Programmatically determine if FAST is configured in a SharePoint 2010 web part
I’ve been doing a lot of work with search in SharePoint 2010 recently. Particularly with regard to optimising functionality where FAST is available. Here’s a quick tip on how to determine whether FAST...
View ArticleUpgrading Themable stylesheets in SharePoint 2010
Here’s an interesting situation that I’ve stumbled upon lately. Let’s say you have a feature in SharePoint that deploys a themable stylesheet (i.e. to...
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SharePoint 2010: Search via REST
With the release of SharePoint 2010 we got a whole load of useful REST services. For example, we can read data from any list or library using ListData.svc and we can do some clever stuff with Excel...
View ArticleProgrammatically Update Enterprise Keywords
If you’ve tried to programmatically update a Managed Metadata field, you’ve probably found that it gets a bit messy if you’re using an SPField object. Behind the scenes the Managed Metadata column is...
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Capturing ULS data via TypeMock
As I’ve probably mentioned before, I use TypeMock for unit testing of my SharePoint server side code. Most of the time I’m not interested in what my components will write to ULS when operating normally...
View ArticleSending and receiving SPListItem references via JSON
One of the big changes in SharePoint 2013 is the focus on client side processing. Over the next few years I suspect SharePoint developers will be spending a lot of time in the wacky world of...
View ArticleQuick Tip: SPRoot shortcut
How many times a day do you find yourself typing C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared \Web Server Extensions\<whatever>? Save yourself some trouble – define an environment variable...
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A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type...
When building web services that return JSON you’ll probably come up against a variant of this error when trying to serialize exceptions. (It also occurs with many other types but my solution only deals...
View ArticleA collection of TypeScript Definition files for SharePoint 2013 et al.
I’ve been doing a lot of work recently with TypeScript and have created a few definition files for stuff that I use often such as: KnockoutJS Callout (as in SP2013 UI callouts) ClientRenderer.js...
View ArticlePowerShell primer for SharePoint developers: Part 1
With SharePoint 2010 PowerShell if the preferred command line interface. In SharePoint 2013, a working knowledge is pretty much essential to get things like search up and running. Despite that, I’m...
View ArticleAll you ever wanted to know about Client-Side Rendering in SharePoint 2013 –...
Part 1 – Introduction to Client Side Rendering Part 2 – Using TypeScript to build a client side rendered web control Part 3 – Using KnockoutJS with Client Side Rendering and TypeScript to provide...
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