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SharePoint Search
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassF6D383549D42478E90C3CFEA148FAF74"pDid i mention the SharePoint Search is great? Indexing your fileservers, websites and public folder (see here how to index Exchange 2010 public folders: a title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806927.aspx" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806927.aspx"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806927.aspx/a) is easy to configure./p pYou should look at the logs, though. Warning can give you a good hint wher [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 1st '10 |
List members of SharePoint Groups
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass57755904A29F4658AAFD68F94F987608"pEvery SharePoint group has a setting to prevent users, who are not members of the group, to see who actually is a member. This setting works great when you use a browser to access the group. The setting can be configured on the property page of every SharePoint group./p pimg style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px" title="2010-07-29 14h36_21" border="0" alt="2010-07-2 [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 29th '10 |
CKS:EBE 3.0-Enhanced Blog Edition 3.0
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass4C5E3490673A4A19AAC0B86709DEFB73"pLike many other blogs running SharePoint, my blog uses the EBE to add more functionality to the default SharePoint blog./p pAnd since I am one of the developers of the EBE 3.0, I’m glad that we announce the release of the next release. Version 3 brings along many new features and improvements of already implemented features./p pbNew Features/b br*Ability to theme wiki pages br*Ability to export post to PDF br*Localization (French, Spani [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 16th '10 |
How To install SharePoint 2010 prerequisites automatically
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassEE3DE4F58213420A999DE69B519CF3FD"pemDon’t leave if you read “Powershell” and think “Oh my. Why does it take Powershell to do this?”. Powershell is easy to use and a great tool for this task./em/p pThis post is about installing all required components that are needed for a SharePoint 2010 installation (a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx" target="_blank"Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)/a)./p pSo what are we [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 and SharePoint
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass94E4EAB88CF14410807158F243AD600E"pDid you know that the latest SSRS have a build-in support for SharePoint lists as DataSource?/p pimg style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.hezser.de/blog/Media/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLReportingServices2008R2andSharePoint_9C12/image_5.png" width="364" height="267" /p pSo if you need arguments to update to SQL 2008 R2, this is one :-)/p/divi [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 11th '10 |
SPListItem.GetItemByUniqueId
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass4C78B2B3FA7D4D2182D54DA7EC2BA122"pDid you know you can fetch an item by its UniqueId even if it is in the recycle bin?/p pYou can even update its data while it is already recycled. I wonder if there is a scenario, where you would want to modify an already recycled ListItem… /p/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReneHezser/~4/cTqLb1z5thQ" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 7th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 SDK
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass19D1F05B403B4189992F04E6F5FD27C9"blockquote pThe Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies./p /blockquote pYou can grab it here: a title="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details [read].
Posted: Fri, May 21st '10 |
Using a custom field type in a BCS model
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassCA669B8CC73D475B9190607427A41D1B"pThe a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bcs" target="_blank"BCS Team/a (Business Connectivity Services) wrote an a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bcs/archive/2010/02/10/working-with-complex-data-types-in-business-connectivity-services.aspx" target="_blank"blog post/a about using complex formatting and custom field types within your BCS model. Obviously this post was the source for the a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff407509.aspx" [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Launch in OWL
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass75891E28A0C44EB2B64775D67186C66A"pMit einer Stammbesetzung haben wir den Launch vielen anderen SharePoint UserGroups aus dem ganzen Land gefeiert./p pimg style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.hezser.de/blog/Media/WindowsLiveWriter/SharePoint2010LaunchinOWL_84FD/image_3.png" width="420" height="278"/p pZusätzlich zum Launch haben wir unser einj [read].
Posted: Thu, May 13th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Language Packs available for download
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass70576B171D5842DBB537EB1492380D3F"pYesterday MS has released the language packs to the public. What is a language pack?/p blockquote pLanguage packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010./p pWord breakers and stemmers enable you to efficiently and effectively search across content on SharePoint sites and site col [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10 |
New Contoso Hyper-V with SharePoint 2010 RTM
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass02641D2D8AF244AF99122EB7A7CFCCE9"pMicrosoft has published a new version of the Contoso VM for evaluating SharePoint 2010. Grab it here: /p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ceamp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)/a/p pTake a close look at the Instructions on the download page./p pVirtual machine “a” contains the following pre-config [read].
Posted: Sun, May 9th '10 |
RSS feed for Knowledgebase Articles
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassA793D3BABEA346CD99F357AC4CA5327D"pa href="http://support.microsoft.com/selectindex/?target=rss" target="_blank"The RSS Feed Product Index/a offers a feed with new KB articles for many products./p pSharePoint relevant feeds are:/p ul lia href="http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=14978amp;ln=en-us"Access Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/a/li lia href="http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12303amp;ln=en-us"Forefront Security for Share [read].
