PowerShell has a great built-in commandlet to call REST methods called Invoke-RestMethod. However, it might take some tinkering to get it working against the SharePoint RESP API. Here is a sample script that will first get the form digest and then pass it in the header of subsequent requests. As an example, this script will […]
SharePoint 2013 introduces a new Community site template. To go along with it, there is also a Community Portal template for Site Collections. This portal essentially is a jumping off point into any and all communities that have been provisioned in your environment. The whole thing is powered by search but how exactly does it […]
Microsoft recently announced a tech preview of Office 2013 which includes SharePoint 2013.
I did run into a hiccup during the install-
“Service running under Network Service account in workgroup environment not supported”
My efforts at resolving this issue with the AppFabric Cache failed within the context of a workgroup machine. […]
Are you getting ready for SharePoint Saturday NYC? We sure are. Adam & I will be presenting a quick 10 minute lightning talk which is meant to poke fun at the ridiculous things that both developers and project managers say during the course of a typical project. We figured we’d get […]
I recently participated in a SharePoint community hackathon hosted by EUSP and sponsored by CloudShare. We were tasked with creating a media solution that manages both local videos and YouTube videos in a SharePoint environment. Let us take some time to walk through my submission entry in detail.
I would be […]
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at Philly Code Camp 2012 (May). As promised, here are the slides along with the session abstract for your reference.
This session will cover the ins and outs of SPMetal, a tool which ships with SharePoint 2010. SPMetal allows developers compile-time access to SharePoint […]
Key takeaway
Use SPQuery for large lists instead of SPMetal. While testing with a list of 45K items, SPQuery performed at 0.06s compared to SPMetal’s performance at 9.98s.
Background
I was recently faced with determining the storage mechanism for a custom application. The choices were ‘SharePoint lists vs. SQL tables’. The user interface of this […]
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