SharePoint How to use Ctrl+W to close a tab in Visual Studio All the browsers I know give you the option to close tabs using Ctrl+W in addition to the standard Ctrl+F4 in Windows. I find Ctrl+W easier to reach than Ctrl+F4, but as a developer I switch back and forth between Visual Studio (or VS Code) and
SharePoint How to use PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest behind corporate proxy Corportate proxies are one of the productivity killers for developers. They are not well supported in every utility and framework and each tool has its own litrature to set proxy settings. To add salt to the injury, not every tool supports NTLM authentication well which is quite common in many
SharePoint Developing NodeJS apps using AngularJS 4 in macOS Well, that is one long title for a blog post! but, bare with me I'm going straight to the point. Recently I've been wanting to dip my toes in the AngularJS 4 world and to make it more exciting I thought maybe I will do it
SharePoint How to mimic Pivot Table or Categories in Number 3+ Perhaps you are already aware that Apple has cut many features from latest versions of Numbers and their other MS Office like products. One of the most popular features that has been removed from Numbers is called Categories. By activating Categories on a table you could aggregate data and summarize
Development How to warm-up SharePoint or other web applications and WCF (SOAP) services with PowerShell There are many reasons you might want to warm-up a web application occasionally. It can be after a fresh deployment or on a regular basis after recycling application pools. Some times you might also need to warm-up SOAP services without going through front-end. It might seems to be any easy
SharePoint How to create search query content source in SharePoint using PowerShell It is very easy to add a content source by using SharePoint Central Administration, but you might need to create a long list of content sources in a batch for example as part of a disaster recovery process or many other reasons. Here is one way I do it in a PowerShell script.
Development How to read optional attributes in XML with default values When we are reading data from XML data sources, it is very common that when a value is not given for an attribute or an element, we have to use a default value instead. Having to check for the existence of the node each and every time we are reading
Development Disabling Security warning for Attach to process in Visual Studio 2010, 2013 and 2015 You probably have already suffered from the pain of having to click one more time when attaching visual studio's debugger to a process. As developers we all have the obsession to be more productive and everything that comes in the way is a bummer. I should have shared
SharePoint Connecting WebParts programmatically in SharePoint Let's start by an example. Example In this blog post, I'm going to assume we have a webpart that displays a contact list and another one that displays a map with the possibility to pinpoint an address. To keep things simple I assume the address is
SharePoint BCS Part 1 – What can I build and what is the best way to do that? If you already know SharePoint and probably experienced developing application in this platform you already know that when thinking about a new solution and all the requirements you're going to meet in your project, picking the right tools and finding the best way to build the right solution
Uncategorized Everything you need to know about BCS - Intro Business connectivity services is an integral part of Microsoft SharePoint Server when it comes to interacting with external systems (i.e. Line of Business Systems). There lots of tools and foundation from QCRUD operations to out-of-the-box web parts to let you surface the data and let users interact with it.
Uncategorized First step in developing apps for SharePoint Online - Enabling F5 It's Just a quick post to share one of my first experiences with SharePoint online and that's how to enable F5 experience in Visual Studio. When you start writing your first App for SharePoint Online you might get the same error as me, saying that "
SharePoint Add / Remove event receivers to list / content types in SharePoint with PowerShell Although it's simple but it's a little bit tricky. Adding / removing an event receiver to a list and content type is the same you just need to use the appropriate collection is an SPWeb object. Here is how to add / remove an event receiver to / from
SharePoint Check whether a website exists in a site collection The easiest way I found is // Checks whether a website exists by looking up its url in the current site collection bool WebExistsByUrl(string url) { return SPContext.Current.Site.AllWebs.Any(w => w.Url.Equals(url, System.StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)); } or even better you can put them in an extension
SharePoint How to recreate web application in SharePoint by Powershell Some times you might need to recreate a web application (probably on you development box) to do a complete deployment and don't want to go through all the those options in Central Administration. here is the PowerShell code. Just put your specific values save it into a .ps1
SharePoint What's new in Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2013 Business Connectivity Service (previously Business Data Catalogue / BDC) was one of the most exciting features in Microsoft SharePoint Server since its first release. Although it had a lot of short comings in its first version, but the idea behind it made it an important tool in the package. In SharePoint
SharePoint How to view / change web site properties in SharePoint by PowerShell In SharePoint, Property bags are usually used to store values / configurations related to a web site. Reading / Writing them via PowerShell is really easy just fire up "SharePoint 2010 Management Shell" from the Start Menu and type the following commands: $web = Get-SPWeb "http://yourwebsite" $web.Properties[
SharePoint How to change OSearch14 account (user)? How to change search service account using SharePoint Central Administration The simplest way to change the account of a service in SharePoint is to: 1. Run Central Administrator 2. Go to Security > Configure service accounts 3. Select "Windows Service - SharePoint Server Search" 4. In "Select
