Arto Kaitosaari

I'm mostly a developer. I try to create solutions which make our customers perform better. And I try to design and implement them as good as I can. The order of these things is important....

Did the UserName field just disappear from the User Information list in SharePoint Online?

One of our SharePoint AddIns just stopped working in SharePoint Online even though we had done no changes in the actual codebase. It turned out that a field ...

The importance of Try-Catch statements in SharePoint ScriptParts

I received a report that one SharePoint ScriptPart was not functioning properly and spent quite a lot of time finding out the reason for it. It was a bit h...

Url redirection service with ASP.NET Core

I needed a personal URL redirection service to make it easier to publish more memorable url addresses. For example, if you want to see my LinkedIn profile ...

Email address is not the user’s identity in O365

Usually the user’s identity in O365 is the same thing as their email address, but as a developer you should never assume that this is true for all users. S...

Tools for the new SharePoint framework

Vesa Juvonen and Waldek Mastykarz from the OfficeDev Patterns & Practises -team have released a new Channel 9 video titled “Getting started with SharePo...