Monday, February 25, 2013

The ABC’s of Building Apps for SharePoint 2013

I had a good time presenting to the [Columbus, Ohio] Buckeye SharePoint User Group this past week on the topic of building Apps in the new App imageModel in SharePoint 2013.

Based on the feedback, everyone seemed to like my new approach of demo-by-screenshot – I thought that might be more efficient than having everyone watch me work live in a VM with Visual Studio 2012, while holding our breath in anticipation of the inevitable demo disaster. :)

I’ll be continuing to speak on SharePoint 2013 next month in Columbus and Cleveland as part of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2012 regional tour. But until then, here’s my slidedeck below from this week, or view it on Slideshare:

Saturday, February 9, 2013

OneNote and Metadata in SharePoint – Add a Notebook to a Library – Part 4 of 5

As described in our original scenario, we want to create a relationship between our Client list and their related documents, including a new OneNote notebook.

OneNote notebooks are different from their sister programs in the Office application suite because a notebook consists of several related files, and thus are stored differently. As a result, you wouldn’t simply Upload a OneNote notebook into a document library. Let’s go thru the steps and options for adding our OneNote notebook to SharePoint: