My DasBlog!

New blog location and new RSS feed!!!

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:43:53 GMT

Hi All,

Its a long time that a posted a blog at this blogsite. Since end of 2007 i started blogging again over SharePoint, WSS, MOSS 2007 and "The new world of work". If you are still interested in my blog, please change the link or your RSS feed in the following:

http://www.bloggix.com/blogs/microsoft

http://www.bloggix.com/blogs/microsoft/rss.aspx

Thanks all!!

CS2007 Starter Site CTP finally available

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:31:40 GMT

The Commerce Server team is pleased to announce that a Technology Preview of the Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site is now available. This release is designed to provide our community with a guideline for building a front-end website for Commerce Server 2007. The release includes an installation guide and readme, but does not include full documentation.

The CS2007 Starter Site CTP is NOT FOR PRODUCTION USAGE, and is not supported by Microsoft. This release is to allow our customers an early technology preview to learn more about how to deploy Commerce Server 2007, and provide feedback to the product group about the technology.

The final release of the Starter Site is scheduled for later this year. The final release will also include the final, full documentation, along with any requisite updates to the Installation Guide and Readme. For customers who wish to go live with the Starter Site, it is imperative that they use the final version, not the CTP release.

How to download this release:

Go to http://connect.microsoft.com and sign-in using yo r Passport Account. If you don't have a Passport Account, there will be a link on that page to create one.
After sign-in:
If you are an existing beta tester from the CS2007 beta program, you can click on "My Participation" link in the menu on the left side of the page. The next page will display a list of programs and you can click on the link marked "CS2007 Starter Site CTP" to access the CS2007 Starter Site CTP home page. You can then click on the "Downloads" link on the left side of the page, which will load a page showing all downloads currently available on the site for Commerce Server.
If you have not participated in the Commerce Server beta program, you will need to choose CS2007Starter Site CTP from the list of available programs by clicking the link for "Available Connections" in the menu on the left side of the page. From the list of available programs, click on the link to "Apply" next to the CS2007 Starter Site CTP. After completing registration, you will be automatically given access to the Connect site to download the starter site. From the CS2007 Starter Site CTP home page you can click on the "Downloads" link on the left side of the page, which will load a page showing all downloads currently available on the site for Commerce Server.

Microsoft LiveWriter beta

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:47:53 GMT

Hi All,

This is my first post with LiveWriter beta. A Microsoft blogging tool which can easily connect to your blog site. In my case i'm using dasBlog.

Within a nice desktop interface i can blog my posts without having to go online and start editing at my website.

Really cool stuff!!

You can find it at: http://ideas.live.com/programPage.aspx?versionId=4...

Missing "Sites" folder at URL name when creating new sites

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:59:36 GMT

At some point when we were adding a new site under "Sites" by selecting the "create site in the left column, we were not able to select the folder "sites" anymore. Only "personal" was visible. After some investigation i found the cause.

SharePoint works with so called "managed paths". These paths define which paths are excluded (if you need to access a physical path on disk) and which paths are included (paths managed by Windows SharePoint Services).

You can reach this by going into SharePoint Central Administration, Windows SharePoint Services. Select "Extend or upgrade virtual server" and select the website from "complete list". Under "Virtual Server Management" there is an option called "Define managed paths".

Check if the "sites" and "personal" both are defined under "included paths". Now goto "site settings" of your website. select the option "Manage personal sites" under "User Profile, Audience, and Personal Sites".

Check if "personal" is selected at "Personal Site Location". In my case "sites" was selected which caused "sites" missing. The managed path selected here will NOT appear at the create site page. Now goto the website again and select the the page "Sites". Choose "Create site" under "Actions" and there it is again. Your "sites" folder appears again.

MOSS 2007 installation error: Failed to create the configuration database. The language is not supported on the server

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:17:47 GMT

I'm already working some time with MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) and have installed the beta 1 and beta 2 versions of the product. Last week i had to reinstall MOSS for some reason and got into problems.

Every time when you try to run the configuration wizard i got the following error:

Failed to create the configuration database. Reason: The language is not supported on the server.

After googling and thanks to a few guys there i found the solution. You have to make some registry changes before running the configuration wizard again. If you have choosen the "advanced" installation containing farms you have to remove two databases from SQL Server 2005.

