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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

SPMetal - Turn a SharePoint list into a C# class and LINQ it

My esteemed coworker Derek just told me about SPMetal, a utility from Microsoft that can turn a SharePoint list into a C# class that can be manipulated like a normal LINQ object...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee538255.aspx

More details to follow...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Change windows 7 key after install

Plucked this gem off the interwebs just now:
"Do you need to change your product key so you can activate Windows Vista or Windows 7 properly? You can use a great command line tool that will help you do this very easily. Just follow these steps:
Click on the Start Button and type in command prompt so that it shows up on your start menu search list. Right click on the Command Prompt shortcut and select Run As Administrator.
At the administrator command prompt, type in "slmgr.vbs -ipk "
To activate windows after changing the key, run "slmgr.vbs -ato"

Credit: http://tweaks.com/windows/39026/change-windows-product-key-after-install/

Monday, March 26, 2012

Office Space: Custom Auditing In SharePoint

Office Space: Custom Auditing In SharePoint: "Custom Auditing In SharePoint"

'via Blog this'

Change User's email in SharePoint site

The Set-SPUser command lets you change

Set-SPUser -Identity 'domain\user' -DisplayName 'John Doe' -Email 'john.doe@nowhere.com' -Web http://myweb/path/to

Reset services on a SharePoint Farm

Came across this today that lets you restart whatever services you want on all the servers in your farm...

IISRESET all servers in farm using PowerShell

--- snip ---

if((Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.Sharepoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) 
{ 
 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.PowerShell 
} 
   
function Reset-Services
{ 
    
 # Connect to the farm 
 $Farm = Get-SPFarm
    
    foreach ($Server in $Farm.Servers) 
    { 
      $ServerName = $Server.Name 
      $ServerRole = $Server.Role 
         
        if ($Server.Role -ne "Invalid")  
        { 
            Write-Host "Restarting IIS Services on $ServerName."
            IISReset $ServerName
            IISReset $ServerName /Status 
        } 
    } 
} 
   
Reset-Services
-- snip --
if((Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.Sharepoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) 
{ 
 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.PowerShell 
} 
   
function Reset-Services
{ 
    
 # Connect to the farm 
 $Farm = Get-SPFarm
    
    foreach ($Server in $Farm.Servers) 
    { 
      $ServerName = $Server.Name 
      $ServerRole = $Server.Role 
         
        if ($Server.Role -ne "Invalid")  
        { 
            Write-Host "Restarting IIS Services on $ServerName."
            IISReset $ServerName
            IISReset $ServerName /Status 
         
            Write-Host "Restarting Timer Job on $ServerName."
             
            $Service = Get-WmiObject -Computer $ServerName Win32_Service -Filter "Name='SPTimerV4'"
            if ($Service -ne $nll)
            {
                $Service.InvokeMethod('StopService',$null)
                Start-Sleep -s 7
                $service.InvokeMethod('StartService',$null)
                Start-Sleep -s 7
 
                Write-Host "Timer Job successfully restarted on $ServerName."
            }
        } 
    } 
} 
   
Reset-Services

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Creating a full trust proxy

http://www.davidgiard.com/2012/03/04/CreatingASharePointFullTrustProxy.aspx

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Errors when deleteing PWA site -- FIX. Renaming a PWA database

http://epmsource.com/2011/05/31/common-errors-when-a-pwa-site-is-deleted-incorrectly/

Saturday, September 10, 2011

SharePoint Code Block: Properly Populating and Retrieving SharePoint Field Data

SharePoint Code Block: Properly Populating and Retrieving SharePoint Field Data:

'via Blog this'

Friday, September 9, 2011

SharePoint Exception Handling

SharePoint Exception Handling:

'via Blog this'

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool

Online tool to create keys for view state validation and encryption

Online tool to create keys for view state validation and encryption: ""

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

20 Fabulous CSS3 Generator and Tools with Multiple Browser Support

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Open source performance testing tools

Open source performance testing tools: "y designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions. Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load."

Friday, July 22, 2011

Code Book (Learn asp.net from example): Asynchronous GridView in 5 simple steps

http://aspdotnetcodebook.blogspot.com/2008/07/asynchronous-gridview-in-5-simple-steps.html