I'm trying to create a solution package for a set of features within a SharePoint site. I want to create an instance of a generic list (using ListInstance in the element manifest) and add an additional column to it (since by default they only have a Title column) without having to go through activation code. Is there a way to do this th...
In our main product, we've got a feature request that's been around for a couple of years now that's been requested quite a few times. It's technically easy to implement, the problem is that it will fundamentally change the concept of what the tool does, and will likely cause more bug reports as people mis-use the new feature to match th...
I have created a feature, a publishing site, in Visual Studio to MOSS - this feature contains a masterpage, some pages, some site columns (grouped to match each page) etc. I have also created a site collection, some sites and pages based on my template. My next step is to create some definitions to contain very specific page content - t...
I have created a feature, a publishing site, in Visual Studio to MOSS - this feature contains a masterpage, some page-templates, some site columns (grouped to match each page-template) and som custom list templates etc. I have also created a site collection, some sites and pages based on my feature. Now I have upgraded the code in my fe...
I am installing a content type as a feature, below is the content type schema. Note that it is inherited from base Item content type. <ContentType ID="0x010089D9A70BCA774310BCC5DF7D0690843E" Name="CustomItem" Group="Annual Leave Request" Description="Custom Item Type" Version="0"> <FieldRefs> <FieldRef ID="{...
I've added a feature to my onet.xml file which gets activated whenever a site gets created. However, that feature needs to know the url of the site being created. I thought I could figure that out from the current SPContext within the activation event of the feature, but when I created the site I got a null reference on SPContext.Current...
I have written a sequential workflow in SharePoint on our development environment. After testing, we decided to deploy this workflow as a feature on the staging environment. We did the following: copied the strongly named assembly to the GAC using gacutil copied feature.xml and workflow.xml to WebServerExtensions/12/templates/features/...
I am curious to know if eclipse has the feature of showing all the list of classes that are extending the current class. This feature is available in INTELLIJ..any ideas. ...
Hi Is there a nice online web 2.0 bug tracking software that allows users to: Create a Bug / Feature Vote on the above Admins assign a cost to implement Users have the ability to donate to get the bug / feature implemented Once the money has been raised then the job can be done. Cheers Ian ...
I have a feature that automatically creates some web part pages. I want to display a list in my web part page but I can't get the list to show up. Here is my code in my element.xml file: <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Module Path="PageTemplates" Url="" > <File Url="Tab3.aspx" Name="Tab3.aspx" Ty...
I have created a feature, a publishing site, in Visual Studio to MOSS - this feature contains a masterpage, some pages, some site columns etc. I have also created a site collection based on my template and have a live homepage up and running. Now I need to update the design of my pages, so I have received an export from the live-homepag...
In .NET Rocks episode #525, they talk about monitors/visualizers new to VS2010 that help you understand what your multi-threaded software is actually doing at runtime (where it's locking, etc). Does that (or related) feature give any new visibility to the behavior of multi-threaded apps running in version 2.0 of the .NET CLR? ...
Hi, I have feature which is not correctly installed on my website. How can I uninstall it without Feature.xml file and without feature id? ...
Background: the current text editor i am using does not have built-in support for git. Nevertheless, it has support for user-created addons, so I made one for auto-commiting to the repository each time I save a file. Although auto-saving to the repository is straightforward, the commit messages currently are not very useful, they just s...
I am using the following script for uninstallation of a wsp workflow feature. Please can someone check and confirm that it contains all the required steps for the uninstallation or not. I am doubtful because when i run this uninstallation script and install the new version of the wsp; the workflow still behaves similar to what it did wi...
I have read that most languages are becoming more and more like lisp, adopting features that lisp has had for a long time. I was wondering, what are the features, old or new, that lisp does not have? By lisp I mean the most common dialects like Common Lisp and Scheme. ...
In Sharepoint 2007 I have installed some commerial components. They all appear in the "Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Web Application Features Visibility" page in the administration site. All features in the list as shown as "Shown" (not hidden). When I switch to the "Team Site > Site Settings > Site Features" ...
Hi, I have a problem adding web part to a blog default.aspx with stapling Feature. this is my code: try { SPWeb web = (SPWeb)properties.Feature.Parent; //SPFile thePage = web.RootFolder.Files["default.aspx"]; SPLimitedWebPartManager wpm = web.GetLimitedWebPartManager("default.aspx",PersonalizationScope.Shared); ....... but every tim...
We are using a site definition and it has 3 feature dependencies that we are struggling to identify: <ActivationDependency FeatureId="7EDD3C9C-8AC6-4ab5-A209-30B5DC422464" /> <ActivationDependency FeatureId="63FDC6AC-DBB4-4247-B46E-A091AEFC866F" /> <ActivationDependency FeatureId="22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416" /> Can anyone id...
I need to replace the view form on an existing list on a sharepoint site. This has to be done in a feature, and I don't own the schema to the list, so I can't simply update the xml. My feature adds the file to the list in the elements.xml: <Module Name="Replacement Form" Path="" Url="Lists/ListName"> <File Url="ReplacementDispFor...