This post discusses about SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 developer tools in Visual Studio 2012 which helps you to build the application more easily and efficiently. SharePoint 2013 allows you to develop the apps, What is Apps in SharePoint 2013? Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces which gives the functionality that extends the SharePoint site. You have the developer tools to build...
Workflow changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses about key workflow changes in SharePoint 2013 and creating a sample workflow using SharePoint designer 2013. New Workflow management using Windows Azure workflow in SharePoint 2013. New advanced Visual Workflow designer in SharePoint designer 2013 makes it easy in creating workflows. You can now copy and paste the operations in Workflow Designer.There is no designer and...
User Profile Service Application changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses about User Profile Service Application changes in SharePoint 2013. One of the key change is better performance in Active Directory Profile Synchronization. It reduced the import time from up to 2 weeks down to 60 hours for extremely large organisations having 200K users. This has been tricky in earlier versions. Several optimizations are already been added in SharePoint...
PerformancePoint Service changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses the key changes and features of performance point services in SharePoint 2013. PerformancePoint services allow you to bring the data from multiple data source and present that information in the form of charts, graphs and dashboards. You can publish these dashboards to SharePoint. The end user can drill into the data presented on dashboards and helps in making decisions...
Site Collection themes in SharePoint 2013
This post speaks about themes in SharePoint 2013. Themes engine in SP 2013 has been re-designed and everything is now based on HTML5 instead of proprietary format. You now no longer need to use PowerPoint to create custom themes. You can customize themes in SP 2013 by applying background image, fonts with live preview and color palette. The below are list themes available as out-of box in...
Service Application architecture in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses the Service Application architecture in SharePoint 2013 and compares the key changes in architecture model with SharePoint 2010. The building model for Service Applications is same as it introduced in SP 2010.Like in SP 2010 service applications can be consumed from within the web application.
Analytics features in SharePoint 2013
The Analytics Platform in SharePoint 2013 replaces the Web Analytics Service application in 2010. Analytics engine has been completely redesigned in SharePoint 2013. This post discusses the New Analytic engine features in SP 2013. SharePoint 2013 Analytics Features Item-to-Item recommendations based on user behavior Example: People who viewed this also viewed xyz Promote search results based on...
SharePoint 2013 System Requirements
This post discusses the Hardware, Software Requirements and browser support for installing SharePoint 2013. Hardware Requirements for Application and Web Server Hardware requirements for Web tier and Application tier whether environment is single or multiple server farms Processor –> 64 bit 4 cores RAM –> At least 8GB RAM for Production Servers and no less than 4GB for developer or...
Integrating JQuery into SharePoint
Integrating JQuery into SharePoint involves putting JQuery library in where it can be accessed from SharePoint Environment. This post discusses about different options available for deploying and loading JQuery library in SharePoint page and then create a webpart using JQuery. Deploying JQuery to SharePoint To manage the JQuery library files in central location , adding them to the layouts...
Creating a Custom Entity Service Object in SharePoint
What is Entity Service Object? How it is related to Business Data Connectivity model? You can read the terms in business connectivity services here. The Entity Service Object is equivalent to ADO.NET provider for SQL Server and Entity class represents the row of data. Create Business Model Project in Visual Studio 2010 to create a service object. Create a Business Data Connectivity Model Project...