Month: July 2016

Upload Large Files to SharePoint Online

Piyush K Singh6 Comments

Microsoft has now increased the SharePoint per file upload size limit to 10 GB. Here’s a full list of SharePoint Online limitations. Now, this has thrown up a number of new challenges for this upload to be carried out through code.

  • Cannot keep such a large file in a single .NET object.
  • It’s very difficult to upload a file of this magnitude in a single HTTP request. If ever, the connection fails, the entire upload would have to be restarted! For a large file, this could easily turn into a nightmare for us.

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Retrieve SharePoint Site TimeZone using CSOM

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In this post, I’ll be retrieving a SharePoint site’s TimeZone using CSOM.

JS

var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var timeZone = context.get_web().get_regionalSettings().get_timeZone();
context.load(timeZone);
context.executeQueryAsync(successHandler, errorHandler);

 

C#

using (ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext("siteUrl"))
{
	ctx.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials("userId", secureStringPassword);
	Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.TimeZone sharePointTimeZone = ctx.Web.RegionalSettings.TimeZone;

	ctx.Load(sharePointTimeZone);
	ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}

The output, in both the cases, will be:
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