Navdeep Madan

Type: InfoPathLocalizedException, Exception Message: The specified form cannot be found.

2009-11-17T16:46:43Z

The above error message I faced when I was trying to open a InfoPath task form from “In Progress” option from a document library. I created a workflow and used the InfoPath form as task from and also write some code referring the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll inside the InfoPath from. Then I packaged InfoPath form with workflow as a wsp package and deployed the workflow using the addsolution command. stsadm -o addsolution -filename <solution file name> [-lcid] <language>...(read more)

Modified Column in SharePoint Document Library is Read-only

2009-11-17T14:11:22Z

In SharePoint Document Library, there is column named “Modified” and it’s read-only. I have written the following code snippet through object tried to update the Modified column but didn’t get the success. 1: //Create the SPsite Object. Please change quoted value to your site URL. 2: SPSite site = new SPSite( "http://blre3r15-5:3000/sites/PublishingSite" ); 3: SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(); 4: SPList list = web.Lists[ "Documents" ]; 5: 6: foreach (SPListItem item in list.Items)...(read more)

Could not load type ‘Microsoft.ContentManagement. WebAuthor.PostingProperties’

2009-10-23T21:04:47Z

sometimes you deploy a new CMS 2002 site and you will see above error message or “could not load type” for CMS pages. It means that page is trying to load find the class but it doesn’t exist. So best tool to troubleshoot this type of issue is Assembly Binding Log Viewer (Fuslogvw.exe) . You can run this tool and request the culprit page in the browser it will let you know that what are assemblies requested and what is the result of the call. In my case, it told me that page was not calling...(read more)

Unable to sort the BDC column which contain space

2009-10-22T11:58:50Z

Let me explain you with an example, If you have table like described below and you would like to show the “Name” field as “First Name”. Table Name :- employee_test Table description ID NUMBER NAME VARCHAR2(20) LOCATION VARCAHR2(20) AGE NUMBER Create the view using the following SQL command Create view view_employee as SELECT ID, NAME AS...(read more)

How to login in SharePoint FBA site from another ASP.NET Site ?

2009-10-21T14:15:19Z

If you would like to jump between your ASP.NET site and SharePoint FBA site and don’t want to login again, then you ASP.NET site must contain same viewstate and Event validation of your FBA site . 1: <form name= "Form1" method= "post" action= "http://localhost:1643/CommonAutheticationCookie/NTLMLogIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fCommonAutheticationCookie%2fdefault.aspx" id= "Form1" > 2: <div> 3: <input type= "hidden" name= "__VIEWSTATE"...(read more)

How to crawl the content of file with the extension “.cs (C-Sharp)”?

2009-10-21T08:09:40Z

C-Sharp is not a special file it can be read as a text file. So crawling to this file you won’t require to add the special filter and you can use the same IFilter which used to crawl the text files ({4A3DD7AB-0A6B-43B0-8A90-0D8B0CC36AAB}). But the problem you will face in providing the MimeTypes for this extension. Behind the scene, protocol handler call the IFilter based upon the file MimeTypes, you can provide any text MimeType to call cs IFilter but the MimeTypes should be different from...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Developer documentation

2009-10-20T15:28:26Z

Hey Guys, Good News !!! SharePoint Developer documentation in live on MSDN . Please click on SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation Now Live on MSDN and read about he SharePoint 2010. Thanks, Navdeep Madan...(read more)

You don’t want new instances of your workflow association, so here is the code snippet & it’s API description.

2009-10-19T19:40:08Z

You have installed the new version of a workflow and you don’t want to create the instances of previous association or because of other reasons you don’t want to end users to create new instances of workflow ( Workflow Association). You can remove workflow from UI through UI by selecting “Remove Workflows” under “settings” . Here is the screen shot :- But if you would like to achieve the SharePoint Object Model then “SPworkflowAssosiation” instance contain the running workflow values in SharePoint....(read more)

How to add the help link in Top link bar ?

2009-09-20T05:57:17Z

Help is the very important for the end user in SharePoint site. Some time they will not find the icon on the top of the page. To make it easily available , you can add “Top link bar “. 1) Go to “Site Actions –> Site Settings” and click on the “top link bar” and type the following JavaScript. 2) Go to “Site Actions –> Site Settings” and click on the “top link bar” and type the following URL....(read more)

How to delete old versions of a document from a document library?

