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SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 apps - better together Part 2: Platform choice, using the right API and data access

2013-03-17T18:19:00Z

This is the second post as part of a blog series about the integration of using SharePoint 2013 as a datasource for windows 8 apps.Find the index at SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 apps - better together Part 1: Introduction, background and considerations NOTE: this blogpost provides information on how to consume rest-services via c-sharp. A lot of plumbing was done by wictor wilen on authentication , Luc Stakenburg and jmservera . In the following blogpost I'll show how we used that information...(read more)

SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 apps - better together Part 1: Introduction, background and considerations

2013-03-17T18:09:00Z

This is the first post as part of a blog series about the integration of using SharePoint 2013 as a datasource for windows 8 apps. Part 1: Introduction, Background and Considerations (this post) Part 2: Platform choice, using the right API and data access Part 3: Search Part 4: Authentication Introduction On 8 march 2013, my colleague Ad Reijngoudt (Windows 8 App developer, follow him on twitter: @Areijngoudt) and I spoke on the dutch Techdays on the subject: "SharePoint 2013 and windows 8 app...(read more)

Techdays 2013 - our sessions

2013-03-16T15:37:00Z

On 7 and 8 March, the yearly returning TechDays event was held in the Netherlands. This was already the 4th year in a row that I was visiting the event as a speaker, with a total of 6 sessions. I wasn't the only speaker of Achmea ; some colleague's of mine were speaking as well. (Fact: Alex thissen spoke for the eleventh year in a row. He lost track on the amount of sessions ;) We had a great diversity on subjects (Security, SharePoint , ALM, windows 8) and I'll give a quick overview...(read more)

Content by query webpart not performing due to misconfiguration

2013-01-03T20:27:00Z

Today we were experiencing some major performance issues on some pages on a new website. The pages that were experiencing these performance issues, all made use of the content by query webpart (we didn't have any performance issues before on these pages). The content by query webpart that we were using on the site, used a pagefield value , which was used to lookup some related pages from another list. The problem A quick look at the developer dashboard learned me that something "bad"...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 signout different behaviours based on the number of selected Authentication Types

2012-12-29T11:56:00Z

While working on our custom ADFS login component and deployed this version to our DTAP street, we saw different behaviours when signing out of a site, under different circumstances. Wen users tried to logout via the page "/_layouts/signout.aspx" users sometimes where redirected back to the root of the site and in some cases users got the message "please close the browser to signout". As I was curious why this happened, I decided to check a few things out. In wat cases does what...(read more)

Customizing ADFS login for SharePoint 2010: how we did it

2012-12-28T17:33:00Z

In SharePoint 2010 the possibility of claims based authentication was introduced. The out of the box experience of this functionality is often OK, for example in cases of corporate intranets and extranets, but it doesn’t always fulfill the requirements of internet facing websites which require authentication. This blogposts describes why we wanted to implement the active login scenario and learns us what kind of problems we encountered (and nailed ;)) Login requirements At our company we own...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint: crawler process blocked due to memory capacity limit

2012-08-22T20:42:00Z

This week I encountered the problem that the indexation of content didn’t seem to end. After 5 hours of crawling, my 1000 html pages of content still weren't indexed by the Fast crawler. After putting on my Sherlock Holmes outfit, I started to investigate this problem. It turned out to be a real adventure to find a solution for this problem. Investigating the problem Firing up the ULS-viewer learned me that my development machine was too low on resources: 08/22/2012 21:22:36.40 mssearch...(read more)

Indexing the new Geolocation field in SharePoint 2013 Technical preview is not possible

2012-07-25T17:08:00Z

As I was playing around with the new geolocation column of SharePoint 2013, I wanted to try to migrate my geosearch solution for Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. The addition of the geolocation column was opening up some interesting possibilities. Potentially, this solution would add some (near) out of the box geolocation solutions. Unkown Datatype After adding the geolocation column, adding some data to the last, I started to crawl the content. For some reason, the geolocation...(read more)

SharePoint 2013 geolocation column: a component is not installed

2012-07-21T23:35:00Z

Today I was playing with the new geo location column. I added the Bing maps key, created a custom list and added the geo location column via code to that list. Upon submitting a new listitem, I received an error, mentioning that a component was not installed, to be able to use geolocation. This is a strange error, because I was able to add the column programmatically, while adding content to the list, is not possible. After checking the Diagnostic log, I noticed the following error: A required component...(read more)

WSP Deployment scopes and the development lifecycle in large environments

2012-07-21T16:13:00Z

At our company, we use sharepoint to host all of our websites. As SharePoint is quite scalable, this is of course no problem and the production farm can handle it easily. These websites need to be developed and be tested, before they can be deployed to the production farm. This process is nothing special and doesn't diverge from most popular software development methodologies. Development Lifecycle As stated before: Our development process is not something special: we develop, test it, the customer...(read more)

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 3: how to use the latitude and longitude in your queries

2012-04-10T19:21:00Z

This is the third and last part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about was on how to search for locations, sort on distances etcetera. The recording of my sessions are available on Channel 9 in dutch. Part 1: why and how Part 2: the custom pipeline extension to enrich the Fast index with spatial data Part 3: how...(read more)

SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration error when changing the UIVersion and masterpages

2012-03-27T14:15:00Z

I am with my team currently busy on a migration of our intranet from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Part of this migration, is updating the masterpages, so that we can benefit from every new SharePoint 2010 feature. The Problem Recently, two of our teammembers got the following error message after updating the UIVersion to 4 and setting a specific SP2010 masterpage. One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields.<nativehr>0x81020014<...(read more)

Upgrading Masterpage and UIVersion from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without v4.master

2012-03-20T20:21:00Z

When upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, several scenarios are possible. When using the database attach method , it's possible to stay in "V3" mode, or execute a visual upgrade too and make use of all SharePoint 2010 love. Whenever custom masterpages have been created for SharePoint 2007, the visual upgrade itself isn't too much of an option: it upgrades the UIVersion of the current web to V4, but the custom masterpage is replaced by the default v4.master, which ...(read more)

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 2: Custom pipeline extensions

2012-02-24T19:47:00Z

This is the second part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about was on how to search for locations, sort on distances etcetera. The recording of my sessions will be made available on Channel 9 . Part 1: why and how Part 2: the custom pipeline extension to enrich the Fast index with spatial data Part 3: how to use...(read more)

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 1

2012-02-24T18:51:00Z

This is the first part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about was on how to search for locations, sort on distances etcetera. The recording of my sessions will be made available on Channel 9 . Part 1: why and how Part 2: the custom pipeline extension to enrich the Fast index with spatial data Part 3: how to use...(read more)