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Tag Archives: SharePoint
How to: Deploy/Retract solutions to SharePoint through spsadm
So, everything is just fine when you use the DEPLOY command through Visual Studio to deploy your code to your…
How to: turn off SharePoint Custom Errors
When you deploy to SharePoint, you are likely to hit a page that informs you or an error pertaining to…
How to: Create “My Site” host
When you setup your SharePoint environment you will create an initial web application and site collection. Also, a “My Sites”…
Basics: Interact with SharePoint 2010 Data (post 3 – SPMetal and LinQ)
This is the third tutorial about accessing and manipulating data on SharePoint. The first one leveraged web services and the…
Quick tip: Add new property in SP2010 site collection property bag
The property bag of a site collection is a hashtable keeping key-value pairs. You can add as many as you…
How to: Debug SharePoint applications (attach to process).
First of all, you will need to turn off the custom errors. If you haven’t already done so, click here…
Quick tip: Troubleshoot SP error “Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid”
This error definitely comes from not following Microsoft’s best practices. There’s a great article on MSDN about best practices that…
Quick tip: Troubleshoot “Web Application not found” errors in SharePoint 2010 development
When developing against SharePoint 2010, you might come across the following error: “The web application at [URL] could not be…
Basics: Interact with SharePoint 2010 Data (post 2 – Server Object Model)
In a previous post, I made an introduction to interacting with SharePoint data through Web Services; easily, albeit a bit…