Large list performance: SPMetal vs. SPQuery
Key takeaway Use SPQuery for large lists instead of SPMetal. While testing with a list of 45K items, SPQuery performed at 0.06s compared to SPMetal’s performance at 9.98s. Background I was recently...
View ArticleUsing SPMetal for faster SharePoint development
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at Philly Code Camp 2012 (May). As promised, here are the slides along with the session abstract for your reference. This session will cover the ins and outs...
View ArticleYouTube & Local Videos in SharePoint
I recently participated in a SharePoint community hackathon hosted by EUSP and sponsored by CloudShare. We were tasked with creating a media solution that manages both local videos and YouTube videos...
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Are you getting ready for SharePoint Saturday NYC? We sure are. Adam & I will be presenting a quick 10 minute lightning talk which is meant to poke fun at the ridiculous things that both developers...
View ArticleSharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview
Microsoft recently announced a tech preview of Office 2013 which includes SharePoint 2013. I did run into a hiccup during the install- “Service running under Network Service account in workgroup...
View ArticleInner workings of Community Portal in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 introduces a new Community site template. To go along with it, there is also a Community Portal template for Site Collections. This portal essentially is a jumping off point into any...
View ArticleUse PowerShell’s Invoke-RestMethod with the SharePoint 2013 REST API
PowerShell has a great built-in commandlet to call REST methods called Invoke-RestMethod. However, it might take some tinkering to get it working against the SharePoint RESP API. Here is a sample...
View ArticleCustom Controls in XSLT
Background & The Dream SharePoint relies heavily on XML data and XSLT processing of such data. Whether we are dealing with Search results, Data view web parts or Content Query web parts, XSLT...
View ArticleRendering User Control ASCX via XSL in SharePoint
Background & The Problem Last time we discussed how to integrate a custom control into an XSL transformation. The key point to note about the previously discussed approach is that all the markup is...
View ArticleBlank Open/Save Dialog when browsing Document Library from Office clients
Problem When you browse to a document library from an office client dialog such as ‘MS Word > Open’, the dialog shows a blank space instead of the document library contents- Root Cause This issue is...
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