Posted: Fri, May 7th '10 |
Evaluation Keys for SharePoint Server 2010, Search Server and Project Server
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassBF1CE53D8CE943BAB298FF39B6A4F23D"pLooking through the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C57556FF-8DF0-44FD-ABA6-3DF01B9F80CEamp;amp;displaylang=enamp;displaylang=en#filelist" target="_blank"SPModule/a Powershell Script, I found an interesting comment in the script:/p blockquote pWrite-Verbose quot;You didn't provide a PID Key, looks like I'll have to give you a trial key.quot;/p pswitch ($PhysicalSKU) br { br [read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
Warning: Vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass25BFCC52A0844943A40EB5E49D3ED8D0"pIf you are running your own SharePoint infrastructure, you should take a look at a Security Advisory: a title="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/983438.mspx" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/983438.mspx"http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/983438.mspx/a/p blockquote pMicrosoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 30th '10 |
SiteDirectory for SharePoint 2010
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass6EA73D93A2B3443194A6551420FB3899"pSP 2010 does not bring a SiteDirectory template. Microsoft Consulting Services UK have released a CodePlex version of a SiteDirectory for SharePoint 2010: a title="http://spsitedirectory2010.codeplex.com/" href="http://spsitedirectory2010.codeplex.com/"http://spsitedirectory2010.codeplex.com//a/p blockquote h4What is the Purpose of the Site Directory for SharePoint 2010?/h4 pSharePoint 2007 used to have a type of Site Called Site Director [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
Do not install Office 2010 x64
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassDBA6813050414F83B8F51BBB6D225715"pNow you will think “Why not?”. Some time ago I read a blog post which said “If you are asking yourself if you want to install Office 2010 as 64bit version, you should install the x86 version”. Why that?/p pThe reason is, that if you are asking yourself you worry about incompatibility with over software. And you are right! If you install x64, all add-ins you use have to be x64 as well. You should however install x64, if you need mo [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 25th '10 |
2010 available on MSDN
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassFC9D48365B5445CA89E072CEAB9AE2BF"pSharePoint and Office are now available via MSDN subscription:/p pa title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss/a/p/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReneHezser/~4/4gVBRUSGtXA" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 22nd '10 |
Server Core Roles and Features in 2008 R2
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass12D52F1538364F88A5AA371B368FDC07"pMaybe you’ve already set up a core server. Or you are thinking about it./p pAnyway. An overview of the available features for each version of Windows Server 2008 R2 can be found here: a title="http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2010/02/03/server-core-roles-and-features-in-2008-r2.aspx" href="http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2010/02/03/server-core-roles-and-features-in-2008-r2.aspx"http://blogs.d [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 20th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 = RTM
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass433856B882C0449580E934DD9AABA9E9"pAs you can read on the a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/16/sharepoint-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint Team Blog/a, SharePoint 2010 has reached RTM status. /p pThere is word about availability on MSDN./p blockquote pOur Volume License customers with active Software Assurance (SA) on these products will be one of the first to receive the 2010 set of products. They will be able to download the product [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
Visual Studio 2010 with SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassCE0E1933F9014A77872895AF6B583527"pA quick test shows that the just released Visual Studio 2010 works on my SP 2010 Beta 2 VM./p pI could open a project, hit F5 to deploy it and debug successfully./p/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReneHezser/~4/SDOUNgsEtdg" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10 |
Working with large lists in SharePoint 2010
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass51976358713141CCB97095267F442B62"pWhat is a large list? What might be the problem if I store 1 million documents in a document library? Is there an improvement from WSS 3 to SharePoint Foundation?/p pIf you want answers to the questions, take a look at a great post at the “a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/" target="_blank"Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog/a”. /p pA summary to the problem:/p blockquote pAny time you ask for content from SharePoin [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10 |
Treffen der OWL SharePoint UserGroup
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassC7CC863BE578403287C8C3DBFAA4E6DF"pAm 13. April werden wir uns wieder um 18h in Paderborn treffen. (Net at Work Netzwerksysteme GmbH, Am Hoppenhof 32, a href="http://www.netatwork.de/img/Anfahrtsskizze.pdf" target="_blank"Anfahrtsbeschreibung/a)./p pAls Thema ist ein Erfahrungsbereicht über die Migration von Lotus Domino/Notes nach SharePoint 2007 hören. Vielen Dank schon einmal an a href="http://www.campus-consult.de/" target="_blank"Campus Consult/a./p pa href="http:// [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 8th '10 |
VMWare and Disk activity on .vmem file
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass26B38CCF1DD148E4A1F0B72F30DAD495"pEvery time I suspend a VM on my VMWare Workstation, there is a long running disk activity on the associated vmem file. This file is a copy of the virtual machines pagefile running on the host instead of the guest./p pSuspending a VM shows a progress bar, which is pretty fast. But even a long time (minutes) after it has vanished, the disk activity still continues./p pThe setting strongmainMem.useNamedFile = quot;FALSEquot; /strongwill conf [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 5th '10 |
The IWebPartField Interface versus the ASP.NET Lifecycle
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass6E6814C74C224F778DB95A12C63F3E22"pA Webpart receives a filter value through the a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.webparts.iwebpartfield(VS.80).aspx" target="_blank"IWebPartField interface/a. The example over at MSDN was simple and clean. So I adopted the code to my Webpart./p pA common scenario would be to create controls based on the received filter value. E.g. query a list for the passed filter value, and display the item from th [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 3rd '10 |
Which SharePoint version am I running?
