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HOW TO: Create a custom theme for SharePoint 2010
Creating SharePoint themes used to require editing CSS style sheets manually or using a tool like SharePoint Designer. Furthermore, packaging and deploying the themes required administrative access...
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HOW TO: Create a custom site definition in SharePoint 2010
This article describes how to create a custom site definition in SharePoint 2010. The process to create a custom site definition has not changed much since the last version of SharePoint, the only...
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HOW TO: Create a Searchable SharePoint 2010 BDC .NET Assembly Connector Which...
The Business Context In many large organizations business data is stored inside of flat files from mainframes or other legacy systems. These systems chug along just fine everyday and support many key...
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HOW TO: Register an External Content Type with the SharePoint Search Service...
In part 1of this blog post series I showed you how to create a .NET Assembly Connector to read data from a flat file. This blog post shows you how to register an external content type associated with...
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HOW TO: Programmatically create a SharePoint 2010 External Content Type
I demonstrated how to make an external content type programmatically during the SPC 405 – Business Connectivity Services Runtime and Object Model Deep Dive session at the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint...
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HOW TO: Create a Sandbox Compatible Visual Web Part with the Visual Studio...
Last week Mike Morton and the folks on the Visual Studio team released the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools. The Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Toolsextend the SharePoint 2010 project...
View ArticleMSDN white paper: Creating and Publishing Excel 2010 Documents with Custom...
A white paper I wrote for MSDN, Creating and Publishing Excel 2010 Documents with Custom SharePoint 2010 Workflows is now available. If you are interested in learning how to automate the creation of...
View ArticlePublished: Guidance For SharePoint 2010 Architects and Developers
During the latter portion of 2009 and a good portion of 2010 I was privileged to work with the MS Patterns and Practices team to create the Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010MSDN...
View ArticleBuilding Custom BCS User Interface Components
Do you need to build a custom user interface that works with BCS data? If you do then check out my latest article in SharePointPro Connections magazine. In my article Business Connectivity Services,...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course
Today marks the official unveiling of the SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course! If you are looking to create Windows Phone 7 mobile applications that integrate with SharePoint this is...
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Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices
Many years ago it was a lot of fun and a real privilege to contribute to the SharePoint 2010 Patterns and Practices project. During the last couple of months I had the opportunity to work on the new...
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HOW TO: Debug Office Add-in In Office Clients Without Visual Studio
If you have ever developed an Office Add-in with Visual Studio you are familiar with pressing F5 to run your Office Add-in and debug the code in it. When you take this approach Visual Studio opens the...
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How To Create Office 365 SharePoint Alerts With The Client Side Object Model...
This week Microsoft released some new updates for the Office 365 Client Side Object Model (CSOM). These updates include the ability to work with SharePoint alerts! You can read more about it here. I...
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How To: Run a Microsoft Flow from a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part
In this post I’m going to show you how to call a Microsoft Flow from a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part. In this sample scenario, the Microsoft Flow sends an email. If you want to run this sample...
View ArticleHOW TO: Set the body and headers for the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) httpClient
In my article How To: Run a Microsoft Flow from a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part I set the headers and body when I called a Microsoft Flow with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) httpClient class....
View ArticleWebinar Wrap Up – Ramping Up On The SharePoint Framework
On March 22, 2017 I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with my friend Asif Rehmani, the head of VisualSP. You can view the webinar recording here, and download the slide deck for the webinar here...
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Use dynamic ODATA Filter values in a Microsoft Flow SharePoint GetItems Action
While working on a project for Microsoft recently I needed to use a Microsoft Flow to return all list items from a SharePoint list that were not approved in the last week. To correctly return the list...
View ArticleWorking with the Outlook calendar in a PowerApp
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the first in a series of 10 Microsoft PowerApp Templates that demonstrate how to make PowerApps that integrate with Office 365 Products and Services. My team...
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HOW TO: Create custom responsive SharePoint list views with View Formatters
Did you see the blog post on the Microsoft SharePoint Blog about the new SharePoint list View Formatter samples? We had fun building the samples in the weeks leading up to the Microsoft Ignite...
View ArticleHOW TO: Use SharePoint Document Libraries In PowerApps
The Microsoft PowerApps team just released some great new functionality we’ve all been waiting for – the ability to connect to SharePoint Document Libraries from PowerApps! I immediately took the new...
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