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Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’

SharePoint 2013 Search: JavaScript CSOM Primer

A lot of JavaScript incoming! With the rise of SharePoint Online, custom search solutions through JavaScript have become a staple for the development work for clients. While a lot of your search basics can be handled through simple modification of Display Templates (see some of my previous blogs for some basics there), the opportunity still […]

Goodbye JavaScript, Hello TypeScript!!!!

There are many things developers hate about JavaScript.  You can see this with all of the different ways people are trying to “fix” JavaScript.  Here are a couple of the ways: CoffeeScript is a language which is syntactically similar to JavaScript and attempts to expose the “good parts” of JavaScript Google went ahead and wrote […]

Retrieving SharePoint List Column Managed Metadata (JavaScript)

This is a quickie, but can be useful for those accessing SharePoint Managed Metadata from the Client Side. Often when you’re pulling back data from SharePoint lists, you’ll get a full-fledged object back rather than a single field value (and yes I ran into this while working on some fancy calls in a Display Template). […]

Interactive Examples using HTML5

Form Follows Function has put out a growing set of interactive examples using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. What you’ll find there is some really interesting interaction and occasionally seizure-inducing animation. Are all of the examples practical? No, but that’s not the point. What is being shown off here is that with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, you […]

Developer Tutorial: Gyroscopes! Gyroscopes Everywhere!

Being on the bench gives a man more time to do what he truly enjoys: mindlessly playing around with new technologies, APIs and generally making a lot of cool stuff that doesn’t really do anything. Enter…the gyroscope! What is a gyroscope? No, it is not a telescope that automatically zooms in on the nearest Greek […]

5 controversies regarding using HTML5 frameworks for Mobile Apps

In a recent webcast, Amir Nathoo of Trigger.io and Tim Anglade of Apigee examined the tradeoffs of building HTML5 versus native mobile apps. It was a good overview and introduction to what is HTML5 based hybrid apps all about. Towards the end of the webinar, there was a discussion around the controversies surrounding such a hybrid approach. […]

SharePoint 2010: Closing a ModalDialog Manually from Code (C# and JavaScript)

Situation If you’ve worked with SharePoint 2010 at all, I’m sure you’ve seen a ModalDialog popup at some point. This popup most often occurs when you’re creating or editing a list item. The item’s edit or create form is displayed by ModalDialog in an HTML iFrame. This frame allows for the nifty, AJAX-like popup, but […]

Nintex Workflow and SharePoint 2010: Start a Workflow on Each Item in a List

Situation Wouldn’t it be nice to start a specific SharePoint list workflow on each item in a list? Unfortunately, there’s no simple way to do this out of the box in SharePoint or Nintex, even though it’s just a few lines of code. You could always grab all of the list items and then loop […]

SharePoint 2010: Getting Workflows for a List From the JavaScript Client Object Model

All over the web, there are plenty of links to how to interact with SharePoint 2010 via the Client Object Model. Unfortunately, these interactions are all done via the compiled Client Object Model, not the Silverlight or JavaScript versions. That means you have to do the translation to JavaScript or Silverlight yourself. For Silverlight, that’s […]

jQuery or JavaScript?

Because jQuery is simply a collection of JavaScript functions, you might believe there’s no difference between them. But, in fact, there is—a big difference

SharePoint 2010: Firefox and SharePoint Picture Library Thumbnails

A little while ago, I was working on a project that needed to display user pictures. These pictures were to be stored in a Picture Library specific to the site collection of the application in SharePoint 2010. If the user didn’t have a picture, for whatever reason, a default silhouette picture was to be displayed […]

Dynamic Picture Library Slideshow that you can add to SharePoint 2010 site

The following code is a combo of JavaScript (jQuery) & little HTML. It can be pasted into a 2010 Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to create a dynamic slideshow of a Picture Library. All you will need to do after pasting the code below into a CEWP is change the two items that are indicated […]

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