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The 9th of december last year (announcements on Scott Hanselman blog and the .NET foundation), Windows Live Writer became Open Live Writer and at the same time became open source through the .NET Foundation. For different licensing and complexity hurdles, several...

After the install of the Zachman Framework MDG Add-in for Sparx Enterprise Architect, there is an issue when we want to open the provided sample, ZF Example. EA complains that it "couldn't lock file". One way to successfully open this file is to run EA as an...

Recently, I had several times the request to get the GUID of a term in a SharePoint Term Store. And, unless you have access to the package that deployed the terms, you need to use PowerShell or write a quick console app to get them. Unfortunately, I didn't have access...

It's been quite a while, but no, this blog is not dead. Indeed, the last post was written at the last SharePoint Conference, which was a great one, once again. From that time, a lot have evolved, being in the community, the approach adopted by Microsoft regarding...

SS Speaker : Ricky Kirkham Updating a SharePoint app is necessary, of course, to fix a bug, but also to bring new functionality. In the past, solutions and features were rarely updated. Mainly because it was simpler to replace, and recycling the farm was...

SS Speaker : Richard Harbridge Solutions should be rapidly deployed and easy to update. It is important to have a SharePoint solution available externally and working on any device. In order for a solution to be adopted, it needs to be regularly updated and...

SS Speakers : Laura Rogers, Jennifer Mason Adoption is all about knowing the users. Tip 1 : Create meaningful navigation for users. The goal is to help users finding quickly what they are looking for. To facilitate the navigation, it is possible to edit the quick...

SS Speaker : Edin Kapic Scalability issues never appear when developing or testing. That is why it is better to design for scalability upfront. Autohosted applications are not suited for scalable architecture, as it can't be fine tuned. And because Apps are now...

SS Speaker : Paolo Pialorsi In SharePoint 2013, authentication is done using Classic mode (Windows Identity), bringing an SPUser, or Claims which is translated into a Claims Based Identity. It is also possible to authenticate a used through SAML. Classic mode...