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A colleague of mine published a new article in the knowledgebase of Theobald Software. Read more...

And some other nice tools like WOW.js and Animate.css. Read more...

My new article will show you how to build a provider-hosted app for SharePoint that can access SAP data by using the ERPConnect Services Core (ECS Core) platform and the Azure AD Authentication Library for .NET (ADAL). Read more...

My new article shows how to create an external content type (ECT) using the Northwind OData service provided at the OData.org site and how to import the extracted BDC model file in SharePoint Online to support a tenant-scoped external content type, which can be used in external lists. Read more...

In the last issue of the SHAREPoint Kompendium Magazin I published an article about the brand new ECS Web Service Designer for SharePoint 2010/2013 and ECS Core from Theobald Software. Read more...

Theobald Software just released the ECS Web Service Designer for SharePoint 2010/2013 and ECS Core. The designer is part of the product suite ERPConnect Services, a suite which allow you the complete range of data integration between SharePoint and your SAP system. Read more...

I have developed a new version of the popular "MSN-like Stock Quotes Add-In For Excel 2007" for Excel 2013. The user defined function PSQ is exactly the same used in the previous version, but it will retrieve stock data asynchronously. Read more...

I have developed a new version of the popular "MSN-like Stock Quotes Add-In For Excel 2007" for Excel 2013. The user defined function PSQ is exactly the same used in the previous version, but it will retrieve stock data asynchronously. Read more...

A couple of weeks ago I have implemeted two HTML5 demos in C# using ASP.NET MVC, Web API and jQuery. The demos are displaying SAP customer and stock quantity data. The SAP/.NET connectivity is handled by the ERPConnect library from Theobald Software. Read more...

A few days ago I had a real strange problem while using HttpClient in combination with ASP.NET Web API and integrated windows authentication (IIS Express). To keep it simple, I always got a 401 (Unauthorized) error returned from the localhost website, even though I was setting up the HttpClient correctly (see screenshots) and the HttpClient was sending the authorization header (negotiate). Read more...

SharePoint 2010 provides developer with the capability to integrate external data sources like SAP business data via the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) into the SharePoint system. The concept of BCS is based on entities and associated stereotyped operations. This perfectly suits for flat and simple structured data sets like SAP tables. Read more...

Theobald Software GmbH is finally releasing an existing new product to integrate SAP business data into SharePoint 2010. ERPConnect Services is its name and consists of 3 components, which allow you the complete range of data integration between SharePoint and your SAP ERP/BW system. Read more...

Once you are doing a lot of SharePoint programming you know you often have to write lengthy pieces of code to implement simple tasks like querying SharePoint lists. Nowadays you can read a lot of fluent APIs or fluent interface. For instance, jQuery, a JavaScript library that had successfully introduced a fluent API to handle the hierarchical structure of the HTML documents. Read more...

The new Service Application Architecture in SharePoint 2010 is a replacement of the Shared Service Provider (SSP) architecture known from SharePoint 2007. The framework offers greater flexibility in configuring, scaling and administrating SharePoint shared services. Read more...

During the process of creating a complex SharePoint application you often need to send mails and create text files based on SharePoint data elements like SPListItem or SPWeb. Mail templates for instance mostly contain specific list item data. It would be helpful sometimes if the text generation itself is template-driven. Read more...

The Secure Store Service in SharePoint 2010 replaces the Single Sign-on Shared Service of MOSS 2007 and provides an easy way to map user credentials of external resources like SAP systems to Windows users. During the process of developing SAP interfaces using the very handy ERPConnect library from Theobald Software you have to open a R3 connection with the SAP system using SAP account credentials (username and password). Read more...

A couple of times I had the situation where I needed to export SharePoint list data into a PDF file in a customized way. I wanted to use some kind of template technology to translate SharePoint list data into a PDF file. Read more...

Developing a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application requires sometimes to execute an asynchronous task with long-running execution steps, e.g. calling a web service. If those steps are triggered by user interactions, you want show a progress dialog to block the user interface and display detail step information. Read more...

Prior to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 there was no official documented way to programmatically use the built-in ULS service (Unified Logging Service) to log own custom messages. There are still solutions available on the internet that can be used, but SharePoint 2010 now supports full-blown logging service support. Read more...

The SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) are providing an Administration Object Model to manage all kind of BCS objects. You can use the an Administration Object Model to programmatically create BDC models, LOB system and instances, Entities and Methods. The Microsoft SharePoint Designer is using the object model itself to let you generate External Content Types (ECT). Read more...