Author Archives: 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Today I ran into an issue where I intermitently get the following error when attempting to loop through a SPListItemCollection in a foreach loop: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.SetVar(String bstrUrl, String bstrName, String bstrValue) … Continue reading →

So today I needed to investigate certain settings of a site collection in our dev environment. I went to the web site but cannot see Site Settings in the Site Actions menu at all. I checked Central Admin and I am a … Continue reading →