Summary: You can improve your SPServices-based code today to prepare for converting to REST calls later. In this article, Marc introduces some new patterns for your JavaScript code to make SOAP calls easier to maintain and easier to move to REST when you decide it’s time. Remember that older car I drive? Well, over the…
This is another post in the vein of “it happened to me and it took me a long time to figure it out, so why should you go through the same pain”? I’ve got an application running at a client that sits on top of SharePoint 2007. It uses KnockoutJS and lots of other modern…
In this series, you’ll learn how to transition from the SOAP Web Services – which SPServices supports – to REST. If your organization is making a transition to SharePoint 2013 or Office 365 & SharePoint Online (and anything hybrid in between), this series will help you develop new patterns, migrate your codebase, use OData effectively…
If you’re working in the latest versions of Chrome (~40+) – and maybe Firefox – and you use SPServices, you may start to see an warning: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user’s experience. For more help, check http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/. Vigilant SPServices user frankhale reported this…
Late last year I committed to put SPServices onto Github to encourage greater collaboration and contribution from the community. It’s definitely there now, and there are several things I’ve been struggling with since I moved it there: What to name each version How many versions to move into the repo Whether it actually will increase…
Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, I’m releasing SPServices 2014.02. This is the second release in 2014 (which you should be able to glean from the release name). If you’re using an earlier version of SPServices, I strongly recommend an upgrade. Read on. The most important change in this release is due to…
I’ve had some false starts moving SPServices to Git and/or Github over the last few years. If it weren’t for Josh McCarty’s (@joshmcrty) help on every release, I wouldn’t even have gotten SPServices onto cdnjs, since they use Github. (Yes, SPServices is available via CDN at cdnjs and has been for several years now.) I’m…
Be careful what you ask! @Daniel_the_Nerd Nope. Want to build it? — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 30, 2014 Well, no more than two hours later Daniel had sent me the stub of a vsdoc file for SPServices. Now I don’t use Visual Studio, but I suppose if you like this kind of hand-holding, Intellisense…
Today Randy Drisgill (@drisgill) alerted me to the fact that Jeremy Thake (@jthake) and Steve Walker (@sharepointing) were talking about me in the Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 018 with Steve Walker on SharePoint UX developer guidance. While they do indeed say some very nice things about me (those payments to Redmond are working out),…
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…