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Technical / May 20, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
In SharePoint 2010, claims based authentication provides us with a way of dealing with multiple sorts of authentication in one site. Where in the older SharePoint versions you needed to create a new site for each authentication method (Windows, Forms), you can now use both at the same time. This means all users are visiting
Technical / May 19, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
We started using BCS in SP2010 to create External Content Types. This is really a powerfull system, and a huge improvement on the ‘old’ BDC approach. For a project, I needed something more then just a BCS layer to get all the data. Data is being fetched from a 3rd party backend system in which
Technical / May 5, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Although I won’t be attending (neither in reallife nor online) due to a wedding, I thought I’d just remind you all of the upcoming show from Microsoft. Next week, the 12th of may, Microsoft will be launching Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 out into the open. I’m very excited, cause I’ve
Technical / April 29, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Today I ran into an error when trying to enable the “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” feature on an existing SharePoint site. The logs told me: “Feature Activation: Failed to ensure feature dependencies for feature ‘PublishingSite’ (id: ‘f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa’), exception thrown: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to create the ‘Site Collection Documents’ library. OriginalException: A
Technical / March 24, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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
Technical / March 12, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 6
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
Technical / March 7, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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
Technical / March 7, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
For reference, here’s a list of all site templates which are included in a default SharePoint 2010 installation.
Technical / March 5, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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
Technical / March 1, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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