Category | Programming

I have added a this special page to my blog to discuss with users how I build out my SharePoint 2010 (and 2007) labs.  Many people ask me on a regular basis what I use for development, what software do I use, and even what hardware I have running so I thought this post would be useful.    Furthermore, I’ve made it a prerequisite for those that work for me to build their own lab because there’s no better experience than hands on experience (not to mention it weeds out the individuals that simply cannot cut it).  Hardware Currently I have 2 workstations that I use as lab machines...

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Problem Day after day I have users asking me how to get additional information about the selected user from the contact selector/people picker per my example at http://sharepointassist.com/2009/02/27/adding-a-contact-selectorpeople-picker-to-an-infopath-form/. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do this, the only way to do this is to wire in a simple web service query that pulls the necessary information when a user chooses a name in the people picker. Upon selection, the web service call is made, returning data to the GetUserProfileByName data connection, the resulting data in the GetUserProfileByName...

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Problem You are receiving the error similar to the one below when attempting to execute a SharePoint WWF workflow.  ====================================================================================== 11/19/2009 10:52:19.18     w3wp.exe (0x17FC)                          0x157C    Windows SharePoint Services      Workflow Infrastructure          88xr   ...

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Problem I had a completely phantom error today and I never did figure out the cause was but I thought it might help to explain how it happened, and my thoughts to the cause.  The environment is MOSS Enterprise SP2 development environment with Visual Studio, VSTE 1.3, Office 2007, WSPBuilder, and SQL all onboard, obviously supporting Windows Workflow Foundation workflows.  Over the last few days I’ve been struggling with strange bugs in my InfoPath task forms that required a million installs and uninstalls of the wsp, I finally noted that my task form was stuck in an “installing”...

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  (See also http://www.sharepointassist.com/2009/01/08/sharepoint-workflow-failed-on-start-retrying/) Problem You’re developing a Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) workflow and no matter what you do you get the Workflow “Failed on Start (retrying)” message.  In my case I debugged over and over again only to see the TaskCreate method throw an exception (that you can’t capture) and fail.    Solution Specify a token other than the default Workflow1 or top level token.  I like to use “task1, task2, or taskAdmin” or something of those sorts to organize...

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