Deploying resources to the App_GlobalResources directory of a web-application

Posted by Eric Bartels

If you ever asked yourself how to get your resources-files (resx) into the App_GlobalResources so they can be used inside your custom aspx-pages like all “default SharePoint pages” in the LAYOUTS-folder do <asp:Literal runat="server" Text="<% $Resources:wss,Title; %"> /> STSADM is your helper! Simply deploy your solution and in your manifest specify that your resource-files will [...]

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 [...]