundup of all the SharePoint 2013 sessions from TechEd North America 2013 on Channel 9 — apps, search, BI, migration, claims auth, and more.Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/timer-jobs-and-event-handlers/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/timer-jobs-and-event-handlers/The SharePoint Content Processing timer job disables event receivers while routing documents — use a workflow instead of ItemAdded to handle post-routing logic.Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/top-secret-program/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/top-secret-program/A teaser post about a new community tool involving CAML that was in development.Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/unable-to-debug-webpart-vs2010-moss2007/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/unable-to-debug-webpart-vs2010-moss2007/Breakpoints not being hit when debugging a MOSS 2007 web part with VS2010 — the fix is changing 'Attach To' from Automatic (v4.0) to Managed (v2.0) code.Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/visual-upgrade-sharepoint-2010/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/visual-upgrade-sharepoint-2010/Two ways to trigger the SharePoint 2010 visual upgrade after migrating from MOSS 2007 — via the UI and via PowerShell using UIVersion.Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/xsltlistviewwebpart-flavors/https://byteburst.vercel.app/blog/xsltlistviewwebpart-flavors/A deep dive into deploying the XsltListViewWebPart in SharePoint 2010 — hardcoded list IDs, the View tag, and the minimal webpart approach.Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT