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The type specified in the TypeName property of ObjectDataSource could not be found error

I was coding away happily developing a custom Reporting Services report for a SharePoint Web Part. The Web Part hosts a local Reporting Services report (.rdlc) and it’s using an ObjectDataSource as the data source, and I was getting the type specified in the TypeName property of ObjectDataSource could not be found error.

So in my code I have a data class with a select method, so my constructor looks like this:

ObjectDataSource ds = new ObjectDataSource(“MyNameSpace.MyClass”, “GetObjects”);

However, when executing the report, I got this error:

The type specified in the TypeName property of ObjectDataSource ” could not be found

I had put my assembly in the SafeControl section in Web.config, and the assembly was in the GAC.

It turns out that it also needs to be referenced in the <assemlbies> list of the <compiliaton> section, like this:

<compilation batch=”false” debug=”false”>

<assemblies>

<add assembly=”MyAssembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=123456789ABCDEF” />

</assemblies>

……

And now it worked.

In order to have Internet Explorer 8 on Windows Server 2008 behaving good, you need to disable or configure the loopback check. Read this article for more information.

Whenever a new item is added to a list, a small icon shows up that says that this item is new.

If you want to disable this, or change how many days this should be displayed, you can do this from stsadm using this command:

stsadm.exe -o setproperty -pn days-to-show-new-icon -pv 0 -url [Your Virtual Server’s URL]

Source: Microsoft KB 825510