Empty SharePoint People Search Results and SSL Web Applications
The great thing about SharePoint Enterprise Search is that once it’s up and running it mostly just works. Except, of course, when it doesn’t. Recently I was troubleshooting a farm in which People search stopped returning any results. In this environment, the main OU containing user accounts had been moved and a new profile import […]
SharePoint 2013 App Migration Webcast
Keenan Newton and Rob Lefferts from the SharePoint product team at Microsoft will be presenting a webcast on Monday, May 20, 2013, at 9:00am US Pacific Time. They’ll be covering the thorny topic of migrating legacy full-trust solutions to the SharePoint 2013 app model – something a lot of developers and business analysts will need […]
JavaScript, WCF and Entity Framework Data Model for SharePoint 2013 Apps – Part 3
The following article is the third in a three part series on data model patterns for SharePoint 2013 apps. In Part One of this series we reviewed the basic parameters for a data model pattern that can be used for building SharePoint 2013 apps and defined the process for creating a base data layer using […]
JavaScript, WCF and Entity Framework Data Model for SharePoint 2013 Apps – Part 2
The following article is the second in a three part series on data model patterns for SharePoint 2013 apps. In Part One of this series I set out the basic parameters for a data model pattern that can be used for building SharePoint 2013 apps and defined the process for creating a base data layer […]
JavaScript, WCF and Entity Framework Data Model for SharePoint 2013 Apps – Part 1
At SharePoint Conference 2013 I demonstrated an Azure-hosted help desk application for Office365 and SharePoint 2013 using the new app model framework. The core data for the application was stored in a SQL Azure database with some SharePoint data integration via REST. The entire UI was coded in JavaScript and HTML. This presented some interesting […]
Using the Chrome Control in SharePoint 2013 Apps
In the new SharePoint 2013 App model, there are essentially two ways to host apps – within SharePoint itself or from an external web site (also known as "provider hosted" or "autohosted"). One of the disadvantages of external apps is that they don’t look or feel like SharePoint. All the familiar navigation menus and shortcuts […]
Configuring High Trust Apps for SharePoint 2013
The SharePoint 2013 Application Model supports app development for both cloud and on-premise environments; however, there are distinct differences between the two implementations. In the cloud, apps rely upon an external authorization process to validate that an application hosted outside of SharePoint – in a vendor’s data center, for example – is allowed to communicate […]
Introducing the SharePoint 2013 Application Model
SharePoint 2013 introduces a new mechanism for custom code deployment known as "Apps". Mostly targeted at online solutions, the purpose of the App model is to overcome the severe limitations of the 2010 isolated execution model (also known as the "Sandbox") and provide developers with a way to run rich web applications in SharePoint without […]
Entity Framework, Pre-Login Handshake and SSL Certificate Chain Errors
During the process of constructing a data access layer for a SharePoint project I kept running into SSL errors trying to construct my data model using the Entity Framework. I began the project with an Azure database which, surprisingly enough, worked like a champ – Visual Studio 2010 picked right up on my connection string […]
Hiding Toolbars in the SharePoint 2010 Chart Web Part
SharePoint Server 2010 ships with a nifty Chart web part that displays visual data from a number of sources – SharePoint lists, BDC, Excel services, etc. It’s a handy control and one that was sorely missing from the 2007 version. It provides a number of chart options, including pies, lines, bars, cones, scatters, etc. in […]