​If you are a SharePoint developer then you have probably resigned yourself to the fact that most conferences offer little in the way of actual content for programmers. More often than not, there are four or five tracks of IT professional, information worker and business sessions with only a single track talking about actual code. […]

The latest guidance from Microsoft suggests that the use of client-side API’s is now the preferred technique for customizing the user interface in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. This is a distinct departure from the tried-and-true approach of using custom master pages to create a branded SharePoint experience. Naturally, this has stirred up quite a […]

If you have managed to successfully configure User Profile Synchronization in your 2013 environment (which is a daunting task in and of itself) then at some point you are going to have to deal with the personal sites of users who have been disabled or removed from Active Directory. SharePoint tries to be helpful in […]

With the release of the app model in SharePoint 2013, and all the subsequent marketing hype surrounding Office 365 and the determination of Microsoft to push their customers into the cloud, many have predicted that the end of full-trust farm solutions was nigh. For a while, especially if the rumors swirling within the greater SharePoint […]

Since the introduction of the app model for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online (Office 365) development was announced last year, much has been written on the topic of full-trust solutions versus apps (see Andrew Connell’s post and this one from Richard DiZerega). While the larger debate of how new applications should be written for SharePoint […]

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 […]

​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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]