Office UI Fabric is the new dress for Office add-ins, that perfectly marries with modern SharePoint pages using the SharePoint Framework. Besides providing a set of UI guidelines, font styles, grid layouts and icons, Office UI Fabric adds a rich collection of HTML components ready to use in your Office add-ins & SharePoint pages. Office… READ MORE
In my previous article I explained how to read from a SharePoint list available inside a SharePoint App site. In this article my focus would be on how to create a list inside the app and how to add list items to it. The same app I used in the previous example will be used here. Here is the code available in my Default.aspx file.
We SharePoint developers have had a bit of a hard time. The administrators don’t like us because our solutions can be complicated to deploy and we get blamed for bringing down the farm (sometimes with justification).
First of all, I am a proponent of SharePoint apps. As I have said many times over, SharePoint Apps make me very ‘appy, they are very app-propriate. But there are some points to consider that make a bit app-rehensive.
In the new SharePoint 2013 App model, there are essentially two ways to host apps – within SharePoint itself or from an external web site (also known as “provider hosted” or “autohosted”). One of the disadvantages of external apps is that they don’t look or feel like SharePoint. All the familiar navigation menus and shortcuts are missing, resulting in a stark contrast between the default SharePoint visual experience and whichever app is currently being used unless the app developer went the extra mile (or ten) to style their app.
