VS2010 - New SharePoint Features

1) Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio2) Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution3) Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint4) Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver.5) Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability6) Showed the packaging explorer...

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Cannot start the WSS Search Service & Office SharePoint Search not working - Same SQL & WSS\MOSS Server

ProblemRunning SQL and MOSS on the same server, I was unable to start the WSS Search Service and the Office SharePoint Search service was showing errors in the SSP Site. I had the following errors in my Event viewer:Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 SearchEvent Category: GathererEvent ID: 10034Description: Could not access the Search service configuration database.Context: Application '8f7d4cbe-8cb1-4d32-b406-1737af554479'Details:The filename or extension is too long. (0x800700ce) Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Office SharePoint ServerEvent Category: Office Server...

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40 SharePoint Templates NOW Available !

Role Based, Master Page, Workspace, Community Portal, My Site and many more Templates from Microsoft, enjoy herehttp://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/templates.m...

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Deploy software updates for SharePoint

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspxDeploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.a...

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VS 2008 and SharePoint 2007 Service Packs released

Most of you will already know this, but VS 2008 has been released. Experience all the new functionality by downloading it from here.WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 service pack 1 has also been released. You can view the details here. Just a word of advice, unless you have a critical need that is addressed by this release - wait to hear other people's upgrade experiences before jumping the gun on this one, especially in a production environme...

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Error: The path specified cannot be used at this time.

Sometimes when doing application management tasks, you run into an error where the page stops creating your Web Application or other management task and instead throws this error:Error: The path specified cannot be used at this time.Upon digging a little deeper to ascertain the cause of the problem, I noticed that these 3 errors were being thrown on a consistent basis.Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. Event ID: 6398.Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. Event ID: 7076.Attempted to read or write protected memory....

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What to do When User Profiles Don't Have Email Addresses

Today, at a customer site, I addressed a problem that annoyed users more than usual. It seems that they can't sign up for alerts or assign each other tasks, and they get an error screen that offers to fix the problem, but leads to a dead end. I evaluated it, and created this write-up:Among the many pieces of information collected and presented by SharePoint, some of this information comes directly out of Active Directory. AD was always intended to be a directory first, a central repository for information about users, phone numbers, email, etc. I’ve seen phone systems that tap directly into AD, for example. But most places I’ve been, AD is simply...

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So you want to be a farmer

My two largest customers suddenly both decided they wanted to stop playing around with a test MOSS server, and put SharePoint into production. So all week I've been building and configuring small SharePoint farms. I ran into a real headache today, which I'll discuss below.First, here are the two deployments:SharePoint Farm with No Load Balancing:This solution means you have a single web front-end server, but multiple servers in the farm, mostly for...

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Convert template title to internal name

My subsite creation webpart lets the user choose from a list of allowable site templates. Of course, SPSiteCollections.Add() wants the internal template name, like "STS#0" for a team site template, and blog only knows what for a custom site template. My users don't like this much; they want to see "Kewl new subsite template" in the dropdown selection, so he agrees. So here's how you convert the template title to the internal name:// We want to create the site using a pre-defined site template.// People refer to site templates by using the public template name,// but SharePoint refers to them by using the internal template name.// Find the internal...

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How to change the SharePoint logo on every page

Our new SharePoint 2007 site is up and running. Over 1,000 pages, each with our customized logo in the upper left hand corner. Uh-oh, it worked fine on the test server, but not on the production server. That's because every page was created from some nifty template which points to the test server to look for the logo, and the test server is no longer available. Not only does it look bad, but for reasons known only to the various SharePoint gods, you can't switch a document library to Explorer View until SharePoint has finally decided that the logo can't be found. This takes about 20 seconds. The natives were restless, and the high chieftan announced...

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SharePoint Rocks

SharePoint Rocksit's the Sunset, see ya tomorrow Morning with a pleasant sunriseuntil thenGood Night, शुभ रात...

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