Patrick Tisseghem's Passing

If you've got anything to do with Sharepoint development you've surely heard that Patrick passed away on 3rd Sept 2008.

Isn't it strange how we can mourn a loss of someone who we've never met? But I feel that the Sharepoint community has suffered a great loss.

Although I've never met the man I feel that he was the type of guy who would not have regrets and would have lived life to the fullest.

This is a reminder to all of us that we are only here for a limited amount of time. We should ensure the time we spend on this earth is spent well and to the benefit of the community as a whole. Which I think Patrick has achieved with his work.

Patrick you will be missed by all.

HTTP Error 401.2 after SPS 2003 deployment

I'm in the process of creating a development server to mirror my production server. After deploying SPS2003 I attempted to browse to http://localhost/default.aspx and got: " HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to server."

After a little Googling I found this post.

Basically you need to check that "Integrated Windows authentication" is enabled for your Web site in IIS.

Sharepoint solution file error

I tried to run the following command:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>stsadm -o addsolution -filename ChansFunkyFeature.wsp

And got this:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
ChansFunkyFeature.wsp: The Solution installation failed.

I found this was caused by me not having the right permissions to add this solution file to sharepoint.

To resolve:
Click "Start"
Right click on "Command Prompt".
Click "Run as..."
Enter in credentials for a user who does have access to add the solution to your sharepoint environment.

*For you console types:
runas /profile /user:putYourDomainHere\putUsernameHere CMD

Enjoy.

WSS 3.0 / MOSS Region settings

I'll get straight to it. If you live outside of the US you may have noticed that your WSS 3.0 / MOSS server maybe defaulted to the US region settings. Diplaying dates in the mm/dd/yyyy format. Being an Aussie we like our dates in the dd/mm/yyyy format. After a bit of poking around I found this.

You can change this by going to this layout page: http://sharepointServer:22335/_layouts/regionalsetng.aspx

Obviously change your server name and port number. This can also be done for your Central Admin.

Sharepoint Solution Deployment Failure

Hi everyone,
I came across an issue where a Sharepoint solution failed to complete it's deployment. Leaving me in a state where I had no options, only an error message in Central admin:


I found this post. But that didn't help me.

What did help were these two STSADM commands:
STSADM -o enumdeployments
STSADM -o canceldeployment -id *your guid here*

Get the ID from the first command and place it into the *your guid here* bit.

This is just a clean up. Not a fix. But it's better than leaving something in a stuck state.

Good luck!

-Chan

Embedding a resource in your ASP.NET 2.0 assembly

While developing a web part for Sharepoint I came across an issue where I needed to have Javascript manipulate elements in the web part. I searched around for the best way to include my Javascript file as part of my Sharepoint solution and came across many articles but I couldn't get their methods to work until I came across this one:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/MyWebResourceProj.aspx

I'm not sure why but "Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl" seems to work for me but "Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptResource" as per this article doesn't.

Dynamically set the onclick attribute of a html element using Javascript

I've been trying to dynamically set the onlick attribute of a span element in Javascript.
I tried a couple of things including:
var newNavNode = document.createElement("span");
newNavNode.onclick = "horizontalNavClick('"+nodeValue+"');" ;

But this wasn't working as a reference to the function was needed and not a string.

I googled and found this post: http://codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-55356.html

And modified my script to:
var newNavNode = document.createElement("span");
newNavNode.onclick = new Function("horizontalNavClick('"+nodeValue+"')");

This worked like a charm. Thanks Willy Duitt!

Happy scripting everyone!