Thoughts about SharePoint and Office 365 development
The SharePoint REST API support for folders is limited. The support that is there is tailored for working with documents in document libraries. I wrote a post over on the PAIT Group blog where I demonstrate how to perform several common actions against lists with folders using the REST API.
A few months ago Mikael Svenson blogged about a SharePoint Framework Script Editor web part he’d written. I took the core of Mikael’s Script Editor web part and built a prototype Content Editor web part – one that works as closely as possible to the “Classic” Content Editor web part. I wrote a post about… Continue reading A SharePoint Framework Content Editor Web Part
A few people have asked for advice on resources to help them get started with SharePoint development. Here are a few I like to suggest, add a comment if you have others. Sites SharePoint 2013 development overview Getting Started (SharePoint Development in Visual Studio) SharePoint Add-ins Videos Channel 9 Microsoft Virtual Academy Pluralsight On-demand Library… Continue reading Getting Started with SharePoint 2013/2016/Online Development
In this video I demonstrate how to add TypeScript support to SharePoint projects in Visual Studio 2013 or 2015.
It seems that there is some confusion over these two acronyms. Let me see if I can’t help clear that up. CSOM stands for (the) Client Object Model. This is a remote API that has three implementations: one for .NET managed code (e.g. C# and VB), one for Silverlight (yes, that still exists), and one… Continue reading CSOM and JSOM in SharePoint – Explaining what the acronyms mean
I spent some time a while ago trying to figure out how the get the version number of a SharePoint-Hosted App in JavaScript code. After a bunch of Googling and building demo Apps I gave up with the assumption that this information was not available. This morning I was writing some code that worked with… Continue reading How to get the Version Number of a SharePoint-Hosted App in JavaScript
In this first update to What’s New for Developers in SharePoint 2016 we’ll see how to create Add-In (App) projects that will work with SharePoint 2016 Beta 2 and talk about additions to CSOM and the REST API.
A quick look at what’s new – and what’s not new – for developers in SharePoint Server 2016,
I’ve run the SharePoint 2016 prerequisite installer on two different machines so far. Once it ran fine and once it hung while installing the Information Protection and Control Client 2.1. I Googled around for a bit and found you could override the installer for each prerequisite via command line switches. I found the information I… Continue reading SharePoint 2016 Prerequisite Installer Hangs at Information Protection and Control Client 2.1
My Generics in VB.NET course for Pluralsight was published today! #woot