Monthly Archives: January 2013
Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 2 – Visual Studio 2010 Custom Deployment Steps
Written on , by Tommy Segoro
In Visual Studio 2010 you can actually modify the deployment configuration and steps. By default you will get the following: – Default – No Activation Default With the default one, when you do “Right Click -> Deploy” VS will then retract your solution, re-deploy your latest solution and re-activate the features. No Activation Continue Reading
ElementFile vs ElementManifest
Written on , by Tommy Segoro
I just noticed that when you add a linking Module in your VS 2010 for your custom Feature project, and when you add a file into the module, VS 2010 automatically marks it as a ElementFile. When I tried to develop custom content types and fields, I needed to add 2 XML files into the module (eg. ContentTypes.xml and Fields.xml) and they have Continue Reading
How to Change From Sandboxed Solution to Farm Solution
Written on , by Tommy Segoro
PLEASE FOLLOW YUBIN’s COMMENT BELOW. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP YUBIN. I’ve arrived at a stage where I wanted to create my own custom Sharepoint solution using Visual Studio 2010. When I created a new blank Sharepoint project it asked me whether I want to deploy the solution as a Sandboxed Solution or a Farm Solution. Continue Reading
Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 1
Written on , by Tommy Segoro
So far I’ve found the following bugs (or things that can be improved in later releases): – Administration breadcrumb is all over the place. It’s really-really hard to navigate to where I was before without going back to the main Central Admin screen. Especially when I was in a particular Service Application page, the breadcrumb Continue Reading
User Profile “The query returns nothing” Error
Written on , by Tommy Segoro
It’s time for me to configure the User Profile Synchronization service. I started with configuring the connection. It can somehow crawled and displayed my OU structure but when I click OK it returns to the connection listing page with the following error message: “The query returns nothing” I then research in Google and Continue Reading
