Custom SharePoint Timer Job Stuck Initializing
Simple enough, I was creating a timer job that got “stuck” initializing. After a few resets and reinstalls the custom timer job just would not exit from the initializing state. After a few IISResets and redeploys there was no change. The job would initialize but not complete. A check of the ULS showed errors associated with the new timer job: “The previous instance of the timer...
March 25th, 2010 by Darrin
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Books – Many New SharePoint Books Have Hit My Shelf
It used to be that you could count the number of SharePoint books on one hand. Now just the MOSS 2007 books are consuming a lot of space on my shelves. It seems that every few weeks a new MOSS book is released. I am currently reading Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration by Steve Caravajal, Todd Klindt, and Shane Young. I will post more books that made it to my bookshelves, I am quite behind on these...
January 3rd, 2009 by Darrin
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The Last Pint – Remembering a Friend
I almost did not check my emails before I left the house today. One cannot explain the grief I felt when I checked the mail on the phone and realized the SharePoint community lost a dear friend. Wading though way too many eamils this morning to my disbelief I leaned that Patrick Tisseghem passed away. Patrick was practically a SharePoint icon, not only in the European community but world-wide. Many...
September 5th, 2008 by Darrin
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AddSolution – Failed to extract the cab file
Seems like I have been building and deploying features and solution for weeks. I have run into this error while attempting to add a solution to the solution store: Failed to extract the cab file in the solution. Seems like there is more than a few reasons why you might see this return from your STSADM addsolution command but for myself each time was this error was associated with a duplicate entry...
August 13th, 2008 by Darrin
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Infrastructure Update Issues
Microsoft’s Infrastructure Updates have been out for about a week now. There does seem to be some potential big issues with the updates breaking third party products. Microsoft also has posted a KB article on Alternate Access Mappings issues associated with the Infrastructure updates. Here are a few key posts you should be looking at if you have installed or are considering installing the Infrastructure...
July 24th, 2008 by Darrin
Updated WSS and MOSS SDK Ready for Download
The newest version of the WSS and MOSS SDK has been posted to Microsoft Download. It is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en
August 22nd, 2007 by Darrin
Dev Utilities and The New Dev Environment
Here is a quick look at the current utilities I make sure I get on all my development servers: Reflector – Unless you live under a rock you have heard of Reflector. Number one go to utility to view the object model ( and then some!) to better understand the underlying product. PowerShell – Microsoft’s newest “command-line” application is always on my dev machines. PowerShell...
July 26th, 2007 by Darrin
Custom Actions – Simple Steps to Add Your Touch to Site Actions
WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 now have a supported extensibility mechanism allowing developers to easily add items to existing menus. Custom Actions – most easily installed as a feature means no more hacking of JavaScript files and ASPX pages. Custom Actions can be used to add new custom functionality to many places in WSS and MOSS. Depending on where the custom action is located determines the user...
April 8th, 2007 by Darrin
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KnowlegeLake shows up in new Microsoft MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Book
For those who attended Tech Ed 2006 and managed to get a copy of 7 Development Projects For Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0 make sure you read the introduction. page xix in the intro you will find a section on KnowlegeLake including images of our capture product, Imaging List Template and Imaging Viewer all running on WSS 3.0. For those of you who...
April 8th, 2007 by Darrin
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Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects on MSDN
Scott Harris and Mike Ammerlaan has a new best practice article titled Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects covering the various objects in WSS 3 and MOSS that implment the IDisposable interface. Scott and Mike uses this article to list techniques that will help developers write code that will result in proper clean up and disposal. This article covers the various classes...
April 8th, 2007 by Darrin
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Darrin has been around SharePoint since the Tahoe days. For those that have not been working in SharePoint that long, Tahoe was the code name for SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
Lately Darrin has been working with SharePoint with Windows Phone 7 and Azure. His blog is primarily about SharePoint along with some WP7, Azure and other topics such as Data Entity Framework and Silverlight.
Darrin is a founding member of Aptillon along with Todd, Matt, Maurice, Gary, Dan and Dave. We all work together on some really interesting projects along with some of our trusted partners.
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