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Coding in Sharepoint is not so easy as developers get very minimum support from Visual Studio. For example, if a developer has to make a Web part then he or she has to go to Visual Studio and write down plenty of codes for creating a single control. Manytimes we also use SmartPart right. Hopefully, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will offer various features that will make Sharepoint developers' life much more comfortable. I am quickly listing and briefing all those: Web Part Designer: Developer will get designer support for creating web parts. It will work quite similar like the Smart Part but in a better way. Debugging: Debugging Sharepoint applications will be done by "F5". Yeppi, it will be same like any other program in Visual Studio. Sharepoint Server Explorer: All Sharepoint items like lists, document libraries, features and templates will be viewable with in Visual Studio and developers can change and manipulate it directly. Isn't it good guys? WSP Import an...

Microsoft recently announced that they are going to remove office word from the next version of SharePoint Server. As part of the Exchange Server 2010's public beta realease (and 14 waves of products), they have also announced about the next version of SharePoint Server and they are calling it as Microsoft Sharepoint 2010. What about the MOSS word? It sounds interesting as they think that office word may confuse users. It's not a big issue but definetely we all are waiting for the next version of this product. Technical preview will be relased in the third quarter of 2009 and we can expect the final version on somewhere around first half of 2010. Following links can be useful in this context: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx

We have an environment where we are wirking with SSRS as SharePoint Integrated Mode. While accessing SSRS Reports thorugh Sharepoint site, we had a requirement that the reports have to be opened using ReportBuilder to make some slight changes and deploy quickly without any dependancies. Well, opening a report using report builder is not an issue but whenever user is trying to run the report from report builder, it is showing the following error: Believe it or not, I spent almost 3-4 hours to find the issue. I thought it might be a user right related issue so I went to IIS and then try to implement the integrated windows authentication and other stuffs which I found by googling over the internet. But the issue was something completely different from what I was thinking. I went to SharePoint Central Administration -> Set Server Defaults (Under Reporting Services Section). I noticed that the Enable Ad hoc Report Execution option was unchecked. This was the culprit. By checking th...

While developing Sharepoint Workflows, if you may recieve the following error: "The form cannot be displayed because session state is not available." To solve this issue, just go to the web.config file of your Sharepoint site and add the following lines under the httpModules section within angular brackets: add type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule" name="Session" If this line is already there as commented then uncomment it and you will not recieve this error again.

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 provide very powerful and wide range of feature riched applicationd which can be very useful for Social Networking and daily computing in any bussiness environment. In this post, I am going to list down 10 very powerful features freely available at codeplex: Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS): Podcasting Kit for Sharepoint (PKS) helps to save time and money for an organization to deliver the next generation knowledgement management solution using social media. Any podcast enabled device along with the general web users can access this highly user interactive sharepoint feature. It is built with Silverlight 2.0 and Microsoft Expression Encoder 2.0 to provide the podcasting solution. To view more and to download the February 2009 beta edition, just go to http://pks.codeplex.com/ . Community Kit for SharePoint(CKS): Community Kit for Sharepoint (CKS) is a bouquet of rich features which make existing features in ...

SQL Server Reporting Services offers programmatically handling various report subscriptions. You can read the specific subscriptions and change those in code-behind as required. I assume that you are already aware about the subscription mechanism in reporting services. For some of you who are not aware about this, I would like to write that subscription in reporting services is nothing but a automated service (sql server job) defined and set by you to deliver reports at specific time or in specific events. You also define in which format the report will be presented to the user. Now whatever subscription properties you have set, everything will be stored in the ReportServer database. Schedule, Subscriptions and ReportSchedule tables contain alll those informations. Now create a Windows or Web Application. Add a Web Reference towords ReportingService2006. If SSRS is isntalled on your system then you can easily find the ReportService2006.asmx in the following url: http://servername ...

I was shocked by one problem that I experienced while developing a SharePoint application. I was trying to open IIS Manager but it was showing me a blank screen. Even if I was trying to connect to localhost, it was denying. After being disturbed for a while, I came to know that OWSTimer.exe wants to access IIS ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface). OWSTime.exe has multiple threads and those are trying to access the IIS at the same time. That is why IIS Server Manager suddenly goes blank. OWSTimer.exe is a Windows Sharepoint Services timer process which is responsible to execute defined tasks in specific time interval in background. I restarted the OWSTimer.exe service and believe me it worked like a magic. Restarting IIS also forces all running threads to release their access. So that also would have solved my problem. By the way, this may be a small issue but when I experienced it, felt quite surprised.