jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2013.02 Released

ByMarc D Anderson

Yesterday I released SPServices 2013.02. Here are the release headlines: Improved compatibility with SharePoint 2013, whether on premises or on Office365, especially in the value-added functions (SPCascadeDropdowns, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, etc.) Better API stability, including fixes for GetListItemChanges, GetListItemChangeSinceToken, and others Bug fixes and performance improvements While this is primarily a maintenance release, if you are using…

From SharePoint Magazine: Variations in Multiselect Controls in Different SharePoint Language Versions

ByMarc D Anderson

[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…

From the SPServices Discussions: Why Should I Bother to Learn XSLT?

ByMarc D Anderson

Here’s a question from gdavis321 from the good old SPServices discussions. In most cases, I just answer the questions in situ, but occasionally – as you frequent readers know – I realize what I’m writing feels more like a blog post, so I move it over here. It seems that Spservices (thank you for this…

Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 3 – GetListItemChanges

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices

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…

Should You Use the ‘var $this = $(this);’ Syntax in jQuery?

ByMarc D Anderson

The other day I tweeted that I May succumb to this this syntax: var $this = $(this);* Because I use Hootsuite and it’s a simple button push, I also posted it to Facebook. George Winters saw it there and wondered what I meant. I was referring to a common jQuery coding practice. In the past,…