[SharePoint Magazine date=”December 23, 2010″] Consistency in one’s development practices is a critical part of generating reliable, maintainable code. Most large software contains some inconsistencies, but in your development efforts with SharePoint, you should try your best not to introduce any inconsistencies of your own. In this article, I’ll show you the effect of one…
In building a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying up to date. You can probably think of many examples where you see this on the Web, but newsfeeds are a prime example. While we’re sitting on the page, we see newly posted content pop up, usually on the…
Here are some numbers for the meaningless-but-fun-statistics bin. Codeplex collects a bunch of numbers for me, so I can preserve them here. Yesterday, Sunday, October 27th, 2013, SPServices crossed the 100,000 total downloads threshold. I posted the first version of SPServices (SPServices 0.2.3) on Codeplex on Aug 19th, 2009 as an alpha. That means it’s…
As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…
Introduction Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) and I have known each other for a while now. We share a passion for developing solutions in SharePoint that both function well and look good. User Experience Matters. The other day I was working on a project where I wanted to access some managed metadata (MM) values in SharePoint 2010…