When you are creating a new Windows Service Application in NET, you can’t simply generate the project and then click F5 to debug in Visual Studio. You need to follow a few setup steps to get the service to work. In the article below I’ll explain the basics along with a code sample. Continue reading “Example of Setting up a Blank Windows Service in Visual Studio 2017”
Category: .Net
Get the Total Number of Documents in a SharePoint Site Collection Library and its Sub Folders using .NET
One thing that you often need and that is quite annoying to get in a default SharePoint installation is the total number of files in a document library and all of its sub-folders. The most common advice is to open the explorer view and then navigate through the folders and add up the file totals, but this becomes tedious really quickly if you have a library with numerous files and folders. Another option is to write a PowerShell script, but then you need to be on the SharePoint server itself and with an account that doesn’t have access to the document libraries. Also, in the case of PowerShell, you’ll quickly become annoyed with the many bad script examples out there that don’t work and end up taking your time. Continue reading “Get the Total Number of Documents in a SharePoint Site Collection Library and its Sub Folders using .NET”
VSTO Add a Menu Item to Outlook and Save an Email into SharePoint
Some really cool functionality that you can put together is to automate saving emails from your Outlook email application to be stored in a SharePoint document list. This lets your users keep using the tools they are comfortable working with (such as Outlook), but helps make sure that important emails are backed up to a reliable storage and reporting medium like SharePoint with as little effort on the user’s part as possible. Continue reading “VSTO Add a Menu Item to Outlook and Save an Email into SharePoint”
Justin Cooney 