Today I encountered a weird issue, the classic Visual Web Part template was gone in Visual Studio 2012. When I created a Visual WebPart, a webpart was created with a generated .g.cs file, like the sandboxed visual webparts. I am not exactly sure why it happened. According to the MSDN guide Creating Web Parts for SharePoint, the structure of Visual Webparts should be the same as in Visual Studio 2010. It could have happened after I installed the power tools. However, if someone runs into the same issue, here is the solution: Copy this zip file from a computer with VS2010 installed:

For a while ago my colleague gave me a nice tip of getting the right absolute url regardless sharepoint zone in Alternate Access Mappings. I want to share it, because it is brilliant:

var url = SPUtility.AlternateServerUrlFromHttpRequestUrl(new Uri(value)).AbsoluteUri;

In SharePoint 2010 if CMSSiteManager.js library is loaded besides jQuery, then much of stuff stops working. The reason is that the dollar sign ($) is used in cmssitemanager.js as well which conflicts with jQuery. Mostly it appears on pages where you load jQuery and have an image library with thumbnails. To avoid this, just replace all $ with jQuery in your custom scripts. A more crazy situation is when avoiding $ isn’t enough. It is when you load jQuery to page head automatically on all pages. The Asset picker (AssetPortalBrowser.aspx) invokes $ itself and gets with jQuery in conflict without you write a single line of custom javascript code. You usually get the following error:

If you have used Issue tracking list template in SharePoint you must have marked that the comments are added and marked with author name and datetime. It is handy to have these micro “discussion boards” on items. The comment-formed communication can help to fine-tune task definitions. By the way, have you seen Trello? So the question is how we can create this column in other lists? Here is a little tutorial how to create “append-only comments”, as they are called:

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Here is a simple log which has been inspired of Android Log. It logs to ULS which you can open with ULSViewer, SharePoint Log Viewer.

using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

namespace Contoso.Intranet.Portal.Utilities
{
    public class Log
    {
        private static readonly string \_CATEGORYNAME = "CONTOSO";
        private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_ERROR\_CATEGORY = 
              new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.Unexpected, EventSeverity.Error);
        private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_WARNING\_CATEGORY = 
              new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.High, EventSeverity.Warning);
        private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_VERBOSE\_CATEGORY = 
              new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.Verbose, EventSeverity.Verbose);
        private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_INFO\_CATEGORY = 
              new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.Medium, EventSeverity.Information);

        private static void WriteTrace(SPDiagnosticsCategory category, string message, string trace)
        {
            SPDiagnosticsService.Local.WriteTrace(0, category, category.DefaultTraceSeverity, message, trace);
        }

        public static void Error(Exception ex)
        {
            WriteTrace(\_ERROR\_CATEGORY, ex.Message, ex.StackTrace);
        }

        public static void Warning(string message)
        {
            WriteTrace(\_WARNING\_CATEGORY, message, "");
        }

        public static void Verbose(string message)
        {
            WriteTrace(\_VERBOSE\_CATEGORY, message, "");
        }

        public static void Info(string message)
        {
            WriteTrace(\_INFO\_CATEGORY, message, "");
        }

    }
}

A possible improvement can be a custom Area. See an example of ThorstenHans on Github: CustomLogger.cs EDIT: I found an interesting article: How to log to the SharePoint ULS Logs: Clean Debugging and Error Logging broken down into steps written by Philip Stathis.

Ett ytterligare grym verktyg från codeplex-lägret: Sharepoint Manager.

Jag är fortfarande i mitt sökande efter den perfekta (för mig) utvecklingsmiljön för SharePoint 2010. Fram tills nu har jag arbetat med en virtuell (VMware) maskin som kollegor till mig har konfigurerat. Men jag vill ha kunskapen att göra det själv. Än så länge har jag bara stött på procedurer som är relativt långdragna, fram tills idag. Se på videon på sidan jag länkat nedan. Jag ska testa det och sen förhoppningsvis komma med resultat här. Mitt mål är att lätt komma igång med en maskin som körs som VHD eller native dualboot. Men jag börjar med en virtuell VMware maskin. Ett dygn senare: Igår lät jag skriptet köra (utan config ändringar) och efter många timmar är allt installerat och klart. Dock trailversioner. Men gör man det en natt efter 2 veckor eller när trailen är slut, då kan man börja på en ny maskin igen. Jag gillar skarpt detta skript! Ännu bättre blir det nog när man konfigurerar det att fixa en VHD. Kommer mer om det när det är testat! Länksamling Film från Channel 9 Ladda ner Scriptet här Skriptskaparnas bloggar http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjohnson/archive/2010/10/28/announcing-sharepoint-easy-setup-for-developers.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pstubbs/archive/2010/10/27/sharepoint-2010-easy-setup-script.aspx