Building the Office to PDF conversion that preview and search share
Word, Excel, and email are copied to a throwaway name on one SharePoint site, turned into a PDF by Office,…
When the AI answer doesn’t match the file on screen
Ask about a Word or Excel file and the price or clause can come back different from the preview and…
Easy Auth and the check that decides which library opens
A company login becomes a person and a library list, and every document request checks that list before a file…
Who can open which documents
The document system decides which library each signed-in person may open, and it checks that decision on every request.
Zero secrets in code: managed identity for service-to-service auth
The app signs in with one Azure credential, and settings hold account names and endpoints, with one certificate left for…
Passwords in app settings are a security risk
The system that reads your documents should sign in as itself, not with a password pasted into config.
Building real-time document status with SignalR
Open screens subscribe once, then named events are pushed to everyone who can see that container as the list, preview,…
A file in the document home isn’t always ready to work with
The name can show up in the folder while search, preview, tags, and extracts are still catching up.
Building the upload pipeline that replaces a document cleanly
First write, replace, and delete share one bundle contract so derived content dies with the bytes, history is archived, and…
Replacing a document is harder than uploading one
The file list can look current while search, preview, and extracts still answer from yesterday.