Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2013’

If you’ve used claims with SharePoint 2010, you know that it can be incredibly frustrating to work with. Setting it up is only half the battle. When you want to interface with it either via web services or your own client applications, it can quickly become a nightmare. In addition, you had to make sure […]

“A Fond Farewell to .xslt” If you’re a SharePoint Search developer, or are heavily involved in Search in SharePoint, I believe that you will be pleasantly pleased with some of the changes that should make developing on the SharePoint 2013 platform simpler. However, the downside in this case is that all of that wonderful work […]

While doing some SharePoint research, I came across two interesting infographics I wanted to share. The first infographic is from Perficient partner Rackspace and is based on a survey of 14,000 US based IT professionals in addition to Technet, McKinsey & Microsoft Newscenter. In a post early last year ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley shared that […]

On Feb 2 2012, Microsoft released a very important document package on Sharepoint 2013 – the SharePoint 2013 Technical Preview Software Development Kit (SDK) . Though the documentation doesn’t cover full SharePoint 15 managed object model, it still gives a good overview of the types and members called by other Microsoft applications. The other key […]

SharePoint 2013 has been out for a little over a month now, and during that time I’ve had the chance to play with it in several environments and get a feel for how it performs.  The blog is a follow-on to my previous blog post regarding SharePoint and Virtual Machine (VM) Performance.  In that post, […]

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 […]

In all the previous versions of SharePoint, the traditional way of retrieving content was using CAML queries and displaying them using your custom UI or use one of the OOTB web parts like Content Query Web Parts or List web parts. Search was not used that often or effectively. When CAML queries are not created […]

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft introduced yet another paradigm for developing applications. Applications (or Apps)??!!! Yes. ‘Solutions’ are called Apps now! In fact everything in SharePoint including its primitive constructs such as Lists, Libraries are Apps in SharePoint 2013. However that doesn’t change how they behave and they continue function in same way. So what happened […]

SharePoint 2013 (or “Wave 15” as we unabashed Microsoft fanboys have been calling it) has been in public beta for a little over two weeks now, and we’re starting to see some more discussion of new features and functions around the web.  Our own Microsoft blog is no exception. A number of our customers have […]

In one of my earlier blog posts, I showed how term sets can be translated manually using XLIFF files. This post will step through the process of setting up machine translations for a term set. Process: 1. Go to Central Administration and create a SharePoint Translation Service application if it’s not already setup.

In my previous blog post, I described how the mobile panels work and what their shortcomings are. This blog will outline the solution that will solve the problems that the OOTB panel has. Problem Definition: The Out Of The Box mobile panel when added to the layout has the following issues: 1. To author content […]

SharePoint 2013 has a new component called the Mobile Panel. The purpose of this panel is to enable the content authors to target different content to different device channels or render same content differently based on how the site is accessed. My earlier post on Mobility shows how to setup a device channel and explains […]