Visual Web Parts are a quite simpler in SharePoint 2013 than they were in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013, Visual Web Parts don’t contain 2 classes, for the Web Part and the User Control like in SharePoint 2010, what made some solutions a little bit tricky like web part connections as described in...
Read more →Connecting web parts is usually quite easy and straight forward. But if you want to connect a visual web part and access the data from the connection provider in the user control of your visual web part, it might get complicated. The problem is the different web part life cycles when first loading the...
Read more →Ever tried to load parts of a page using javascript? I did. During the last days I have done some research and testing, how I could load parts of a page and manipulate the URL, the title and the page navigation so it would look like the user navigated to the page, but without...
Read more →After the introduction to the Japanese market, Sony now announced that their new tablet, the Sony Tablet Z, will be released worldwide in March 2013. Quite a huge step and great for everyone waiting to get his hands on one. Sony created an awesome tablet, including a quad core CPU, 2GB RAM, and a...
Read more →As there is some confusion about SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro, here are my findings after some tests. SkyDrive SkyDrive is the consumer online storage service which Microsoft provides for Windows Live users. Offline Synchronization: Since 2012 Microsoft provides a simple sync-application to sync your SkyDrive content into a selected folder in your local file...
Read more →You can use the following CSS snippet, to disable the “further information” menu in your SharePoint MySite and statically display the information. Code: #ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_ctl11_showHideLink { display:none; } .ms-contactcardtext3 { display:block !important; overflow:visible !important; }
Read more →Dropbox vs. Box.com vs. Microsoft SkyDrive vs. Google Drive For a long time, dropbox was the only cloud storage service to provide a real simple Windows Explorer integration and sync. Non of the other services, like Box.com, Google Docs or Microsoft SkyDrive had something comparable. Sure, Microsoft SkyDrive had the Windows Live Mesh...
Read more →I recently installed the Windows 8 consumer preview on my media center pc. Here are my first impressions about Windows 8: Performance I never expected that Windows 8 would be that fast… As mentioned above I’m running it on a media center pc. I have only an Intel Atom D525, 4GB memory and...
Read more →If you create your own theme in SharePoint, you will soon notice that there is no possibility to download the created theme from within SharePoint. But the custom theme is in the theme gallery, but invisible. You can download your custom theme using the following link: http:////_themes/custom.thmx Or you can use SharePoint Designer, navigate...
Read more →If you already developed a plug-in for the OTWS Management Server in ASP you may know that, as soon as you need a bit more logic in your plug-in or want to do a few more RQL request, it’s a pain to write this code as inline code into the ASP page. Or you...
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