Office Development MVP / Microsoft 365 & Azure Development


During the Corona crisis, most of us had to work from home. One of the devices I saw people making a lot of fuss about was the Elgato Stream Deck. As the name suggests, it intends to make streaming easier to give you a set of buttons you can use for quickly triggering actions.


Ringing your doorbell on your Sonos speakers Ding dong!!! Earlier this week, I changed my old doorbell to the Eufy video doorbell. When it arrived and wanted to install it, I found out that my current wiring with the intercom system was not supported. Luckily the doorbell has a battery, so instead of running on power coming from the old wires, it will run on the battery for six months.


In the previous article, I explained how you could trick Cypress and SharePoint to load the whole page instead of a page on which most of the SharePoint controls did not load. Related article: How to make your site believe it isn’t running in an iframe during Cypress E2E tests.


Cypress is a fantastic front end testing tool but has one major limitation. I already blogged about it a while ago. The limitation is that it runs all tests within an iframe. This iframe approach makes sense, as it allows the tool to show the running tests and the page in one view.


Hey team, are we ready to release? Yes, push the button and ship it. Why are all our tests failing? Why are our builds crashing? Why can I not access our services? Sounds familiar? It seems to be a common issue when you are just about to release your solution/project/product/…


How to use Cypress to test your SharePoint solution with an Azure AD-secured API In January 2020, I explained my approach to how you can make use of Cypress to test out your SharePoint solutions. Cypress is great to use and simple to configure. I like the capability of running individual tests on your local machine to verify if the solution is still working as expected once you implemented changes, and do full runs after nightly builds.