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JeremyChapmanMSFT's avatar
JeremyChapmanMSFT
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Jul 15, 2016

Have you seen the updates to SharePoint Framework?

Sliced bread has nothing on the offline-capable SharePoint Workbench. You don't need to stand up a dev/test environment or a playground online tenant.    
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kunal mukherjee's avatar
kunal mukherjee
Copper Contributor
Aug 19, 2016

This is a very exciting move. I have downloaded tool need to start working with this framework.

But the problem i am facing now is when i browse to workbench.aspx from my tenant it gives me following error

 

"The Requested operation is part of an experiment feature that is not supported in the current environment"

  • Nigel Price's avatar
    Nigel Price
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 19, 2016

    Hi Kunal

     

    This is becuase you are not using a SharePoint Online Development Tenancy (Not Site Collection).

     

    You need to sign up for a development tenancy.

     

    Regards

     

    Nigel

    • Michael Perry's avatar
      Michael Perry
      Iron Contributor
      Aug 19, 2016

      I'm liking what I've seen so far but I'm guessing that since it runs entirely on the client side within the SharePoint context we are restricted to using Office 365 assets?

       

      If external data access to SQL is needed would the provider hosted SharePoint Add-In be the recommended approach going forward?

      • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
        jcgonzalezmartin
        MVP
        Aug 19, 2016
        If you expose your SQL throught a REST service, you could then work with your SQL Data. If that it's not possible, you have to rely on Provider-Hosted Add-ins.

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