Publish MVC Web App on Azure Virtual Directory

Azure Web Apps are deployed as a new website on the Azure cloud. For those who have control of the server, this is similar to adding a new website on an IIS server. What if we need to deploy another web app on Azure, but we do not want to create a new web site?  Well the answer is to create a...

SharePoint App List Lookup Delete Behavior

A SharePoint list can have a field type lookup which is a reference to another list. As an example, we have a client and project lists. The project list has a client lookup field which as reference uses the client list. As in any application, we need referential integrity, and we need to prevent the...

AngularJS Minimized File Unknown Provider

We have a working AngularJS single page application (SPA), but the moment we minimized the JS files, the app breaks with an Unknown Provider error. When facing this problem, we need to look at how we are injecting dependencies into our modules because when minimizing the files, the parameters name will be changed and Angular would not be able to resolve the dependency. Implicit (bad) Injection...

SharePoint 2013 API OData For Lookup Fields

When using SharePoint data lists as the backend for an application, we can leverage the use of REST and OData to fetch the information from a data list. When the list contains lookup fields, a normal GET operation on the list only returns the id from the lookup field which may not be enough for...

SharePoint Choice Field Options with AngularJS $resource

A SharePoint data list can have a field of type = Choice which is used to provide the options for a dropdown control. When building SharePoint apps with AngularJS, we need to build the dropdown control with the options that are defined by the field’s metadata. Let’s see how we can go about to get this...