The fix is:

Start regedit.exe at your Windows 2003 Server
lookup the the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\ServerLanguage] en put there a string value "1033"=""

You could also put the following into a fix.reg file using notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\ServerLanguage]
"1033"=""

Thanks to Kevin Tunis :)

Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007

Sat, 20 May 2006 07:42:51 GMT

The Microsoft Commerce Server team has announced that the Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007 is available. This will be the new name of Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 beta. So check it out! :)

The following notes are released:

Note that with this Release Candidate, a name change to Commerce Server 2006 to Commerce Server 2007 has been implemented. Microsoft decided to rename Commerce Server to 2007 to be more in sync with the Office 2007, Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista wave of product releases and our general branding guidelines. This is a name change only and does not affect any features, support, or anything else.

The CS2007 RC contains the English-only, Enterprise Edition for x86 and x64 platforms; other languages and editions will be available at RTM

The CS2007 RC will expire on September 30^th, 2006

The CS2007 RC is for testing purposes only, and is not supported by Microsoft in production environments except for authorized TAP customers

This release does not include an updated Starter Site, that will be available in the RTM timeframe

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How To Display HTML from a field in XSL Style Sheet

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:38:13 GMT

We are currently working on a project were we are using Community Server and CMS. Users are able to post a message which is stored in Community Server and connected to an article inside CMS. It is also possible to use an RSS feed.

One of the tags inside the RSS feed contained html tags. This is content from a html editor control during the posting. The problem we got was that the html tags were displayed as normal text in stead of incorparated into the generated html.

The following modification (see bold) was needed to incorporate the html inside the field "description" in the html page using XSL.

<xsl:stylesheet>
   <xsl:output method="html" />
   <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">
         <div class="reactie-oneven">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
         <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td width="100%">
               <div class="content-brood">
               <strong>Door <span class="content-reacties-auteur">
               <xsl:value-of select="dc:creator" /></span> op
               <span class="content-reacties-datum">
               <xsl:value-of select="pubDate" /></span></strong><br></br>
               <xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
               </div>
            </td>
         </tr>
         </table>
         </div>
      </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The actual xml looks like:

<rss>
   <channel>
      <item>
         <title>Reactie op Yes</title>
         <link>http://test.yes.nl/yescafe/forums/22/ShowForum.aspx</link>
         <description><P>...</P></description>
      </item>
   </channel>
</rss>

More information can be found in a knowledge base article of microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q264665

Using a minus sign in the name of a document library

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:28:00 GMT

One of our customers uses document libraries in SPS2001 containing a minus sign in their path. They are going to migrate their environment to SPS2003 and have setup a test environment.

When they created a document library containg a minus sign in its name, its url was created without the minus sign. It was replaced with nothing. For example: The name "new-documents" will generate a document library with the name "new-documents" and the url "http://somedomain/newdocuments" in stead of "http://somedomain/new-documents".

It seems that in SPS2003 the use of a minus sign is not possible anymore. Even if you edit the document library it will not accept the use of a minus sign in the url.

In this case we found a solution. After creating the document library we made some changes in the database. I know that Microsoft does not support changing the database but in this case we had no other solution.

If you go to the table "Docs" and look at the field "DirName" you will find some rows containing the paths to the files: Forms, allitems.aspx, dispform.aspx, editform.aspx, template.aspx, upload.aspx and webfldr.aspx. Change the names by entering the minus sign at the correct solution.

Finally there is in the column "LeafName" one recor containing the name "newdocuments" and the column "DirName" is empty. Also this one has to be changed to "new-documents".

No try it by entering the correct (with minus sign) url in your webbrowser. It works! :)

Postback Event Processing Sequence

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:09:45 GMT

I always forget the exact order in which events fire. So i found the following when i googled and wanna share it with you all :)

Page.Init + Control.Init for every control on the Web Form
The first stage in the page life cycle is initialization. After the page's control tree is populated with all the statically declared controls in the .aspx source the Init event is fired. First, the Init event for the Page object occurs, then Init event occurs for each control on the Page. Viewstate information is not available at this stage.

Page.LoadViewState
After initialization, ASP.NET loads the view state for the page. ViewState contains the state of the controls the last time the page was processed on the server.

Page.ProcessPostData
Post Data gets read from the request and control values are applied to control initalized in stage 1.

Page.Load + Control.Load for each control on the Page
If this is the first time the page is being processed (Page.IsPostback property), initial data binding is performed here.

"Change" events are fired for controls
(TextChanged, SelectedIndexChanged, and similar) The current value (from Post Data) is compared to the original value located in the ViewState. If there is a difference "Changed" events are raised.

Server-side events are fired for any validation controls
Button.Click + Button.Command
The Click and Command events are fired for the button that caused the postback

Page.PreRender + Control.PreRender

Page.SaveViewState
New values for all the controls are saved to the view state for another round-trip to the server.

Page.Render