Ostrich no more So, unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past couple of years this newfangled cloud app model thing is unlikely to have escaped your attention.  Maybe, like me, you’ve been an ostrich burring your head the sands of full trust farm solutions hoping that this thing is just going to

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How to cache credentials in an Azure SQL Database for a SharePoint Provider Hosted App

After my recent switch over to Mac as my main laptop for O365 / SharePoint development, Finally I got an IOS native app running using the O365 IOS SDK and Swift. Nearly after 15 years of development using Microsoft Technologies and Tools, the mobile app development using XCode and Swift rekindles my memory of learning

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Walkthrough: How to display a list of users from an Office 365 tenant in iOS using Swift

As SharePoint Online matures into a viable alternative to its on-premises counterpart, many people are asking the question Which version is right for my organization? As is usually the case, the answer is “It depends”. Too often we see this decision being made solely on one criteria (i.e. cost) and not taking into account all of

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SharePoint 2013 On-Premises Vs. SharePoint Online – Which One is Right For My Organization?

I won’t show you the code, but I’ll use MySiteBranding web part as example of what does it take to provision the custom master page and theme to personal MySite site collection for each user. The code that provisions the master page is written in JavaScript. MySiteBranding app is a SharePoint hosted app that is

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How to brand MySite and how to provision branding to personal MySite on Office 365

With the introduction of SharePoint 2013, there are different methods to customize SharePoint. Developers have the option of creating new cloud applications for SharePoint or maintaining legacy full trust code. Coupled with the complexity many organizations have in terms of managing SharePoint customizations across Office 365 and on-premises implementations, developers and solution architects will need

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Automated Build-Deploy-Test Workflows for SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 using Visual Studio 2013