I/O-Error during solution deployment on MOSS 2007

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today a simple stsadm -o upgradesolution failed with no explainable reason. The only thing MOSS told me was an I/O-Error during the copy operation on the front-end webserver (WFE) while deploying the solution. Further analysis revealed the culprit. The virus scanner (I do not like “him” anymore ) installed on the WFE does a real-time [...]

Add the icon (DocIcon) of the file-type to a custom xsl-template when using the ContentByQueryWebPart (CQWP)

Posted by Eric Bartels

In one of my current projects it was required to show the recent documents inside the site collection along with its associated icon. Of course our friend the ContentByQueryWebPart (CQWP) comes in.But how do I get the icon of the document? The result Don’t do it again One could start to use a long list [...]