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Visual Studio 2010 Visual Web Part Project
I am in the process of getting up to speed with the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE and how it can be used to develop custom SharePoint 2010 solutions. It’s so easy to do a “Hello World” Web part project...
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Internal 500 Error When Changing the URL to a Badly-Formed Value
Interesting issue we had to troubleshoot today. This issue is related to SharePoint 2007. Say you have a sub-site in a SharePoint site collection (let’s call it “Subsite A”) and the user/admin changes...
View ArticleError installing SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites
When installing SharePoint, you have to install prerequisites first. If you launch the SharePoint Prerequisites Installer from the SharePoint setup GUI (clicking the link), you may notice that most...
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Sharepoint Products Configuration Wizard-CREATE DATABASE permission denied
When you run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard for the first time, you get the following error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database ‘master’....
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SharePoint 2010 in Windows 2008 R2 and Kerberos
There are two options when configuring SharePoint 2010 security in “classic mode” (as opposed to claims-based). You can use Basic (NTLM) or Negotiate (Kerberos). If you use NTLM, you may run into...
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Error when you create Search Center Site in SharePoint 2010
When you’re trying to create a Search Center site in SharePoint 2010, you get an error that looks like the following: You have to activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure in Site Collection...
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Create ‘Open Tool Pane’ link in custom .NET Web Parts for SharePoint 2010
Back in SharePoint 2007, it was pretty popular to use the built-in Javascript function MSOTlPn_ShowToolPane2Wrapper to put the Web part page into edit mode and have the Web part properties editable....
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Web Part “Error Creating Control” in SharePoint Designer
When you are developing custom SharePoint web parts using SharePoint Object Model, it’s not enough that you can properly render contents in “Browse mode”. Your web part must also take into account...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday DC #SPSTCDC going on right now!
Today was the kickoff day for SharePoint Saturday-DC Conference. It was pretty good turn out. Several buildings at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus were packed with SharePoint...
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Metadata Search Web Part is Out!
I am pleased to announce that the Metadata Search Web Part for SharePoint 2010 is now released! The Web Part allows users to do advanced search in SharePoint 2010 with very minimal configuration. The...
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