In this post I will guide you through the process of setting up a SharePoint Server 2010 development server. The platform I will cover here will be Windows Server 2008 (R2) and not Windows 7. (Which is, in contrast to SharePoint Server 2007, is both doable and supported). Also, I will not cover installing...
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Normally you will no problems finding examples on how to use the SPGridView together with an ObjectDataSource and use the filtering mechanism. But what about using the SPDataSource object? This can also be done fairly simple. You do the basic things as you do using an ObjectDataSource object, however...
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Ever since I have start to user Windows Home server, this warning has bugged me every time I re-boot my PC. I am running Windows 7 with Microsoft Security Essentials, both updated with the latest Windows Update and security definitions. So I’m pretty sure that I have spyware protection on my system...
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In the downloads section on the support pages on http://www.hp.com for my HP EliteBook 8730w, I did found that HP is offering something called “System Default Settings for Microsoft Windows 7” One thing that this installs is a new power plan called HP Optimized, which actually replaces the...
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When you are customizing a SharePoint list with a custom schema.xml file, you may also want to set the ViewStyle for your View. You do that by adding a <ViewStyle ID="xx"/> element within the <View> element. For exampl ID 17 corresponds to the "Shaded" view style. Here...
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This was unexpected, and not documented at all in the SharePoint SDK. When you create a UserMulti column, you must also specify Mult="TRUE", otherwise it will fall back to a standard (single select) User column type. <Field ID="{12312312-1234-1234-1234-123412341234}" ... Group...
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This error can be caused by a variety of reasons. In my case I got it when I published my ASP.NET MVC 2 application to my local IIs instance in IIS 7.5 / Windows 7. As it turns out, I needed to set the application pool account property “Load User profile” to true: That did the trick....
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If you want to see all the settings you can adjust in the Control Panel in one window, do the following: On the desktop, create a new folder and name it: All Settings.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} When opened, it will show all the possible action you can do in the Control Panel in one large...
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This post will explain how you can build msi packages using WiX for both 32bit and 64bit platforms. The goal is to create 2 different msi packages. One for 64bit systems, which will install the program in to c:\Program Files on 64bit, and another msi package that will install the program in to c:\Program...
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You maybe have stumbled upon this scenario: After you have retracted your SharePoint solution in Central Administration, the solution flips back to deployed? The issue seems to be that when you have deployed your solution with –allcontenturls, which means it will be deployed to the Central Administration...
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