Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Earlier this year, in March of 2013 (all posts on the topic), I relaunched my site using the open source CMS engine Orchard CMS. I based my deployment on the 1.6 release which was the most current …
Everyone is talking about SharePoint 2013 these days, but many are still using SharePoint 2010. Are you starting a project on SharePoint 2010 & not sure how to jump in as a SharePoint developer? A …
Microsoft clarifies that only the user code part of sandboxed solutions is deprecated, running in the sandboxed user code service.
Common questions about deploying Workflow Manager 1.0 and Service Bus 1.0 for SharePoint 2013. Focus on HA, scalability, and certificates.
A few months ago I tweeted a brief comment about investing some time in changing the way I was working and introducing a few new techniques to my work life. That tweet spun up a dialog with a handful …
Earlier this week I watched a dialog progress between a few people: which client-side API they prefer in SharePoint 2013. In this post, I share my opinion.
In this article, I share additional thoughts from my recent sessions about workflow development and SharePoint Hosted apps at SharePoint Evolutions.
Looking at the title of this post, you might notice something missing. It’s the classic five questions: What Why Where When How But the title is missing two of them… where & when. Well those …
About a month and half ago I relaunched my blog onto a new web CMS platform moving away from the SubText engine to Orchard (you can see more on the background here). When I relaunched, I got a lot of …
A few weeks ago I blogged how two samples I provided MSDN in August 2012 were recently republished using the latest SharePoint 2013, Workflow Manager and Visual Studio 2012 developer tools. Well today …
Learn how to create and use custom tasks in SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio 2012 with this helpful step-by-step demonstration.
In this article, learn how to bypass the SharePoint 2013 workflow engine bug and create custom task outcome buttons with my workaround and tips.
In this article, I share my thoughts on the history of InfoPath 2013 as a forms solution for Microsoft Office and SharePoint.
In August 2012 I published, via the MSDN Office Developer Documentation Team, two workflow samples that showed how to build a workflow using Visual Studio 2012 that called an external web service and …
Grace Kochavi shares SharePoint 2013 workflow updates, tips for creating workflows with Office Developer Tools, and essential undocumented publishing step.
Ever since the original post when I said I was going to make the changes to my site, the number one question I kept hearing was “why Orchard” as the engine for the new site. Of course the …
A little over a month ago I blogged about how I was planning to re-launch my blog. This post is from the newly launched site! Before I say too much here I want to mention that I will be writing quite …
Over nine years ago I started this blog on an open source engine (.Text v0.94). I was using one of the out-of-the-box skins which served me well for a while. Then Phill Haack picked it up, forked the …
Discover BusyLight for Lync - the tool that lights up different colors based on your presence status. Stay synced with Lync’s calendar and phone service.
The post discusses an easier way to understand the feature matrix for SharePoint 2013 deployment options and license types.
SharePoint REST API can’t filter lookup field by name of the item. Lookup field returns object ID only. Here’s how to filter by lookup ID
The article provides a link to a page listing all features of SharePoint 2013 and its various flavors, including Office 365 versions
Learn the changes in SharePoint 2013 workflow development that requires using JavaScript to capture & submit form values, opening up new possibilities.
Reflecting on my experience building workflows in previous versions of SharePoint, specifically the pain of building them in Visual Studio.
Despite the convenience of building apps, SharePoint 2013 RTM’s developer tools have debugging issues for local sites. Here’s the fix.