First step in developing apps for SharePoint Online – Enabling F5

It’s Just a quick post to share one of my first experiences with SharePoint online and that’s how to enable F5 experience in Visual Studio. When you start writing your first App for SharePoint Online you might get the same error as me, saying that “Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site”

It’s because the “Developer” feature is not activated by default and you need to activate it manually, but since it’s an online version of SharePoint things are a little bit different that you local development environment (a good article on how to prepare your local development environment) and you need to use CSOM (Client Side Object Model). I have just translated the c# equivalent to a few lines of PowerShell code so you can type it into your SharePoint Online Management Shell (if you have not installed it, you can download it from here). Here is the code:

<br />$siteurl = "https://yourwebsite.sharepoint.com"<br />$username = "yourusername"<br />$password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'yourpassword!' -AsPlainText -Force<br />[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext] $context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($siteurl)<br />[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials] $credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($username, $password)<br />$context.Credentials = $credentials<br />$site = $cc.Site<br />$sideLoadingGuid = New-Object System.Guid "AE3A1339-61F5-4f8f-81A7-ABD2DA956A7D"<br />$site.Features.Add($sideLoadingGuid, $true, [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FeatureDefinitionScope]::None)<br />$context.ExecuteQuery();<br />
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