Over the years, Microsoft hired me to write long-form articles for their developer documentation sites, including the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Here you’ll find links to those articles on topics ranging from SharePoint Server 2003 up to the current version, SharePoint Online, as well as Microsoft’s Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002.
Over the years, Microsoft hired me to write long-form articles for their developer documentation sites, including the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Here you’ll find links to those articles on topics such as SharePoint & Microsoft Content Management Server.
The implementation of workflows in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 remained largely the same from version to version. Microsoft did add some new functionality in SharePoint 2010, such as the ability to associate …
View publicationThe workflow team has worked with the Azure team to create a product called Workflow Manager. Workflow Manager hosts the latest version of the Windows Workflow Foundation runtime and all the necessary services in an …
View publicationContents Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon Architecture Customizing the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon Customizing the Built-in SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon Components …
View publicationContents Introduction to Real World Branding with SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites Gathering Design Requirements for a SharePoint Publishing Site Planning for SharePoint Branding Tasks Creating Realistic Design Comps …
View publicationContents Introduction to Debugging and Logging in SharePoint 2010 Logging in SharePoint 2010 Error Reporting in SharePoint 2010 Custom SharePoint Application Pages SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Microsoft …
View publicationContents Introduction to Team-Based SharePoint 2010 Development Components of a SharePoint Project SharePoint Project Implementation Options Development Tools Available for SharePoint Developers and Implementers …
View publicationSharePoint Foundation 2010 offers developers the capability to create custom field types and controls when a custom edit or display experience is needed. Using Microsoft Silverlight 3, developers can create rich …
View publicationContents Introduction to Code Access Security and SharePoint What Is Identity Security? What Is Code Access Security? Link Demands and Allowing Partially Trusted Callers Understanding the Components of CAS in ASP.NET …
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Contents Introduction to Creating High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites Benchmarking a SharePoint Server Publishing Site Resolving Common Coding Performance Issues Taxonomy: Designing Site Structure …
View publicationContents Creating the Brand in SharePoint Server Packaging and Deploying SharePoint Branding Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Part 1 of 2) discussed how to gather the design requirements …
View publicationContents Introduction to Creating a Brand in SharePoint Server Gathering the Design Requirements Planning for SharePoint Branding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites make use of the Office …
View publicationContents Deploying Anonymous, Internet-Facing SharePoint 2007 Publishing Sites Development Issues for Page Size, ActiveX Controls, and Custom Code Configuring a SharePoint Site Collection or Site Configuring a …
View publicationContents Introduction to Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts Web Parts SharePoint Field Controls Important Differences Between Field Controls and Web Parts Content Editor Web Part vs. Publishing HTML Field …
View publicationContents Introduction to Creating Master Pages and Page Layouts in Publishing Sites Understanding Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Two Approaches to SharePoint Project Implementations …
View publicationContents Understanding the Challenges of Multiple SharePoint Resources Using Resources Available for SharePoint Developers Finding Documentation and Resources: Best Approach Finding the SharePoint Development Topics You …
View publicationContents Introduction to Branding SharePoint Publishing Sites SharePoint Sites Are ASP.NET 2.0 Applications Site Content Is Not Branding Deployment Options for Branding Files Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 …
View publicationContents Introduction to WCM Publishing Sites in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Considering Publishing Site Architecture and Implementation Using Anonymous and Authenticated Publishing Sites Using Publishing Site …
View publicationContents Introduction to Windows SharePoint Services Timer Jobs Creating Custom Timer Jobs Configuration Options Deploying Custom Timer Jobs Debugging Custom Timer Jobs Many different types of applications require some …
View publicationContents Introduction to Customized and Uncustomized Files Understanding Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Architecture Creating New SharePoint Sites Understanding Customized vs. Uncustomized Files Creating Custom Pages …
View publicationIt’s been a while since I’ve written or been involved in a book project, but here you’ll learn about those projects I was involved in.
Take a deep dive into SharePoint 2013, and master the intricacies for designing and implementing robust apps and other business solutions for your organization. Led by an author team with in-depth knowledge of SharePoint …
View publicationGet a detailed look inside SharePoint 2010—and master the intricacies of developing intranets, extranets, and Web-based applications. Guided by an author team with in-depth knowledge of SharePoint architecture, …
View publicationI contributed one chapter on WCM along with chapters written by the most well-known SharePoint experts in the field, this book arms you with in-depth information on the critical areas within the platform.
