SharePoint Saturday Melbourne 2012

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I had a great time in Melbourne and presented my session on Building Custom REST services and consuming them with jQuery AJAX.  Thank you for attending my session and listen to me ranting for an hour.

 

As promised, there are a number of links:

 

There are a few things I missed:

On 2007, you can't easily deploy WCF or REST services to a 2007 installation.  But you can still use Javascript to talk to SharePoint 2007's built in WCF services.  Check:

For 2013, the WCF/REST solutions work fine.  I had a quick test and took some screenshots.

For DataService (ADO.NET / exposing Entity Framework via REST service), see the last feature in the demo project.

 

Drop me a comment if you want to ask me about anything specific and I'd love to geek out!

T: @johnnliu

E: john.liu at sharepointgurus.net

SP2013 Custom services deploys and runs on v15

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I fired up my SP2013 VM to do some simple tests tonight, I wanted to know if the REST services that I've built and demo'ed for SharePoint 2010 would run in SP2013.  Technically, they should.

So I deployed:

  • stsadm -o addsolution -filename .\SPGSvcWp.wsp
  • stsadm -o deploysolution -name SPGSvcWp.wsp -local -allowgacdeployment -allcontenturls

 

The files are copied to the services OK.

Deployed to ISAPI folder (_vti_bin)

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DataService

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REST service

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SOAP service

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Activate the features for the webpart:

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Add the Web Part to the page:

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The javascript needs a small modification - since the page in 2013 is loaded asynchronously.  But once I've re-attached the click event, the REST service itself works fine and returns the properties of the selected item.

The SharePoint Pinterest-style Image Library

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

 

In the latest version of spaspa.codeplex.com, I created a separate Knockout Template and bind the Images library (BaseTemplateID 851) to it.  Then I inserted a simple jQuery Plugin Wookmark https://github.com/GBKS/Wookmark-jQuery

The end result is that when we have pictures, they are displayed in an awesome layout.

As an added bonus, I'm calculating the thumbnail image from SharePoint, so instead of rendering:

http://spg-dev-jl/PublishingImages/wallpaper_08.jpg

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Original: 78K

I'm rendering

http://spg-dev-jl/PublishingImages/_w/wallpaper_08_jpg.jpg

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Thumbnail image generated by SharePoint.  Which is a far smaller file - 16k.

 

Next update, I'll try to resolve those pesky SharePoint users and get the correct user name and picture.  So we don't have Mr. Bill Gates staring back at us! ;-)

SharePoint Saturday Adelaide update

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Hope you enjoyed the session and all the wonderful sessions through out the day.

I hope I've also given you plenty of ideas on how you can mix and match a really rich set of the latest technology in your SharePoint environment. 

A summary link of all my related talks on REST, services and JavaScript technologies like jQuery and Knockout are on /rest/

A direct link to the solution that I used for the demo is at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5527bff2e4b0b430660b0d10/5527c30de4b030eeeef09715/5527c30ee4b030eeeef09b23/1316868647487/SPGSvcWp.zip

The PowerPoint presentation is at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5527bff2e4b0b430660b0d10/5527c30de4b030eeeef09715/5527c30ee4b030eeeef09b24/1335084544036/SharePoint+REST+and+jQuery5.pptx

Drop me a question if you want to ask me anything specific related to these topics and I'm more than willing to geek out!  Hope to see you guys again soon.

You can find me via

T: @johnnliu
E: john.liu at sharepointgurus.net

Or grab a business card from me throughout the day!

SharePoint Saturday Brisbane update

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Thank you for attending my session on Building Custom REST services and consuming them with jQuery AJAX. 

I hope you enjoyed the session and survived (or even find it interesting) my 1hr rant.

But more importantly, I hope I've given you plenty of ideas on how you can integrate the set of techniques presented in your SharePoint development.

 

A summary link of all my related talks on REST, services and JavaScript technologies like jQuery and Knockout are on /rest/

 

A direct link to the solution that I used for the demo is at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5527bff2e4b0b430660b0d10/5527c30de4b030eeeef09715/5527c30fe4b030eeeef0a010/1316868647487/SPGSvcWp.zip

The PowerPoint presentation is at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5527bff2e4b0b430660b0d10/5527c30de4b030eeeef09715/5527c30fe4b030eeeef0a011/1335084544036/SharePoint+REST+and+jQuery5.pptx

 

Drop me a question if you want to ask me anything specific related to these topics and I'm more than willing to geek out!  Hope to see you guys again soon.