May 2008 - Posts
I only had time for a quickie:
The page containing all my online profiles has been updated...
When interested, have a look at them.
After extending a textbox with a NumberUpDownExtender, which comes with the AJAX Control Toolkit, I recieved the error "the number of fractional digits is out of range". This happened when debugging my web application and using the extender. When using the web app in non-debug mode, nothing happened. This included the value change 'not happening'.
Fortunately, this one was REALY easy, but it is not to be found on the web. That's why I am posting this embarassing personal slip-up anyway. As it turned out, I switched the values in minimum and maximum. Make sure the Maximum property of the extender holds the highest value of the two and you should be good to go ;)
By the way, you would think something like this a) could be determined design- or compiletime, and b) could generate a better exception than 'number of fractional digits out of range'.
While developing a web application for a friend of mine, I ran into a Visual Studio error message I hadn't seen before: Error connecting to undo manager of source file 'D:\Development\SomeWeb Application\Default.master.designer.cs'.
The error occured whenever I tried to start the (web) application in debug mode. The application did start OK after the error message though. Starting the application without debugging didn't cause the error.
I closed the solution file I had opened, but that didn't solve the issue. Stopping the ASP.NET Development Server didn't do anything either. I had to exit Visual Studio al together to get this error to go away.
I searched for this specific error, and saw it already occured in Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Scott Hanselman has a blog post on how he solved this issue. Now, in Visual Studio 2008, this error still seems to be in there...
The EntLib Extensions to WSSF have gotten more and more attention lately. There now is a (very positive) announcement about the extensions on the WSSF site, and there is a complete article on MSDN explaining how to use the extensions. Check it out!
Links:
EntLib Extensions to WSSF: http://www.codeplex.com/EntLibExtensionsWSSF
MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164250.aspx
WSSF site: http://www.codeplex.com/servicefactory
It's here: the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit. This first release contains two tools, both supported on WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007.
Batch Site Manager
From the "Move, Lock, and Delete Site Collections" page on Applications Management you can schedule bulk operations against site collections in the farm—including moving site collections between content databases (!!).
stsadm extension: UpdateAlert
This command will refresh all alert URLs in a specific site collection, which is extremely important should you change the URL of a web application or after an upgrade.
For more information and links for downloads, have a look at the original article on MSDN: Announcing the First Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit.