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At times you may need to allow unsafe updates for SPWeb objects 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’s a good practice to limit the change to as small a scope as possible. This is true even though the setting is only persisted for the duration of the request (unless the SPWeb object was gotten…Continue reading How to properly use SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates?
This post is about fixing on of the most non-spesific errors you can get when activating features on SharePoint “File not found”. Problem “File not found” is one of the more annoying errors one can stumble upon when trying to activate a feature. There are quite a few reasons that can cause this error, but after the obvious ones (some files failing to be included in the package, botched wsp deployment, errorenous urls in event receiver) one thing to check might be the alternate access mappings.
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…Continue reading Attaching the Visual Studio debugger to the right IIS worker process
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 at the very least they will probably appreciate it! In short, I’ll show you how to avoid SharePoint’s dirty encoding (like replacing a space with “_x0020_”). This appliesto when you’re using server-side code to generate fields. Problem: non-readable internal names for SharePoint list fields When you create a…Continue reading Programmatically creating readable internal names for new SharePoint fields
