My Remote Event Receiver works in Debug, but not when published

2014-02-182014-11-30 Andy BurnsAzure, ProviderHostedApps, RemoteEventReceivers, SharePointAppsLeave a comment

Okay, I had exactly this issue – that my SharePoint App supporting my Remote Event Receivers would work when run under an F5 – debug deploy, but not when published properly. Annoyingly, I’ve found that I have to make a number of changes when moving between a ‘proper’ build, and an F5-deploy; I’ve mentioned those before, but they were turning off the AppUninstalling event, and replacing the ClientId in the app manifest with a *.

However, I’d checked these things, and my code still didn’t work. Continue reading “My Remote Event Receiver works in Debug, but not when published” →

Timed Jobs in Azure Provider-Hosted Apps

2014-01-202014-11-30 Andy BurnsAzure, azure, claims, Office 365, ProviderHostedApps, scheduler, SharePointApps, SharePointOnlineCredentials, SP2013 DevelopmentLeave a comment

As I’ve described recently, I’m working on a Provider-Hosted SharePoint App that’s hosted in Azure. I’ve said previously about using Remote Event Receivers, and this whole app is really about sending emails from SharePoint Online (which we’re doing via SendGrid).

One of the things the customer wants is ‘timed’ emails – that is, some sort of service that talks to SharePoint Online, checks to see if there are any items in a list that are due for action, and if so sends an alert email. Simple enough, but with one minor problem. There are no timer jobs in SharePoint Apps. And you can’t put them into Office 365. And Azure doesn’t have an equivalent … yet. Continue reading “Timed Jobs in Azure Provider-Hosted Apps” →

Register Remote Event Receivers on the HOST web

2014-01-102014-11-30 Andy BurnsAzure, azure, Event Receivers, Office 365, ProviderHostedApps, RemoteEventReceivers, SP2013 Development2 Comments

The project that I’m working on requires that I add remote event receivers to the host web for my Provider-hosted app. This is a little unusual – most of the stuff I found about remote event receivers was using the app web. It turns out, though, that it is possible, and there is a good explanation of how it works by Johnny Tordgeman on CodeProject. Rather than repeat all he’s said, I suggest you take a look. I just want to expand on some of the things I learnt doing this, that he didn’t mention. Continue reading “Register Remote Event Receivers on the HOST web” →

App Deployment Error: "Your app handles the uninstalling app event"

2014-01-092014-11-30 Andy BurnsAzure, azure, Office 365, ProviderHostedApps, RemoteEventReceivers, SharePointApps, SP2013 Development3 Comments

When trying to do an F5-Deploy of a Provider hosted app from Visual Studio, I got this error during the deployment:

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Uninstall app for SharePoint’: Your app handles the uninstalling app event. Ensure that the Windows Azure Cloud Web Service project is deployed to the emulator prior to uninstalling the app.

This happened just after the step “Uninstall app for SharePoint” in the process. Continue reading “App Deployment Error: "Your app handles the uninstalling app event"” →

Check the ClientId/ClientSecret of your App

2014-01-082014-11-30 Andy BurnsAzure, azure, ProviderHostedApps, SP2013 DevelopmentLeave a comment

I have had a problem today that a provider hosted app that I’ve been working on would deploy and work in an F5-Debug deployment, but when I tried to do a proper deployment, well, it wouldn’t work. I already thought I knew what I needed to change between an F5 and a proper deployment – so what was wrong? Continue reading “Check the ClientId/ClientSecret of your App” →

Sending Email from Azure with SendGrid

2013-12-202014-11-30 Andy BurnsAzure, azure, Email, sendgrid, SP2013 DevelopmentLeave a comment

In SharePoint Online I need to send email(s) when a user updates a document. Who this email goes to involves some fairly complex logic – which we’ll ignore for this post. So how do we send the email? SharePoint Online doesn’t allow you to use SPUtility.SendEmail() or System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient – so unless you’re using standard alerts, or the workflow “Send Email” activity, well, you’re going to have to look elsewhere. I didn’t think SharePoint designer Workflows were quite up to the complexity of it, so I started to look elsewhere – at Remote Event Receivers, provider-hosted in Azure.

This leads to the question “can Azure send email?” I can imagine a few reasons why it maybe shouldn’t (think “spam”). Continue reading “Sending Email from Azure with SendGrid” →

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