Contents tagged with SharePoint
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Calling the SharePoint Web Services with jQuery
If you read this blog you probably know that besides the web user interface, SharePoint also exposes some interfaces which you can use from code: the SharePoint object model and the SharePoint web services. The object model of SharePoint can only be used by code/applications that are running on a SharePoint server in your Server Farm, so you can’t use the object model on client machines. The SharePoint web services can be used of course across a network boundary, that’s what they are built for! In this post I’m going to show you how you can access the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services by making use of the jQuery Javascript library. First let’s see what you can do with this technique: download this zip file that contains an ASPX page (a basic Site Page without any code behind), and the jQuery Javascript library (in case you don’t have it already). Upload the two individual files (not the zip file) in the root of a Document Library in any of your SharePoint sites. You can do this by making use of the web user interface; you don’t have to touch anything on the server itself. When done, just click on the link of the uploaded ASPX and you’ll see following page:
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The "Jan Tielens" SharePoint Challenge by Christophe
My last post about splitting the Top Navigation Bar of a WSS site in two with the help of jQuery, triggered a little discussion (in a good way) in the comments. As a result Christophe from the Path to SharePoint blog wrote some Javascript to accomplish the same thing, without using jQuery at all. Now Christophe started the "Jan Tielens Challenge" on his blog: "I have already talked about Jan in a previous post. End users who visit his blog can certainly feel like a kid in front of a bakery display: so many goodies that are out of reach!
So here is my proposal: if you find on Jan’s site a tool you’d like to have as an end user, send me the challenge! If a topic gets enough votes, I’ll work on a solution that can be implemented on the client side." -
Breaking the WSS Top Link Bar in two with jQuery
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Speaking at the Belgian TechDays 09
Next month, (10, 11 & 12 of March) the Belgian TechDays will be held in Antwerp. Together with my pal Lieven Iliano, I'll present the SharePoint Pre-conference day on March, 10th. So what is this SharePoint Pre-conference all about? Well were going to talk about .NET 3.5 in SharePoint 2007, think WCF, Silverlight, Linq and WF applied in SharePoint 2007 sites. I'm very excited and I'm sure Lieven and I will be able to entertain you 5 (five!) sessions in a row. For the full agenda, check the TechDays site and I hope to see you there!
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Essential SharePoint Developer Tool: SPDisposeCheck
[Via Paul Andrew] Now here is a must have tool for every SharePoint developer that wants to make sure that his code isn’t causing any nasty memory leaks due to forgotten Dispose calls (typically on the SPSite and SPWeb instances)! The SPDisposeCheck utility can actually review a compiled assembly and tell you if there are any forgotten Dispose calls, so you can even check third party assemblies. But remember, it’s a tool: nothing beats a full code review, but it certainly speeds up the process.
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New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint Project
Tonight I’ve uploaded new versions of all the components of the SmartTools for SharePoint project on CodePlex. For those of you who don’t know the SmartTools project: it’s a collection of useful SharePoint extensions, including:
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Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 CTP
[Announced on the SharePoint Team Blog] The SharePoint-year makes a good start with the CTP release of version 1.3 of the extensions with the longest name ever: the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (or VSeWSS for short). Here's a short list of new features, for the details check out the SharePoint Team Blog. The final release is scheduled for "North American Spring of 2009". Get it here.
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3D Silverlight Charts in SharePoint: SmartTools.Charts
Last week I was teaching the U2U Advanced SharePoint Development course in Brussels when one of my students showed me a web part he had created. The web part showed a cool 3D chart (rendered with Adobe Flex) based on some data coming from a SharePoint list. This idea inspired me to create an addition to the SmartTools project on CodePlex: the SmartTools.Charts component. The SmartTools.Charts component contains a web part that can show charts rendered by making use of a very cool open source Silverlight control created by Visifire (since I don't have any knowledge about Adobe Flex). The web part can be configured to read data from any list or document library of that site on which it's placed. At the end of this post you can see a screenshot of the web part in action. I've created a small video as well since the charts have some fancy animations when they're shown, so you need to see it in motion! A high resolution version of that video can be download from this page (bottom right). If you'd like to try the SmartTools.Charts component, you can download a first beta version from the CodePlex site (direct link to the releases). Since this is an early beta version, things can go wrong, and breaking changes in future releases can be expected; so basically use it at your own risk (source code is included). As usual, let me know if you have any comments, remarks or feature requests.
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SmartTools.DockNavigation: Cool SharePoint Navigation using jQuery
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Cool Navigation in SharePoint 2007 using jQuery – Teaser!