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• drEKO Debugging managed UDF running under Sharepoint Excel services

  I am trying to debug a UDF running under sharepoint. I have attached to the right w3wp process under which the shared services is running. When I attach to the process, it doesnt load the symbols for my UDF assembly. I have my PDB's in the same location as the UDF. 'w3wp.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Sharepoint UDF\ExcelSampleUDF.dll', No symbols loaded. Why are not the symbols loaded You can mark your UDF as volatile, so that it will be called each time you explicitly calculate the workbook. http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/09/12/VolatileUdfs.aspx I actually followed that already.. attaching to the correct w3wp process. the problem seems to be that ...Show All

• heist_rulz Error Codes

  Hi , I need your opinions about whether to use a global return code for each method in my application or let every component throw its exception and use the upper layer to handle it. Example : public RetCode ABC () { If(…) Return RetCode.Valid; Else Return RetCode.Invalied; } OR public void ABC () { If(…) … Else Throw new Exception (…); } Thanks it's a best practices NOT to throw Exceptions but write code that catch common errors. So "Throw new Exception (…);" is n't the best way. You should probably use exceptions because they force t ...Show All

• divya mittal Web Service vs. Component

  I'm looking for any recommended articles that discuss the pros/cons of building a web service vs. a component assembly. I'd like to find something that provides some guidelines for choosing one implementation method over another. Does anyone know where I can find an article like this Ah! Thanks for the clarification. The points you've listed above are exactly my concern. Using a local copy (or GAC) version of a dll provides obvious performance benefits, but does not necessarily fit most definitions of SOA. Our SOA will include reusability that is implemented via components as well as services. Consider it a hybrid, if that is more comfortable. Form an architectural or designer perspective, I ...Show All

• JohnWein Full backup hanging on last step

  Hey guys, hopefully someone can help me. I have a full backup that runs every night. A couple nights ago, it started to hang on on backing up the Windows Sharepoint Services Search Database. It says "Preparing backup" while all the other steps says "In Process". The SQL server database, on the same server (single server deployment) taps out in the morning and the portal is unable to connect to the config database. Then I'd have to restart the server. These backups are also not restorable as they had never finished. Does anyone know what's going on here or know how to clear the unfinished backup history I've already tried deleting timer failed and stuck timer jobs. Thank you much. I'm not sure how min ...Show All

• Mark Benningfield Data Auditing Techniques in SQL Server

  I am currently responsible for providing a solution to audit data within a SQL Server 2005 database. The auditing should include all data change acitivities (i.e. if data for a field changes, I need to track the old and new value, as well as who changed it and when). I am thinking about two solutions, but was wondering if there is a better way to achieve this: 1. Create one audit table, that has the following columns: TableName, FieldName, OldValue, NewValue, UserID, UpdatedOn. Then, any data change would insert a new record in this "logging" table, specifically writing out the table name and field name, as well as the old and new values for the field. 2. On every table, create an "active" column that designate ...Show All

• FourBlades permissions sharepoint

  Hi, we have our moss site configured for both internet as intranet acces. For internet we use forms, for intranet we use active directory. On our public site we have a webpart to log in on the site. When an anonymous user logs in this way he will be added to the visitors group. The permissions for the visitors group are set to restricted read. If the same user wants to add , edit pages he has to sent an email. And by hand we will add the user a group with contribute rights. Now the problem: This user can't edit the page. We get an ACCES DENIED error. We abslotely have no clue what it could be. We have also created an Active Directory user and added him to the same group with contribute rights. But he also gets the Acces DENI ...Show All

• USMCNJ Integration of web app to Sharepoint Portal 2007

  Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to integrate an existing web application into Microsoft Sharepoint Portal. The application could be in the form of an opensource cms or web digital assets management (images/documents/videos) application in J2EE, php running Oracle/MySQL. If yes, what are the factors that have to be considered How can i do it Any links, resources would be great. If not possible, pls explain as well. Thanks a million! It is almost impossible to tell you what is needed without knowing your application. Migration may be possible but you would probably be better off using the Business Data Catalog. Hi, What are the things you need to know about the existing application H ...Show All

• VivekGupta2812 Count not load assembly / impersonation in call to lists web service.