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass13354557852649E4B6808894F675CFEF"pSolutions which were developed for SharePoint Services V3 will most likely continue to work if you use them in a SharePoint Foundation environment./p pBut how do you find out which version your are dealing with? This is a question which might be important if you use V3 CSS elements which are not available under SharePoint Foundation./p pThe SharePoint version can be found from from the SPFarm.Local.BuildVersion property. For SharePoint V3 [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 2nd '10 |
Modify Overwrite Policy for an EventLog created by an EventLogInstaller
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass2EB400B4E0E9457F9D56CD9BDF7E5377"pDeveloping a Windows Service is a common task. Creating an EventLog for this service also is a common practice. The EventLog can be created with a ServiceInstaller (a class which inherits from System.Configuration.Install.Installer)./p pThis is how an Eventlog can be added during the installation with a custom Installer class:/p div style="padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;float:none;padding-t [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 22nd '10 |
2010 RTM date
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass03CAAC4FBC0243FE99C777DD9056B93E"p2010? Which 2010? /p pOffice and SharePoint. They will reach RTM status in April. Availability is May 12th and June for “regular customers”./p pa href="http://www.microsoft.de/2010launch"http://www.microsoft.de/2010launch/a/p pSource: a href="http://blogs.technet.com/zweitausendzehn/archive/2010/03/05/rtm-und-launch-termin-technologiegarantie.aspx" target="_blank"RTM- und Launch-Termin, Technologiegarantie/a/p/divimg src="http://feeds [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 6th '10 |
PDF iFilter Comparison
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassCA489B162B7C42288F164B082BEDE77C"pCrawling PDF files can be a long running process with the Adobe PDF iFilter. We already knew that./p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/opal" target="_blank"Jie Li/a compared 3 iFilters for indexing PDF files./p pTo make it short, the Adobe iFilter takes roughly about 33 times the time compared to the Foxit iFilter 2 on that particular server./p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2010/02/09/pdf-ifilter-test-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx" [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
Content Deployment Error (stsadm –o export)
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassB46CB8CA0E0246428A483C5BA663A3BF"pRecently I wanted to copy a subweb to a new site collection, so it will there be the rootweb. How can the web be moved? stsadm export is your friend. At least I thought…/p blockquote pError: Specified cast is not valid. br at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetFileAsByteArray(String bstrUrl, String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Boolean bHonorLevel, Byte iLevel, OpenBinaryFlags grfob) br at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library. [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
Shrink SQL log files
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass3712E1BF93964F69B0CCD89C34C6F59A"pDepending on the configuration of you databases, the log files (*.ldf) can be very large. See a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa173531(SQL.80).aspx" target="_blank"Selecting a Recovery Model/a./p pShould I continue reading?/p blockquote pIf your databases are configured to use the FULL recovery model, the log files are very large and you need some free space, you can use this SQL script to shrink them. So keep on reading : [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
Office documents open read-only in SharePoint
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass14E4E22A209B4FDDA50A4C2E463DFF6E"pBecause there are many questions about this behavior, I want to blog about it./p pYou might have noticed, that if you simply click on a document, it will be opened in read-only mode. You have to use the dropdown and select “Edit in …” to open it with read-write access./p pThere is a Knowledgebase article available, which describes the problem and offers a solution: a title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870853/en-us" href="http:// [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 28th '10 |
Office 2007 + SharePoint Document Library = Prompt for Credentials
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass4B5EB6A040BC4A51B3C6044877327007"pstrongProblem:/strong/p pEven if you configure your SharePoint site as Intranet in the Internet Explorer, you will be prompted for user credentials when you open an Office document with Office 2007./p pThis is true, if you haven’t configured a proxy in your browser, access your SharePoint site with a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) and you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7./p pstrongCause:/strong/p p(Quote from the KB aticle below [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 19th '10 |
SharePoint 2010, was ist neu?
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass6CA254E044954CDF8515F8B9CBCEEB5B"h3/h3 pMicrosoft hat 2 Dokument zum Download bereit gestellt, in denen neue Features beschrieben werden./p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=20d0a2df-75c4-49f8-a9df-0f6b6ce2432camp;DisplayLang=de" target="_blank"SharePoint Foundation 2010-Dokument: Neue Features in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010/a/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C7A0C60B-2BBA-4F04-A784-331EAB681131am [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 18th '10 |
SharePoint Usergroup OWL
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass64D4F793119643679CB792901FB8ACBA"p14 Teilnehmer. Super! Ich hoffe wir dürfen alle neuen Gesichter auch bei den nächsten Treffen begrüßen./p p div style="padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;float:none;padding-top:0px" id="scid:8747F07C-CDE8-481f-B0DF-C6CFD074BF67:4c30bf2e-789d-40fd-9a9b-a2443c4326e7" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"a href="http://www.hezser.de/blog/Media/WindowsLiveWriter/SharePointUsergroupOWL_13085/IMG_ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 16th '10 |
News about Memory Leaks in SharePoint
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassEE5DA7FA30FC4F15A1FE08ED43D5083C"pThere is some interesting new information about SharePoint eating up memory. Take a look at the details in the post a href="http://todd-carter.com/post/2010/02/08/SharePointe28099s-Sasquatch-Memory-Leak.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak/a over at a href="http://todd-carter.com/" target="_blank"Todd Carters/a blog./p pThe evil seems to be many HttpApplications, which are not disposed properly. So every request creat [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
Visual Studio 2010 RC
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassFBD50F460D7645AC892E84AFABCD88C8"pI’ve just seen that the RC is available via MSDN./p pSilverlight 4 is not supported in the RC it says in the notes. Have to try SharePoint Development against the Beta 2…/p/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReneHezser/~4/KXRmd9gomQw" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
Update to “Upload Files and Images” field type
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClass8B4F3E0961D14E5C827B9835C6CD1C6B"pI’ve fixed a bug with my a title="Custom Field – Upload Files and Images" href="http://www.hezser.de/blog/archive/2009/02/25/custom-field-�-upload-files-and-images.aspx"Custom Field – Upload Files and Images/a./p/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReneHezser/~4/bbfiNvvt-tU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 6th '10 |
OWL SharePoint Usergroup
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassC271D62148A04C919E445D280219E39E"pDurch die Feiertage, den Jahreswechsel und einfach verdammt viel zu tun zu haben hat sich der Termin für das nächste SharePoint Usergroup Treffen in OWL leider hingezogen./p pDoch jetzt steht er: Wir sind am 16.2.2010 wieder in Bielefeld bei der a href="http://www.invent.de/" target="_blank"invent Software-Entwicklung GmbH/a zu Gast. Start ist wie immer 18h./p pEine Anfahrtsbeschreibung gibt es a href="http://www.invent.de/SiteCollectio [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 4th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Contoso VM
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassF149A68FE0A6441B9AE5FB3181EA959E"pFirst: The VM is great! Almost everything you’ll need to test or show off with is included in the VM./p pWell, almost. There is some software I needed to install in order to get everything working. Here is a list of problems and solutions:/p p /p pstrongProblem/strong: Cannot connect external lists to Outlook/p pa title="http://blogs.msdn.com/taj/archive/2009/11/26/error-synching-bcs-external-list-to-outlook-or-workspace.aspx" href="ht [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 2nd '10 |
Contoso SharePoint 2010 available
René Hézser
div class="ExternalClassCE7041401A61475D8DD6BABB4E3821DE"pIf you want to try SharePoint 2010 without the hassle of installing and configuring it with over 200 demo accounts, you can now download a preconfigured Hyper-V VM from Microsoft: a title="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2amp;displaylang=en" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2amp;displaylang=en"http://www.microsoft.c [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
AllowWindowsClientInstall
René Hézser
That is the magic line. It will allow us to install SharePoint Federation/Server 2010 on Vista and Windows 7 (both x64).
