What is SharePoint Display Template?

Target:
Create your own display template and apply it to content search web part.

Contents:
What is display template?
 Display template file structure.
 Relations between display template and CSWP.

Image Renditions

Target:
What is the Image Renditions?

Details:
What is the Image Renditions?
Is a new concept to SharePoint 2013 .The basic purpose of image renditions is to offer differently sized versions of images uploaded into SharePoint. To take advantage of this useful feature, you need to be working on a site with publishing features enabled, and also have BLOB caching enabled for your web application.

Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)

Target:
What is the MDS?

Details:
What is the MDS?
Stand for Minimal Download Strategy. Is a SharePoint Feature on collaboration sites .The MDS feature enables collaboration sites to load pages a lot faster than SharePoint 2010. The feature accomplishes this by running all page requests through a single page, /_layouts/15/start.aspx, which looks for visual differences between new page requests and the previously loaded page, and it refreshes only the content that is different between the two pages.


SharePoint 2013 Composed Look

Target:
What is the composed look?
How to create a custom composed look?

Details:
What is the composed look?
Imagine that you want to make some changes to spruce up your home that can be done relatively quickly and easily. Your budget is limited, so you decide to paint the walls with a brighter and more appealing color. In SharePoint terms, this would be equivalent to applying a theme. Technically speaking, themes can be thought of as changes that are applied to the existing look and feel through the use of CSS.

How to Create a Pop-Up Dialog in SharePoint?

Business Cases:
§  Simple Case. (If you want to open SharePoint dialog and don't care about width, height ...).
§  Complex Case. (To control dialog properties such as title, width, callback functions ….).
§  Notification. (To notify user about any information).
§  Loading Wait Screen. (Working on it dialog).
§  Open Modal Dialog in custom action (ECB Menu).

Note : all this cases valid for application pages and web part pages.