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WHY MY WORKFLOW DOES NOT WAKE UP FROM DELAYACTIVITY?

Lately working with one of the customer’s I came across an interesting lookout. Basically customer has created a simple workflow for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008 and had used a delay activity which seems to be causing the problem. The problem was Read More...
Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 3:18 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

Download AutoCAD’s .dwt files from SharePoint Document Library

Recently I came across an issue with one of the customers. They are using a lots of AutoCAD files which are with DWT extension and are uploaded to a SharePoint’s document library. But when they are trying to download the .dwt files, it is failing always Read More...
Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 1:45 PM by Manpreet Alag | 0 Comments

SPWebConfigModification does not work on Farms with multiple WFEs

Sometime back a customer came up with an issue. He has written a code in FeatureActivated event handler to add an entry into Web.Config file by using SPWebConfigModification API. The same entry was being removed in FeatureDeactivating event handler. The Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 4:26 AM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

WSRPConsumerWebPart does not have unique ID for userContextKey

A customer came up with an issue. WSRPConsumerWebPart ’s userContextKey is always sending user’s display name when communicating with the producer. They were having a requirement that the userContextKey have to be a unique value to identify the user. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:37 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

How to programmatically complete Approval workflow task

A team mate of mine was stuck with a curious issue. She was using SharePoint’s in-built Approval workflow but was using a custom ASP.net application to talk to a custom webservice hosted inside SharePoint server. That particular web service was having Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:11 PM by Manpreet Alag | 3 Comments

Parser error : “The async attribute on the page directive is not allowed in this page”

I have seen this error on various forums for quite sometime and wondered what is that SharePoint is doing around this? It usually happens when you add Asyc="True" attribute to a SharePoint page and try to run the page, you get Parser error "The async Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:32 PM by Manpreet Alag | 4 Comments

SPWebConfigModification adds the entry in web.config, but does not remove it

I was working with one of my colleague on an issue. It was a weird one, where customer was using SPWebConfigModification class to add the safe control entry into the web.config. The sample code being used was adapted from the SPWebConfigModification page Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 3:23 PM by Manpreet Alag | 3 Comments

Attachments disappear with custom email event handler

I was working with custom email event handler in SharePoint using SPEmailEventReceiver and found that when using the default functionality of I am able to configure and get the attachments to be added to the document library. Here is how the Incoming Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:20 AM by Manpreet Alag | 17 Comments

How to “not” connect SharePoint document library to Outlook Client

Recently while working with a customer, got a requirement which got me digging into the emails generated by SharePoint alerts. When you setup alert in a SharePoint document library and get an alert email, you get an option to connect or subscribe to that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:11 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

Impersonation does not work with UserProfileManager

I am back after a long time and will now try to be a little more regular with my posts. Recently we worked upon a curious problem. We were using UserProfileManager in a web part and wanted to get to the private properties of a user profile. Now as the Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 4:20 PM by Manpreet Alag | 2 Comments

Enterprise Search Crawl Logs in MOSS 2007

When the web application is created and content source crawled, it gets listed in the the crawl logs of search. But when this application is deleted, the logs still contain reference to the deleted web application. Doing further incremental or full crawls Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:15 AM by Manpreet Alag | 0 Comments

Story of a mischievous Page Viewer Web Part

[In nutshell, how to display a Page Viewer Web Part with 100% height of the available screen estate.] A co-worker of mine was working with a customer and he was trying to put a page viewer web part in a Web Part page in MOSS to display his web site. On Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 12:37 PM by Manpreet Alag | 6 Comments

Alert emails not recognized by Outlook as "Alert Emails"

Recently a customer was following the KB 948321 and customizing the Alert notification emails being sent. He was just modifying the HTML part of it and rest using the same code. But when the emails were being received in the Outlook, they were not being Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:47 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

How to upgrade workflow assembly in MOSS 2007

This problem generally start when you are having an existing custom workflow and there are instances of workflow running. You do some changes to the workflow and reinstall the assembly in the GAC. The new assembly is basically overwriting the existing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:47 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments
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SPListItem.Update() not starting workflow

I had a custom list and had the OOB approval workflow attached to it and setup to run on the item update. Tried and tested the list through UI and everything seems to be as perfect as it could be. Customer was actually trying to update the list through Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 11:20 AM by Manpreet Alag | 2 Comments
 
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