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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Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception

This weekend I tried installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto my Windows 7 laptop. After following all the steps mentioned in the MSDN article, I ran into an error. Because I already had a SQL2008 installation, I didn’t go for the stand alone installation, but I chose a server farm setup. When running the config

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Problem with splashscreen of WindowsFormsApplicationBase not closing

After cracking my head on this one, I found out what’s going on and wanted to share it here. I’ve got a winform app setup and wanted to use a splashscreen to show during loading. I’m using the WindowsFormsApplicationBase class to do this, which works fine. The SplashScreen appears, but I had the problem that

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SharePoint site not reading web.config

The last few weeks I’ve been struggling with a problem for which I couldn’t seem to find a solution. I tried implementing the Faceted Search solution found on Codeplex: http://facetedsearch.codeplex.com/. With this solution, it’s possible to enhance the search options of SharePoint to show search facets. With these facets, the user is able to narrow

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SharePoint Connections 2010: Amsterdam

Just returned from two days of fun @ SharePoint Connections 2010! Great conference with lots of excellent speakers including Steve Fox, Jan Tielens and Richard Taylor (and many more offcourse). Got to see some pretty exciting things, primarily about SharePoint 2010 (duh), Visual Studio 2010 and the new developer stuff which that combination brings. I’ll

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Project 2007 and 2010 side by side

I’m playing around with the new 2010 apps a bit. Offcourse I’ve got a SharePoint 2010 environment in which I also added Project Server 2010. I’ve also installed the client, since the installation gave me the option to leave my existing 2007 installation in it’s place. Now for some reason, the 2010 client wouldn’t connect to

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Gotcha! DATE / DATUM calculated formula column in SharePoint

A colleague of mine had a question about a  calculated column. He wanted to link an expire date to documents in a document library, but users would have to choose a retention period of 1-10 years. Not that hard if you create two site columns; one of type ‘choose’ which presents the options 1-10 in

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Allow BDC access to all FBA users

I was struggling a bit with my FBA users in SharePoint. I’ve created a customer portal setup in which BDC data is shown. But FBA added users aren’t allowed to view BDC data by default, not even when you add groups like authenticated users and Everyone to the BDC permissions list. When you want to

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