Bug with Internet Explorer and grid RowEditing-plugin when using scoped-theme

Posted by Eric Bartels

I came across this rare bug in the current development of a project. It makes heavy use of the RowEditing plugin of Extjs‘ grid. Because the Extjs environment is used within SharePoint 2010 I have to use the scoped theme to avoid “damage” to the SharePoint UI. After inserting a record into the grid via [...]

Enable-SPFeature does not trigger the feature receiver

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today I encountered the same problem as stated in a blog post by Christopher Maish. When activating the feature via powershell the associated feature receiver was not called. Trying the suggested solution in the blog post drove me to the cause of this problem. When using stsadm I got an “access denied” error. I did [...]

Using powershell to quickly debug SPSiteDataQuery

Posted by Eric Bartels

Writing CAML-Queries is still no fun. Even with SharePoint 2010… So you often need to test your queries before they actually work. In case you quickly want to test if your SPSiteDataQuery is correct you can use powershell to “debug” it. Just create an instance of the site-collection and target the root-web with your query-instance. [...]

Using a C# preprocessor directive for testing custom timer-jobs

Posted by Eric Bartels

If your are writing custom timer-jobs for your SharePoint solution it will happen that you write jobs which are only executed once a day or even less often. As a developer you cannot wait that long… You could of course comment in and out (via ctrl + k, ctrl + c / ctrl + k, [...]

Meeting workspaces in SharePoint 2010 / Office 2010. A disappointment.

Posted by Eric Bartels

SharePoint 2010 RTM (and its Foundation) are available for awhile now. After installing SharePoint Foundation I immediately took a look into the meeting workspaces. No improvements since the Beta! Not all lists support the new AJAX-Dialogs. The page-management (for multi-paged workspaces) is still the same as in 2007. Even some old (SP 2007) graphics appear. [...]