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In this post we describe some of the reasons why we recommend migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office 365.…
What is a ChatBot and how can I use it in Teams? Recently the use of Bots has become popular. Chatbots are programs that respond to everything that we introduce through a chat. Working along with Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
2018 Update: This post was written in 2015 and this solution was only tested in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 OnPremise. To use the same trick on SharePoint Online or to have more information, do not hesitate to contact…
There are plenty of organizational charts for SharePoint available over the internet. But you can also do it yourself without installing any additional solution to your farm, by using only basic SharePoint features. I will describe briefly here the…
One of my favorite SharePoint Server feature are the Word Automation Services, that include the very interesting convertor to pdf. It is available since the 2010 version but somehow it seems not to be known as much as it…
Test Driven Development is an essential process to make quality IT products by forcing us to test every requirement of the project. But how can we work with Test Driven Development for SharePoint projects? Type mocking is a must…
First of all, if your business wants a “serious” SharePoint workflow (by serious, I mean not basic) forget about SharePoint Designer: the tool is buggy and you surely will need some features that are not available with SharePoint Designer.…
A few days ago I was contacted to give a SharePoint programming training to IT developers. As I was reviewing the training content I found one topic was “programming Silverlight applications for SharePoint”. Silverlight? People still use Silverlight? I personally…
It is now official: InfoPath has been retired. More details on the official Office blog. What to say about it? Personally, I have never really liked it. The main idea of InfoPath was to be a tool for designing…
When IT projects involve many developers, every (decent) software company should have a proper revision control system. It sounds obvious but I have seen some companies not using them… Here at iXiT we were so far using SVN, which…