Simplified SharePoint solution deployment
Any SharePoint developer will have to work with SharePoint Features at some point. Features are a great way to extend the core functionality of MOSS – in Web 2.0 speak, think of them as “plugins” and...
View ArticleSet SharePoint BDC field value programmatically in Visual Studio workflow
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint is a superb way of hooking up virtually any disparate system to SharePoint 2007. By defining the connection in to the system, you can expose any part of...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 Workflow + Infopath 2010 forms – troubleshooting
Microsoft markets that Sharepoint Designer workflows are directly exportable to Visual Studio workflows. And in many ways, this is absolutely true. It’s trivial to create a .wsp from an SPD workflow...
View ArticleSharePoint + Visual Studio + Get Current User
A frequently asked question in the MSDN forums is “how you can get access to the user who is interacting with your workflow?”. For example, the user modifying a task. The workflow is likely running in...
View ArticleSharePoint workflow + list item edit + value cannot be null
You may encounter a random error when using a custom Visual Studio SharePoint 2010 workflow. Everything appears OK, but when you go to edit the item that the workflow is running on, the EditForm fails...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 + Kofax Express + Object reference not set to an instance of...
I’ve been working with Kofax Express 2.0 recently to move documents from a scanner directly in to a SharePoint document library. I was using a custom list definition (created in Visual Studio) but was...
View ArticleThe field with Id {} defined in feature {} was found in the current site...
This is a known bug in Visual Studio. It seems to occur most often when using VS to deploy (and redeploy) declarative content types to a SharePoint site. I’ve seen it happen most often when deploying...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 + SSRS Integrated mode + deploy + login prompt
If you try to deploy an SSRS report from Visual Studio to your SharePoint environment, where SSRS has been configured in Integrated Mode, using the built-in deployment mechanism, you may encounter a...
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