How to determine which databases SharePoint uses
In order to tell which databases your SharePoint 2007 / WSS 3.0 installation uses, you will have to look at multiple locations. Content databases Open Central Administration and go to Application...
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The type or namespace name ‘UserRegistrationContext’ could not be found
I have just downloaded and started to play with Silverlight 4 in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In attempt to create a Silverlight Business Application, i got this error message: Error 1 The type or ...
Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window
Cannot start Microsoft Outlook Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. An unexpected error has occurred. MAPI was unable to load the in...
Hyper-V freezes on my Asus P5K
I started to prepare my old desktop PC to become a development server running virtual servers on Microsoft Hyper-V. Hardware Specifications The hardware specification is as follows: Motherboard:...
How to open up the Windows firewall for SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 R2
After you have installed SQL Server, you might have noticed that the firewall will block access to it. In order to remedy this, you will have to open 2 ports in the firewall. TCP port 1433 for th...
SharePoint: How to select multiple default items in a choice field.
If you have a field in SharePoint that is setup as a choice field, and you want to have multiple default values, you can do the following: Instead of selecting the Default option, select the Calcu...
How to get the full URL from SPListItem in SharePoint
The SPListItem URL property does return the URL for the SPListItem including the List/Document Library name, but it doesn’t return the full URL including the server and site names. To get the full...
Does the Microsoft .NET Framework slow down your PC?
Background I read in a bunch of discussion forums that installing the Microsoft .NET framework will slow down your PC. These claims often comes from different people that are from the ground up Mi...
How to disable the MySite and MyLinks in SharePoint and MOSS
I was struggling with this problem, but I did found that Michael Van Cleave had the solution. Here’s the quote from his page: Go to the Central Administration Web Page Click on the link for Sh...
.NET naming Conventions
I found this great .NET Naming Convention guide from Josh Twist at The Joy Of Code. Reading it, I decided to put it up here, since it is so great, and it’s the naming convention that I follow myse...