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About Bernado

Based in Australia, I am a freelance SharePoint and Dynamics CRM developer. I love developing innovative solutions that address business and everyday problems. Feel free to contact me if you think I can help you with your SharePoint or CRM implementation.

Tip for lessening the SharePoint pains

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Bernado

An ex-colleague used to say that SharePoint = Share the pains, and he’s mostly right 😀 – particularly around rapid development, debugging and testing.  I have found one particular approach that can greatly lessened those pains, and that is to … Continue reading →

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Catching SPWeb created (provisioned) event

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Bernado

In 2010 the SPWebEventReceiver class has a WebProvisioned method which you could override. There is no such thing in 2007 (doh!!). One way to get around this is to use the method described here: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/introduction-to-sharepoint-feature-stapling-part-2, which essentially involves creating another … Continue reading →

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Can’t change Display Name (or Title property) of Title field during site provisioning

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Bernado

We have a requirement to change the Display Name (i.e. the Title property) of the Title field of a custom list during site provisioning. The code to do this is simple, but some for reason it would just not work. … Continue reading →

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WSPBuilder config settings

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Bernado

There are many settings you can tweak with WSPBuilder. Type wspbuilder -help at the command prompt to get a complete list of them. You can set these settings via the command line args, or a config file. To use a … Continue reading →

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How did Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.dll ended up being in the SafeControl list??

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Bernado

In SharePoint, The SafeControl list is defined in the web.config and is a white list of controls that can be placed onto a SharePoint page. The other day I was packaging my solution using WSPBuilder, deploying the WSP, and found … Continue reading →

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Cannot connect to TFS: TF31002 and TF30331

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Bernado

Symptom: Cannot connect to TFS and the following error messages appear: TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server: http://tfs.global.yourServer.name:8080/tfs.Team Foundation Server Url: http://tfs.global.yourServer.name:8080/tfs. Possible reasons for failure include:– The name, port number, or protocol for the Team Foundation … Continue reading →

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Querying a Hyperlink field using CAML

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Bernado

Recently I had a requirement to search for items with a certain URL in the Hyperlink field. I noticed that the value being stored in the Hyperlink field is of the format ,. The is an absolute URL. Using a … Continue reading →

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New CAML operator in SharePoint 2010: IN

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Bernado

It took me 20 mins to work out why my CAML was working against 1 environment and not another. It turns out because I was using the IN operator and that’s new in 2010 and not available in 2007. This … Continue reading →

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CAML Gt AND Lt AND calculated field AND the wicked U2U CAML Query Builder

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Bernado

U2U CAML Query Builder is a must have tool for SharePoint developers, but today it was giving me grief. I have a calculated column called ‘Duration (months)’. I wanted to find items where duration is less than 24 and more … Continue reading →

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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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