The only missing part is the public beta :-(
Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869%28office.14%29.aspx [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 news
René Hézser
SharePoint Services are now “SharePoint Foundation 2010” SharePoint Foundation 2010 General Reference on MSDN Any much more… But there are plenty of other bloggers out there (at the SharePoint Conference). A good place to start with their posts is here: http://www.planetsharepoint.org/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint Conference – Keynote
René Hézser
For all of you who can’t attend the Conference live: The keynote will be streamed live. Go to http://www.mssharepointconference.com and join the keynote… [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
Work in progress…
René Hézser
Da wird er schon noch reinwachsen. Und wenn nicht, dann wird er vielleicht auf der SharePoint Konferenz dabei sein ;-) [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 9th '09 |
Getting started with Silverlight development
René Hézser
Tim Heuer has written 7 posts about Silverlight development. So if you haven’t started with Silverlight but plan to, have a look at his post series. Part 1: Really getting started – the tools you need and getting your first Hello World Part 2: Defining UI Layout – understanding layout and using Blend to help Part 3: Accessing data – how to get data from where Part 4: Binding the data – once you get the data, how can you use it? Part 5: Integrating additional controls – using con [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
CodePlex project
René Hézser
Today I’ve created a CodePlex project for some of my SharePoint developments. Interesting to see what I’ve done so far :-) The link is http://renehezser.codeplex.com/ Webparts Access Fileserver Data via SharePoint Display all my alerts Webpart to show Sitecollections/Subwebs TagCloud Webpart Display a single ListItem Custom Fields Upload Files and Images Features .NET 3.5 and Silverlight Control Adapter Navigation for Wikis Event Handler Picture Library and Exif data EventH [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 2nd '09 |
Develop your own Windows Service
René Hézser
Writing a Windows Service is very easy. Deploying it with a Setup is an easy task as well. But be careful what option you set for the failure behavior! In my case I installed the service with “Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset”. Do not use critical as ErrorControl value. It will force a reboot of the server, if the services fails to start. Fortunately booting with “Last known good configuration” worked for me and I could uninstall the service… [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 30th '09 |
Disable Loopback Check?
René Hézser
A while ago Microsoft released an update, which prevents that you can log on locally to a website which has a FQDN. To resolve issues with e.g. the crawling a KB article has been published. You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version You can disable the loopback check completely, or just for the used FQDNs. This would be the better way. Manually setting the required registry entries on every SharePoint serv [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 28th '09 |
ShareConnect - Session
René Hézser
Wie versprochen gibt es hier meine Präsentation und das Demo Projekt zum Download: Präsentation Code [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 23rd '09 |
Important: Be careful when installing WSS August Cumulative Update
René Hézser
Due to schema and stored procedure changes coming with the August CU databases with a patch level older than the August CU cannot be upgraded to August CU through database attach method. More… [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 14th '09 |
Get Central Administration Webapplication
René Hézser
With this code you can get the central administration webapplication. 1: private static SPWebApplication GetCentralAdministrationWebApplication()
2: {
3: SPWebService contentService = SPWebService.ContentService;
4: var service = contentService.Farm.Services.GetValue("WSS_Administration");
5: SPWebApplicationCollection webApplications = service.WebApplications;
6: foreach (SPWebApplication webApplication in webApplications)
7: {
8: return webApplication;
9: }
[read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
Word to SharePoint
René Hézser
A picture will you tell more than words: Another great project on CodePlex. –> http://wordtosharepoint.codeplex.com/ Project Description A SharePoint Feature that allows selection of Word 2007 documents for content conversion to a selected WebpageLibrary. The solution also extracts, transfers and re-links images to a selected image library. [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 17th '09 |
Active Directory User Editor
René Hézser
SharePoint is importing user information from the Active Directory through the Shared Services Provider (if you have MOSS). Wouldn’t it be nice if users could “manage themselves”? That would save lots of time for the Admins :-) The answer is here: http://nominesptools.codeplex.com/ 5 different types of properties fields: Simple TextBox, DropDownList/ListBox (with predefined values), People Picker, Date Picker with calendar. Multi-domain compatible. Nearly Any Active Directory property c [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 17th '09 |
Control.ClientID has wrong value
René Hézser
An ASP.NET Controls has a ClientID property. SharePoint Controls inherit from the ASP.NET Controls. The property will give you the ID, the rendered control will have in the HTML source. There is one thing to remember: The ClientID is valid only, if the control has been added to the Controls of the Page! ID before adding the control ID after adding the control FilterButton ctl00_m_Webpart1_FilterButton So if you need the ClientID e.g. to pass it to a JavaScript to be able to find the contro [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 11th '09 |
Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine
René Hézser
With Windows 7 you will be able to boot a VHD. Scott Hanselman has posted an article about creating a VHD from the Windows 7 installation bits. Cool stuff :-) Read about it on his blog. A quickly set up development box on your desktop/notebook without the overhead of VMWare or Virtual PC. [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 5th '09 |
New WSPBuilder version
René Hézser
Carsten Keutmann has released a new version of his great WSPBuilder. Here are the new features:
A Reference folder under GAC and 80/Bin is now supported for large dlls that do not need reflection for SafeControls and Permissions.
