Monthly Archives: January 2011

Visual Studio Tips & Tricks #2 Ctl+K, Ctl+v lets you browse for objects in your solution.

Posted on January 28, 2011 by David Haver

Did you know … Ctl+K, Ctl+v lets you browse for objects in your solution.
Visual Studio has a command “View.ClassViewGToToSearchCombo.”  It does just what it’s name indicates.  When you press the key combination Ctl+K, Ctl+v, wherever you are in the IDE, focus jumps to the Class View search box.  You can start typing and searching immediately.  The UI presentation is quite similar to that of the Object Browser.

  
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Missing Crawled Properties for Custom User Profile Fields

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Kyle Wilson

I ran into several issues with a customer when attempting to get their Custom User Profile Fields to behave correctly in the SharePoint 2010  people search page.  
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Visual Studio Tips and Tricks #1

Posted on January 21, 2011 by David Haver

One of the great things about working with such talented folks is that they provide really good information. Our Chief Technology Officer, Dave Romig, Sr., started this series of Visual Studio Tips and Tricks that he shared internally. All in all he put out 150 of these. Over the next few months I will share these with you.  
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Reset the Farm Passphrase in SharePoint 2010

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Adam Preston

So, you are adding a new server to the farm and you can’t remember that new SharePoint 2010 addition called the Farm Passphrase? No problem! You can use PowerShell to reset / change that forgotten farm passphrase. Note that I said reset and not retrieve. There is currently no option to retrieve the existing farm passphrase.
  
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Posted in Administration, PowerShell | 11 Comments

Making use of the SPDisposeCheck utility

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Everett Comstock

Most seasoned SharePoint developers have found out one way or another that you have to be mindful of properly disposing your SharePoint objects. Unfortunately, the rules, guidelines and general practices are often confusing and un-intuitive. Because of this it is common to find SPSite, and SPWeb objects that are not properly disposed. To help combat this issue Microsoft has released a tool called the SPDisposeCheck utility that will analyze your assemblies and report on any improperly disposed Shared Point objects.  
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SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach (with Slides)

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Brian Beasley

TCSC is proud to be a gold sponsor and speaker at the SharePoint Saturday event in Virginia Beach on Saturday, January 8th!

TCSC will have the great speakers you know and trust speaking at the event including:  
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MDX Solution for ParallelPeriod Issue with Uneven Periods

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Kevin Carter

I have a client that had a period in 2009 with 34 days and the same period in 2010 with 39 days. Therefore, the ParallelPeriod function was returning null when attempting to pull any year over year comparisons for days past 34. The Time dimension has a Fiscal calendar hierarchy with levels for Year, Quarter, Period and Actual Date.  
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