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Hi Friends, today lets talk about the ‘Chrome Control’ in SharePoint Add-in. I hope you all aware of the name change that Microsoft had brought for SharePoint Apps which is now represented as ‘Add-In’. Don’t be scared about the control, this is nothing but the SharePoint Bar which is termed as Chrome Control. Whether it is SharePoint on-premise or SharePoint online the SharePoint Bar will have some links, settings icon, help icon. Also, the app site will have the ribbon control with the link to the parent site and other stuff. This best part of the chrome control is the client-side rendering where it is rendered based on the options and the use of ‘SP.UI.Controls’ js file which we will see later in this post. By default, when you create a SharePoint Hosted Add-in the default.aspx it will inherit from the ‘default.master’ which has the chrome control added. There are so many ways in which SharePoint Add-in can be developed and it is not mandatory that .aspx file should be the start pa...

Hi SharePoint friends , I hope you all enjoyed my last post on “ Authentication & Authorization ”. In this post I will discuss about the features that have been removed in SharePoint 2013 which was available on SharePoint 2010. Visual Upgrade: You could use this feature to upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 to give Site Collection Owner and Site Owner to preserve the existing user interface temporarily while still upgrading the infrastructure, content databases, site collections and features to the latest version. Now this feature is replaced with “ Deferred Site Collection” upgrade which is considered as more comprehensive upgrade process than visual upgrade. Visual Upgrade preserved only the master pages, CSS files and the HTML files but the Deferred Site Collection upgrade with preserve much more including SPFeature functionality. With the deferred site collection upgrade you can use the UI feature from the previous version more seamlessly than with the visual ...

Hi SharePoint friends , Today I am going to give u a short and sweet about the authentication and authorization in SharePoint 2013 and the improvements in SharePoint 2013. The contents available in this post are taken various sites and MSDN. What is authentication in SharePoint? It is a provider that validates the users identity who request access to the web application, Once validated it issues the authenticated user a security token that encapsulates a set of claims based assertions about the user and is used to verify a set of permission assigned to the user. What is authorization in SharePoint? It is the process that determines the defined operation on a specified resource within the web application of the authenticated user. I think you are very clear about the authentication and authorization concept in SharePoint. The following are the recommended methods of authentication in SharePoint 2013 Windows claim Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based claims Form-...

Hi SharePoint Friends,   I would like to discuss some cool stuffs for developing custom “Tool Parts” for SharePoint 2010 Visual web part. “Tool Part” is nothing but the set of controls that are required for your web part which works based on the tool part properties. It will be available as a new section in the web part properties area. There are two ways for developing a Visual Web part with custom tool part 1. Designing the entire tool part using the server side code. 2. Designing the tool part using user controls In this part, I will drive you thru O ption 1 . R u ready, lets get started. Step 1: Create a “Empty Project” using Visual Studio 2010 and name it as “CustomToolpartOtion1” and choose the deployment type as a “Farm Solution” . You should see a similar project structure in VS 2010. Step 2: Open “VisualWebpartwithTP1.cs” file and write the below mentioned code. The above mentioned code is to declare a property which has to be rendered in the web part pr...

Hi guys,             It’s been a while blogging about SharePoint. Have anyone experienced the difficulties in uploading files apart from the characters mentioned in SharePoint. I have experienced the unique thing that when I tried to migrate the documents from Humming Bird to MOSS 2007. SharePoint does not allow consecutive dots in the filename. “..” is not allowed in MOSS 2007, but “. .” is allowed and that’s something weird. One more thing I would like to share is if anyone trying to upload the documents via object model, it’s better to remove the space at the end of the file name. SharePoint allows us to upload the file with the spaces at the end. But after uploading the files, if any user has changed the metadata or something related to that file SharePoint automatically removes the trailing spaces at the end. If there are any custom properties defined in the file then SharePoint will not allow us to upload the file. It will thro...

         Hi SharePoint friends and viewers, In this post I would like to bring some of the videos by MICROSOFT for SharePoint 2010 out-of-box features. They haven't covered everything, as we are developers we expect only a hint not the whole path. Many of them have passed the videos but still many of them are eager to see these kinds of videos. Ribbon highlights In SharePoint 2010 Open a Performance Point Web Part in a new window Export a Performance Point report or scorecard to PowerPoint Print a Performance Point dashboard or Web Part Overview of Performance Point dashboard elements Applying filters to Performance Point reports or scorecards Explore data in Performance Point reports and scorecards Export a Performance Point scorecard or report to Excel Use the Quick Launch pane to find Performance Point dashboards and dashboard items What’s New in Performance Point Dashboards Enabling versi...

     Hi SharePoint friends, I hope u all are enjoying with SharePoint 2010. The main feature in SharePoint 2010 is the “Business Connectivity Service” known as BCS in SharePoint 2010 and formerly known as BDC in SharePoint 2007. Let’s see something about BCS in this post.      It enables u to grab external data and integrate in to SharePoint list and also to office client applications. BCS allows us to create external components that helps us to integrate with SharePoint. We can build our own solutions and components. These integration can be used in search, workflows, Visual web parts and also in outlook. Everything is managed in a central area, that's the good news for both the developer and users to manage everything centralized so that they can manage their data sources, security etc.      The main thing about using BCS u can connect to external data, web services, WCF etc. The above can be done by creating external con...