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About Pankaj

I am a Developer and my linked profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajsurti/

How to get WssID for new taxonomy value in the REST Post call?

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Pankaj

How to get WssID for new taxonomy value in the REST Post call? So I looked for this and I found various places to use CSOM or JavaScript way to get the WssId. But it is quite simple for the … Continue reading →

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SPRemoteAPIExplorer cool tool for the developers

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Pankaj

The SP Remote API Explorer is pretty cool utility for developers. https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/26a16717-0c9a-4367-8dfd-bb09e7e2deb5?SRC=Home The utility can be installed on the developer VM with SharePoint and Visual Studio. The utility pre requisite is you will need local SP farm with Visual Studio. … Continue reading →

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How to navigate to ‘User Photos’ List on my site host?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Pankaj

If you are not aware that the user pictures are stored in the my-site host site collection. The pictures are stored in the ‘User Photos’ list’s folder named ‘Profile Pictures’. There will be three types of picture for an User … Continue reading →

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Workaround for correctly retrieving Single select taxonomy field Label value via REST

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Pankaj

Problem: I have list names “Experts” with a Metadata Column as ContosoLevel. When I retrieve the column via REST call I get only following in the response for the column. “ContosoLevel”:{“__metadata”:{“type”:”SP.Taxonomy.TaxonomyFieldValue”},“Label”:”1″,”TermGuid”:”47dd115d-7399-46d1-b985-205e499bbbdd”,”WssId”:1} I was expecting the Label field will have the … Continue reading →

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Why SPAppWebUrl is empty string for the SharePoint 2013 provided hosted App?

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Pankaj

I created a new SharePoint Provided Hosted App. In the app added a single App part using the add item template. I used the {StandardTokens} in the query string of the start page. I got all other values but the … Continue reading →

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How to change default browser for debugging SharePoint 2013 Apps?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Pankaj

Answer: Basically create a dummy new ASP.NET Web application. Change the debug browser menu and run the app. Close the dummy app. Open your SharePoint 2013 App and you should have your browser changed. I don’t know why there is … Continue reading →

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How to list the all web parts on a page?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Pankaj

The webparts are on the page. There is a simple way to list all web parts on the page. Simply add “?contents=1” after the page. This will list all the webparts present on the page. You can select and delete … Continue reading →

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Securing REST Web API in ASP.NET

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Pankaj

The REST Web Api endpoint the customer has developed & deployed to Azure website has anonymous access. The REST end point must be secured. I was investigating the best and easier way to secure the REST endpoint in ASP.NET. There … Continue reading →

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SideWaffle template for AngularJS on Visual Studio

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Pankaj

The Side Waffle is very useful for the Angular JS development. http://sidewaffle.com/ VsCommands for Visual Studio 2013 is useful add ins.

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Breeze & SharePoint 2013

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Pankaj

Breeze is a cool framework to make REST calls from the client side. To better explain Andrew Connal’s blog explains in details http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/getting-breezejs-to-work-with-the-sharepoint-2013-rest-api. The only problem is that it can not do the cross domain calls so the lists on … Continue reading →

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