In one of the pages of my SharePoint application, I added a Links web part (web part that shows the contents of the a links list). Pretty simple. Then, I se tthe "XSL Link" property so that the results were customised in a certain style. Then I got this really strange error: Attempted to use an object that has ceased to exist. (Exception from HRESULT: ......

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I was looking for a web part that would provide me some sort of navigation inside wiki pages, and I installed a 3rd party farm feature. It didn't really do what I was looking for and I uninstalled it. Afterwards, any page in my site collection gave this error: [PolicyException: Required permissions cannot be acquired.] System.Security.SecurityMan... ......

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This one was not easy to solve ... Error: The crawler could not communicate with the server. Check that the server is available and that the firewall access is configured. Context: Some pages were not crawled (giving the above error) and, what is worse, all the sub content of that site was not crawled either! (the pages were the homepages of the site) ......

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With this post, I'm going to start a series on problems I have encountered with SharePoint search. Error: The start address sps3://luapp105 cannot be crawled. Context: Application 'Search_Service_Application', Catalog 'Portal_Content' Details: Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add ......

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How to specify a calculated value for a SharePoint custom field in its XML schema? Like this: <Field Type="DateTime" Format="DateOnly" DisplayName="ExpiryDate" Required="FALSE" EnforceUniqueValues="FALSE" Group="My Group" ID="{99668BDC-5DED-46d0-A4E... StaticName="ExpiryDate" Name="ExpiryDate"> <DefaultFormula>[toda... ......

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The problem: I have an item adding event receiver associated with a custom content type that accesses several managed metadata fields using the syntax "PublishingPage.ListItem["f... Suddenly, I started getting the "Value does not fall within the expected range" when accessing one of the managed metadata fields. I had nothing else except the ......

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Today I had to change the title of several pages in several publishing sites. You can find the powershell script below. Notice that you have to access the pages as PublishingPage and not SPListItem,otherwise you will not be able to modify the Title field ("Title" is ReadOnly). Also, you have to go through the same procedure as in the UI: checkout, change ......

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I’m at the SharePoint 2010 Connections at Cascais, next to Lisbon. The setting is amazing. I really like the talk by Dan Holme. I always knew I was an IT Pro at heart. Anybody else out there is here ......

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Here’s how we migrated our TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. This is not an in-place migration. What is generally recommended as upgrade path is to backup the TFS 2008 DBs, restore them in the new TFS data tier and then install TFS 2010. This will migrate all the projects at once. However, we wanted to keep the TFS 2008 environment running for a while, so this ......

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Lately I’ve been doing some tests on migrating our TFS 2008 installation to TFS 2010, coupled with a machine and domain change. One particular topic that was tricky is user accounts. We installed first a new machine with TFS 2010 and then migrated the projects in the old server. The work items were migrated with the projects. Great, but if I try to ......

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I am just reposting this thread from a MSDN forum since it seems to be unavailable. It was very useful when I was having trouble with my folder mappings after migrating to TFS 2010. Question: I opened VS2008 and connected it to the upgraded 2010 TFS server. Upon clicking any of our Team Projects in source control explorer I get "Team Foundation Error ......

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Once you have imported a list of work items in excel from a team project in TFS, the excel file always proposes work items from the same team project. It does not seem possible to obtain the "connect to TFS" popup window again, where you choose the team project. This is because the connection is stored as a custom property in the excel file. The answer ......

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Up to now I haven't explained what my mobile test application does. The main thing I wanted to test was calling a WCF service. If you use .NET CF 3.5 WCF will be available in your application to make the call but you can also call the service as "web service" (asmx) (1) Calling the service as ASMX In you Smart Device Application project just do "Add ......

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After setting up the development environment, I started coding a simple application. Visual Studio does not provide a Windows CE 5.0 emulator (only a device - which means that it tries to connect to a real device and I don't have one), so I chose to develop a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC application. (1) I first created a Smart Device Console Application. ......

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I might have to develop an application for a mobile scanning device and I have been playing around with the .NET mobile components in preparation. Not easy at all: the documentation is not very clear and there are lots of different components/versions. Here are some of the problems I encountered and how I solved them. My constraints: a) My development ......

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