Category: Web Development

According to Wikipedia, Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications (or just ‘web apps’) electronic businesses, and social network services. A more comprehensive list of tasks to which development commonly refers, may include web engineering, web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development.

With SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies, development is a broad subject matter which is constantly evolving.

Therefore, the Web development category is very broad too, and is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.

A comparison of JSOM and REST
A comparison of JSOM and REST
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With the launch of the app-model in SharePoint 2013 Microsoft and his small brother from Office 365 have started to make programming safer and more standarized. The programming of apps and especially SharePoint hosted apps is mostly done with JavaScript and JSOM (JavaScript Object Model) API. The article should clarify the advantages and disadvantages for this approach. This is shown exemplarily in a search driven app approach.

Universal App Development Using Office 365 API
Universal App Development Using Office 365 API
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The office 365 API has a REST service that helps to access the data from the subscription. The office 365 subscription includes the Exchange, SharePoint and AD services. Office 365 API gives access to all those services via REST methods. The authentication to the service happens via the Azure AD. The single sign-on with Azure AD to authenticate your users, and let them access email, files, calendar, and user information, and the petabytes of data that are stored in Office 365.

Free eBook on Making Your Master Page Responsive
Free eBook on Making Your Master Page Responsive
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Following a fantastic response from the release of chapter 1 ‘What’s New in Web Content Management’ from the book ‘Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development’, we now have an excerpt from chapter 5 that presents an overview on making your master page responsive.