I've used geekswithblogs for a while now, and although it is quite easy to get started, there are many shortcomings, especially when composing a blog article and formatting text, code and images. I tried using windows live writer as recommended, but I didnt manage to make it work. So I have finally decided to move to wordpress.com. My old blog posts ......

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I recently needed to create a rich text field in a SharePoint list programatically. Since I am using REST all over the place, it would be practical to continue that now as well.I was able to find out how to create a new field. It is done by posting to this url: reqUrl = appweburl + "/_api/SP.AppContextSite(@t... + listName ......

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Choosing the right backup scheme for your personal files is essential, and far too often backup is not considered until it is too late. With Mozy Home cloud backup, I thought I was well prepared for disaster. Man, was I wrong!As many other families we have a lot of photos and videos covering all stages of our little ones, from birth, to present. Using ......

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When dealing with SharePoint Online, there are some limitations to consider.The most famous one is the list view threshold of 5000 elements in a list view. But there are also others. In my company, we have implemented a project workspace solution for managing projects. In essence, we create a subsite for every project in a project list. This has lead ......

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Ok, I will try not to make this a rant, but after knocking my head against the proverbial wall for several hours, that is going to be a tough one, LOL.The problem was seemingly trivial: Create a SharePoint hosted add-in part with a button that creates an item in a list in the host web.After all, I have been working with list items quite a bit from the ......

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The "something-as-a-service" model is already a defacto standard in IT. If you need something to get done, there is almost certainly a service that will do that for you. As the model matures, you can sit back and rest assured that the job is done well and cheap.So when I faced the need for sending email from my web service, why did I spend half the ......

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I love Azure!As a developer, Azure is simply the greatest thing that has happened since intellisense. Today you are rarely building an individual program to be run at a single computer. Most apps today have some kind of consciousness to the world around it. Before Azure, this used to be a pain in the butt, because budgets rarely allowed for creating ......

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SharePoint Online and Office365 have many great features, but until a few months ago, a serious limitation existed. There was absolutely no way for a service to interact with SharePoint Online. Yes, you could use the Office365 API to log on to SharePoint and retrieve a token that could be used witht he API. But you HAD TO enter the user name and password ......

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I was just working on an Azure web site that needs to work on https only. I came across this solution that pointed me in the right direction:http://blogs.msdn... as pointed out in the comments, there are curly quotes in the code that prevents compilation. Furthermore, ......

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I love the SharePoint lists, they are so easy to set up and customize. I use it all the time.Still, there is room for improvement. The display/new/edit forms for example, are not very customizable OOTB. However, by making some very simple tweaks, you can make great improvements. This time I had a form displaying a couple of date fields, where it was ......

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