A duplicate content type “Enter Name” was found If you’ve gotten this error and come to this site looking for answers, chances are it isn’t simply because the name you’re trying to give a new content type is already in use. On the contrary, you are probably sitting there saying that you know without a
There comes a time in developing SharePoint solutions where you may find yourself asking: This is not the time I want my event receiver to run This is not the place where I can set EventFiringEnabled = false This is not the way I want this call to SystemUpdate() to behave You’ve probably developed an
With the recent Thanksgiving Holiday, I thought it would be a good time to share a trick that will provide a feast of GUIDS. I like to use this method while doing SharePoint development, but it can really be useful anytime you have a need to create several GUIDs. While it is easy to create
It’s been too long since my last post. I struggle as a blogger because I feel my time is better spent reading bloggers like Andrew Connell, Waldek Mastykarz, Eric Shupps, and so on, rather than writing my own content. I never imagined this long of a gap between my last posts, but the recent SharePoint
I used to play in a punk rock band, and we often joked that with only so many bar chords to play, we often copied our own songs unintentionally. When you are writing a blog, it can be difficult to know when someone else has already written on the subject you’ve chosen, or if you’ve
When creating a new web application in SharePoint, you choose the physical location of where the IIS website will be created. Once the application is born, however, there is no longer an option to change this path in Central Administration. You can very easily change it in IIS (by going to your websites Properties ->
