Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:13:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en mstechblogs/sharepointhttp://feedburner.google.com Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1 Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 is one of the developers dream. It enables developers to access the SharePoint data from client, the code need not to be deployed in to the server.

Client Object Model can be used in the following three ways.

.Net CLR Silverlight Object Model JavaScript

.Net CLR Example:

Create the context to the SharePoint site. No traffic/requests [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/client-object-model-in-sharepoint-2010-%e2%80%93-part-1/ Cannot open database requested by the login the login failed I got into the below issue, when I try to access the site collection search scopes.

Cannot open database “Uday_SharePoint_SSP_Content” requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ‘Uday\Uday.Ethirajulu$’. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search.Admin.Pages.SearchAdminPageBase.ErrorHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.OnError(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/cannot-open-database-requested-by-the-login-the-login-failed-3/ Unable to connect to SQL Server session database the connection string was returned by an instance of the IPartitionResolver type Today, I was playing with authentication providers for setting up the site with anonymous access.

Suddenly the site started throwing the below error. I have no clue what’s wrong on the DB Server, then I restarted the DB Server no luck L

 

Exception:

Exception Type: System.Web.HttpException  Exception Message: Unable to connect to SQL Server session database. The connection [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/unable-to-connect-to-sql-server-session-database-the-connection-string-was-returned-by-an-instance-of-the-ipartitionresolver-type/ WebCast : Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 I am planning for a webcast with demo in “Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010″ on February 9th 2010.

Register for the event here

]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/webcast-client-object-model-in-sharepoint-2010/ List level Validation in SharePoint 2010 In my earlier article, I wrote about column level validation in SharePoint 2010.

List level validation will trigger before saving the content. The validation should return TRUE to save the content.

Library Information List:

I have created sample list Library Information with the following columns.

Validation Scenario:

Due date should be greater than Issue Date.

 

Validation Settings:

Go to List Settings and [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/list-level-validation-in-sharepoint-2010/ User Profile Exception Error while Creating Sample Data in SharePoint 2010 Configuration Wizard I encountered the following error while running Configuration wizard for SharePoint 2010.

You need to Install the hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7. Download here from Microsoft Connect.

     

     

Error in Log File:

01/09/2010 13:20:05 17 ERR An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’. Note that attribute [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/user-profile-exception-error-while-creating-sample-data-in-sharepoint-2010-configuration-wizard/ Column Validation in SharePoint 2010 Most of the developers faced issues with column validations in SharePoint 2003/2007.

It is really painful to write the validation using custom approach like javascript or jquery.

SharePoint 2010 provides the following validations in Out of the Box.

Column Level Validation List Level Validation

Column Level Validation

While creating new column in list, click on the column validation node.

Specify your validation [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/column-validation-in-sharepoint-2010/ CodePlex Release : List Search WebPart Hi Community,                        

I have contributed List Search WebPart for SharePoint in CodePlex.

Project Description:                               This Project provides the List Search WebPart for WSS 3.0 / SharePoint 2007. Just add the WebPart to page and specify the list name, filter fields, display fields and criteria.

Simple Interface for Tool Part with advanced features for list search.

Features

Ajax Enabled Easy configuration [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/codeplex-release-list-search-webpart/ How to Create Custom Menu Item in Site Actions The below sample feature creates new menu item in Site Actions menu, Please replace the GUID in the below code.

Sample Feature File

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

<Feature

    Id=”<GUID>”

    Title=”Custom Menu Item”

    Description=” ”

    Version=”1.0.0.0″

    Scope=”Site”

    Hidden=”False” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/”>

    <ElementManifests>

        <ElementManifest

            Location=”elements.xml” />

    </ElementManifests>

</Feature>

 

Sample [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/how-to-create-custom-menu-item-in-site-actions/ TreeView Doc Lib V 2.0 in CodePlex I have released the next version of TreeView Document Library WebPart for SharePoint 2007.

Added features in this release:

 

Automatically populates the list of document libraries in dropdownlist in toolpart Collapsed TreeView can be managed from toolpart property Automatically shows the appropriate icons for the files in document library

 

WebPart included as feature in solution package.

Please post your comments or [...]]]> http://www.mstechblogs.com/sharepoint/treeview-doc-lib-v-2-0-in-codeplex/