SPServices, XML, JSON, and REST–Thoughts?

Over the last few months, I’ve had a couple of requests for SPServices to emit JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in addition to Extensible Markup Language (XML). This is probably a natural progression, as SharePoint developers are becoming more familiar with the JSON approach, which IMO has been traditionally known far better by Web developers. In my…

Mini Interview with Christian Glessner About SPServices

<UPDATE dateTime=”2011-04-27 14:36EDT”>Ooops. I misspoke when I said “that SPServices was the number one Codeplex project at the time”. It was the number one *SharePoint* project. Big difference!</UPDATE> While I was away lazing on a beach, Christian Glessner posted an interview-let he did with me in a very noisy place deep in the bowels of…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.6.1 Released

Today (April 13), I released SPServices v0.6.1. This release doesn’t have a long list of changes from v0.6.0, but there is a new function which many people have asked for plus two other enhancements. For posterity, here are the changes: New Functionality Alpha Issue Tracker Item Function Description ALPHA1-2 5647 $().SPServices.SPFilterDropdown New Function Idea: Filter…

SPServices v0.6.1ALPHA1 Released with New SPFilterDropdown Function

I wanted to do a quick post about SPServices v0.6.1ALPHA1. The one change in this ALPHA is to add a new function called SPFilterDropdown. I’ve had a lot of requests for this functionality lately, though it has come up on and off in the past as well. Note that this is an ALPHA release, and…

Listing Folders in a SharePoint List or Library with SPServices

I got a question in the SPServices Discussions the other day (it’s currently at the bottom of the thread) about listing folders in a SharePoint Document Library with SPServices. Little examples like this can be useful learning tools, even if they aren’t exactly what you are trying to do. <UPDATE>Based on the first two comments…