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SharePoint Error: “The language-neutral solution package was not found”

Ajay Matharu — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:52:13 +0000

Last night while developing an event listener custom list, I ran into this error,

SharePoint Error: “The language-neutral solution package was not found”

The solution to this problem is, Restart your visual studio. And it will be back to normal.

Hope this helps

Set Item level permission in sharepoint through coding

Ajay Matharu — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:03:31 +0000

Here is the way we can add item level permission for a user on an item,
SPRoleDefinition oUserRole;
SPRoleAssignment oUserRoleAssignment;
SPListItem itm;
SPSite site = null;
SPWeb web = null;
string siteUrl = Request.Url.ToString();

site = new SPSite(siteUrl);
web = site.OpenWeb();
SPGroup grp = web.Groups[groupname];

itm=web.Lists["Shared Documents"].Items[0];

oUserRole = web.RoleDefinitions.GetByType(SPRoleType.Administrator);

oUserRoleAssignment = new SPRoleAssignment(loginName, emailId, userDisplayName, notes);//for user
or
oUserRoleAssignment = new SPRoleAssignment(grp);//for group

oUserRoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(oUserRole);
itm.RoleAssignments.Add(oUserRoleAssignment);
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
itm.Update();
web.Update();
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;

This is useful for setting item level permission via code.

Sharepoint site does not exists at mentioned URL

Ajay Matharu — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:42:56 +0000

Hi Guys,

While working on the Sharepoint, I came across this error “Sharepoint site does not exists at mentioned URL”. On searching something I found that we’ll have to change the URL under the Project Properties.

Enter Sharepoint Site URL

Impersonation in Sharepoint – MOSS/WSS

Ajay Matharu — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:42:12 +0000

Here is the little code that you can use to impersonate any user in sharepoint. This will code will pretend that you are logged in as the user who is impersonated and will be allowed access to all the features and inherits all the rights for that person. This is mainly used to do something for which the impersonating person has rights and you other user do not have rights.

SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web.Site.OpenWeb();
SPUser user = web.AllUsers[username];
SPUserToken userToken = user.UserToken;
SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Site.Url.ToString(), userToken);
web = site.OpenWeb();

Here username is the name username of the user who you want to impersonate as.

Hope this helps

Writing in Sharepoint log file

Ajay Matharu — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:21:48 +0000

Below is an example on how to write to the SharePoint log files (located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS folder).

catch(Exception e)
{
Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString(“Exception: {0} – {1}”, e.Message, e.StackTrace);
}

Sharepoint on Windows Vista

Ajay Matharu — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:53:38 +0000

Many people have this question “Does Sharepoint gets installed on Vista?”. The answer is yes. I installed MOSS on my Vista machine yesterday successfully.

All you need to install Sharepoint, WSS or MOSS, on Vista is

You must select the Advanced option during install.
If you want to run on SQLExpress, manually install it first. Get it here.
You have to manually enable IIS7 with the proper options. Web Management Tools and World Wide Web Services. Enable at least the following options in IIS.

Download Vista Helper file from here, and run the setup file WssVista.msi.

Sharepoint on Vista

You will see an UAC prompt select Continue to proceed with the installation.

Once the install has completed you will find the SetupLauncher.exe in the install location you selected. If you didn’t change the default option you will see it under the directory ..\Program Files\WssOnVista\

Sharepoint on Vista

Before starting the setup make sure you have enabled IIS with the following options, Web Management Tools and World Wide Web Services. Enable at least the following options and choose OK.

To set this Go to Control Panel and click Programs. Under Program and Features click Turn Windows features on or off.

Sharepoint on Vista

After completing the above steps it’s time for the interesting part. Locate SetupLauncher.exe and start it. You will once again see an UAC prompt, select Continue.

Sharepoint on Vista

After the SetupLauncher run, select the WSS installation file Sharepoint.exe, or the MOSS installation file, and click OK. First, the package will be extracted.

Sharepoint on Vista

After the files have been extracted the WSS setup program will be started.

Sharepoint on Vista

The current version only supports the advanced installation option so select that one.

Sit back and relax while SharePoint is being installed, you are running Vista remember

Once installed you can configure your Sharepoint setup.

Sharepoint on Vista

Let the Configuration Wizard do it’s work.

