Recently I had an exciting mail conversation with Thomas Deutsch. He came up with an idea how to fasten the development of apps. This smart approach is called “Provider Hosted First”. See Thomas’ original blog post. Here are some highlights: What you actually do is a local website which runs in grunt server: localhost:9000 ```Then a SharePoint-hosted app is created with an SPAppIframe that refers to that local app site.

I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further. Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) is an important feature in SharePoint 2013. It lets you download only a page delta, only changes. There is still issues with the MDS and custom scripts and almost no documentation on msdn or technet. In this blog post I want to learn more about adjusting custom scripts for MDS.

I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further. This is a part 1 of the blog post about Minimal Download Strategy and javascript adjustments for user code. What I initially thought should be enough for one post, is not enough, so I see it as a part 1. I wrote this post after I had read Chris O’Brien’s post about JSLink Here I want investigate how we can get his accordion list view working with MDS.

This applies to the combination Hyper-V and VMWare as well. Really good stuff. [code language=powershell] #disable, needs computer restart bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off #enable, needs computer restart bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto [/code]

I enjoyed this intro to git in visual studio.

Great tutorial how to configure the loopback check on a dev machine. Exactly what I needed for a month ago. Pity that this article came after that. :-) Here is the command to disable it completeley: \# Disable Loopback check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 # New-ItemProperty HKLM:\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Lsa -Name "DisableLoopbackCheck" -Value "1" -PropertyType dword

Today I want to share little css tip for styling the suiteBar in SharePoint 2013 and making it work even in IE8. I needed to apply a green color to the suiteBar (#005128). It worked in all browsers except IE8: The reason why is a special css rule (in corev15.css) that only IE8 understands: [sourcecode language=“css”] .ms-core-needIEFilter #suiteBarLeft { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,startColorstr=#ff0072c6,endColorstr=#ff0072c6); } [/sourcecode] I found this answer in an blog post written by Trace Armstrong: SharePoint 2013 – Branding the Top Bar and the Importance of Browser Testing.

Easy to add a newsfeeed to a web other than My Site.

During an installation with AutoSPInstaller on my development machine I ran into a strange issue. I got the following error: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IIS.PowerShell.Framework’ or one of its dependencies I haven’t found any other people having the same problem with the AutoSPInstaller, but I found a similar report on another forum: help.octopusdeploy.com. Maybe I am the only one who gets this error in AutoSPInstaller, if not it can be useful to write the solution down.

jQuery 2.0 leaves behind the older Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 browsers. In return it is smaller, faster.