New menu function "Recycle the Windows SharePoint Services Timer" implemented on WSPBuilder Extensions.
Refactoring of "Copy to GAC" in order to improve the functionality.
Bug fixed! "Unable to get solution id from manifest: Unable to extract manifest.xml ..." error fo [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 4th '09 |
Automate iFilter and PDF Indexing support
René Hézser
Setting up your SharePoint farm to be able to crawl PDF files and show the PDF icon is a manual task which involves changing the registry. If you don’t want to go through the steps manually, try the stsadm command from here: http://notesfor.net/post/2009/07/14/Automate-iFilter-and-PDF-Indexing-support-to-a-SharePoint-Farm.aspx You can find the CodePlex site here: http://notesforsearchfilter.codeplex.com/ After the stsadm extension has been installed, setting up PDF support is easy: 1: stsad [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Screenshot
René Hézser
Look at this:
Hans Brender has posted a blog article (in Germany) with this screenshot.
I can’t wait to get hold of the bits :-) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 15th '09 |
test
René Hézser
1: protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e) 2: { 3: base.OnPreRender(e); 4: try 5: { 6: SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web; 7: SPList list = SPContext.Current.List; 8: 9: CacheData(web, list); 10: FillTreeView(); 11: 12: if (_Debug) 13: { 14: TraceProvider.UnregisterTraceProvider(); 15: } 16: } 17: catch (Exception ex) 18: { 19: ShowError("Error in OnPreRender: " + ex); 20: } 21: } [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Update: Custom Field – Upload Files and Images
René Hézser
Inserted links are now relative. Go to the original post for more information and the download link. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
free DocAve SQL Restore Controller
René Hézser
An item level restore solution is available at AvePoint. The DocAve SQL Restore Controller care restore items, sites and site collections from a SQL or DPM database, or a backup. If you click on the download link, you have to provide an email address. A download link will be sent to you. The files you have to download are 414 MB (Manager) and 40 MB for the Agent. But the download server is fast :-) After the installation you can login to the website as admin/admin. Sometimes reading the document [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Do you stsadm –o backup?
René Hézser
Then you should install the SP2 and the April (or June) CU for SharePoint. setting site collections to read-only during backups fixes to Backup/Restore of publishing sites Zac Smith has posted an article about the why. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Using SharePoint Controls
René Hézser
Back from vacation. 1 week with an offline version of feeds is hard. So I read the postings I got closely :-) One post I do want to bring your attention to, is about SharePoint Controls. My post about using the SharePoint Controls shows how to use the controls you see in forms (TextField, NumberField, LookupField…). There are plenty of SharePoint controls, which you can use. Robin Meure has written a post “re-using SharePoint controls”. The controls in his post are: WebApplicationSelecto [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 12th '09 |
SharePoint SP2 and expired license update
René Hézser
If you ran into the expired license issue after applying the Service Pack 2, you will be happy to know Microsoft has released an update to resolve the issue.
Quote from the SharePoint Team Blog:
The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expirat [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 |
.NET 3.5 and Silverlight
René Hézser
Using AJAX or Silverlight from within SharePoint in Webparts requires you to modify the web.config to support the technology. I don’t mention that you have to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Silverlight to be able to use it… Instead of changing the web.config manually (.NET Framework 3.5 AJAX und Silverlight in SharePoint registrieren von Fabian Moritz), you can use my features. They do all the necessary changes for you. The Silverlight feature requires the .Net 3.5 feature. Install [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 24th '09 |
CKS:EBE on sharepoint.microsoft.com
René Hézser
Blogs on the SharePoint sites from Microsoft are using the CKS:EBE. The first one to move is Yvonne M. Harryman, who is moving her blog from Wordpress to http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/SharePointBeacon. I am sure other blogs will use the Enhanced Blog Edition soon. It is great to see that your own work is useful :-) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
SPQuery with lookup columns returns no data
René Hézser
An SPQuery for lookup columns should be easy. Start the famous U2U Caml Editor, configure your query, and query the list. This query will get a result if the lookup column stores something like “1;#1”. But if its value is e.g. “1;#Title”, the query will not return an item. So what can we do about it? Add a LookupId='TRUE' to your query, so it will look like this: 1:
2:
3:
4: 2
5:
6:
.ExternalClass35918CEE0E7D4F19885BF38E51EE61D6 .csharpcode, .ExternalClass359 [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
SharePointConsole Updated
René Hézser
My SharePointConsole has some new commands. If you don’t know it, it is a command line utility which allows you to perform some common tasks. Currently the theese commands are implemented: EnumContentTypes CreateContentType RenameContentType DeleteContentType DeleteAllListItems ShowInNewForm ShowInEditForm ShowInDisplayForm DeleteAllVersions RecycleAllVersions SetTitleWithFilename SetSearchCenterUrl SystemUpdate FeatureManager EmptyRecycleBin Download the SharePointConsole [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
Solution deployment fails
René Hézser
Deploying a SharePoint solution (.wsp file) to a SharePoint farm should be easy. Even if the farm contains 4 SharePoint Servers. Just stsadm –o addsolution –filename solution.wsp. Some waiting so the deployment is done on every server, and we should be happy. Well, the result was an Error in the solution status. Additionally the ULS log showed Updating SPPersistedObject SolutionOperationStatus Name=SolutionOperationStatus Parent=SPSolutionLanguagePack Name=0. Version: -1 Ensure: 0, HashCode [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
Navigation for Wikis
René Hézser
The Wiki functionality SharePoint offers is great for quickly writing down stuff. It is often used for Server documentation. Creating new pages is easy, and you can link pages. The ability to format the text is nothing fancy, but most of the time enough :-) Uploading images can be done with my custom field type, which stores images and documents in existing libraries. After the upload, a link is inserted into the Wiki body. –> Custom Field – Upload Files and Images Now I want to introduce [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
nächste SharePoint UserGroup am 16.6. – Themen
René Hézser
Für die nächste UG haben wir die folgenden Themenvorschläge zusammengetragen. Troubleshooting Tools / Erweiterungen TFS durchsuchen SharePoint Designer Entwicklung (Webpart, Eventhandler...) InfoPath Excel Services Reporting Services Eine Abstimmung habe ich auch eingerichtet. –> Abstimmung [read].
