Episode 005 with Corey Roth

At TechEd North America 2014 in June in Houston, Texas, Jeremy Thake managed to get some time to sit down with Corey Roth to talk about topics near and dear to Corey’s heart around SharePoint development. Corey is well known for his blog focusing on topics related to SharePoint Search, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), and SharePoint App Model development. Corey talks about how he learned Search and BCS development, as well as how things are going with the Office Store.

Weekly updates

• Open XML SDK open sourced
• Displaying Cross-Domain/Secure Images from SharePoint Apps
• Enabling custom ribbon buttons dynamically based on multiple selected item values using RefrechCommandUI and JSOM
• Provider-Hosted Apps vs. Microsoft Azure Apps

Show notes

• SharePoint search API documentation
  • MSDN REST/OData API
  • Corey’s article on REST API
  • MSDN CSOM API
• SharePoint search results rendering
  • Corey’s article on sorting search queries
  • MSDN Code Gallery Search samples
• Business Connectivity Services
  • Fabian Williams’s blog
  • Channel 9 videos on BCS
• Client-side rendering
  • Chris O’Brien’s post
  • Paul Hunt’s post on the new SharePoint Client Side Rendering GitHub project
• Office Store
  • Corey’s apps in the Office Store
  • AvePoint Meetings
  • DocuSign
  • PollEverywhere
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 About Corey

Corey Roth is an applications architect at Hitachi Consulting, specializing in SharePoint solutions in the oil and gas industry. Corey is a four-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint Server. He has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint 2013, Office 365, and Visual Studio 2013. When it comes to SharePoint, he specializes in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise Search, and apps. As an active member of the SharePoint community, he often speaks at user groups and conferences. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com), where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. He is also a member of the board for the Houston SharePoint Users Group. You can find Corey tweeting at @CoreyRoth.

 About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.