Navdeep Madan

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

Navdeep Madan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:46:43 GMT

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...(read more)

Modified Column in SharePoint Document Library is Read-only

Navdeep Madan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:11:22 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Navdeep Madan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:04:47 GMT

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...(read more)

Unable to sort the BDC column which contain space

Navdeep Madan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:58:50 GMT

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 ...(read more)

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

Navdeep Madan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:15:19 GMT

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"...(read more)

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

Navdeep Madan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:09:40 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Developer documentation

Navdeep Madan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:28:26 GMT

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.

Navdeep Madan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:40:08 GMT

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...(read more)

How to add the help link in Top link bar ?

Navdeep Madan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:57:17 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Navdeep Madan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:56:23 GMT

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...(read more)

Switch to Edit Site doesn’t work in MCMS 2002

Navdeep Madan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:32:46 GMT

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....(read more)

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

Navdeep Madan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:18:08 GMT

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...(read more)

Code Access Security in SharePoint

Navdeep Madan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:11:16 GMT

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"...(read more)

How to do hang dump analysis?

Navdeep Madan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:43:53 GMT

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

Navdeep Madan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:18:54 GMT

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.