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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 problems. These problems varied from not able...
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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 overview, to enable the “SharePoint Server...
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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 instance of an object. Stacktrace: at Microsoft.SharePoint...
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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 property was available in my Fast Managed...
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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 deployment step 'Add Solution': Exception...
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Update: some changes to my original post. Thanks to William van Strien for pointing extra things out that I missed. We’ve been participating in the Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) and Duet Enterprise (DuetE) seems to be GA so I can talk about it a bit more. First of all there is loads of marketing...
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After viewing the usual conference sessions I was pretty enthusiastic about the possibilities of BCS. Seems to be nice at first, but when starting to design something real in the field I was thrown back to reality. BCS does give “free” things on your external data without too much coding...
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This one is annoying because data is almost never flat. Besides the limitation on complex and custom types there are some more field limitations, check them out here . There is an article available about how complex types are supported. But I don't like the options outlined there. You have to work...
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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 with the wrong Target Framework, as Visual Studio...
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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, Achmea, one the responsibilities that I have include...
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In SharePoint 2007 it is possible to create site templates based on an existing site. A template can be used to create new site collections and subsites based on that template. When you export a site template, it creates a .stp file for you. Copying this .stp file over to an other evironment gives you...
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BizTalk integration with SharePoint is … interesting. Using the Add Generated Items… Consume WCF service might result in a proxy that will not build due to a bad reference. The proxy file Lists_schemas_microsoft_com_sharepoint_soap.xsd contains the bad reference. The reference in particular is...
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Just some notes on connecting BizTalk to SharePoint’s /_vti_bin/lists.asmx">http://<site>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx webservice. After using Add Generated Items –> Consume WCF Service to create the proxy and binding you might find that when calling the service a transport level...
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Last week I passed the Exam 70-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development exam. People asked me what I used to prepare for the exam. Because the official learning material is pretty scarce at the moment, I used e.g. a training, read bogs, seen web casts and used my SharePoint...
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For my work I'm using a laptop that has several operating systems installed. Depending on the customer related work, e.g. office work, giving presentations and developing software, I'm booting one of these environments. My multi-boot installation consists of several environments including: Windows...
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