What’s new in Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, from a workflows’ development perspective

As Somasegar announced last week, Microsoft has just released the RTM version of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, which are available here: OfficeDevToolsForVS2012. These tools provide many useful templates, and IDE extensions for developing Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 apps and solutions. It was already available a Preview 2 version of […]

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Validating Credit Cards’ Numbers (not their coverage …)

In order to validate credit card numbers, you can leverage a kind of CRC (cyclic redundancy check) known with name LUHN from the name of its inventor. The algorithm is for example documented at the following URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm. On the Internet, you will find tons of code samples for validating credit card numbers using this […]

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Sample Windows Store App consuming SharePoint 2013 at ESPC2013

The sample SP2013 Recipes app (Windows Store App) that I will demo at the upcoming European SharePoint Conference 2013 is ready and up’n’running. Come to attend my session to learn how to build such an app, consuming a SharePoint 2013 list of items as an external data source.

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I’m Speaking at the European SharePoint Conference 2013

I’m speaking at the European SharePoint Conference 2013 and I’m delighted to be a part of this fantastic gathering of the SharePoint Community, Feb 4-7 2013, in Copenhagen, Denmark. I will be conducting three sessions – “Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint 2013“, “Consuming SharePoint 2013 from Windows 8 Apps” both aimed at developers and Deploying […]

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Using CSOM and PowerShell against an Office 365 / SharePoint Online site

Here you can see how to consume, via CSOM, a SharePoint site hosted on SharePoint Online/Office 365 using PowerShell. First of all you need to load the CSOM libraries in the PowerShell context. Add-Type –Path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll” Add-Type –Path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll” Then you need to reference the […]

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Deploying a SharePoint 2013 Lab Farm on Windows Azure VMs

Here you can find an article, which I wrote in the last weeks, about deploying a SharePoint 2013 Farm (mainly for testing purposes) onto a Windows Azure VMs infrastructure. The PowerShell scripts and the article are in “draft mode” … and any suggestions or improvements will be really appreciated. Enjoy playing with SharePoint 2013!” target=”_blank”>Here […]

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ASMX Web Services of SharePoint: Finally deprecated!

Browsing in the SDK of the SharePoint 2013 Preview I found this: Two API sets are still supported in the SharePoint 2013 Preview framework for backward compatibility, but we recommend that you not use them for new projects: the ASP.NET (asmx) web services, and direct Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) calls to the owssvr.dll file. I […]

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