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Currently (Feb 26, 2015), the Client Side Object Model (CSOM) for SharePoint does not provide the same functionality as the Server Side Object Model (SSOM, also knows as the SharePoint API). Some of the gaps are glaring, and particularly frustrating Continue reading Why having SPWeb.RequestAccessEmail in CSOM is important
Last night, I attended an entertaining talk by Uncle Bob Martin at the Schaumburg .NET Users Group. Before his talk, a few attendees announced a few upcoming events. However, there are many more events in 2015, so I got permission from Continue reading 2015H1 IT Events that Chicagoland Developers Must Know About
This is a guest post by Anjani Ranjan, one of my coworkers. He and I have been working on a data management solution for a customer for the last six months, and I’m pleased to have him share this process. Continue reading Create a PowePivot Report in Office 365 from SQL Server Data
Oh my! A whole month has gone by since SharePoint Fest Chicago 2014 (12/8 to 12/10, 2014). Before time gets away from me entirely, there are just a couple of points that I wanted to share from the Chicago SharePoint Continue reading Catching up: Notes from CSPUG meeting at SPFest Chicago 2014
A client of mine asked me about SharePoint training, and I realized I hadn’t blogged about training for SharePoint Online, only – quite a while ago – about some SharePoint Server end user training. For End User training, you have Continue reading Office 365 and SharePoint Online (“Sites”) Training Resources
Here are a bunch of resources for learning PowerShell and for using PowerShell with SharePoint and SharePoint Online. First, for learning PowerShell, I recommend this books from Manning Press: Additionally, there two book specifically on PowerShell for SharePoint 2013, and they Continue reading PowerShell Resources
I did a presentation to the Chicago Developers SharePoint Users Group earlier this year where I walked through using the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX RadGrid Control to create a SharePoint 2013 web part for CRUD operations on business data. I was Continue reading Using Telerik RadGrid to Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part
Yesterday I presented my Introduction to SharePoint to the Software Development Community meetup in Naperville. Here are the slides:
Today I attended AzureConf 2014 at Microsoft’s Chicago office. Although the conference itself was an online event, a local company organized an in person viewing of the conference. Here are my nine key take-aways: 1) There’s a heck of a Continue reading Notes from AzureConf 2014
There’s a book out there called PowerShell in a Month of Lunches. It’s by Don Jones and published by Manning Press. Manning Press provides me with their books to give away at Chicago SharePoint Users Group meetings and other community Continue reading PowerShell for Lunch