A very typical approach for client side development in SharePoint is to throw the code onto the page where you need it. You can alternatively put into the master page, but generally speaking, most code doesn't need to run on each and every page. The following describes my preferred, tried and true, method of handling this.... Continue Reading →
Before you make SharePoint Public – 2 more times
I wanted to quickly share on two more options for you to listen in on my session Before you make SharePoint Public. SP24 is reairing all of their sessions, this Wednesday and Thursday, May 14th - 15th. My session will be run Wednesday night, at 9pm EST. I hope you can make it. Check out the wrap up... Continue Reading →
We all know what IsDlg does… wait, what the…??
Here's a little nugget I came across, on SharePoint 2010 and 2013 (including O365), and was exceptionally frustrated with. There's a difference between IsDlg and isdlg. See it? Case sensitivity. Come to find out that means the world to SharePoint. I was tasked to setup a basic Page Viewer web part to consume a page... Continue Reading →
A Non-Developer’s Intro to the Developer Toolbar: Other Cool Stuff
This is part four of my mini-series, part one covered element inspection, part two covers scripting and part three covered performance. In this, my final post, I will cover some of the other neat things the developer toolbar does for us. I may get a little deeper than a non-developers point of view. All of the items below... Continue Reading →
A Non-Developer’s Intro to the Developer Toolbar: Performance
Sorry for the delay in getting this last post in, it completely skipped my mind. This is part three of my mini-series, part one covered element inspection and part two covers scripting. In this post, we will look into some of the performance tools available to the developer toolbar in Internet Explorer. This will allow... Continue Reading →
A Non-Developer’s Intro to the Developer Toolbar: Scripting
Last week, we started in on a basic into to accessing your site's elements via the Developer Toolbar. This week, we will cover scripting with the Developer Toolbar, and all of its wonders. :) Don't worry, we're not going to actually write code, well, maybe one or two really simple lines of code. Trust me,... Continue Reading →
A Non-Developer’s intro to the Developer Toolbar: Element Inspection
If you're a beginner in the world of customizing SharePoint, you should get to know the developer toolbar. Even if you're only copying and pasting code from blog posts, knowing about, and using, the developer toolbar can save you a few cycles of banging your head on the keyboard. The developer toolbar is key. Any... Continue Reading →