I’ve always been a big fan of self-service site provisioning in SharePoint. That process is even better in SharePoint 2013 (including SharePoint Online), with the ability to specify a custom site creation form. Owning the provisioning process is...

Cross-site publishing is one of the powerful new capabilities in SharePoint 2013. It enables the separation of data entry from display and breaks down the container barriers that have traditionally existed in SharePoint (ex: rolling up information across...

Want to deliver an internal/corporate “YouTube” for your organization using SharePoint? Looking to maximize your SharePoint deployment by incorporating video/media delivery? Worried about the storage/bandwidth implications of allowing anyone...

One of the creative ways Apps for SharePoint can be exposed in a site is through the SharePoint dialog. In this way, apps can deliver contextual capabilities to a SharePoint site. Dialogs will typically be launched from custom actions in the app. In this...

One of the interesting capabilities of the new SharePoint/Office app models is combining them to deliver complete real-world solutions. In fact, an app for SharePoint can contain/embed an App for Office. Combining apps can lead to some powerful scenarios...

Feature Stapling is a popular development practice for adding functionality to a specific type of site in SharePoint. Although it has become the preferred approach over custom site definitions, it still requires the deployment of a farm solution. Unfortunately...

Several months ago I wrote a post about building real-world apps for SharePoint 2013. In that post, I walked through the creation of an employee recognition app for SharePoint 2013 called Kudos. The original Kudos app leveraged SharePoint lists for storage...

In this two part series, I will explore developing real-world solutions via apps for SharePoint 2013. Part 1 will focus on the basic app delivery without complex tenancy considerations (the solution will store all information in a list on the tenant)...

The User Experience Challenge Just a decade ago iframes were frowned upon on the web. Not all browsers supported them and some organizations even applied browser policies to block iframes. Fast-forward to today and iframes are a staple of web development...