Category Archives: SharePoint 2010

Setting up trusted domain in SharePoint 2010: An exception occurred in AD claim provider when calling SPClaimProvider.FillSearch(): Requested registry access is not allowed.

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Bernado

I was setting up trusted domain for the people picker in SharePoint 2010. I was able to get it to work on one environment but not the other. On the environment that wasn’t working, the steps to set it up … Continue reading →

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Data validation in publishing pages in SharePoint 2010

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Bernado

Like many things in SharePoint – this should be simple but turns out it is not. I had a requirement to ensure that a DateTime field (Next Review Date) on the page is equal to or greater than the current … Continue reading →

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Custom PortalSiteMapDataSource to display full site structure in left navigation in SharePoint

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Bernado

I had a requirement to ensure that all sites within the site collection would display the full site structure (up to the 1st level sub-site) on the left navigation. Given the site structure below for example: For any site underneath … Continue reading →

Posted in Branding, SharePoint 2010, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Gotcha when working with master pages and page layouts in SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Bernado

A common thing to do when editing master pages and page layouts in SharePoint is to edit them in SPD and then copy the source code to Visual Studio for check-in to source control. There is a gotcha here. When … Continue reading →

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IgnoreIfAlreadyExists attribute when provisioning files in SharePoint

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Bernado

The IgnoreIfAlreadyExists attribute of a File element when provisioning a file can be mysterious. Most of the posts on the net are saying that: When this attribute is set to FALSE, an error will be thrown if the file already … Continue reading →

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Should I call Dispose on SPWeb.ParentWeb?

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Bernado

I was coding away and wondered if I should call Dispose the parentWeb object below? I found some official guidance on this and thought I’d blog it here, partly to help jolt my memory later on. The short answer is: … Continue reading →

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‘WARNING: Template is not found and is not applied’ when using custom WebTemplate with PowerShell

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Bernado

WebTemplate is the new way of doing site definitions in SP2010 (see this for a good overview: http://sharepointchick.com/archive/0001/01/01/site-definitions-vs.-webtemplates.aspx). Where you need to refer to the custom WebTemplate, you’d use the ‘{FeatureID}#WebTemplateName’ syntax, e.g: {56C8E551-565B-482A-A038-CCC18A878607}#MyWebTemplate I however have found that this does … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, WebTemplate | 4 Comments

How to enable Export on custom SharePoint web part

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Bernado

By default your custom SharePoint 2010 web parts will not have the Export command enabled. To enable this command, in your .webpart file, add the following element in the <properties> section: <property name=”ExportMode” type=”exportmode”>All</property>

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Can’t get UpdatePanel in your web part to do AJAX-postback?

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Bernado

If your web part is creating the UpdatePanel dynamically, e.g. in the CreateChildControls() method, check that: The UpdatePanel has an ID assigned The UpdatePanel’s UpdateMode property is set to Conditional. The default is Always. The control triggering the postback (e.g. a … Continue reading →

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Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Bernado

If you are getting this error when deploying your solution using Visual Studio, then check that your feature receivers you are not using objects that would be null when the code is not running under an HTTP context. SPContext.Current for example … Continue reading →

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