Of Ones and Zeros

Promising SharePoint projects on CodePlex

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by bryan.

I spent some time on CodePlex today researching the latest open-source SharePoint projects.  I probably haven’t peeked through CodePlex in the past 6 months, and I was very encouraged by the quantity of projects out there.  Following are the ones of particular interest to me:
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard
http://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/
The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Installed on Windows 7 RC

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by bryan.

Today I installed Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 on the Windows 7 RC running in VMWare Workstation 6.5.  Special thanks to Miha Markič for this tip regarding disabling 3D graphics acceleration in VMWare.  This is what the top bar of Visual Studio looked like before that change:

And this is what it looks like [...]

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft’s SharePoint team has announced that there is a bug in Service Pack 2 for MOSS that will trigger SharePoint to believe it is a trial instance of the product.  A workaround is supplied by Microsoft:
We are working to release a hotfix to automatically fix this issue. A manual work-around is currently available and involves [...]

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Blog has been updated!

Posted on 06. May, 2009 by bryan.

This blog was in desperate need of an update, aesthetically and infrastructure related. If memory serves, coming into yesterday Of Ones and Zeros was running on Wordpress 2.3, and hadn’t received any TLC so to speak in the past 18 months. Initially I was planning to move this blog over to the excellent Sitefinity platform [...]

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SharePoint SP2 is RTW

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

SharePoint SP2 is Release to World (RTW) as of today.  Some of the highlights from the SharePoint team blog:
Benefits
Customers can be benefited from the following enhancements with Service Pack 2.

Performance and Availability Improvements

Service Pack 2 includes many fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms, including:

New Timer job [...]

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Error when deleting list columns in SharePoint

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

Received the following error when trying to delete a list column: 
“Unable to validate data.”

Thanks to Angela Chng for the solution:
Did you customize your application master pages and get this error while trying to delete list columns?
Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength)   at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String [...]

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Setting up Sitefinity to forward old Urls to new Urls

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

My colleague Adam Duggan pointed me to an incredible useful post on the Sitefinity support forums: http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-bhamhe.aspx.  I mistakenly believed that Sitefinity would support redirecting .ASP files to the new .ASPX counterparts as long as IIS had the .ASP extension associated with the aspnet_isapi.dll runtime.  WRONG!  As indicated in the forum posting by Randy, the [...]

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SharePoint Designer available as a free download

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft has released SharePoint Designer as a free download (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx)!  My friend and colleague Jeff Becraft discusses this news, and provides sage advice to proceed with caution (Becraft’s Blog: The rumors are true! SharePoint Designer is now a FREE DOWNLOAD!). 
From my vantage point as an architect and developer of SharePoint solutions, it is important [...]

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Office Picture Manager won’t open after clicking "Upload Multiple" in Picture Library

Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by bryan.

There’s a title for you!  In any event, a client ha an issue where after clicking "Upload Multiple" in a SharePoint Picture Library, the Microsoft Office Picture Manager would not load.  After digging through the page source, it was determined that SharePoint uses the "OISCTRL.OISClientLauncher" class from the "OISCTRL.dll" to power the Upload Multiple functionality [...]

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Subversion "Shelving"

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by bryan.

I had one of those moments yesterday where you get 60% of the way through fixing a problem a certain way, and then discover that there was a simpler, more elegant solution that would require 10% of the effort.  Problem being, I had just written a lot of code that I didn’t necessarily want to [...]

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