2009-09-19T11:56:23Z

Create a console application and add the reference if Microsoft.SharePoint . Add the web reference of version’s ( http://MossSite/_vti_bin/versions.asmx ) web service. 1: //Change the SPSite URL. 2: using (SPSite site = new SPSite( http://MossSite/sites/SiteCollection )) 3: { 4: using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) 5: { 6: //Change the Document Library Name. 7: SPDocumentLibrary library = (SPDocumentLibrary)web.Lists[ "MATTDOCLibrary" ]; 8: foreach (SPListItem item in library.Items)...(read more)

Switch to Edit Site doesn’t work in MCMS 2002

2009-09-19T11:32:46Z

When you click Switch to Edit Site on a published posting in Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 to create content, the page got refreshed, but the page does not switch to edit mode from live mode. Also the Web Author console does not display. This problem may occur because of customization of IIS_CMS folder. MCMS 2002 SP2 patch upgrade this folder and files contain in it. Because of the customization Web Authoring console does not display. To resolve this problem, clear the Internet...(read more)

Add domain user to all sites and sub-sites as secondary administrator

2009-09-19T11:18:08Z

If you have to add a site collection administrator, then first option is through user interface. Go to Central Administration site and Click on the “Application Management” tab. Click an option “Site collection administrator” under the “SharePoint Site Management” tab. You will get redirect to “Site Collection Administrators Page :- go ahead and add your domain user as a secondary administrator. Second option is through Stsadm utility. Here is the command you have to run :- and...(read more)

Code Access Security in SharePoint

2009-09-19T02:11:16Z

Code access security is a mechanism to limit the access of the code to protect the resources and operations. In SharePoint you can have the two level i.e “WSS_Medium” and “WSS_Minimal”. 1: <securityPolicy> 2: <trustLevel name= "WSS_Medium" policyFile= "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\config\wss_mediumtrust.config" /> 3: <trustLevel name= "WSS_Minimal" policyFile= "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web...(read more)

How to do hang dump analysis?

2009-09-18T02:43:53Z

One of my customers facing an interesting issue. He has created a CMS site which slows down after 4 or 5 days. After doing the complete scoping I found that one of the page take 2-3 minutes to load and he has following work-around to temporarily fix the issue.

1) DO an IISREST.

2) Delete the application-pool and recreated it again.

I took the hand dump using the Ad-Plus [Download] script . This support article talk more about this tool http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350

Start a command window and browse to your debuggers directory.

adplus –hang –pn w3wp.exe

please attach the correct process id.

Open the dump in Windbg.exe

1) Open windbg and open the memory dump (.dmp file) with File/Open Crash dump.

2) Set up the symbol path :-

SRV*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

3) Load sos
.load clr10\sos

4) !analyze –v

5) !sym noisy [verbose loading of the symbols]

6) .symfix c:\symcache [Fix the symbols path]

7) .cordll -ve -u –l

8) !runaway [to analyze]

10) .unload clr10\sos [Unload the SOS.]

11) .chain [to see whether SOS file has been loaded.]

12) ~* kb 2000 [Examine the native callstacks]

13) ~* e !clrstack [Examine the .net callstacks]

14) !syncblk [Determine the ID of the thread owning the lock]

15) ~10s [move to thread 10, replace 10 with actual thread ID]

16) kb 2000 [examine native stack]

17) !clrstack [examine .net stack]

After executing the [ !syncblk ] you will came to know which thread is locked or in waiting state. Jump to the thread [~10S(Enter the thread number instead of 10)] and look at the .net call stack [ !clrstack ]or native call stack[ kb 2000 ]. It will let you know which function is causing the problem.

Link and display two SharePoint calendar from SharePoint Designer

2009-09-16T02:18:54Z

Click here to Link and display two calendars in SharePoint Designer and after this here are the steps to format the list data.

Firstly, we were getting the xml in the “Modified By”. Here is the screen shot which shows the same :-

We have click on the icon on right hand site as presented in the following image :-

We will get the “Date Field” selected “Modified By” in the first combo. In the second combo, “Format as” “Text”

Change the “Format as :” to “Rich Text”

Secondly, results are not coming according to current date and time.

Go to the filter and click on the link

We can see a grid where a grayed out line there with the text “Using the advanced expression”. It means I have set the formula to get the results using the “Advanced” tab at the bottom.

On the left panel, you can select the column and you have the functions mentioned in the “Select a function category” .You can change the function according to your requirement.