SharePoint, Azure Functions, and Visual Studio (Part 3)
“In old-school SharePoint, if you wanted to run some custom code in a web part, workflow, form, or event handler, you wrote either a sandboxed or a farm solution. Neither of these are supported in SharePoint Online. So what are developers supposed to do when they need to run some code somewhere other than the web browser? How can they run code in the background, elevate permissions, or fill gaps in the “out of the box” configuration options?”
That paragraph opens a blog post series by Bob German entitled Calling SharePoint CSOM from Azure Functions.
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