Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

Sharepoint 2010 includes out-of-the-box support for RESTful access to list data via the ListData.svc service. This service makes it easy to write client-side applications that consume data from SharePoint lists. The service is a significant improvement over Lists.asmx (which is still supported) in that it natively supports Atom or JSON formatted responses allowing AJAX applications […]