Posted: Sun, May 17th '09 |
BASTA! 2009 – Ich bin dabei
René Hézser
Auf der diesjährigen BASTA! in Mainz Ende September werde ich als Redner dabei sein. Wie auch schon auf der SharePoint Konferenz in München, werde ich einen Vortrag über Webpart Entwicklung halten. Wer kommen möchte, kann noch den Early Bird Rabatt bis zum 29. Juni mitnehmen. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Erste OWL SharePoint UserGroup
René Hézser
Gestern hat die erste SharePoint UserGroup in Paderborn stattgefunden. Ich habe einiges zum BDC erzählt. Um die Funktionalität zu erklären, haben wir einen Webservice geschrieben, diesen mit dem BDC Editor aus dem MOSS SDK zu einem BDC Modell verarbeitet, und schließlich eingebunden und genutzt. Zu Anfang waren wir zu Acht. Vielleicht lässt sich diese Zahl ja bei der nächsten Ausgabe noch steigern? Vielen Dank an die Teilnehmer für das Interesse und den gemütlichen Gedankenaustausch! Hi [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
SharePoint UserGroup am 12. Mai
René Hézser
Bisher gibt es genau eine Anmeldung zur UserGroup. Deshalb meine Bitte an alle die gerne dabei sein möchten: Schreibt doch eine Email an “ug-owl (at) mysharepoint.de” damit wir besser planen können. Weiter Informationen wie immer bei Michael im SharePoint Community Wiki: http://live.sharepointcommunity.de/wiki/Wiki-Seiten/OWL.aspx [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
Site Collections with managed paths
René Hézser
Managed paths are great for creating many site collections under one URL. You should not forget to create a site collection at the root of the web application. There is a KB article about this. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 3rd '09 |
Installation of SharePoint SP2 fails
René Hézser
During the update, you can run into the following exception: Exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) is not supported in this edition of SQL Server. Configuration option 'show advanced options' changed from 0 to 1. Run the RECONFIGURE statement to install. To solve the issue and be able to install the SP2 to your SharePoint Servers, execute the SQL commands. 1: exec sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
2: GO
3: RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE;
[read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
SP2 for Office, SharePoint…
René Hézser
Changes There are Excel files, which list all changes by the SP2 WSS SP2 Office Servers SP2 And the KB article, with more information: Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2 Description of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2) And finally the downloads… Client The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 Download (http://www.microsoft.com [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Updated SDK
René Hézser
Microsoft has released a new version of the SharePoint SDK. Go and grab it :-) WSS 3.0 SDK Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK So what is new in the release? WSS Expanded documentation of backup and restore features Complete documentation of Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Backup New documentation of the administrative object model Revised Web Part documentation More migration support Expanded and updated reference documentation MOSS Custom Federated Search Web Part with a Credent [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 27th '09 |
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System due to ship April 28th
René Hézser
The SP2 will be released later this month. For SharePoint there will be various improvements and new stsadm commands. new stsadm command to scan for compatibility for SharePoint 2010 (e.g. not CAML custom fields) broader support for browsers improvements to form based authentication and much more (see link above) [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09 |
Next SharePoint – Microsoft SharePoint (Server) 2010
René Hézser
The next SharePoint Server will be “Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010”. No more Office in the server product names. That will make it much easier to talk about the products. We can forget SharePoint 14. Welcome SharePoint 2010!
You can read the announcement at the official SharePoint Blog.
