SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics Studio Errors Event ID 6398
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint
Having installed the SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics Studio on a server we were seeing hundreds of events with ID 6398:- Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation Event ID: 6398 Task Category: Timer Level: Critical Description: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Diagnostics.SPSqlBlockingReportDiagnosticProvider (ID e0c0213b-63fc-4ede-acc9-7a569ba95812) threw an exception. More information is included below. You do not [...]
Tags: error, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server
Group By Totals, Page Navigation and Sort Only by Specified Criteria – bug?
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint
When someone comes and tells me that SharePoint is behaving weird I’m not normally surprised. The way SharePoint works and it’s interface are not exactly intuitive but I can normally work out an explanation for the “weird” behaviour but not this time. The Problem I have a document library with 16 documents in it. 3 [...]
Tags: SharePoint 2010
The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint, Software Development
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 I [...]
Tags: error, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010
Problem workbook opening in Excel in SharePoint 2010 – Internet Explorer
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint
One person in the team wasn’t able to open an Excel spreadsheet on our SharePoint 2010 server. There were two errors depending on how you tried to open the file. The first error was shown when the excel spreadsheet was being displayed in the browser and you clicked on the Open In Excel button. “To [...]
Tags: internet explorer, Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010 loses my changes when using Customize XSLT
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint, Software Development
Having created a view in SharePoint 2010 I now wanted to modify the way the groupings were displayed. Opening the view in SharePoint 2010 I could see a ribbon option labeled Customize XSLT which enabled me to edit the way that the view was displayed by editing the XSL and in SharePoint Designer 2010 everything [...]
Tags: SharePoint 2010
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
