The REST SharePoint API has been an extremely popular way for Office 365 developers to work with SharePoint sites, lists/libraries, and list items/documents. One of the common feedback from developer’s community using the REST SharePoint API was about the payload of the data that was returned. The response from Microsoft...

In one of the project I got a chance to set-up a SharePoint 2013 farm configuration for development environment (Hyper V) with below configuration. Windows server 2012 R2 SQL Server 2014  I never worked on configuration part, started typing in google Installing and configuring SharePoint 2013...

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SharePoint 2013 adds the ability for you to remotely interact with SharePoint sites by using REST. Now, you can interact directly with SharePoint objects by using any technology that supports standard REST capabilities. When I am reading resource(http://servername/_api/site) using REST API using Internet Explorer 10,...

In SharePoint 2013 we have a new site template called Developer Site Template, It is a site template which is used extensively for App development and you can only deploy apps for SharePoint to a Developer Site. Developers can build, test and publish their apps here. Here you can deploy apps for SharePoint from...

As a developer I'm always on the lookout for new solutions, tools, or techniques that can both boost my productivity. Last week I found a nice feature in visual studio 2013 which is Zen Coding. As a web developer, I have regularly found myself needing to type a large amount of HTML layout code. Your page...

Content Editor Web Part is one of  useful OOB web part in SharePoint.  You can use the Content Editor Web Part to add formatted text, tables, hyperlinks, and images to a Web Part Page. The Content Editor Web Part is intended for adding HTML content to a Web Part Page, which may include hyperlinks. However,...

A useful new feature in SharePoint 2013 is the ability to drag and drop files in to document libraries using browser. This feature is particularly useful for adding multiple documents to the library, to achieve the same functionality in previous versions of SharePoint we need to open the document library...

In SQL Joins are used to get the data of two or more tables based upon a relationship.Using Joins, we can combine two or more tables and gather data with a single query. Similarly in SharePoint we have a good feature  to get the data from one or more tables using Joins by Caml query. But there is no way to write...

In my recent project i have a requirement to change the order of content type of list programmatically.  I have an announcement list which has default content type announcements,I want to add my custom content type to that list and i need to change the order of content type i.e when we are adding a new item to...

In SharePoint 2013, all the people are using CSOM only. I found a nice PDF which contains all the basic operations. SharePoint Developers who have some basic knowledge about SharePoint 2010 or 2013 will find this book helpful for understanding and working with the .Net Client Side Object Model. This book is mainly...

In SharePoint 2013, we have so many tools are available to make developer life easily. I have heard some the tool names and some of tool names from colleagues. Recently i have used SharePoint manager and SharePoint 2013 Search tool which made my life easier. I want to list down all the tools available and how it useful...

In SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has introduced apps. we have three types of methodologies to host the apps in SharePoint. SharePoint hosted app: This type of App lives inside SharePoint. There is not code running on the server. All code must run in the client. This will have .aspx page but lots of JavaScript code...