Programatically accessing SharePoint List using REST API in CSOM

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq; //JSON.Net

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
var webUri = new Uri("https://Your SharePoint Server/sites/IA/");
            const string userName = "username";
            const string password = "password";
            var securePassword = new SecureString();
            foreach (var c in password)
            {
                securePassword.AppendChar(c);
            }
            var credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, securePassword);
            var list = GetList( credentials);
            //print List title
            Console.WriteLine(list["Title"]);
}



public static JToken GetList(ICredentials credentials)
        {
            using (var client = new WebClient())
            {
                client.Headers.Add("X-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED", "f");
                client.Credentials = credentials;
                client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentType, "application/json;odata=verbose");
                client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Accept, "application/json;odata=verbose");
                                var result = client.DownloadString("https://Your Server name/sites/IA/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('Listname')");
                var t = JToken.Parse(result);
                return t["d"];
            }
        }

Microsoft Virtual Academy on SharePoint

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/sharepoint-at-microsoft-14475?l=xsEThVUmB_3805193246

New Features of SharePoint 2016

New Features of SharePoint 2016:

1) Emphasis on Hybrid possibilities with On-Prem SP 2016 & O365
One Drive Re-Direction: You can redirect your My Sites to your Office 365 subscription’s OneDrive for Business host Sites you follow in one place – On-Prem + O365 – Sown under Sites in App Launcher.
Hybrid Cloud Search – Unified Search Experience-  the Office 365 Search will take your On-Premises SharePoint Search Index so that it can give you results from both for the same query.

** Delve helps you discover the information that's likely to be most interesting to you right now - across Office 365

2) App Launcher & UI Changes
SharePoint 2016 introduces the App Launcher, as well as changes to the UI, to help it match the Office 365 experience.
3) Server Roles (Min Role) - You can now install just the role that you want on particular SharePoint 2016 servers. WFE/ App/ Distributed cache/Search/ Custom
4) Zero Downtime Patching - They’ve also removed the downtime previously required to update SharePoint servers.
5) Removed 5,000 View Threshold – sort of: Instead of removing this unpopular threshold, they automated the creation of Indexed Columns.
6) Increased File Size for uploads – 2 GB to 10 GB
7) Fast Site Creation - Site Collections in 1 second from 40 seconds previously
8) New Compliance Center in SharePoint 2016 - In-Place Policy Hold Center and the Compliance Center – Help you to define your own compliance polices
9) New Collaboration Experience – Touch friendly interface
10) Link Durability: Links that are shared to documents on SharePoint 2016 can still work even if the filename is changed or if it moves to a different site collection.

Office 365 Video Feature

Videos is new feature in Office 365 offering which has state of the art video streaming capabilities and in this feature videos are stored in Azure Media services which will give better end user experience for people who are viewing the videos.

 

Office 365 Planner - Microsoft's Answer to Kanban Cards

Planner , recently introduced in Office 365, is useful tool for simple task management.This tool is great for managing internal projects that have a team working on them. You can assign tasks, add due dates and have comments on the tasks to allow easy communication and collaboration within the team.

Microsoft Teams - The new chat-based workspace in Office 365

Solved Remote Event Receiver on updated will be firing multiple times in SharePoint 2013/16

 Most of you who are working on Remote Event Receivers must have encountered this issue of "Updated event getting fired multiple times". The following code should fix the issue:

Use the adding or updating events. And then update the title within the "ProcessEvent" as follows:

public SPRemoteEventResult ProcessEvent(SPRemoteEventProperties properties)
    {
        SPRemoteEventResult result = new SPRemoteEventResult();

            result.ChangedItemProperties.Add("Title", "NEW Title");
            result.Status = SPRemoteEventServiceStatus.Continue;
        return result;
    }

or

   public SPRemoteEventResult ProcessEvent(SPRemoteEventProperties properties)
        {
            SPRemoteEventResult result = new SPRemoteEventResult();
            if (properties.EventType == SPRemoteEventType.ItemAdding ||
                properties.EventType == SPRemoteEventType.ItemUpdating)
            {
                // Generate Image Search for Flower
                result.ChangedItemProperties.Add("Title", 
                    "My New Title");
                result.Status = SPRemoteEventServiceStatus.Continue;
            }
            return result;

        }


Reference:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/SharePoint-2013-Add-list-2c6e71e0

SharePoint 2013 Search References

God References for SharePoint Search:

https://sharepoint.rackspace.com/search-tutorial

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/25783.sharepoint-2013-working-with-result-sources-to-limit-search-results.aspx

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sharepoint_made_easy/2013/03/19/step-by-step-configuration-to-add-custom-refiners-in-the-refinement-panel-of-search-results-page-for-sharepoint-online/

Avoid default results in content search web part in SharePoint 2013

User \\{SearchBoxQuery?} in the Query text to avoid showing default results in the search result web part.

Reference:
https://prasadpathak.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/sharepoint2013-avoid-default-results-in-search-result-and-content-search-web-part-with-search-box/

Infopath Alternative StratusForms Form Builder

StratusForms Form Builder  is a free tool which will  help you get started creating new StratusForms forms for SharePoint. It does not contain all the possible functionality for StratusForms.
http://www.stratusforms.com/formbuilder.html

For more information on StratusForms including information on creating PeoplePickers, Encrypted fields, and other functionality please visit http://www.stratusforms.com or join the discussion on our IT Unity channel at https://www.itunity.com/community/stratusforms.