  I'm trying to run a simple list item add operation and a call to UpdateListItems is returning the following error: System.ServiceModel.FaultException was unhandled Message="Server was unable to process request. ---> The type initializer for 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' threw an exception. ---> Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Services, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or the provided impersonation level is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070542) ---> Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Services, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a ...Show All

• SHutch Can not creat Site collection in wss 3 release version

  hi all... My installation of WSS 3 was successful.. My config Windows 2003 SP1 (Part of Domain "testwss") Framework 3 (Release) Wss 3.0 (Release) Sql 2005 ( On other machine which is part of Domain "testwss") IIS 6.0 office 2003 pro after creating application successful i am not able to create site collection i get the following page. The Windows SharePoint Services Web application has been created. If this is the first time that you have used this application pool with a SharePoint Web application, you must wait until the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site has been created on all servers. By default, no new SharePoint site collections are created with the Web application. To create a new sit ...Show All

• Moustafa Arafa Problem using CreateTaskWithContentType

  I recieve an error when try to set the ContentTypeId to other than 0x010801 (0x01080100D09BD90EFB3244a194C27F1CBD6D525C). I'm able to use this contenttype when it is set as defalut in workflow.xml (TaskListContentTypeId) Exception from wss workflow infrastructure: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException:---> System.ArgumentException: "Value is not from expected range" or System.NullReferenceException ..... Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeId..ctor(String id) in Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOETaskService.CreateTaskWithContentType(Guid taskId, SPWorkflowTaskProperties properties, String taskContentTypeId, HybridDictionary specialPermissions). Any idea how to resolve the problem ...Show All

• Yodatg Admin user

  Hi I want to programmatically add a user to site admin of the site I'm writing following code it is running fine but I can not find any changes reflecting to the user manuk@abc.in try { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(new SPSecurity.CodeToRunElevated(delegate() { SPSite mysite = new SPSite("http://abc-hjewg9uubtp:5906/"); SPWeb oSPweb = mysite.OpenWeb(); SPUser mkuser = oSPweb.AllUsers.GetByEmail("manuk@abc.in"); oSPweb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; mkuser.IsSiteAdmin = true; oSPweb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false; oSPweb.Update(); })); } ...Show All

• Krutika Application State in Web Farm Scenario

  I have a web farm scenario wherein I need to store data say a dataset into the application cache/state. My backend is not SQL Server. The challenge is that, I know application state is ASP.Net Worker process specific. So whenever the process gets recycled so would the data. In short Application state is not durable. Now in a Web farm or a Web garden scenario there is no way I can access the Application variable from other server because of the above behavior. Is there any way to address this requirement. Would appreciate some thoughts on the same. -Sai One option is to use SQL server to store the data (as well as session state - the are several KB articles that talk about it - here is one ). ...Show All

• Benelf Changing from a 2 server to 3 server architecture....

  If I decide to create a new application server to host the Central Admin, Index, and/or Query roles will I get a noticeable performance boost overall for 100+ users or is this more just a security design consideration Is it easy enough to simply add the application server later if performance is an issues I believe I can remove the Central Admin role from my current server using the Config Wizard and add it to my application server easy enough Personally if your going to add that extra server I would move the Index to that and keep that box for index only.. Let you front ends run the search and queries and balance that load. The Central Admin is recomended to be put on an App Server but it works f ...Show All

• Jim Holloway Active Directory Name mapping and CryptoAPI

  How can I get (in VC++ using CryptoAPI) certificate that mapped to user by Active Directory Name mapping ...Show All

• Cristian Botiza User groups not recognized as the target audience

  We are experiencing an odd behavior. There are some user groups, which are not recognized as valid target audiences, even though the are defined in the portal. It seems to be related to the names of the groups. For example, if I set the target audiences as: Salesman Administrator, Salesman the second group won't be recognized. As anyone experienced something similar Any ideas thank you, Gabriel ...Show All