Attribute Change Detection for SharePoint 2010 Row Selection

SharePoint 2010 has some quirky architecture to handle row selection in list views. We’re all familiar with this from navigating around lists. In the list views, we have a few choices on how we select rows to work with (depending on the list view settings): Clicking the checkbox to the left of each item Clicking…

SharePoint-Videos.com: JavaScript and jQuery for SharePoint 2013 Training – Online Class

Next Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, I’ll be teaching a class for SharePoint-Videos.com called “JavaScript and jQuery for SharePoint 2013”. It’s an online class that is available to everyone, but it’s filling up fast. This will be my first class fully focused on jQuery with SharePoint 2013, and I’ve had a lot of fun putting it…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2013.01 Released

Tonight I’ve released SPServices 2013.01. If you are using an earlier version of SPServices, I strongly suggest that you upgrade to this version, as you will see some performance improvements and there is some nice new functionality. Thanks to everyone who downloaded the beta and provided feedback. jQuery Promises By far the most exciting thing in this release…

Comparing SPServices 2013.01 Calls with Async vs. Promises Methods

SPServices 2013.01 is almost ready for release and I’m hoping that when you see the coolness here that you’ll want to get your hands on the beta to do a little testing with it. I’ve put together a pretty simple demo page to show how great it can be to use jQuery .Deferred objects (aka…

SPServices Stories #13: Durandal SP3: Developing SharePoint SPAs Made Easy

This entry is part 13 of 21 in the series SPServices Stories

Introduction Rainer Wittman (@RainerAtSpirit) and I have been emailing back and forth for a few weeks now. He’s been trying out the new alpha of SPServices 2013.01 which includes jQuery promises aka Deferred objects capabilities (soon to be a real release, I promise!) with the Durandal JavaScript framework. Durandal is a framework for building SPAs,…