SharePoint Saturday Phoenix 2013
If you attended my session on Connecting a SharePoint list to a SQL table for CRUD ops, thank you for coming! If you missed it, or if you wanted to review it again, my girlfriend was kind enough to...
View ArticleClosing one chapter, opening another
For the past 19 years, I have worked in Native American gaming. I remember starting out in February of 1995 working at Harrah’s newest casino on the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation south of the (at that...
View ArticleSQL Saturday #279 – Phoenix
Here is the video from my SQL Saturday #279 session on developer best practices & good habits to help DBAs keep the server healthy and secure. Please excuse the fact I was dealing with a sinus...
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Windows 8.1 Update 1
Today at Build 2014 Microsoft announced the availability of Windows 8.1 Update 1 on April 8th to the general public, but it’s available now to MSDN subscribers. Not wanting to waste any of the precious...
View ArticleThe data source control failed to execute the insert command
While working on a custom form the other day, we noticed the form that was working fine was suddenly throwing the following error: “The data source control failed to execute the insert command” Without...
View ArticleManage Created & Modified info on custom form in XSLT
Just wanted to write this down so I don’t forget how to do this, if this helps someone else out even better! If you’re wanting to access the Created By, Created On, Modified By and Modified on...
View ArticleRead a SharePoint list using JavaScript
There are countless ways to read data from a SharePoint list, and also myriad methods to do this in JavaScript, but I’m going to document this one way as a place to get started, and a published...
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Complete Guide to Making and Parsing REST calls using SharePoint Designer 2013
Recently I needed a sequential workflow that makes a REST call to another website (non-SharePoint), retrieves some JSON data, parses it, and makes decisions based on that data. Oh, and I’m not allowed...
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Windows 10 TP – First Look
I downloaded and installed the Windows 10 Technology Preview today because I was interested in seeing how it would behave on my Surface Pro. I started out creating a VMWare VM with the following...
View ArticleKnow REST For the Query – SharePoint Saturday Phoenix 2014
Thank you for all who attended my session, below is the video. Big thanks to Becky Bohanon for enhancing the audio! The slide deck is available here: Slide Deck The JavaScript file that was used to do...
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