The best free SharePoint magazine published online, the DIWUG SharePoint e-Magazine, did yesterday release their sixth edition. As usual this is a great edition with a mix of articles for every aspects of the SharePoint universe. The articles are written by SharePoint community members and the magazine is compiled and managed by Mirjam van Olst and Marianne van Wanrooij.
This edition contains articles ranging from hard core Service Application federation, to SharePoint Online and Azure development to articles on how to engage your users and project teams in SharePoint. As usual - something you just must read!
In this edition I’ve participated with one article about Dynamic Ribbon customizations with Page Components. It’s quite lengthy (sorry about that) and contains a lot of code, and quite a few tricks that makes Ribbon customizations easy(ier). My idea behind the article was to show a real world implementation of a Ribbon customization, instead of any Hello World stuff. This customization actually improves the OOB user interface (IMO) and allows your users to work with Workflows much easier. You can basically take the code from the article and install it in your farms.
So here’s where to get it: