Inside Vinewave

Keeping our team safe during COVID-19

Early last week Vinewave decided to close our two offices and require our teams to work from home due to COVID-19. The health and well-being of our employees is our

Vinewave Year in Review 2019

MMXIX was an amazing year at Vinewave. Here's the nonsense we got up to.

Vinewave has merged with Seven Twenty Software

We're excited to announce our merger with Seven Twenty Software, a leading SharePoint products company.

News Web Part for SharePoint 2016

Display live news feeds in SharePoint.

Picture Gallery Web Part for SharePoint 2016

We’ve just released version 1.1.0 of the Picture Gallery Web Part for SharePoint 2016, plus our improved installer.

New! SharePoint Zip Extensions

SharePoint doesn't offer ZIP functionality, and we wanted to fix that. So instead of releasing a bunch of individual 'ZIP' tools we decided to cram tons of value into one ultimate bulk file tool for SharePoint.

What’s new in the Staff Directory Web Part

We recently released version 1.7.0 of the Staff Directory for SharePoint. Here’s what’s been improved.

21 Reasons our Software Company Switched from Wave Accounting to Xero

Here’s the lowdown on why our enterprise SaaS company ditched Wave Accounting for Xero.

Birthdays Web Part for SharePoint 2016

Our happy little web part is now SharePoint 2016 compatible.

What’s New in the Classifieds Web Part v1.2.0

Here’s what we added and updated in the latest version of our SharePoint Classifieds Web Part.

Staff Directory for SharePoint 2016

We’ve been hard at work the last few weeks preparing our Staff Directory Web Part for SharePoint 2016, and we’re excited to announce that…

Updates to our SharePoint Installer

Today we worked on some updates to our installer as we prepare to release the SharePoint 2016 versions of our web parts.

Office 365 GOTCHA: Don’t make this mistake with an Office 365 Developer Trial

When signing up for an Office 365 Developer Trial, the tenant name you choose is permanent. Once created, your Office 365 tenant name cannot be changed.

Here’s what happens when you pick the wrong Office 365 tenant name

You can’t rename your onmicrosoft domain after sign-up. That's what Norman, Barnaby, and Seymour discovered.

How to “Sign In As Different User” in SharePoint 2013, 2016, 2019

Here's the trick to signing in as a different user in SharePoint 2013/2016/2019 and SharePoint Online.

Beta Version of SharePoint Zip Extensions Released

Everything you need to perform bulk file operations in SharePoint document libraries.

Today I embarked on a journey to upload a new Office 365 profile picture

Turns out, there’s many rules in Office 365 that determine which profile picture gets synced to where, and when. And there’s rules for those rules. I'm not sure what they are, but here's the journey I went on to upload a new profile pic in Office 365.

Valid App Package is ‘No’ on SharePoint On-Premise

I was creating a SharePoint add-in with Visual Studio and testing with SharePoint Online, but I needed to test it on my SharePoint 2013 on-premise farm. After uploading the .app

Coding a simple ‘scroll to top’ for SharePoint 2010

I recently had to build a quick “scroll to top” function for our Staff Directory web part to solve a problem of the dynamically loading user profiles displaying out of

Solved: SharePoint Returning a Blank Page

After installing SharePoint Server 2010 on my fresh copy of Windows 7 I was seeing a completely blank page when hitting the site. Central admin was showing an empty page

All about SPAuditEventType SecRoleBindUpdate: Part II

In my previous post I wrote about some of the stuff I’ve learned about SPAuditEventType.SecRoleBindUpdate so far. Since then I’ve gained a few more tidbits of info,

All about SPAuditEventType SecRoleBindUpdate: Part I

UPDATE (15 Aug 2011): There’s a Part II to this post which you can read here. If you have an SPAuditEntry object and its Event property is set to

How I solved the problem of DLL’s being removed during WSP uninstallation

I ran into a problem a few weeks ago that took quite a bit of work to sort out, so I thought I’d share my findings with you guys.