The SharePoint Services will keep the name and have many new features. What exactly these features might be, is still in the dark :-( [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
Microsoft Blog – Fix It
René Hézser
How often are you asked by family members or friends “I have a problem with my computer. Can you take a look at it?” A couple of times I’ve been asked to fix a CD-Rom, which has disappeared from the explorer. In the device manager it had an error code 39. Instead of letting the other fiddle with registry settings, you can tell them to install the fix “CD drive or DVD drive is missing in Windows XP or Vista”. More fixes are available on the “Microsoft Fix it BLOG” [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
René Hézser
The SP1 has been released. You can download it here. (Release Notes) Some changes to make the deployment easier: Slipstream – You are now able to integrate the base installation with service packs (or Hotfixes) and install in a single step. Service Pack Uninstall – You are now able to uninstall only the Service Pack (without removing the whole instance) Report Builder 2.0 Click Once capability [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 14th '09 |
How To get the default page from a website
René Hézser
This post is a follow up for my post “Get default page Url”. When you access an SPWeb through a URL in your browser, you will be redirected to the default page like home.aspx. Each SPWeb has a RootFolder. And this SPFolder has a property “WelcomePage”. This property stores the relative path to the default page like “wiki pages/home.aspx”. 1: SPContext.Current.Web.RootFolder.WelcomePage
.ExternalClassE2E83B19093A4F479EA42C52C6077243 .csharpcode, .ExternalClassE2E83B19093A4F479EA42 [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 12th '09 |
Control Adapters
René Hézser
With a Control Adapter you can customize the rendering of an attached control. Certain control methods can be overridden with custom code, to make the control behave differently. Some Control Adapters for SharePoint, which already exist: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter Modifies to be WebPartZone Adapter Replaces the tag with a tag in Webpart zones Web Slice Control adapter for MOSS 2007 The following example will demonstrate how [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 10th '09 |
Summary: Common Coding Issues
René Hézser
The Best Practice MSDN page has some interesting hints to generate better code. In this post I write about some point of that article, provide samples and fix bugs which are in the MSDN article. Caching You should only cache thread safe objects. What’s that? This means, that you should only cache objects, which can not be changed from the outside of your code. An itemCollection (as list.Items) is changed, if another user adds an item. But if you cache a DataTable which you can get from an item [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 8th '09 |
Incompatible Web Part markup detected
René Hézser
For months the Webpart could be installed through a solution/feature without any problems. Then I had to change something in the code. When I tried to upgrade the solution to see the changes, the Webpart could not be added to a page anymore. The assembly is deployed to the GAC through the solution. It has been upgraded. Looking at the xml file in my solution did not show any errors. It looks fine. The features deployed a .webpart in the Webpart catalog. That looks fine as well. So what caused th [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 8th '09 |
Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects
René Hézser
A couple of days ago Microsoft released 10 themes for SharePoint. They provided solutions for you, so that you can build features to install and deploy the themes on your SharePoint farm. The problem with the provided themes is, that they are only meant to be installed on English SharePoint sites! The path to the images is hard coded to the English LCID.
Daniel Brown has already created a solution which you can install. His solution has the same limitation with the language as the provided sampl [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
SharePoint Designer for free? Yes!
René Hézser
As I’ve mentioned earlier, the SPD can be downloaded from Microsoft for free.
All you have to do is register before you can download the SharePoint Designer.
So don’t wait, and get it :-) Please remember, that if you modify a SharePoint page, it will be stored in the database and loose its reference to the template. This is called unghosted. Joel Oleson has written a great article about this. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
SPWeb/SPSite.Dispose()
René Hézser
By now most of you should know that there is a SharePoint Diagnostics Tool. This really is a great tool, since it scans your assemblies for memory leaks.
You should also know, that there is an occasion you can create a memory leak which the tool will not recognize.
1: using (var site = new SPSite("http://yoururl")) 2: { 3: SPWeb web = null; 4: try 5: { 6: web = site.OpenWeb(); 7: // do something with this web 8: // ... 9: // done. don't need it anymore. but i need another web 10: web = [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 29th '09 |
OWL SharePoint Usergroup am 12. Mai
René Hézser
Nach derzeitiger Planung wird die erste SharePoint Usergroup in OWL am 12. Mai in Paderborn stattfinden. Weitere Informationen wird es hier, und auf der SharePoint Community Webseite geben. [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 23rd '09 |
Publish Word documents to a SharePoint Wiki
René Hézser
How do you copy the content from a Word document to a Wiki library? A simple Copy&Paste does not work, as it omits the pictures from the document. Andreas Strothmann has posted a interesting way for deploying Word docs to a Wiki library. His steps are: Open your Word document Save it as docx if it is an old doc Publish the document to a SharePoint Blog Note: the pictures included in the Word document will be uploaded to the Blog picture library! So do not delete the Blog site later, and [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 17th '09 |
SharePoint Designer for free?
René Hézser
As Bill Simser posts in his blog, the SharePoint Designer will be available for free download from April 1st. [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 14th '09 |
SharePoint and Database Maintenance
René Hézser
In this post I would like to point to “an issue” with the Database Maintenance for Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies. It shows a stored procedure, which will defragment the index of a database. How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases The problem is that it is mentioned nowhere, that the stored procedure requires the Enterprise version of the SQL Server 2005! [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 13th '09 |
Issues in WSS V2
René Hézser
Responses to items in an Issue list (SPListIssue) are new version in WSS V3. WSS V2 lacks the ability to use versions for lists. So what did Microsoft do that an Issue list behaves like it is using versions? In WSS V2 items in a single “thread” all have different ItemIDs. To group them together, all have the same IssueID. This is the ItemID from the original item. A single issue in WSS V2 could look like this: In WSS V3 it should look like this: But how can we move/copy the item from [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 12th '09 |
Apply a LDAP Filter for User Profile Import
René Hézser
With MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) you can import user profiles from an Active Directory or LDAP. By default, it will import user profiles from the current domain. The import will include all user objects, since the default LDAP filter is:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))
Deactivated and deleted accounts will appear in the SharePoint user database.
The filter value can be adjusted, to only import active user objects.
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 12th '09 |
New Server in the farm – Trial?
