Monthly Archives: June 2010

Constructor on type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCalculated’ not found – and the weird SharePoint API

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Bernado

Observed in: SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Today I was writing some code to add an SPFieldCalculated column to a list. I got the error message Constructor on type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCalculated’ not found. when calling SPFieldCollection.CreateNewField(fieldType.ToString(), displayName) This call was working … Continue reading →

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The mysterious SPItemEventProperties.AfterProperties

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Bernado

What you can/cannot access in BeforeProperties and AfterProperties in list event receivers can be mysterious. Here is a very good/clear description of what you can expect when and where: http://www.synergyonline.com/blog/blog-moss/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=25 In addition to what’s in the above link, I found that … Continue reading →

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Can’t create SPSite object in SharePoint 2010: FileNotFoundException: The Web application at http://localhost could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Bernado

I wrote my first console app against SP2010 in VS2010 the other day and ran into the above exception at the very first line: using (SPSite site = new SPSite(http://localhost) It turns out because my console app was targeting x86 … Continue reading →

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Upload Multiple Documents in SharePoint stops working with Office 2010 clients

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Bernado

Problem: Uploading Multiple Documents into a Document Library in SharePoint doesn’t work on client machines with Office 2010 installed. You are able to drag & drop or browse for files, but when you click OK, the spinning icon just spins forever … Continue reading →

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Changing custom timer job schedule in SharePoint 2010

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Bernado

Well actually this is really easy to do now in SharePoint 2010. In Central Admin, go to Monitoring > Review job definitions > [job] and you get the setting screen below.   Notice that there is also a RUN NOW … Continue reading →

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Can’t retract SharePoint timer job because the job "cannot be deserialized because it does not have a public default constructor"

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Bernado

If you forgot to include a default constructor in your timer job class, you will get the error below when activating the feature that installs the job: SharePointProject1.TimerJobs.TrackingTimerJob cannot be deserialized because it does not have a public default constructor. … Continue reading →

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Properties missing from Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense..

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Bernado

Today I ran into a problem that made me think I was either blind, crazy.. or both. I created a new SharePoint 2010 project in Visual Studio 2010 and was trying to code against the SPSite.WebApplication property but it was … Continue reading →

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