Should I say “Discontinued Feature” in the Developer Dashboard in SP 2013

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Developer Dashboard, SharePoint 2013

I always liked the 3 border colors in the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 but it doesn’t exists anymore in SharePoint 2013.

I had an article from 2 years talking about the 3 colors [Green, Yellow, Red] Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010

Well not that Microsoft removed feature from it but Microsoft added more features to the developer dashboard, I just think those colors were nice to have L

Anyway so what did Microsoft added to the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2013?

1. Dedicated tab to view ULS logs for specific requests,
2. Opening in a separate window with no risk of affecting rendering of actual page,
3. Additional information included for request analyzing,
4. View cumulative requests not only the last request,
5. Scopes tabs showing you an easy to read progress performance bar,
6. SPRequests in separate tab to easily diagnose leaked SP Requests.

Copied those features from this Blog, Author: eImagine SharePoint Team

I think the reason they removed the colors, is that it opens in a new window, may be, but even though it can still exists in new window if they want to.

How to enable or disable the Developer Dashboard, nothing new here, it is still the same way:

1. Either PowerShell,
2. Command promot,
3. Programmatically

All 3 different ways are explained here: http://maiomardesouki.com/category/sharepoint-2010/developer-dashboard/

Enjoy SharePointing J

SharePoint 2013 CSOM in managed code – Where is the “Current” in the client context!?

This was a question I posted in the SharePoint Community as I was investigating around SP APIs and came to try CSOM, to see what’s there and what not.

Just at the start of utilizing CSOM and as anyone I am trying to call property “Current” for the web application instead of writing the Web Full URL which is a vvvvvv basic thing.

I looked here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.client in this Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client to find “Current” property, but nothing.

And looked for the namespace Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight for Silverlight here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint/microsoft.sharepoint.client.clientcontext.aspx and it does have the “Current” property.

And view the DLL in Object Browser, there you go;

Does this means only for Silverlight web parts or what exactly?

And in JSOM JavaScript Object model, there is a “Current” function: SP.ClientContext.get_current()

While and of course everyone knows this in the .NET Server API it exists http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spcontext.aspx

Example:

SPList oListCur = SPContext.Current.List;

SPWeb oWeb = SPContext.Current.Web;

SPSite oSite = SPContext.Current.Site;

SPWebApplication oWebApplicationCur = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication;

So my question to confirm with anyone was… is “Current” property really doesn’t exists in CSOM in managed code!?

Below was the reply; I am not going to write it but rather took screen shot to read it as is; but I highlighted the important parts where he confirms it doesn’t exists in CSOM, then he explains the reason, deep dive details in the background where everyone needs to understand..

And here is the link to this discussion in SharePoint Community

SharePoint 2013, REST, oDATA, part 1: reading/fetching information (no code)

Serge Luca aka "Doctor Flow" (Microsoft Power Platform/Business Applications MVP)

Introduction

In this post I will give you a quick overview of the SharePoint 2013 REST/oData service; I will only use the browser (and Http GET calls) to illustrates several REST statements; in other posts, we will start writing code (.net and javascript)

Step1.The big picture.

In SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has extended the impact of CSOM which is often considered as the reference api instead of the good old server side api. In the past SharePoint developers started their SharePoint training path buy learning the server side api, but today with new the app model, learning the client side apis should be the first priority. CSOM can be used in remote .Net applications, but also in javascript : however the javascript CSOM can only be used within SharePoint pages : keeping the client side code as independent of SharePoint as possible might be very important for some customers and…

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SharePoint 2013 CSOM – Retrieve only selected properties of a website

Sometimes, the client is interested only in a few properties of an object. The SharePoint .NET Framework CSOM does not require you to get all properties from the object on a server—you can use anonymous methods, which can be lambda expressions, to specifically request property names. The client library will query only for those properties on the server, and the server will send only those properties to the client. This technique reduces unnecessary data transfer between the client and the server. It is also useful when the user does not have permission to one or more of the other, unused properties on an object. Note that you will need to add a using statement for System.Linq.

// Starting with ClientContext, the constructor requires a URL to the // server running SharePoint.

ClientContext context = new ClientContext(“http://SiteUrl”);

// The SharePoint web at the URL.

Web web = context.Web;

// We want to retrieve the web’s title and description.

context.Load(web, w => w.Title, w => w.Description);

// Execute the query to server.

context.ExecuteQuery();

// Now, only the web’s title and description are available. If you

// try to print out other properties, the code will throw

// an exception because other properties are not available.

label1.Text = web.Title;

label1.Text = web. Description;

 

Note: If you try to access other properties, the code throws an exception because other properties are not available.

SharePoint Conferences.. Stay tuned

The coming SharePoint Conference are quite interesting, in different countries, you don’t want to miss at least 1 or 2 of it.

Date: 18 November 2013 to 22 November 2013 Location: Orlando, FL Street: 6300 Hollywood way Website: http://www.splive360.com Event Type: conference Organized By: Ani Arth

 

Date: 19 November 2013 to 20 November 2013 Location: Amsterdam Netherlands Event Type: Conference

 

Date: 3 March 2014 to 6 March 2013 Location: The Venetian, Las Vegas Website: http://www.sharepointconference.com Event type: Conference Organized By: Microsoft

 

Date: 5 May 2013 to 8 May 2013 Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya City: Barcelona Website: http://www.sharepointeurope.com Event Type: Conference Organized By: @EuropeanSP