BBB - Bas Blogging 'Bout SharePoint

I'm in the MXP for Architects!

Bas — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:55:00 GMT

"the what for Architects?!", you might ask yourself? MXP stands for Microsoft eXcellence Program, and is a unique collaboration between my employer (Achmea) and Microsoft, with the aim to train people, who will operate as (technical) leaders...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint caveat: Apply a sortformula with managed properties of type decimals

Bas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:53:00 GMT

Fast Search for SharePoint provides four great possibilities to influence the sort order of your resultset that was returned: Sort by Managed property Sort by Rank Sort by Formula Sort in Random order When I was working on my presentaion and demo for...(read more)

How to branch with the SharePoint scenario framework

Bas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:56:00 GMT

Waldek Mastykarz posted a superb post about one of those hidden SharePoint gems: the SharePoint scenario framework for multi-page forms. As Waldek showed off, this framework enables us to create some flows, but I was wondering if branched flows (for example...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint problems - simplified architecture diagram

Bas — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:54:00 GMT

Recently I had a few colleagues (and myself) who tried to install FAST search for SharePoint on their development workstation. Despite the well written installation guidelines on MSDN , they had several problems, and sadly enough, they all faced different...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 - Fast Search Center site template not available (bug?!)

Bas — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:08:00 GMT

Recently I found out that, my Fast Search Center was not available from the “New Site” menu. Both the english as well the dutch fast search template was not available. As I saw this happen before, I checked out the site collection features...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint gotcha - query suggestions

Bas — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:07:00 GMT

At the company i work for, we do have around 30(?!) different labels and we decided that all websites of those labels, should be hosted on one platform: SharePoint 2010. This consolidation to one platform should really decrease costs, because we now have...(read more)

SharePoint Navigation broken after migration from 2007 to 2010

Bas — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:02:00 GMT

When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, it might be possible that your navigation is broken. The error I encountered was the following, but it can occur in more functions within the Navigation namespace. Object Reference not set to an...(read more)

Fast: Adding managed metadata properties for the use with scopes in SharePoint 2010

Bas — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:17:00 GMT

Lately I was working on a project that required to make use of scopes and some managed metadata properties in those scopes. For some reason, those managed metadata properties didnt show up in my scope selection dropdownlist, but I was sure that this metadata...(read more)

Fast for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Crawler is Dead

Bas — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:00 GMT

Lately, I installed Fast locally on my machine for development purposes, and it was working as intended. Crawled a lot of local (and external) content, but suddenly, my Enterprise crawler was not working. nctrl status showed me that the Enterprise crawler...(read more)

My SharePoint 2010 & Fast session is online!

Bas — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:23:00 GMT

On the Dutch Microsoft DevDays (or Techdays, as they were called), I had a session about SharePoint 2010 and Fast. It was recorded and is now published on Channel 9. It's pretty weird to see and hear yourself presenting. If you are interested in:...(read more)

Error when deploying WebTemplate: "Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Exception from HRESULT: 0x8107026E"

Bas — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:28:00 GMT

Recently I was working on a sandboxes solution, which included a WebTemplate ( Vesa "Vesku" Juvonen wrote a really nice post about it), but I couldn't deploy it, the followin error was displayed into Visual Studio 2010: Error occurred in...(read more)

SharePoint OOTB xsl templates - Hack-Hack-Hack

Bas — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:05:00 GMT

Today I was working with some collegues on some xsl within SharePoint, and we wanted to know where the following template came from: < xsl:apply-template select = " . " mode = " RenderView " > After some digging through the xsl...(read more)

Console application new SPSite throws a FileNotFoundException

Bas — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:09:00 GMT

A collegue of mine had the following problem: he wanted to write a console application to test some SharePoint code, but whenever he opened a new SPSite, the following File Not Found Exception was thrown: after being triggered about a possible problem...(read more)

Upgrading sandbox solutions to full trust solutions

Bas — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:35:00 GMT

This blogpost describes the problems that could have come up when upgrading sandbox solutions to fulltrust solutions and how i Tested it. Read the conclusion in the end for the pitfalls that have to be taken care of. At the insurance company that I work...(read more)

Creating site collections: Bug or not?

Bas — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:09:00 GMT

Yesterday, I ran into a strange problem, which I will try to describe below: We have a nice application, with a custom site definition that makes use of a custom site definition provider. That provider creates a publishing page, based on a custom page...(read more)