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I finally got sick of writing feature.xml after feature.xml and creating new GUIDs. These repetitive things as well as those that make me take my hands off the keyboard slow me down… and that drives me nuts. Over the last few months I’ve been polishing and tweaking some stuff I’ve been working on that I use on a day-to-day basis as a SharePoint developer that speed up my development. Finally, they are at a point where I want to share them for others to benefit from them as I have (and a few folks who’ve been kind enough to test and provide feedback).

Customers who're using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) on SharePoint Server deployments, also known as SharePoint on-premises, never see new features or capabilities for their environments. Sure... you get it; Microsoft isn't updating the SPFx for SharePoint Server from what's already provided. It's hard to keep track of what is or isn't supported on-premises. It's hard to keep track of what you need to create and maintain your SPFx solutions for SharePoint Server deployments. If you're reading this and nodding your head in agreement, and maybe with a bit of frustration, then this article is for you. In this post, my goal is to provide the definitive guides to the SharePoint Framework for SharePoint Server on-premises deployments.

Coordinating the ngOfficeUIFabric Project: Sharing Best Practices & Guidelines for Building Angular 1.x Directives for Office UI Fabric.

Developers, come check out my list of reference posts that will help you better understand what it's like to develop with Node.js. Join me to learn more.

I did a session at Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2011 on integrating Office365/SharePoint Online & Windows Azure. In building out the demo for that I ran into some challenges when I tried to have my custom Windows Azure solution talk to and interact with a hosted SharePoint 2010 site collection living in my Office 365 SharePoint Online space. I ran into a few challenging spots when I tried using any of the four remote data access techniques available to developers. This blog series will talk about some of these challenges and how to overcome them.

I share my experience working on SharePoint books, focusing on core development & ECM, but opted out of writing a 2010 ECM book.

Let me guide you through implementing metadata-based navigation on your SharePoint 2010 publishing sites using the powerful Managed Metadata Service (MMS).

In my article, I added a quick links section for quick access to my articles on customizing the SharePoint 2010 ribbon.

Join me as I dive into integrating SharePoint 2010 & Azure in a series of upcoming articles. I'll share my opinions, musings, & technical details.

In this series, learn about the library Breeze - an Entity Framework-like library for JavaScript. Learn how you can use it with SharePoint REST queries!

As an experienced SharePoint developer, I have shared custom STSADM.EXE commands I wrote for SharePoint 2007 WCM site developers.

Explore resources for WCM, part of the ECM strategy in MOSS 2007, built on WSS v3. Check out this page for helpful links

Silverlight, MVVM, and SharePoint: Clearing Confusions & Sharing Best Practices for Building Robust Business Apps

In this series, we’ll tackle the classic five W’s and one H (5W1H) questions to give you the best 10,000 foot perspective on the SharePoint Framework as possible. Andrew Connell wrote this series in late 2020 to help people new to the SharePoint Framework get the answers to the most common and basic questions about the SharePoint Framework.

This four-part blog post series covers the challenges developers face trying to incorporate modern Angular apps in SharePoint Framework projects, two approaches to incorporating Angular projects in SPFx project, and finishes off with the 'good, bad & the ugly' review.

This is a collection of articles related to Microsoft's VirtualPC & Hyper-V virtualization products that i've written about.

In this series of posts, I explain and explore what's changed in SharePoint Server 2010 with respect to Web Content Management.