Month: March 2010

SP2010: BDC Metadata Store is Currently Unavailable

I was really impressed by the new BCS stuff which I saw @ SPC2010. Offcourse, after installing the beta on my laptop, I wanted to test it out myself. So I downloaded SharePoint designer (which is pretty damn nice compared to the old one), connected to my newly created SharePoint site and clicked “External Content

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SP2010: SharePoint not supported with .NET framework version

Today I received two errors when developing a new project for SharePoint 2010. The first one was the FileNotFoundException on the SPSite constructor. Turns out that VS2010 defaults to a x86 setting for for instance console apps. This needs to be x64 since SharePoint 2010 is x64 only; switch it. The second one was “microsoft sharepoint

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SharePoint 2010: GetAvailableWebTemplates CollectionNotInitializedException

The new client object model is something which required some getting used to. Most of the data in the objects isn’t loaded untill you request it, even when calling methods. For instance, the method GetAvailableWebTemplates returns an object of type WebTemplateCollection. You would probably expect that object to contain all the available web templates on

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SharePoint 2010: could not resolve type in class library

Today I was working on one of my first SP2010 projects. I started off with creating a class library which would host some classes providing logic which interacted with the new SharePoint 2010 object model. I also created a console application to test the methods as defined in the class library. When I tried to

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SharePoint 2010: Specified value is not supported for the parameter part 2

It seems the error mentioned in the previous post (“Specified value is not supported for the parameter”) doesn’t only appear on installing SharePoint 2010. Today, I tried adding a new site collection into my newly installed environment, and there it was again! So the solution will probably match the previous one: connecting to the corporate

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