Sharepoint on Vista

The final result is WSS running on Vista, Enjoy!

Sharepoint on Vista

Resource:

Bamboo Solutions

You can find more on their forums. Enjoy!!!

Microsoft Releases Toolkit for Reusing SharePoint Portlets

Ajay Matharu — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:41:34 +0000

Microsoft has released a tool that allows developers to reuse data and mini-applications from SharePoint-based portals on rival portal software that otherwise would not be natively interoperable with SharePoint, the company said.

The WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) Toolkit for SharePoint provides sample code for producing WSRP-conformant data from SharePoint lists and libraries, according to a blog post on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.

SharePoint is Microsoft’s software for building collaboration portals and Intranet sites. WSRP is a standard overseen by the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) consortium for letting developers reuse portlets from one portal to another remotely. Portlets are visual mini-applications that expose one or more functionalities on a portal, such as a list of contacts, or allow a portal to perform more complex tasks, such as retrieving invoices or connecting to a reservation system.

Java-based portals such as BEA Aqualogic, IBM WebSphere and SAP NetWeaver include the ability to consume WSRP code. By using the new tool, developers can now produce SharePoint data and portlets natively on portals from these vendors, Microsoft said. This makes it quicker and easier for developers to build portal applications across heterogeneous software infrastructure, the company said.

SharePoint already ships with a WSRP consumer that lets developers consume WSRP code from other portals for use on SharePoint portals, Microsoft said. However, customers also asked the company for a tool to produce WSRP code from SharePoint portals for use on rival software. Releasing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint shows Microsoft responding to customer demand for interoperability between its products and competing software, the company said.

Indeed, Microsoft in the past several years and in 2008 in particular has increasingly supported industry-supported open standards to ensure that its software plays well with others in the proverbial IT sandbox. Many believe a stiff fine from the European Union imposed earlier this year for failing to comply with an ongoing antitrust agreement and new industry business models that make it impossible for Microsoft to expect customers to use only its software in their IT environments have a lot to do with the company’s new attitude.

The new SharePoint toolkit is available online for download now from the Microsoft Developer Network site.

Remove all item level permission on SPListItem

Ajay Matharu — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:34:00 +0000

It’s been very long, I have been finding a way to remove all the item level permission.

My requirement was to set permission only to particular users and groups on an item and remove rest all. I almost spend 3 weeks in finding a way to remove all the permission on the item so that later I can add the permissions which I want. Atlast I found a way to remove all the permission set on item let it be user specific or group specific. Here is the code snippet that helps you to do that,
for (int k = itm.RoleAssignments.Count – 1; k >= 0; k–)
{
itm.RoleAssignments.Remove(k);
}

here itm is an SPListItem object from which you want to remove all permissions.

You can loop through all the SPListCollection and then for each SPListItem you can remove all the permission on that item.

Error creating MySite – Sharepoint

Ajay Matharu — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:39:58 +0000

While creating MySite today, i encountered the following error,

HTTP/1.1 404
Connection: close
Date; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:04:43 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftSharepointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6219
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

This error occurs because the SharedService is not properly configured. You can resolve this error by correcting the SharedService or by creating a new SharedService for this site from Central Admin.

I just created a new SharedService from the Central Admin and associated this site with that SharedService and MySite was created

Error Creating Sharepoint Site

Ajay Matharu — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:23:50 +0000

Today I was working on creating a new sharepoint site, and after creating the site from the central admin, I got the following error:

HTTP/1.1 404
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:09:29 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6219

I searched on the error and found the following solution, so just wanted to
share the solution with you guys.

Make sure you reset the IIS after creating the site in central admin. Run the following command
to reset IIS “IISRESET /NOFORCE”

After resetting the IIS run the following command

“C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\MICROSOFT SHARED\WEB SERVER EXTENSIONS\12\BIN\STSADM.exe” -O CREATESITE -URL http://servername -OWNEREMAIL -OWNERLOGIN

You can get more details on this command using the following command,

C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\MICROSOFT SHARED\WEB SERVER EXTENSIONS\12\BIN\STSADM.exe -help CreateSite

After executing this command you can access your site. You will be asked for the site template to be applied to the site and also the members that will be able to access the site.