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Client-side rendering (JS Link) You can use it to style complete List Views, Fields, Search Results and more. This makes it a lot simpler and more intuitive, especially for web developers who haven’t used SharePoint before.JSLink files have the ability to quickly and easily change how the list views and forms are rendered.More specifically how… Continue reading SharePoint 2013 Client-side rendering

One of the biggest challenges facing IoT projects is how to reliably and securely connect devices to the solution back end to enable the device to send telemetry and retrieve commands. IoT devices have different characteristics as compared to other clients such as browsers and mobile apps. IoT devices: • Are often embedded systems with… Continue reading Azure IoT Hub – Connecting your Device to the Cloud

It is no surprise to me that the acquisition of Solair by Microsoft is the latest in a string of moves by the company to bolster its position in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) space. As a matter of fact, Microsoft has always focused on burgeoning areas of technology that hold great potential to… Continue reading Microsoft Snaps Up Solair to Boost Azure IoT Portfolio

One of the most exciting announcements of Microsoft’s Build Conference 2016 is that the company has now unveiled the ‘Centennial’ desktop app converter. Thedesktop app converter tool will help developers to convert classic desktop applications to packaged UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps for Windows 10 and then extend them with unique Windows 10/UWP features. Desktop… Continue reading ‘Centennial’ Tool for Moving Legacy Apps to Windows Store Unveiled

EF (Entity Framework) is Microsoft’s flagship data access platform — an extended ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that abstracts the calls to the ADO.Net data access provider underneath. The latest version of this ORM is Entity Framework 7. EF 7 is an extensible and lightweight version of Entity Framework that enables support for new platforms and… Continue reading Entity Framework 7- A Major Redesign of Entity Framework

Cloud computing requires new security paradigms that are unfamiliar to many application users, database administrators, and programmers. Consequently, some organizations are reluctant to implement a cloud infrastructure for data management due to perceived security risks. However, much of this concern can be alleviated through a better understanding of the security features built into Microsoft Azure… Continue reading Improved Security, Enhanced Development with SQL Azure

Gone are the days of atwelve-to-eighteen-month development cycle. These days’ small teams operate in agile sprints, iterating quickly and pushing code every week or two. The applications that once used to serve as a finite audience are now getting delivered as services that must be always-on, accessible from various different devices and scaled globally to… Continue reading Reboot with Azure DocumentDB: A NoSQL database on cloud

In one of my internal projects, we had to migrate the contents from MOSS 2007 with fab40 templates to SharePoint 2013. You can also consider following the same steps, which is suggested by one of my colleagues. A few changes in the steps in order to use the fab40 templates. https://www.winwire.net/moss-2007-to-sharepoint-2013-migration-using-database-attach-method/ You can download the… Continue reading MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013: Migration using Database Attach Method for fab40 templates

When working with WCF services deployed in SharePoint and ASP.Net, we might have a situation where we need to make an Ajax call from the Web Application outside SharePoint to the WCF service deployed under SharePoint. This situation points us to the concept of CORS (Cross Origin Support). For a normal WCF service not under… Continue reading Cross Domain Ajax call to a SharePoint-hosted WCF service