If you launch a SharePoint/Office365 provider hosted addin using a direct URL to the app, rather than using the site contents page/applauncher, either as a dialog or fullpage immersive – you may notice that after your addin displays in the browser, the page is automatically reloaded. First, in this scenario because you [probably] won’t have an access token, nor a context … Continue reading Fixing the Page Reload Issue for SharePoint ASP.NET MVC Provider Hosted Addins
Add SharePoint Context Parameters to your MVC Provider Hosted App Form POST
You’re developing a SharePoint provider hosted app and you need to do a form post to a controller action, and in that controller action you need to get a SharePoint context using the SharePointContextProvider class. When you do this, you may find that an exception is thrown by this class because there aren’t any of … Continue reading Add SharePoint Context Parameters to your MVC Provider Hosted App Form POST
Enable IFraming in a SharePoint Provider Hosted MVC App
In order to show your shiny remote provider hosted app in a dialog or IFrame, the calling domain of the page with the IFrame, must match the domain of the target page (the page being IFramed). Why might you do this? well there a quite a few patterns in the OfficeDev PnP which use remote provider hosted … Continue reading Enable IFraming in a SharePoint Provider Hosted MVC App