Thomas Zepeda-McMillan was kind enough to get in touch back in early February and give me the code he had built to wrap the TaxonomyClientService Web Service for SharePoint 2010. This made a nice additional piece of functionality to add to v0.6.0. The TaxonomyClientService allows you to interact with the Managed Metadata term store. I…
Around the time that my wife was pregnant with our son, I got very into genealogy. Suddenly it seemed very important to understand my backstory, and then my wife’s backstory, and even the backstory of any friends who were silly enough to mention a possibly famous ancestor to me. Since I’m a computer guy, I…
I’m starting to get feedback on the new version of SPServices, which is v0.6.0. One consistent message (other than “I love SPServices!”) is that it feels noticeably faster than previous versions. I wasn’t able to do any real benchmarking, but in my testing I felt that there was a noticeable performance improvement as well. At…
Last night (March 12), I released SPServices v0.6.0. As I’ve been discussing in previous posts (here, here, and here), this release is a significant refactoring so that it passes the majority of the coding standards tests at JSLint.com. Of course, there are some other great things included in this release as well, and I’ll outline them…
Thanks to everyone who attended my Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery session at SharePoint Conference .ORG in Baltimore on Monday this week. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, and loved all of the interest and questions in my session. The folks at SusQTech put on a wonderful show! Here are links to the things which…
Tonight I released SPServices v0.6.0BETA1. The v0.6.0 release is a significant one even though it doesn’t contain ant major new functions. Much of the code has been refactored so as to pass (as much as is possible) the JavaScript tests at JSLint. We all learn how to code better over time (at least we should!)…
I just went through all of the “value-added” functions in SPServices and updated their certifications for SharePoint 2010. They were really behind the times and many were incorrect. Almost everything works great in SharePoint 2010, though there are a few functions that have some caveats. I wanted to make these updates as part of getting ready for…
Last week I did a post about when you might decide to use Active Directory groups versus SharePoint groups. It was less about managing the security, and more about understanding the membership of the groups. I got a *lot* of comments, emails, tweets, grumbles, and groans about the post. This seems to be a really common…
A couple of weeks ago I got a question from my pal Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) about how to find the DisplayName of a Content Type on a NewForm. At the end of the code in that post, I had the comment: Well, it turned out that the “do something” that Tasha wanted was to display that…
Yup, that’s 20,004 downloads of SPServices since I first posted it on Codeplex back on August 19, 2009. I don’t know about you, but to me that’s really cool! p.s. Mark Rackley (@MrAckley) is going to claim that 18,342 of the downloads were him, but don’t buy it.