Debugging mode in SharePoint 2010 – set customerrors mode to off in web.config
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development
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 showed [...]
Tags: error, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010
SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service unable to change account name
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint, Software
Even though I thought I followed the instructions in the fantastic Spencer Harbar Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization I went to start the User Profile Synchronization Service but the account name was dimmed/greyed out and I could not change it from the NETWORK SERVICE account! After lots of messing around I [...]
Tags: sharepoint 2007
The form has been closed / The specified form cannot be found – SharePoint 2007
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development
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 could [...]
Tags: infopath 2007, sharepoint 2007, visual studio 2008, workflow
jZip – a free Winzip alternative/7-Zip with a nice GUI
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Software
** WARNING ** I noticed today (7th July 2009) that the jZip installer seems to have changed and it is easy to get extra items such as the Yahoo toolbar installed and your web browser default page changed when you might not want it be. I still consider the application to be good but I [...]
European SharePoint Best Practices Conference
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint
Joel described SharePoint as hot plastic where you need to plan your mold because once set making changes to SharePoint isn’t going to be easy and I think it is fair to use this for describing SharePoint Infrastructure (aaargh! the frustration!!!) but I don’t think it is a good description for SharePoint itself which I would consider to be far more flexible.
