Pradeepa Achar

While retracting/ deploying  sharepoint solution using visual studio or stsadm command you might have got following errors , such as 1.If you are using  "'Retract Solution': C:\Windows\Temp\solution-b254f31c-6d03-41c0-869c-e0755c54a1e0\SOLUTION.wsp could not be created because the contents could not be found under id fc52e867-4f3f-4d65-a348-2406fd83635e in the configuration database." 2.If you are using stsadm command "This solution  contains no resources scoped for a web application and can not be retracted from a particular web application"  The above two errors are belonging to represent the same issue. This issue occurs because of improper activation of the feature. When you deployed the same solution or some other solution on the site, it might have given  you the message as 'deployed successfully', but might not have activated feature properly. In order to fix this issue use the following stsadm command and retract and remove those s...

1.    Create a notepad file.  2.    Open the file and click on File menu Save as  Now give the name for file and enter the extension as .udl and Save as type as All Files. Here the file name is dbTest.udl 3.    The file will look as follows 4.    Now double click on the dbTest.udl file. An window will get opened 5.    Select the server name.. Usually ServerName\Sharepoint 6.    Choose windows NT Integrated security (if) else enter the db engine password. 7.    Now Select the DB name under the point number (3) 8.    Now Click On Test Connection. If it shows Success message then the connection is happening and you can copy the generated connection string and make use. Open the File in notepad and you can find the connection string Now extract the connection string a...

Before writing event receiver, you should have the Sharepoint list for which you are going to write the event receiver.If you have long term goal of creating multiple event receiver for lists, maintain a folder for these event receiver. 1.        Create a folder EventReceiver 2.        Right click on the folder EventReceiver à Select Add option à Select New Item option               3 .        On the opened window, select the   Visual C#-->Sharepoint 2010 and now select the Event Receiver Template            In the Name textbox which is  present below,Give the LISTNAMEEventReceiver. i.e suppose you are going write event receiver for ActionTracker list, then the event receiver’s name would be ActionTrackerEventReceiver After entering the name , click on Add button.       ...

Being in the IT world we should be always thirsty in learning new things apart from the regular work. In the world of .net , we are using to have a code repository called TFS.    First of all we should know what is TFS?    TFS refers to the Team Foundation Server to which all the development systems would be connected , so that the CODE will have its own house. I will show simple example here The developer needs to  check-in  the code to the TFS server so that when the other developer takes the updates from the TFS, he will get the recently checked-in code, so that he will be having updated code. Before client release, we need to have stable branch of the code which is thoroughly tested and branched as separate version and so that developer can continue check-in the code in the current trunk in the TFS as they complete the developement , so that if there is any bug or issues in the recently checked-in code ,there will not be any probl...

Hi All,   Most of the time during client deployment , there might be requirement of Re-Activating client related feature to provide the newly built functionality . usually we used to run the stsadm command as stsadm -o activatefeature -name "CLIENT_FEATURE_NAME" -url "SITE_URL" -force Apart from this client related feature, there we need to reactivate some more product related feature which include functionalities such as timerjob, adding content type to the list or adding new columns to the list,etc..In this case we need to enter the stsadm command again and again which makes you damn bore!!!. Here is a solution to over come your "boring" feeling and enjoy the deployment process Open a notepad Paste the following code. I will explain everything below this snippet. @SET pathToStsadm ="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN" @echo off cd % pathToStsadm % echo ------------------------Enter...

You might have come across situation where the web application is getting stopped every time and you had to do iisreset again and again. The web application gets stopped every time because of some errors and when the error count crosses the error limit, at that time the web application gets stopped. In order to fix this issue i have come across a solution which will never stops the web application by its own. Follow the following steps: Go to Internet Information Services 7(IIS 7) 2.Select the web application 3.Right click on the web application and click on the Advanced Settings. 4.In the Opened window find for " Rapid-Fail Protection ". In this section , the property named " Enable ", set the value to " False ". Thus we can fix this issue. Hope this may help some one Cheers...

You might have come across a situation when you use jquery.flot.js for graphs ,flot graphs were not generated in IE9 due to the following Javascript Error in "jquery.flot.js" file. While debugging you will get the error like : "unable to get value of the property "init_" : object is null or undefined ". In  the method ConstuctCanvas(), in place of this snippet: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ function makeCanvas(width, height)       {         var c = document.createElement('canvas');         c.width = width;         c.height = height;         if ($.browser.msie) // excanvas hack           c = window.G_vmlCanvasManager.initElement(c);         return c;       } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Use the following snip...