SharePoint 2013 Custom AJAX filters on List View Web Parts

Requirement: Implement ‘exact match’ filter against the list view web part on text values and drop down values using AJAX for great user performance. An alternative to filtering in a fly out menu of the list view web part’s column values. Filter by ‘Title’ Filter by ‘Task Status’ Technique: I am essentially emulating the column …

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SharePoint 2013 Custom List View Web Part Refresh

In the SharePoint 2013 list view web part, the paging, filtering and sorting functionality is driven by the inplview.js file. This is supported by AJAX calls against a RESTful service inplview.aspx. I am able to extend the JavaScript inplview object to implement client side refresh as data is updated on the server. To configure the automatic refresh by OOTB (out-of-the-box) configuration, go to the Web Part …

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Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint 2013 List and Content Type Designer: Hands-on Observations

After spending some time on developing a SP Hosted App, I would like to share my insights and observations with the new Office Developer tools for SharePoint 2013 Prerequisite: Web Platform Installer > Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Let's walk through my observations from site columns, to content types and to list …

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SharePoint 2013 Hosted App Development Presentation Deck

I had the pleasure to speak at the January 2013 Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting. Topic: SharePoint 2013 Hosted App - Deep Dive Implementation The last few months of I have been working on a photo slider app displaying a photo, title and caption. I wanted to learn the technologies, architecture and tooling. My presentation …

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Installing SharePoint 2013 Preview “Server Unavailable” Issue

Issue: After Installation of SP 2013 Preview, Central Administration Web Site resulted in error message “Server Unavailable” and also in the Event Logs with “The worker process failed to pre-load .Net Runtime version v4.0.21006.” Context: I have a VM copy of a bare installation of SP 2010 with Windows Server 2008R2 and SQL Server 2008 …

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