Posts Tagged ‘.net’

Let’s say you want to create a SharePoint lookup field where the dropdown options display something other than title of the lookup item… If the field you want to show is a single line of text type, then you’re in luck! Here’s an example of how straighforward it is. However, if you want to be able to […]

When I’m not delving into Microsoft technologies, I enjoy making music. A Christmas gift that I received turned out to be an unlikely trigger to make me think about usability. That gift was a book with transcriptions of some popular sax solos and included Money by Pink Floyd. This song is a bit unique in […]

Have you made your New Year’s Resolution around Microsoft Dynamics CRM? Well it is that time of year again to set New Year’s Resolutions for all of us. According to USA.gov the top New Year’s Resolutions are: Drink Less Alcohol Eat Healthy Food Get a Better Education Get a Better Job Get Fit Lose Weight […]

Both Sitecore and ASP.NET MVC both provide a development model that allows for distinct boundaries to be created between data, application logic, and presentation logic.  The purpose of this post is to describe the manner in which these capabilities can be utilized within a Sitecore MVC solution to provide content authors with the ability to […]

This is the first post in a new series called “Exploring C#”. The purpose of this series is to explore areas of the language, and the .NET framework in general, that are very useful, easily overlooked, or that I perceive are not well known. Virtually all applications have literals in them. It is best practice […]

I was recently working on some code that added items to a SharePoint list based on a user’s input from an InfoPath form. It was an easy task until I got to a choice column. I wasn’t sure of the syntax for setting the value of a choice column, and for some reason, all of […]

I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in Orlando, FL. http://bit.ly/CVSPEAK25 I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · Developing Mobile Solutions with Azure and Windows Phone · Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL […]

I was recently asked to develop a PIN Pad for an ASP.NET MVC3 mobile web application for users to use to log into the application.  I had to use the PIN Pad in three locations in the application: 1) register the PIN for a new user, 2) confirming the PIN registration, and 3) logging in […]

As discussed in the post earlier, SharePoint 2013 allows you to write Apps which can extend the functionalities your SharePoint website provides. Primarily an App can be divided into two categories depending upon where its components reside: SharePoint hosted App – Major pieces of an App are on SharePoint server with business logic and presentational […]

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 […]

Situation You’re looking for a way to semi-automate the back-loading of of scrubbed data from your production environment to your development/test/staging/whatever environments. There are several reasons you’d want to do this that I don’t need to get into here. The problem is that your production environment is well-used and full of a bunch of data, […]