View publicationMy first solo book! This is for SharePoint developers working with Publishing sites—sites that leverage MOSS 2007 WCM capabilities.
View publicationI contributed one chapter on WCM along with chapters written by the most well-known SharePoint experts in the field, this book arms you with in-depth information on the critical areas within the platform.
View publicationProvides a definitive, one-stop reference for the practical information you need to plan, deploy, maintain, and support Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. I was a contributor on this project.
View publicationThe Developer’s Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform teaches developers how to build solutions that leverage the WSS v3 platform. I was a contributor on this project.
View publicationThis was the first book project I was involved in. I contributed all the chapters related to SharePoint.
View publicationHere you’ll find a list of all the on-demand courses I’ve published throughout the years. This includes courses I’ve been hired to write from customers such as Microsoft, as those I’ve published on Pluralsight & my current company: Voitanos.
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) extensions were added to enable developers to customize various user experience (UX) aspects of SharePoint modern pages. Previous versions of SharePoint supported similar …
View publicationMicrosoft released Viva Connections in September 2021 and an associated experience, Viva Home in January 2023. Developers can use SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web parts & extensions to customize pages in the …
View publicationWeb parts are the original components developers can use to customize and extend SharePoint going back to the very first version 20 years ago! Every SharePoint developer must know how to build web parts as …
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Course Retirement Notice Microsoft announced the retirement of the MS-600 exam: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services & associated Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Application Developer …
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This is my first course self-published under my company Voitanos! Choose between three course bundles, including the entirely free STARTER bundle!
View publicationThis course is for Microsoft partners who are in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and who are interested in the Partner Center SDK, including both the managed API and REST API. This includes partners who have …
Learn how you can use the Office 365 Contacts API to do all the typical CRUD-Q operations on your contacts in your Exchange Online mailbox in Office 365.
View publicationThis course will introduce developers to the Office 365 APIs, a new set of APIs that will be constantly improved and updated by Microsoft. All four of the endpoints provided in the Office 365 APIs share common …
View publicationLearn how to implement a SharePoint-hosted App as a Single Page App (SPA) using the popular AngularJS presentation framework.
View publicationBuilding off the SharePoint 2013 Workflow - Fundamentals and SharePoint 2013 Workflow - Advanced Topics courses, this course will demonstrate how you can use web services within your SharePoint 2013 workflows.
View publicationCourse Description Workflow changed quite a bit in the SharePoint 2013 release from previous versions of SharePoint. The new workflow platform is implemented with a new product called Workflow Manager 1.0. This course …
View publicationIn this course students will learn how to consume and interact with external data sources as well as how to create a custom .NET Assembly Connector.
View publicationCourse Description In this course you will learn how to create lists and document libraries using the SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2012. Students will also learn about the various events in SharePoint …
View publicationIn this course students will learn the basics of security and permissions in SharePoint 2013, specifically AuthN, AuthZ and claims based security.
View publicationIn this course you will learn how to create custom application pages as well as content pages and the details around customizing pages.
View publicationSharePoint extensibility has traditionally been done using solution packages (*.wsp’s). The two types of solutions, farm and sandbox, are covered in depth in this module. Students will learn when they are available …
View publicationIn this course students will get up to speed on SharePoint 2013 both from a SKU/license perspective as well as from a capability and architectural perspective.
View publicationThis course covers all the security aspects in SharePoint 2010. New to SharePoint 2010 is the support for claims based authentication. Students will learn how to configure a site for claims based authentication and how …
View publicationEnterprise Content Management & Web Content Management - this course will teach you about the content management capabilities in SharePoint 2010 including Enterprise Content Management features and creating …
View publicationThe goal of this course is to help people immediately get up to speed and productive in creating automated business processes as workflows in SharePoint 2013. The target audience for this course are developers and power …
View publicationAutomating Business Process, Enterprise Data & Search - this course covers automating business process with workflow in SharePoint 2010 as well as the improved support for working with data that does not live in …
View publicationInformation Architecture Storage and Data Access - learn how SharePoint 2010 stores data and how you can access that data both from server-side code (including using the new support for LINQ) and client-side code.
View publicationCustomizing and Extending SharePoint - this course covers the SharePoint 2010 user experience for developers.
View publicationStudents will also get an introduction to the new developer tools included in Visual Studio 2010 as well as how to develop in terms of Features and Solutions.
View publicationLearn how to use SharePoint Designer, the browser and InfoPath to create robust business solutions for SharePoint 2010.
