Year: 2015

[O365] Migrating InfoPath forms to Office 365

For a client, we’re currently migrating a lot of their existing on-premises SharePoint 2007 and 2010 solutions to Office 365. All of these are customized (the easy work has been done already), so that sort of guarantees running into stuff that is not Office 365 – ready. One category of items are InfoPath forms and

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Things Windows Phone should have

This post of mine is an oldie from back in 2013 when Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.1 were still fresh and hip. We’ve moved on and I really like Windows 10 up to now. I’ve been a Windows Insider since February 2014 so I’ve got some mileage running the latest insider builds on my ultrabook. Reactions are

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[O365] Getting started with yo office for hardcore C# devs [part 2]

My previous tech blog covered the use the of the Yeoman generator for creating Office add-ins, specifically add-ins which can be used within Office365 and the Office client applications. This left you with a vanilla sample application which doesn’t do much yet. In this post, I will explain how to implement such an add-in, leveraging

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[O365] Debugging Office add-ins

In my previous posts I wrote about creating an office add-in using the Yeoman generator and my first add-in using Yo Office. Now as long as everything just works, these samples are doable. But when things start to go wrong, you can lose quit some time finding your way in the wonderfull world of add-ins.

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[Column] In plaats van een blauw-wit-rode profielfoto

Ergens vind ik het heel mooi hoor, hoe iedereen nu solidair is met de Fransen en de mensen uit Parijs in het bijzonder. En waar men normaal gesproken Facebook gebruikt om updates te geven over wat je aan het eten bent, naar welke film je kijkt en hoe lekker de Starbuck coffee nu toch weer smaakt

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[O365] Getting started with yo office for hardcore C# devs

I’ll immediately admit that I’m a Microsoftie. 100%. I have Visual Studio installed, feel at home in C# and get a rash sometimes from dealing with JavaScript nonsense. But let’s be honest, unless you’re not doing ANYTHING with the web it’s almost impossible to ignore trending technologies like nodejs, angular and all of the other frameworks

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[O365] My thoughts from Unity Connect 2015

These last few years I made it a habit to visit TCFKASPC: The Conference Formerly Known As SharePoint Connections. This year it was relabeled Unity Connect after the IT Unity initiative founded by Dan Holme and others. I think two days of conference is a good way of submerging yourself into the latest and greatest,

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[SP2013] Loading indicator images

Just for my own reference, here is a list of loading indicator images you can use from the _layouts folder. Why there are more than one and they all look different is a very good question by the way, Microsoft should really spend a little bit of time to ensure these become consistent once and

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[SP2013] OpenSearch “access is denied” for authenticated sources

OpenSearch is a search protocol which can be used in SharePoint to query systems other than SharePoint iself. You can find OpenSearch when configuring a new search result source. One of the most common examples is displaying Bing search results within SharePoint. You can find a great post on that topic by Jasper Oosterveld here.

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[O365] SharePoint Search dropdown refiner template

In my previous O365 post, I showed how you can make use of jQuery and jQuery UI to make a search refiner filter template that supports autocomplete on the “other” textbox shown in a multivalued dropdown. With that idea in mind, I imagined it would be pretty easy to use the same concept to create

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