Microsoft Service Configuration Editor missing in Visual Studio

October 24th, 2009

Recently I needed the Microsoft Service Configuration Editor in Visual Studio but could not find it while right clicking the app.config file. Below a workaround for the issue.

If you edit the configuration file of a WCF Web Service project in Visual Studio by right-clicking it in Solution Explorer, notice that the Edit WCF Config context menu item is missing. To workaround this issue, click the Tools menu, and choose WCF Service Config Editor. After that, you can right-click a configuration file and use the Edit WCF Config context menu item.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733123.aspx

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REST API for SharePoint

September 9th, 2009

http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2009/02/10/bamboo-solutions-announces-rest-api-for-microsoft-sharepoint.aspx

http://store.bamboosolutions.com/ps-118-5-mashpoint.aspx

SQLDumper library failed initialization

September 9th, 2009

Today I stumbled upon this little error while installing my MS Visual Studio 2008. I went for a full install. Apparently the component "Microsoft SQL server VSS Writer" is responsible for this error message. By uninstalling the component, the issue dissappeared.

Now, what have I been uninstalling? I looked up what this SQL Server VSS Writer is and found this short definition:

SQL Server 2005 provides support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) by providing a writer (the SQL writer) so that a third-party backup application can use the VSS framework to back up database files.

For more information:

Word blog posting test

September 9th, 2009

Hi there, this is me writing my first blog post in Word 2007. I don’t know if it is very useful or easy (yet). Hopefully I can tell in just a minute if its cool or not. I will now attempt to insert a screenshot (*drums please*) and … taadaaaa…

Figure 1 : Even a caption is possible !

Figure 1 : What do you think about some smartart?

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Uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Error Message

September 9th, 2009

Recently I tried to uninstall my Visual Studio 2008. I got an error message saying:

A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

A little googling later I found out that I had to uninstall all the hotfixes first. After that, it worked again ! Hope it helps you too!

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How to change the number of urls displayed in the Table of contents webpart

September 3rd, 2009

The default number of urls displayed in the table of contents webpart is 50. When you have more than 50 sites in your sitedirectory not all of your sites will be listed. Therefore we want to change that default number.

This can easily be done by using the "DynamicChildLimit" attribute. This attribute takes a number. When you set it to 0, this means that there is no limit.

You can find the attribute in the web.config file (under ..\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80) and look for following section:

<providers>
        <add name="SPNavigationProvider" … />
        <add name="SPSiteMapProvider" … />
        <add name="SPContentMapProvider" … />
        <add name="SPXmlContentMapProvider" … />
        <add name="AdministrationQuickLaunchProvider" …  />
        <add name="SharedServicesQuickLaunchProvider" … />
        <add name="GlobalNavSiteMapProvider" … />
        <add name="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider" … />
        <add name="CurrentNavSiteMapProvider" … />
        <add name="CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode" … />
        <add name="SiteDirectoryCategoryProvider" … />
        <add name="MySiteMapProvider" … />
        <add name="MySiteLeftNavProvider" … />
        <add name="UsagePagesSiteMapProvider" … />
</providers>

Now paste the attribute in the 4 bold providers. Here’s an example:

<add name="GlobalNavSiteMapProvider" description="CMS provider for Global navigation" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapProvider, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" NavigationType="Global" EncodeOutput="true" DynamicChildLimit="0" />

Just execute an iisreset and you are done!

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SharePoint 2010 is coming…

September 3rd, 2009

You can find sneak peeks and other interesting stuff about SharePoint 2010 on

> Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007:
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com 

> Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog: 
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint

> Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

> SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation: 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24&displaylang=en

> MS SharePoint Developer Website:
http://mssharepointdeveloper.com

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