View publicationMicrosoft hired me to write multiple learning paths & modules on to Microsoft 365 developer topics. Here you’ll see all the modules I’ve published on Microsoft Learn.
This module will introduce you to creating custom Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) that can be used in Viva Connections dashboards. These ACEs will work within all Viva Connections …
View publicationDevelopers can provide their Microsoft Teams apps to an individual, team, organization, or anyone who wants to use it. How you distribute depends on several factors including users’ needs, business, technical …
View publicationI work with Microsoft Learning to publish & maintain multiple self-paced learning modules related to Microsoft 365. These modules are primarily used as self-paced study resources for developers preparing to take the …
View publicationThis module will introduce you to leveraging your SharePoint Framework customizations in Microsoft Teams.
View publicationTabs are Microsoft Teams-aware webpages embedded in Microsoft Teams. They can be added as part of a channel or a group chat inside a team or as a personal app for an individual user. In this module, you’ll learn …
View publicationOffice Add-ins can access information from anywhere on the internet, whether from the server that hosts the add-in, from your internal network, or from somewhere else in the cloud. If that information is protected, your …
Developers can create Microsoft Teams apps to create new experiences for their users and integrate with existing business solutions. When custom applications need to access user information protected by Microsoft Entra …
View publicationMicrosoft Teams is the ultimate hub for teamwork & intelligent communications. Microsoft Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, meetings, calling, and enterprise voice features. Developers can tap into the power of …
View publicationI work with Microsoft Learning to publish & maintain multiple self-paced learning modules related to Microsoft 365. These modules are primarily used as self-paced study resources for developers preparing to take the …
View publicationIn this module, you’ll explore various ways you can use add-ins to extend and interact with Office applications. You’ll also learn how you can customize your add-in by persisting state, use Fluent UI to …
Many solutions involve creating web APIs to expose functionality to different clients and consumers. Developers can secure these APIs using Microsoft identity to ensure only approved apps can access the web APIs provided …
View publicationRole-based access control (RBAC) is a popular mechanism to enforce authorization in applications. The administrator assigns roles to different users and groups to control who can access to what content and functionality. …
View publicationThis module will address the topic of deploying your SharePoint Framework customizations to production environments.
View publicationWebhooks and connectors are a simple way to connect your web services to channels and teams inside Microsoft Teams. Outgoing webhooks allow your users to send text messages from a channel to your web services. Connectors …
View publicationI work with Microsoft Learning to publish & maintain multiple self-paced learning modules related to Microsoft 365. These modules are primarily used as self-paced study resources for developers preparing to take the …
View publicationConversational bots allow users to interact with your web service through text, interactive cards, and task modules. Conversational bots can be scoped to handling a few simple commands or complex, artificial intelligence …
View publicationOneDrive is the files hub for Office 365. OneDrive enables users to access and collaborate on files no matter where they’re stored. Microsoft Graph enables developers to use a single API to work with the files in …
View publicationI work with Microsoft Learning to publish & maintain multiple self-paced learning modules related to Microsoft 365. These modules are primarily used as self-paced study resources for developers preparing to take the …
View publicationThe Microsoft identity platform implements the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. This protocol is a method that a third-party app can access web-hosted resources on behalf of a user. The web-hosted resources can define a …
View publicationThe Microsoft Identity platform enables developers to build many different types of applications to satisfy diverse business requirements and different scenarios. By supporting multiple OAuth 2.0 standard authentication …
View publicationGroups are collections of users who share access to resources in Microsoft services or in your apps. Developers can use Microsoft Graph to create and manage different types of groups. In this module, you’ll learn how to …
View publicationUsers are the core of most operations in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Graph enables developers full control over the lifecycle of users in Microsoft 365 including creating, updating, and deleting users and to listing users …
View publicationMicrosoft Teams is an extensible platform you can build custom apps on. Understand what is possible with a Microsoft Teams custom app, and determine if it’s right for you.
