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John Adali

I am a Senior Software Engineer with Concurrency's Modern Applications practice. We specialize in developing fully customized solutions for the Windows platform, Azure PaaS, IoT, mobile devices and even Microsoft HoloLens. I mostly work with Azure and IoT today, but also dabble in other areas such as PowerBI, SSIS/SSAS, and the occasional technology that interests me.

Contributions by John Adali

SharePoint 2010 Deploy Scripts with PowerShell

Automated deployment of SharePoint solutions is an important part of any SharePoint project you may be involved with. When developing, it is acceptable (and reasonable) to manually deploy your featur...

by John Adali Mar 1, 2012

Creating Custom Edit Forms with InfoPath in SharePoint 2010

Users have the ability to display and edit properties (known as metadata) for items in SharePoint document libraries and lists. This is standard functionality that comes with SharePoint, and SharePoi...

by John Adali Jan 10, 2012

How to (finally) resolve the DelayActivity bug in SharePoint 2010 Workflows

I recently came across a problem using DelayActivity objects in custom SharePoint 2010 workflows that I’d like to discuss here, in the hopes of saving others the hours of investigation that I went th...

by John Adali Jan 10, 2012

Creating Custom Content Types with Code for SharePoint 2010

Creating content types is one of the fundamental features of SharePoint, and although you can create your own content types through the user interface of SharePoint, I’d like to show you a couple opt...

by John Adali Mar 27, 2011

Delegate Controls in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint provides a mechanism that allows developers to customize out-of-the-box functionality in pages, without the need for modifying the pages that come with SharePoint. This mechanism is provid...

by John Adali Jan 31, 2011

Search Configuration in SharePoint 2010

As a developer, I normally wouldn’t blog about non-development topics, but I find myself recently performing configuration tasks in relation to the development projects I am responsible for. With thi...

by John Adali Nov 11, 2010

Accessing External Data Using Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 is a robust and powerful technology that is part of SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has enhanced BCS with new features, services and tools in order ...

by John Adali Nov 4, 2010

Creating Offline Surveys in SharePoint 2010

Using surveys out of the box in SharePoint 2010 give site collection administrators an easy way to gather information from end users, for reporting purposes. Unfortunately, if you need any special fe...

by John Adali Jun 14, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Development: Introducing the Client Object Model

One of the new (and exciting!) features in SharePoint 2010 is the client object model for development. You can now develop applications outside of the SharePoint server environment using a rich API i...

by John Adali Mar 25, 2010