Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using REST

In a previous post, I walked through Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using SPServices. Well, in the “modern” world, I want to use REST whenever I can, especially with SharePoint Online. I ran into a challenge figuring out how to make an attachment upload work in an AngularJS project. There are dozens of blog posts and…

Caching SharePoint Data Locally with SPServices and HTML5’s Web Storage

The SharePoint SOAP Web Services are fast. In fact, I think they are as fast as the newer REST Web Services in many cases. The old, crufty SOAP Web Services even provide batching, something that the REST services don’t yet do. (Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) has been beating the drum about this with Microsoft for months…

Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using SPServices

For years people have been asking me how they could upload files using SPServices. I’ve dodged the questions every time because I simply didn’t know how. On a current client project,  I’m building a slick Single Page Application (SPA) to manage tasks in SharePoint 2010. It’s basically a veneer over the clunky out-of-the-box task list…

Making Sense of HTML5 with SharePoint: Internet Explorer 9 Capabilities

Let’s take as a sort of given that the majority of people who use SharePoint, at least for Intranets, are using Internet Explorer. I know that’s a big assumption, and in most organizations it’s not fully true. Many people choose to go rogue from the standards and use other browsers, most front end developers refuse…

Making Sense of HTML5 with SharePoint: Browser Capabilities

In my last article I talked about what HTML5 is and that it will help us get to a more  “Semantic Web”, but I didn’t explain what the W3C standards really mean. Partly that’s because the process is long and drawn out and murky at best. When I talk about the HTML5 recommendations and standards,…

Making Sense of HTML5 with SharePoint: Introduction to the Series

 Many of you have heard that there’s something new coming, and that it’s called HTML5. Or maybe that it’s here but you can’t take advantage of it due to the browser you use or because you use SharePoint. As with most new things these days, there’s way too much information available about HTML5 to sift…

Guest Post from Matt Bramer: HTML5 is changing more than the web

The other day, Matt Bramer (@iOnline247) and I were discussing the Microsoft /web distribution of applications on the LAMP stack. Much of what he was saying was out of my realm, so I offered to have him do a guest post here.  Without further ado, Matt’s thoughts! (You can also read this post on Matt’s blog.)…