View publicationMicrosoft identity platform is an evolution of the Microsoft Entra ID developer platform. It allows developers to build applications that sign in users, and access resources in both external applications such as …
View publicationMicrosoft Graph provides a unified programmability model that you can use to build apps for organizations and consumers that interact with the data of millions of users. In this module, students will learn how Microsoft …
View publicationMicrosoft Graph provides a unified programmability model that you can use to build apps for organizations and consumers that interact with the data of millions of users. The Microsoft Graph REST APIs implements many of …
View publicationThis module will introduce you to working with SharePoint content in SharePoint Framework projects. You’ll learn about the SharePoint REST API, do CRUD operations with SharePoint data, the local workbench, and …
View publicationMicrosoft Graph enables developers to consume user information stored in Microsoft 365 in custom applications. Data is retrieved from Microsoft Graph through a REST API or using one of the various native SDKs provided by …
View publicationMicrosoft Office clients enable developers to create add-ins that extend Microsoft Outlook with custom functionality. Through a JavaScript API, developers can access and edit the contents in an email or calendar event in …
This module introduces you to using external APIs in your SharePoint Framework projects. SharePoint Framework projects can incorporate data from anonymous APIs, those REST APIs secured with Microsoft Entra ID, and …
View publicationMicrosoft Office clients enable developers to create add-ins that extend Microsoft Word with custom functionality. Through a JavaScript API, developers can manipulate the content in a Word document from an app running in …
Microsoft Office clients enable developers to create add-ins that extend Microsoft Excel with custom functionality. Through a JavaScript API, developers can manipulate the content in an Excel workbook from an app running …
Microsoft Graph enables developers to consume user information stored in Microsoft 365 in custom applications. Data is retrieved from Microsoft Graph through a REST API or using one of the various native SDKs provided by …
View publicationThis module will introduce you to the SharePoint Framework and walk you through getting your local & online environment configured for developing with the SharePoint Framework.
View publicationThis module will introduce you to extending the SharePoint user interface with extensions.
View publicationThis module will introduce you to leveraging the property pane for client-side web parts created with the SharePoint Framework.
View publicationThis module will introduce you to creating client-side web parts using the SharePoint Framework. You’ll also see how to leverage both the local and hosted SharePoint Workbench & using different parts of the …
View publicationOver the years, Microsoft hired me to record short videos for their developer documentation sites, including the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Here you’ll find links to those articles on topics such as SharePoint & Microsoft Content Management Server.
Document sets, introduced in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, enable users to create a composite item that consists of properties and child documents. This enables customers to associate multiple documents with a single …
View publicationLearn how to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications for robust, scalable, and fault tolerant shared services. This Visual How To demonstrates how to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications and …
View publicationWith each release of Microsoft SharePoint, developers ask for additional web services to simplify reading and writing SharePoint site data from custom code not on the server that is running SharePoint. Instead of …
View publicationOne of the biggest improvements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the fact that it is built on top of ASP.NET 2.0. This enables SharePoint sites to use the membership provider model that abstracts the identity and …
View publicationLearn how to use MSBuild to automatically generate solution package files for Windows SharePoint Services. This MSDN Visual HowTo demonstrates how to do this step-by-step.
View publicationLearn how to harness the power of custom timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This Microsoft Office Visual How To demonstrates how to create a job that requests the home page of each site collection in a Web …
View publicationLearn how to use code-behind files in custom content pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This Microsoft Office Visual How To demonstrates one of these techniques, using code-behind files within custom content …
View publicationAll Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web content management (WCM) or publishing sites use the Page Editing toolbar. The Page Editing toolbar provides content authors, owners, and editors with functionality to …
View publicationMany things ASP.NET 2.0 developers are used to building can seem challenging within a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment. However, because the MOSS 2007 architecture is based on ASP.NET 2.0, …
View publicationOver the years, Microsoft hired me to write short code samples, published on their developer documentation site, the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Here you’ll find links to those samples on topics ranging from SharePoint Server 2003 up to the current version, SharePoint Online, as well as Microsoft’s Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002.
This sample allows a company, such as a cable company, to better manage is fleet of vehicles. A fleet manager workflow instant starts when a new vehicle is added to the fleet (as an item in a SharePoint list). Three …
View publicationThis sample demonstrates two core concepts. First, it demonstrates how to create a remote event receiver that calls out to a remote service when a list item is created. It then demonstrates how the remote event receiver …
View publicationThis basic workflow scenario supports a document review and approval/reject process. The workflow starts when a document is added to a specified “Drafts” SharePoint library. The workflow assigns a task to a …
View publicationThe sample workflow is bound to a list named Customers. After the user enters a value for CustomerID, they can manually run the workflow. The workflow uses the CustomerID to search for the customer using the public …
View publicationThe sample workflow is bound to a list named Customers. After the user enters a value for CustomerID, they can manually run the workflow. The workflow uses the CustomerID to search for the customer using the public …
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