• Software Development

    The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)

    by  • February 9, 2011 • SharePoint, Software Development • 0 Comments

    After creating an empty SharePoint 2010 solution in Visual Studio 2010 I added an Application Page to the project but compiling failed and gave me the following error: The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) Using the object browser in Visual Studio...

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    Debugging mode in SharePoint 2010 – set customerrors mode to off in web.config

    by  • November 1, 2010 • Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development • 0 Comments

    Whilst trying to debug a Feature Receiver in Visual Studio 2010 I kept receiving the standard application error suggesting that if I wanted to view the details of the error that I set the customErrors to Off. That’s odd I thought I had already done that and a visit to the web.config in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80...

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    The form has been closed / The specified form cannot be found – SharePoint 2007

    by  • March 30, 2010 • Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development • 3 Comments

    Having created my InfoPath 2007 Form, created my workflow in Visual Studio 2008 and clicked Deploy I found that my workflow went to In Progress but the Instantiation Form never displayed in SharePoint and all I got was a message “The form has been closed” on the screen. Looking in the log files I...

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