Posts from June 2015

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Posts from June 2015 (4)

Published on

2015-06-27 4:47 p.m.
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koskila
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c full-trust sharepoint-2010 sharepoint-2013 sharepoint2016 spweb

How to properly use SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates

At times you may need to allow unsafe updates for SPWeb objects in order to get your code to run. This, in SharePoint's C# full-trust code, is done by setting SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates to true. However, as this is an exception to security settings, you should generally avoid it. When you can't, it is good practice to limit the change to as small a scope as possible. This is true even though the setting only persisted for the duration of the request (unless the SPWeb object was gotten from SPSite.

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Published on

2015-06-20 9:41 a.m.
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koskila
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feature-framework file-not-found sharepoint-2010 sharepoint-2013

"File not found"error when trying to activate a custom feature on SharePoint

This post is about fixing one of the most annoyingly unspecific errors that you can get when activating (Feature Framework) features on SharePoint - "File not found" . Whatever that might mean, right? Problem Ugh. A plain and simple "File not found" is one of the more annoying errors one can stumble upon when trying to activate a feature.

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Published on

2015-06-13 8:55 a.m.
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koskila
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debugging iis visual-studio w3wp windows

Attaching the Visual Studio debugger to the right IIS worker process

Every now and then comes the time when you'd actually need to debug something, and then you'll likely be using your Visual Studio to attach the debugger to one or more processes. Using CKSDev to attach to all IIS worker processes (w3wp.exe), or if you don't use CKSDev, just pressing ctrl+p and selecting the processes from the list, is often a good enough solution. However, sometimes that makes your dev box sluggish, or maybe catches exceptions from code you're not wishing to debug at the time.

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Published on

2015-06-05 3:25 p.m.
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koskila
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c full-trust on-premises sharepoint-2010 sharepoint-2013 sharepoint2016

Programmatically creating readable internal names for new SharePoint fields

This post is about a small programmatic workaround to creating new SPFields for SPLists in SharePoint with human-readable internal names. This is mainly a usability improvement for your editors (and doesn't change your life that much), but they should appreciate it at the very least! In short, I'll show you how to avoid SharePoint's dirty encoding (like replacing a space with "_x0020_"). This applies when you're using server-side code to generate fields.

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