Microsoft recommends branding SharePoint Online, Office 365 with themes, alternate CSS and other CSOM methods rather than creating custom master pages

In a video tutorial available to the public on MSDN’s Channel 9, Microsoft presents an argument for branding SharePoint Online, Office 365 sites with themes and other CSOM methods. The title of this video tutorial is Transform SharePoint Customizations to SharePoint App Model: (02) Controlling Branding in SharePoint Using App Model. The tutorial is included […]

Microsoft announces roadmap to Typescript 2.0

SharePoint-Videos offers several sets of specialized video training content on the Office 2013 (and, by definition, the SharePoint 2013) App Model. Just to cite one of these sets here, we have published a set on JavaScript and jQuery led by Marc D. Anderson, a widely recognized authority on his topics. JavaScript and jQuery (which is […]

Add to the Value of SharePoint 2013 Search by Customizing How Query Results are Displayed to Users

The Search Service in SharePoint 2013 represents a substantial change from its SharePoint 2010 predecessor. Fast Search has been built into the new service. At the same time, the new SharePoint 2013 Master Pages and Page Layouts feature can be used to create custom templates for enhancing how search results are displayed to users. In […]

MSDN Channel 9 Offers a Course in Building Windows Store Apps With HTML, JavaScript and CSS

SharePoint-Videos offers several training sets on Microsoft’s Office 2013 and SharePoint App Model. Tools for building applications for web browser clients, HTML, JavaScript and CSS, play an important role in this model. MSDN’s Channel 9 offers a truly hands-on lab on building a Windows App with HTML 5, JavaScript and CSS 3.0 with Visual Studio […]

The SharePoint 2013 Development and Office App Models Promise Expanded Roles for SharePoint Site Designers

SharePoint Users with successful experience branding sites with HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), can now look forward to a new role, with, arguably, an expanded importance within their communities. The new SharePoint Development, and Office App Models are both built, in entirety, on these skills. SharePoint-Videos offers a very rich set of video […]

Use the JavaScript Knockout.js Library to Port C# ViewModels to SharePoint Apps

Over the last 6 months we’ve released three sets of video tutorials on the new SharePoint 2013 App Model, which is a component of Microsoft’s Cloud App Model for its Office products. Our tutorials include: SP13-303 SharePoint 2013: Development Video Training Package, which is authored by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy SP13-306 SharePoint 2013: JavaScript and jQuery DVD, […]