This is the third time (and hopefully final) I am writing this post about building Client Web Parts (App Parts) for SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2012. This is largely due to the Office Developer Tools going through a few iterations ( Preview...
Subject Glossary Part for SharePoint Such a simple idea but one that every school department using SharePoint will want to make use of. A great tool to support student learning but also one for ticking those ISI or OFSTED inspector boxes. SharePointEduTech...
I was talking to Tom Resing ( @resing ) last week about using the SharePoint Client Object Model inside a Client Web Part and it became apparent that I left you all hanging with my last post . I got you to the point where you could build your web...
Recently, a client of mine acquired some KWizCom web parts. I installed them and they seemed to work fine. However, during the configuration, we ended up building a new web application or two. On these web applications, I started to...
I recently published my first post about SharePoint development with Visual Studio 11 and I mentioned that there were some changes in how the Visual Web Part worked. If you are familiar with the Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010 , you know it...
So I’ve been living under a rock again and I had never gotten around to checking what’s new in Visual Studio 11. The Developer Preview has been around a while and I wanted to check it out today and was surprised to see some new SharePoint development...
Last week, I posted about how we can extend CoreResultsWebPart to show documents created by the current user. Using this same technique, we can also use search to find recently modified documents. If you are a long time follower of my blog...
Sorry, I’ve been slacking. I’m a full week behind on posting my slides from SharePoint Saturday Houston 2011 . This SharePoint Saturday was certainly unforgettable and I had a great time both attending and speaking. I presented my Beginning...
You know by now that the cloud is hot and Microsoft says “we’re all in”. That being said, there has never been a better time to push all of those chips forward and jump on the bandwagon. It’s time to get some experience with SharePoint...
One thing I find annoying after attaching a SharePoint 2007 content database is that several of the new cool SharePoint 2010 web parts are simply not present on your upgraded site. This includes the new social web parts such as the Tag Cloud, Organization...