René Hézser
Imagine you have a working SharePoint Server Farm with a valid license. The great thing about SharePoint is that you can extend an existing farm with new servers, to split roles or increase performance/redundancy. Now you add a new Server to the farm. So you install SharePoint, make sure it has the same patches installed as the rest of the farm, and add it to the farm by connecting it to the existing configuration database. But wait… what key did you use to install the server? Did you use the [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
Custom Field – Upload Files and Images
René Hézser
If you know my WikiWebpart or DiscussionListUploader, you know that there are some occasions where you want to upload a file, and place a link to it to another field. The above solutions are only for the certain list type. My new custom field can be used on every list or library! Just add the field to one of your lists/libraries: It will automatically try to find local libraries for documents and images to store the uploaded files and images. One of the available list fields will be used to i [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 25th '09 |
How to use the SharePoint Web Controls – Update
René Hézser
My post How to use the SharePoint Web Controls has been updated. It now shows how to use a generic control for each SPField, instead of picking the corresponding SharePoint Web Control. 1: BaseFieldControl webControl = field.FieldRenderingControl;
2: webControl.ListId = list.ID;
3: webControl.ItemId = item.ID;
4: webControl.FieldName = field.Title;
5: webControl.ID = GetControlID(field);
6: webControl.ControlMode = mode;
.ExternalClassAC862623DCB945F0B7A0F7E06D96FB5A .cshar [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 22nd '09 |
The file manifest.xml does not exist in the solution package
René Hézser
Creating a SharePoint solution file (which is a cab file renamed to wsp), can cause problems if the size of the file would exceed the space on an 1.44MB disk. 1.44MB? What the…? The default values for makecab, which is used for generating the cab file, will prevent the creation of a valid cab file :-( Thanks to Eugene Rosenfeld for finding this one. [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 15th '09 |
SharePoint Konferenz
René Hézser
Dieser Post ist noch ein Nachtrag zur SharePoint Konferenz in München. Mein Fazit zur Veranstaltung: Eine Gelungene Veranstaltung mit hochkarätigen Vorträgen! Deshalb geht mein Dank an den Veranstalter mit seinem Team, die verschiedenen Sprecher und natürlich an die Teilnehmer der Konferenz. Ein Gedankenaustausch durch zahlreiche Gespräche zwischen den Beteiligten war jederzeit möglich. Allein diese Tatsache ist auf Konferenzen ein Grund zur Teilnahme. Wo sonst kann man sich mir so viel [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 15th '09 |
CKS:EBE
René Hézser
Finally I found the time to enable the Enhanced Blog Edition on my blog. As you can see, the layout did change :-) The EBE also brings some new functionality like comment spam detection, trackbacks and a cleaner RSS feed. So if you are using the old URL for my RSS feed, please update it to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ReneHezser The new feed URL may result in duplicate RSS items. The EBE is not a final version. So if something is not working as expected, please let me know. [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 15th '09 |
Next SharePoint
René Hézser
Here is some information about the next release of SharePoint. FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, will be available as a part of the next release of the Microsoft Office system. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/02/10/microsoft-unveils-new-enterprise-search-road-map.aspx As part of this vision, and feedback from a wide variety of customers, PerformancePoin [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 12th '09 |
SharePoint Konferenz Vortrag
René Hézser
Nach meiner Session auf der SharePoint Konferenz veröffentliche ich wie versprochen meinen Vortrag von inklusive dem Sourcecode. In der Solutions ist auch Code für einen Feature Receiver enthalten. Folien Sourcecode Technorati Tags: SharePoint,SharePoint Konferenz [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 12th '09 |
Versioning files in a document library
René Hézser
If you open a file from a document library, modify it and save it, you will get a new version. This is what I had expected. But if you open up a document do some changes, save it, change some more and save it, you will only get one new version. Not as many as I had expected because I have saved the document like 10 times. Interesting… Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Document Library,Versioning [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 9th '09 |
SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool
René Hézser
As I posted earlier, MS was working on a tool which will analyze your code if you are coding against SharePoint. Here is a short description: It provides assistance in correctly disposing of certain SharePoint objects to help you follow published best practice. This tool may not show all memory leaks in your code. Further investigation is advised if you continue to experience issues. SPDisposeCheck.exe takes the path to a managed .DLL or .EXE or the path to a directory containing many managed as [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th '09 |
Upgrading a solution fails
René Hézser
In a SharePoint farm with multiple servers, features have to be deployed to every server. No problem you would think. That is why we got solutions and deploy them with stsadm. SharePoint will do the rest. But what do you do if you got an error during the deployment process? In my case the error was: A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution xyz, and only one deployment or retraction at a time is supported. I went through the ULS logs, and found this: The job definition "Mi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 29th '09 |
SharePointPodcast
René Hézser
Heute habe ich mit Michael Greth einen Podcast aufgenommen. In diesem erzähle ich über die CKS:EBE (Enhanced Blog Edition), einige meiner Webparts und meinen Vortrag auf der SharePoint Konferenz im nächsten Monat. http://blogs.mysharepoint.de/sharepointpodcast/archive/2009/01/20/sppd109-sharepointpodcast.aspx Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Podcast,CKS:EBE [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 20th '09 |
SharePoint Web Controls to access remote content
René Hézser
In my post How to use the SharePoint Web Controls I talked about using the SharePoint Web Controls to show and edit data in SharePoint lists. Today I want to post a sample how to work on a list, which is in another web. The remote list will be the "User Information List" which exists on every rootWeb. 1: // connect to the rootweb, to read the users list 2: using (var rootWeb = SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb) 3: { 4: // get the current user and corresponding item in the user information list [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 19th '09 |
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