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Mavention Last Modified Documents available in the Office Store
Mavention Last Modified Documents app just got accepted in the Office Store.With SharePoint 2013 you have the possibility to follow People, Documents, Sites and #Tags. With the Mavention Last Modified...
View ArticleConsultation with Waldek Mastykarz at TechDays on 16 and 17 April
On 16 and 17 April the TechDays will be held at the World Forum in The Hague. TechDays is the annual Microsoft conference for IT professionals and developers with sessions on a wide range of...
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Step-by-step building a companion Windows Store app for SharePoint 2013...
In this post you will learn step-by-step how to build a companion Windows Store app for your public-facing website built with SharePoint 2013.This article accompanies my presentation from the...
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Use your own SharePoint icons in a neat and easy way
A designer made a design for a portal and in this design a lot of the SharePoint icons had different colors than the orginals. These icons are located in two sprites: spcommon.png and fgimg.png. I...
View ArticleWCM tip #23: Use the Vary: User-Agent response header when using Device Channels
When using Device Channels on your website set the Vary: User-Agent response header to let Internet search engines know that different HTML is rendered to different browsers.Device Channels allow you...
View ArticleSharePoint Online Applification on the European Office365 Connect
The last two days I have been part of the first ever European Office 365 Connect. As expected it was a great success with two days packed of really cool Office 365 stuff. I learned a lot on and got...
View ArticleWindows Azure storage emulator returns a bad request message
While working on a new project which is based on a SharePoint provider hosted app we decided to put some of the functionality in Windows Azure. During the development phase of the project we wanted to...
View ArticleCustom web templates and confusing Managed Navigation
As you might have seen when you create a new site collection or sub site in SharePoint 2013 based on an out of the box web template the navigation settings are defaulted to be of type Managed...
View ArticleWCM tip #25: Optimize your authoring and publishing experience with Device...
Using Device Channels in SharePoint 2013 you can separate your authoring and publishing experience. This will allow you to optimize your public-facing website for visitors and search engines without...
View ArticleWCM tip #26: Disallow Master Page override
When building public-facing websites with SharePoint 2013 you should disallow anonymous users from overriding the Master Page on your website.One of the new capabilities provided with SharePoint 2013...
View ArticleMavention publishes Apps for SharePoint in Office Store
Mavention publishes Apps for SharePoint in Office StoreMavention has recently published a number of Apps for SharePoint in Microsoft's Office Store. Last year, Mavention was the first Dutch partner to...
View ArticleWCM tip #27: Use XML Sitemap and Robots.txt
On your public-facing website use the XML Sitemap and Robots.txt file to optimize your website for Internet search engines.SharePoint 2013 allows you to automatically generate an XML Sitemap and the...
View ArticleWCM tip #28: Design Manager: easy start but limiting if you know what you're...
Design Manager allows you to quickly implement your user experience in SharePoint but if you want to build a great public-facing website you should build the Master Page and Page Layouts yourself...
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Mavention Insert Table of Contents App for SharePoint
Mavention Insert Table of Contents is now available as an App for SharePoint.SharePoint 2013 App ModelSharePoint 2013 introduces the new App Model for building and distributing customizations and...
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Converting no-code Sandboxed Solutions to Apps for SharePoint
SharePoint 2013 introduces the new App Model for deploying customizations. Find out what you need to take into account to convert your existing no-code Sandboxed Solutions to the new Apps for...
View ArticleWCM tip #29: You can’t use media queries on CSS references
When referencing CSS files in HTML files used with Design Manager CSS media queries are removed from the link tag.The new Design Manager offers you an easy way to implement your custom user experience...
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Office 365 document library improvements
Today I discovered that Microsoft has added some additional buttons for working with documents. Some options that were only available in the ribbon or in the document library item menu are now directly...
View ArticleWCM tip #30: Persist the Device Channel choice using the DeviceChannel cookie
When switching between the different Device Channels you can persist the choice using the DeviceChannel cookie.Using Device Channels in SharePoint 2013 you can optimize how your website is displayed...
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Confusing content type name updates using powershell
Recently a customer asked us to rename several content types to conform to the company's new name. Several sources on the internet claim renaming content types is undesirable, however since it's...
View ArticleWCM tip #31: Hiding terms pinned from a catalog breaks URL rewriting
If you try to hide Navigation Terms pinned from a catalog in the navigation, URL rewriting for catalog items will break and you will see the physical URLs of those items instead.When connecting to a...
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