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Deployment Error In VS2010 On SharePoint 2010 Project Template by yuvalk

After hitting Deploy on a sharepoint 2010 project item in visual studio 2010 and getting the following error: Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Value cannot be null. Parameter name: id Be sure to check your feature activation dependencies. if you see a feature with the GUID - 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, something probably went wrong.. This can be caused by the following scenario: You`re working on a multiple developers development environment, using TFS as your...

Modifying search query before rendering results in CoreResultsWebPart SharePoint 2010 by yuvalk

  SharePoint 2010 introduce us with new search customizations capabilities in term of inheriting and extending the OOTB webparts. The search webparts now communicates through a new object, named: QueryManager which exist under the namespace: Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query through the QueryManager object we can change the query before getting results at the CoreResultsWebPart control. In the following example im overriding the submitted query with the word “Global” just before getting the...

How To Become SharePoint 2010 Developer Hero by yuvalk

Thanks to everyone who attended my Tech-Ed session today. I had a great time, hope you did too. At the session we saw how you can become a SharePoint developer HERO with the new Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint and with SharePoint 2010 new capabilities. Im sure every developer who participated at the session got upgraded to an ultra-super developer hero... All the demos we have seen and the ones we didnt had time to see are uploaded and available to download here . See you at the party, Yuval

SharePoint 2010 "your trial period for this product has expired" by yuvalk

Beware of putting UNC path in the PATH environment variable!! Thank you Microsoft SharePoint Escalation Services and its wonderful engineers

Sharepoint 2010 invisible user profile property by yuvalk

Sharepoint 2010 introduces a new concept in the User Profile service, the sub-type profile. You can specify sub-types for profiles. For each profile property you can configure for which types the property is used. A user will be able to see or edit only those properties that are linked to their Profile type. When you create a new profile property you need to associate it with a profile: In case you dont check any sub-type profile, the property becomes invisible. you don`t see it in the user profile...

Sharepoint 2010 Deployment Error VS2010 by yuvalk

The Visual Studio 2010 new Sharepoint project templates are great. I worked on a project the other day, which included a visual webpart. I have deployed it a several times and everything was OK. Then I have added a mapped folder to the "Images" folder and added lots of images, then when trying to deploy the solution I got the following error at deployment process: Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Failed to extract the cab file in the solution The problem in my project...

Messenger forced upgrade Windows server 2003 and Windows XP x64 by yuvalk

Have to upgrade your messenger inorder to login, but keep getting this: Sorry, you cannot install the programs you`ve chosen on this operating system os_check: 0x80280004 Well, not very nice at all... Jonathan Kay has the solution http://messengergeek.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E3785B1281BBDA1!3406.entry

גיוס אנשי פיתוח עם ידע ב - moss by yuvalk

אני מחפש אנשי פיתוח עם ידע ב - moss לעבודה בחברה בה אני מועסק. יש כמה דרישות סף למועמדים: שיהיו בני אדם (הכי חשוב) מתכנתים (net.) אם אני אשאל "אתה יודע moss" לא תתקבל התגובה - "מה זה moss?" סקרנים, עצמאיים וכו'.. בתמורה לעבודה, תקבלו: תלוש משכורת עבודה בסביבה מגוונת ומאתגרת מאוד מבחינה טכנולוגית נסיעה נטולת פקקים בדרך ל ובחזרה מהעבודה שעות של צחוק למעוניינים אפשר לצור איתי קשר כאן . אני אשמח. יובל

Sharepoint list event receiver installer by yuvalk

A small application which makes the event receiver installation really simple. All need to be done is entering the site and/or sub web url, Load the lists, load the handler dll inorder to read its assembly information and handler class name, choose event receiver type and click Add. Big Thanks to Uri levi from Netwise who took part in the development of this little App. Download Event Installer oh and - God praise Iniesta. Yuval

Sharepoint 2007 content deployment from Enterprise to standard by yuvalk

Hi, Few days ago I needed to deploy a site collection (collaboration portal) from a dev environment to production with a fresh moss standard license installation. Excited and innocent I logged to the dev server and ran good ol` stsadm with an export operation… after waiting patiently for it to finish I took the output files to the prod env, and with a lot of faith I ran stsadm import.. Failure after few seconds.. I was short of some features, to be specific these are the ones: · ExcelServerSite ...

Exclude content crawled by Office SharePoint Server Search service by yuvalk

Ever wanted to remove content from your search results, crawled by office sharepoint server search service? For example, a site footer or navigation menu... In order to accomplish that, you need to identify the search service as it crawles your pages. Do that by checking the userAgent of the current request. The search service uses - "MS SEARCH" userAgent, To be able to do that you need to create a crawl rule which tells the crawler to crawl the pages as http.. afterwards, in your code...