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Using IIS 8.0 Application Initialisation to ensure that SharePoint 2013 responds quickly after application pools are recycled Firstly it’s worth noting that I’m not a Systems Administrator but as a SharePoint Developer I do need to understand a bit about web Read More

In an ideal world, downtime (scheduled or otherwise) would be avoided entirely. Unfortunately, there are plenty of reasons why a website may need to go into a scheduled maintenance mode. It is important to do this correctly and performing a task across a farm manually is error Read More

This is the third part of a series of posts and assumes knowledge of RESTful Services in jQuery and Understanding OData. In the previous post I showed an example of calling an OData service in the browser using the URI: http://server/_api/web/lists?$filter=startsWith(Title, Read More

“The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data” as defined on the OData site here. From a web developer’s point of view, I think it can be better defined as such: ‘A standardized syntax for RESTful web services’ As such, if you don’t have Read More

The goal of this article is to provide a practical understanding of RESTful services with jQuery as it is a fundamental prerequisite to working with the OOTB OData implementation in SharePoint 2013. This is the first part of a series of posts on OData in SharePoint 2013. The Read More

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is becoming increasingly popular for displaying graphics on the web, and there are already quite a few JavaScript libraries available to use (Highcharts, Raphaël, GoogleCharts). However, the combination of complex charts and slow client machines Read More

After attending the SharePoint Conference a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas I was inspired to spend some time with Office Apps. Office Apps allow you to show a web page within an Office program. Literally, it is as basic as an iFrame within Word (or Excel etc) and a JavaScript Read More

The SharePoint certification process has a number of changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. In particular the previous Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certifications have been replaced with the Microsoft Read More

I recently had a requirement around linking to and downloading specific versions of documents stored in SharePoint. There is some rather quirky behaviour around how this done and I felt it warranted a post. The first thing to be aware of is that there are two distinct version Read More

Visual Studio is an excellent IDE for working with Microsoft technologies. However, it isn’t perfect and can crash or hang from time to time. After experiencing an issue with the IDE during a debugging session recently, I came across a setting which improved my Visual Read More