For those who want to developing for SharePoint on Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of their Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.3.
New features in VSeWSS 1.3
- Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines
- Separate build commands for package, deploy and retract are added
- Command line build, package and retract commands are included
- Refactoring support for renaming of Web Parts
- WSP View improvements for consistency of deleting feature elements, merging features and adding event receivers to features
- Solution Generator can now generate solutions from publishing sites
- Allowing partial trust BIN deployments of web parts
- …
For more information about this release read: “Announcing: Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3” on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.
One of our users came to me and told me he lost all of the changes he made to a document checked out from SharePoint, strange thing was, he was sure he had saved the document in between changes.
After investigating this a bit more I recreated what happened:
Consider this first scenario:
- A user checks out a document from SharePoint.
- He edits the document in Word 2007.
- Then he saves it.
- He closes Word 2007.
- Word displays the next question:
Nothing wrong with that, changed are being saved to the document and you can choose to check in the document, but now for the scenario the user had:
- He checks out a document.
- Edits the document in Word 2007.
- Saves the document.
- Changes it some more.
- The last changes are not correct and the user doesn’t want to save these changes.
- He closes Word 2007.
- Word displays the next question:
- User chooses “No” because the last changes are not correct.
- Word 2007 asks another question:
- Now this is a dangerous question.
If the user clicks “Yes” this will mean he will loose lose all of his changes since he checked out the document and NOT only the last changes he made to the document.
Don’t know how, don’t know when (Vera Lynn), but one day we lost access to our SharePoint Central Administration. The reason of this was that someone deleted the BUILTIN\Administrators from the Farm Administrators group.
No problem, just add the BUILTIN\Administrators back to the Farm Administrators Group.
But how do you do this without access to the Central Administration?
Well, after some searching and googling I found a solution. You can use STSADM to add people to groups in a Site Collection and the Central Administration is just another Site Collection.
I know the suspense is killing you so here ‘s the STSADM command:
stsadm -o adduser -url http://server:12345 -userlogin BUILTIN\Administrators -useremail admin@company.com -group “Farm Administrators” -username “Administrators”
One of the users of our SharePoint project asked if it was possible to show an “Item List” on the “View Item” page.
My first reaction was: “Of course it is, add a Web Part displaying the “Item List” to the page and we’re done”.
But when I browsed to the “View Item” page and clicked the “Site Actions” I noticed that there wasn’t an “Edit Page” option available. Strange, but after some -Googling- I found the following sollution:
- Open IExplorer and navigate to your “View Item” page (DispForm.aspx)
- Replace everything in the URL after “?ID=#“ with “&PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2″ (without the quotes of course) and press <Enter>
After adding a Web Part to the page and saving it, the “Edit Page” option will be available the next time you click “Site Actions” on that Page.
A few days ago Microsoft’s Ramp Up program launched a new track: SharePoint for Developers, Part I.
Microsoft Ramp Up is a completely free, online, community-based program that only requires a Live ID to sign up and dig in. It connects you with other professionals while you’re building your skills.
On Ramp Up you can review the content and advance through the learning track at your own pace. At the end of the each level, you take an assessment to unlock the next level. Once you’ve completed the full learning track, you will have gained new skills integral to a successful developer.
Other tracks you can dig into are:
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