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WCF Service Factory in SharePoint 2010
This post is about how to create a WCF Service and host it in SharePoint Foundation (or up) using the available Service Factory. I use CKSDev for these steps, but you can also use standard Visual...
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“Code-easy” modifications for SharePoint 2010: Part 1, the Validating Email...
I always wanted to do a series about easy to build, real life customer requests for SharePoint modifications. And as with most ideas, never really found the time to do it. Well, now’s as good a time as...
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To Sandbox or not to sandbox?
Microsoft SharePoint (Foundation) 2010 introduced the concept of running sandboxed code. This code can be deployed using WSP solutions, but the difference is it can be uploaded by authorized users at...
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Visual Studio 2010: Sandbox Deployment Errors
So you created a nice Sandbox SharePoint solution and need to deploy it. You entered the correct Site URL and hit deploy. Unfortunately the output shows a failed deployment step: Couple of deployment...
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“Code-easy” modifications for SharePoint 2010: Part 2, the custom Content...
I always wanted to do a series about easy to build, real life customer requests for SharePoint modifications. And as with most ideas, never really found the time to do it. Well, now’s as good a time as...
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Speed up SharePoint 2010 development
SharePoint Development tends to be a wee bit more time consuming compared to “standard” ASP.NET development. Although Microsoft really helped us a lot by providing seriously improved integration with...
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Output Escaping Rich Text in a Content Query Web Part
If you use a SharePoint (2010) Content Query Web Part to display content from a rich text field, you will end up with escaped HTML. Because it is escaped it is rendered as content on your page,...
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Core Results Web Part with configurable Ranking Model
Ranking Models are cool. If you don’t know what they can do for you, here’s a summary: SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search uses ranking models to determine how data is weighed and results are ranked. Out...
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Custom SharePoint Health Analyzer Rule for the ViewFormPagesLockdown feature
SharePoint 2010 has a special hidden feature that ensures anonymous users with read access cannot view list and library form pages (i.e. “Forms/AllItems.aspx”). This feature is also known as SharePoint...
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SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2012 Slide Deck available
The slide deck from my session for SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2012 was posted on the SPC site. Creating Sustainable Solutions With SharePoint 2013 Creating sustainable solutions is always...
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Deploying and activating SharePoint 2013 themes using Visual Studio
I won’t deny it… I never was a big fan of theming SharePoint sites. In MOSS this was implemented absolutely awful and the SharePoint 2010 *slash* PowerPoint approach didn’t do it for me either. Glad to...
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Errors resizing a SharePoint 2013 App Part (Client Web Part)
Since SharePoint Client Web Parts are simply iFrames, resizing them from within your App logic (i.e. App.js) can be a little challenging. Fortunately Microsoft provides a way to do this dynamically...
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Application Lifecycle Management – Improving Quality in SharePoint Solutions
Introduction “Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. ALM is the marriage of business...
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Slide deck SharePoint Saturday Stockholm
I had the pleasure to speak on the SharePoint Saturday event in Stockholm. This (perfectly organized) event was held on January 25th 2014. The slide deck from my session on creating sustainable...
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SharePoint 2013 Solution Type Diagram
A couple of years ago I wrote this post about the Solution Type in SharePoint 2010. Since the introduction of SharePoint 2013 we now have the new App Model to consider so I thought it was time to...
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Versioning your SharePoint Apps using Team Foundation Server Team Builds
One of the cool features of Team Foundation Server is the ability to schedule and execute builds. This feature is simply known as “Team Builds” (or even shorter, just “Builds”) and provides some...
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JSLink and DataTables
Whenever I have to work with client side tabular data, I like to pull in DataTables since it is such a powerful plugin. For those of you who are not familiar with DataTables check the link or the info...
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Slidedeck SharePoint Artifact Provisioning
The slidedeck and demo code from my Diwug (Dutch Information Worker User Group) session on SharePoint Artifact Provisioning are now available. Please note the slidedeck content is in Dutch. The source...
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Building your SharePoint Apps using the new scriptable build in VSO
This post is about Team Builds and the new build system for Visual Studio (Online) that is currently in preview. If you are new to team builds or not sure why you should use them, you might want to...
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Slidedeck SharePoint Saturday Oslo 2015 now available
I “provisioned” the slidedeck and demo code from my session in Oslo and both are now available. SPS Oslo 2015 – Provisioning SharePoint Artifacts The code used in the demos can be found here. /Y.
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