This little script saves me thousands of keystrokes and hours of wasted time while building SPFx (SharePoint Framework) solutions. Generating a production level build is one of the most annoying parts [...]
In this article we’ll pick up where we left off in Part 1 and begin the creation of a gulpfile.js. This file will provide the instructions to our build process. Gulp will be watching our files for [...]
For the past year or so I’ve been developing and building branding assets in Visual Studio Code for my Office 365 projects. Not only just creating and building assets in VS Code but I’ve build [...]
During my last project we were asked to create a fairly simple site template on Office 365. I typically cringe when I hear the word site definition / site template or web template. The reason goes way [...]
Over the course of the past 6 months I’ve found myself using Visual Studio Code as my goto html/css/javascript IDE. Much of the time I [...]
This is an exciting time! The much anticipated SharePoint Framework Preview was released yesterday. And guess what … they are essentially Add-ins /Apps. Right now just the web parts piece is released [...]
In this post we are going to create a 2 tier navigation menu using SPServices. In this scenario we’ll be replacing the current quick launch and putting in our new navigation. This will work with whatever [...]
I was recently asked to get the navigation to work on a tablet. Well part of the problem is the there is really no such thing as a Hover on those devices. Once you touch the screen it’s considered [...]
In this positing I’m going to cover utilizing the SPServices codeplex project to build a “Gallery” of sorts. In this demo we’ll be creating a picture gallery but ideally this code [...]
I had an idea the other day to come up with a nice way to keep the ribbon away when I don’t really want to use it or see it. This is a basic concept of the idea which could use cleaning up or expanding [...]
A lot of people complain about issues with the People Picker when attempting to use an Ajax Update Panel with it because it just doesn’t work. In my particular problem I have a drop down list [...]
I’ve been using the auto generated build numbers paired with Stefan Bauer: How to version new SharePoint Framewor...
I like automatic revision numbers while I’m developing. I don’t have to manually be making changes while pus...
What I’m about to show you is a technique that you could use to trim the ribbon and suite bar off an Office 365 &#...