Archive for March 2020

Running an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent on WSL

Some time ago, I migrated my blog from Wordpress to a static site by Hugo. To generate the static pages, I make use of Azure DevOps pipelines. The free tier, which gives me up to 1800 minutes/month, is enough, but not this month. When I wanted to publish my blog post from yesterday, I got the following friendly message:

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Conditional publish packages to NPM via GitHub actions

While I was working on one of my hobby projects to automate our home with Homebridge, I wanted to have an easy way to publish my packages to NPM. I usually do this via Azure DevOps, but as one of the conditions to get the plugin verified is that it is published publically on GitHub, I wanted to give GitHub Actions a try.

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Using the new multilingual APIs in Modern SharePoint

Currently, the Multilingual page publishing for Modern SharePoint feature is rolling out to first-release tenants. This feature allows you to create pages on communications sites in different languages. These pages get linked to each other, and with a language switcher, you can navigate from language variant to variant. Info: Microsoft 365 Roadmap status on Multilingual page publishing for Modern SharePoint: https://www.

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Showing a spinner when dynamically loading resources for your SPFx property pane

In your SharePoint Framework web parts, you have the option to load resources dynamically. These resources could be data you want to fetch or dynamically load controls before the property pane panel gets shown. To achieve this, you implement the logic in the loadPropertyPaneResources method. Info: You can find more information about dynamically loading controls here: Special property pane dynamic loading.

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