My blog post about exporting any webpart from a SharePoint Page is one of the most read articles on my blog. I use this method a lot. Now what I want to do is to simplify the process. Inspired by my colleague Dan Saedén’s awesome bookmarklet for reading and updating web properties, I decided to make my own bookmarklet. That was easy. Now we can export any web part from any SharePoint page without even looking at any ids in the html markup and assembling the export url manually. Just add the bookmarklet or run  the javascript code in the browser console. The code (js and bookmarklet) is on Github. Here is an animated gif that explains how to use it:

I have used AngularJS for a while and to me this seems to be the best MVC javascript framework. Today I wanted to implement a search which uses an input and a hash query string like in google. The input value and url have to be synced like:

index.html#?term=something

To do this we have to inject $location into our angular control. See the Angular Guide about $location. Then we have to observe both the $scope.term (which is bound to the input value) and $location.search().

For a while ago I needed to provide an alternative solution when Silverlight isn’t installed. I searched  for javascript code for this and found this:

• A blog post about that: Piotr Puszkiewicz’s Silverlight Blog. Determining if Silverlight is installed using Javascript.
• A more advanced javascript function which can even determine the version of the Silerlight can be pulled from Silverlight.js library.

I didn’t need to determine the version of Silverlight, so I wrote a simplified js function (but it works in all browsers): [sourcecode language=“javascript”] var isSilverlightInstalled = function() { var installed = false; try { installed = !!navigator.plugins[“Silverlight Plug-In”] || !!(window.ActiveXObject && new ActiveXObject(‘AgControl.AgControl’)); } catch (e) {} return installed; };[/sourcecode] This function first checks if a Silverlight plugin is installed in almost all web browsers except IE, then if it is not it tries to create an ActiveXObject (IE) for Silverlight. If an error occurs, the function returns false and indicates that Silverlight is not available.

Just a quick tip today. If you are looking after masked inputs like the old ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit MaskedEdit, you can try jQuery plugin called Masked Input from DigitalBush or even better jquery.inputmask.

Many words have been said about the importance of performance when working with javascript files. Here I want to summarize what developers can do to increase the performance related to javascript. I found many tips on blogs. Here comes my aggregated list of actions one can do to speed up sharepoint (and not only) sites with focus on javascript:

1. Load only sharepoint stuff you need

Use prefetch option to only load sharepoint javascript files that needed. To see the difference, just add ?prefetch=0 to your sharepoint url in the browser. The downside of this lazy loading is that you wrap all sharepoint related javascript into ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded otherwise you maybe invoke some of javascript objects and functions that are not loaded. So the prize of this huge performance improvement is a high awareness by a developer when and which scripts are loaded and run.