Blog – Page 12 – The Solution Architect

ElementFile vs ElementManifest

I just noticed that when you add a linking Module in your VS 2010 for your custom Feature project, and when you add a file into the module, VS 2010 automatically marks it as a ElementFile. When I tried to develop custom content types and fields, I needed to add 2 XML files into the module (eg. ContentTypes.xml and Fields.xml) and they have […]

How to Change From Sandboxed Solution to Farm Solution

PLEASE FOLLOW YUBIN’s COMMENT BELOW. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP YUBIN. I’ve arrived at a stage where I wanted to create my own custom Sharepoint solution using Visual Studio 2010. When I created a new blank Sharepoint project it asked me whether I want to deploy the solution as a Sandboxed Solution or a Farm Solution. […]

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 1

So far I’ve found the following bugs (or things that can be improved in later releases): – Administration breadcrumb is all over the place. It’s really-really hard to navigate to where I was before without going back to the main Central Admin screen. Especially when I was in a particular Service Application page, the breadcrumb […]

User Profile “The query returns nothing” Error

It’s time for me to configure the User Profile Synchronization service. I started with configuring the connection. It can somehow crawled and displayed my OU structure but when I click OK it returns to the connection listing page with the following error message: “The query returns nothing” I then research in Google and […]

Configuring Sharepoint 2010 Part 3

I’ve just deleted my SP 2010 VM and re-created it. This time I won’t choose the wizard but instead I’ll try to configure each service manually. As before, after the SP 2010 was completed, Central Admin page first opened with the selection of either use the wizard or configuring the service manually. I then […]

Configuring Sharepoint 2010 Part 2

I then chose to use the wizard. With the wizard it seemed that Sharepoint will attempt to use only one account for all of the services. I used WINSERVER2008\spt_service for all of them. I assume you’ll be able to change the service account for each service manually later on. Once I finished the wizard there were […]

Configuring Sharepoint 2010

The install finished successfully (thank God!). Now I arrive at the stage where I need to configure Sharepoint 2010. Below were the steps I took: 1. I selected “Create a new server farm”. 2. I specified the database server as WINSERVER2008 (VM machine name). 3. I then specified WINSERVER2008\SPT_Farm as the database access […]

Sharepoint 2010 BETA does NOT need 8GB of RAM

When SP2010 first came out everyone said that you’ll need at least 4GB of RAM. Since I don’t have that luxury just yet (my new laptop hasn’t come yet at the time of writing this article), I can only give 1GB of RAM to my VM. Guess what… Sharepoint 2010 installed successfully on VM with […]

Installing Sharepoint 2010

At this time of writing: Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 11:25pm I actually haven’t got my new laptop yet! Because I was away to overseas for holiday for about a month, the laptop was still held at custom. Anyway, it will be delivered on the coming Tuesday. Therefore, at the moment I try to install Sharepoint 2010 […]

Preparing the Environment for SharePoint 2010

Hi everyone, I finally have the opportunity to prepare the environment to install SP2010. Below is my environment configuration: 1. Host machine is running Windows 7 x64 (coz I love Windows 7, I still think that it’s the best operating system MS has ever released thus far). 2. I only install MS Office […]

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