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ASHX Generic Handlers and SharePoint – Now in CKSDEV

ASP.NET, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on April 30, 2013

One of the more popular posts on this blog detailed how to create and deploy a Generic ASHX handler with your SharePoint projects. While you can still do this manually per that post, this is made much easier with the inclusion of a new item template that is part of the Wes Hackett for taking…

SharePoint 2013 Composed Looks – Custom Web Font Previews

SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on April 25, 2013

When developing a custom composed look in SharePoint 2013, you can specify the font scheme to use via the .spfont file. In the Change the Look page, you can see previews of your fonts in action. For standard fonts, there isn’t anything extra to do, but for web fonts, you can specify font preview images…

SharePoint 2013 Composed Looks – Getting a Preview Picture to Work

SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on April 12, 2013

When creating your own custom composed looks for SharePoint 2013, you can have your composed look appear in the Change the Look page, with a preview picture. This post will tell you how to get your custom composed look to be available, and cover some of the pitfalls with trying to get your preview picture…

Introducing the SharePoint Service Application Starter Kit

Service Application Framework, SharePoint, Technology, WCF by Adam Toth on February 25, 2013

After much hard work and testing, I’m happy to finally have released the SharePoint Service Application Starter Kit. What is it? A Visual Studio Extension that installs SharePoint project templates for creating custom SharePoint Service Applications of different flavors. How to Get It The installers are available from the Visual Studio Gallery, and directly from…

Top 10 Excuses for Being Late or Missing Work

Life, Technology by Adam Toth on February 19, 2013

Over the years working in IT, I’ve heard some great excuses for being late or not being able to come into the office. Here are my top 10: Excuse #10 – The “I have a really good reason to be at home” Excuse My wife is working from home, so I am working from home…

Office 2013 and SharePoint 2010 Compatibility Issue

Technology by Adam Toth on December 11, 2012

If you install Office 2013 on a machine that has, or plans to have SharePoint 2010 installed, SharePoint will not work. Before you tear your SharePoint installation apart, try removing InfoPath 2013 from your machine. I found this post a bit too late:

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