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Quick Fix: Accessing SharePoint Site Throws [HttpException (0x80004005): Request timed out.]

One of my developer colleagues was working on a project this week and ran into a timeout problem while working on building some crazy web part. His web part was fine, but "suddenly" an unrelated site became very slow and frequently timed out with this error: [HttpException (0x80004005): Request...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-23-2008
Invoking SSRS Web Services From WSS / MOSS in FBA Environment

We needed to invoke the "CreateSubscription" method on an SSRS web service that is hosted in an FBA managed MOSS environment from a custom web part. We kept getting variations of: 401: Not authorized Object Moved The "object moved" message was most interesting because it was saying...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-09-2008
Partial Answer to "How do we do Team Development for SharePoint?"

Body: This is potentially a much bigger question, but I'll just address the narrow section of code migration from a hardware/software level, what I would recommend is that each developer have their own Virtual Machine which is a Windows Server with SQL Server and MOSS. Each developer does their development...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-30-2008
Environmental Indicators for Server Health

Body: Once I remember reading about a data center that altered the air conditioning level of the room occupied by the system admins, and made the room's "weather" more turbulent when a server started reporting an error. The result was that the system administrators could feel the server...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-29-2008
Upgrading an Evaluation Edition OS on a VM

Body: So I got a MOSS VM from a class a while ago, and I've been using it for a while - for a variety of projects, any time it wasn't practical to take the time to build a development environment from scratch. It was built using an evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 R2, and it finally...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-28-2008
Getting Better Error Messages

Body: Anytime I'm developing something in SharePoint, I'll get to a point where I load a SharePoint page, and it says "An unknown error has occurred." or "An unexpected error has occurred.". There are two things you can do about this. Turn custom errors off, and turn up the...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-22-2008
Applying Visual Studio SP1 on a Windows 2003 Domain Controller

Body: I've got two development environments that I am using for my current project, both Virtual Machines. One is a Windows 2003 server with SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, and the other is a Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2005 that will have Visual Studio 2008 soon. I had to apply the latest...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-24-2008
Quick and Simple: Provision a Web Site Using SharePoint Object Model In C#

I tried searching for a little snippet code that would show how I can create a new SPWeb in a site collection. I didn't find it as quickly or easily as I expected so I thought I'd slap together a little entry on the subject. This code creates a new Wiki site: SPSite siteCollection; siteCollection...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-11-2008
Simple Explanation: "Value does not fall within the expected range."

When working with event receivers and other code that references SharePoint list items via the object model, I often make mistakes that generate this error at runtime: Error loading and running event receiver Conchango.xyzzyEventReceiver in xyzzy, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0dc50a750396c3ac...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-26-2008
Quick & Easy: Create a Folder and Assign a Content Type (Or, Have Your KPIs and Eat Them Too)

In order to work around a KPI problem I wrote about here , I did some testing and discovered that KPI's work against folders with meta data in the same way that they work against documents or list items. I proved it out by creating a new content type based on the folder content type and then added...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-19-2008

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