Dragan Panjkov

I presented this material on Microsoft TechNet Day 2012 and meeting of Macedonian SharePoint User Group in December 2012. Embedded slides and video are below. Click To View Entry

BAM Converter is a small application for Windows Phone published at first during January 2011. This is a currency converter app that pulls exchange rates from ECB RSS feed (only on user action) and it’s functionality is available purely offline.

On Tuesday, 30.10.2012 1SUG SharePoint User Group had regular monthly meeting. One of the topics presented (and, because of Sandy, single session) was my session about “SharePoint Apps in SharePoint 2013”. Session was delivered in-person in Sarajevo, and via Lync to attendees that couldn’t join us in person. Session is recorded, Click To View Entry

In my previous post I wrote about applying custom theme to SharePoint 2013 site using new theming engine. I also mentioned that one approach for implementing this functionality could be to encapsulate this code in Feature receiver. In this post, I will demonstrate and explain this approach for applying custom theme to SPWeb. Our custom theming Feature will

One of new functionalities introduced in SharePoint 2013 Preview is new theming engine. Themes that are managed by this new engine don’t use Office Theme .thmx format and can’t be created using PowerPoint like it was case before. New themes are based on set of xml files stored in Theme Gallery “15” subfolder (on relative path _catalogs/theme/15):

After upgrading from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8 Pro, I encountered buggy behavior of several of applications based on .NET Framework 2.0/3.5. Apparently, the error manifested itself in a way that the apps didn’t want to run properly and were failing with error “Error parsing C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config. Parser returned error 0xC00CE556”. I didn’t paying attention on this until it happened when I tried to install Visual Studio 2012 – installer simply wouldn’t start. Click To View Entry

SharePoint apps are hot topic these days, after Microsoft announced that they will be preferred development model for next major version of SharePoint products – known as SharePoint 2013. Applications will be purchased/downloaded from Office Store, or from corporate application catalog. There are 3 application models, depending on the fact where the real app code is hosted:

I am using Microsoft IW Demo VM (2010-10A) for my experiments related to SharePoint, in all cases when I don’t have time (read: when I’m lazy) to create complete SharePoint Dev environment.