This category mostly contains hacks and workarounds that are definitely not needed, recommended, or even safe in production environments. So, beware – don’t apply or run these against your production at all. These should be limited to the development environment only.
These posts are arguably closely related to my other category, software development (or DevTips).
In this post, I describe how you can figure out if IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) has jumped in the compatibility mode. You run into this requirement every now and then, when trying to figure out some SharePoint browser compatibility mess-up. This is quite frequent, because in compatibility mode IE does its best to screw up your CSS. Compatibility view now and before Microsoft has been pretty keen on introducing new ways to handle browser compatibility and make IE behave in even stranger ways that it…Continue reading Identifying IE11 compatibility mode in SharePoint
This post is about fixing one of the absolute most annoyingly unspesific errors you can get when activating (Feature Framework) features on SharePoint – “File not found”. Whatever that might mean, right? Problem Ugh. A plain and simple “File not found” is one of the more annoying errors one can stumble upon when trying to activate a feature. It usually gets thrown at you quite quickly after hitting the activation button on your feature management page – and it’ll look somewhat like below: There are…Continue reading “File not found”-error when trying to activate custom feature on SharePoint
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 describes how to fix possible issues with Windows hosts-file. I’ll first document how to find the damn file, and then go through a bunch of options on what to check and how to fix different possible issues. Opening the hosts -file First of all, hosts file location is usually: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (link may or may not work depending on your security settings and browser version, but you can always copy-paste it to your text editor’s “Open”-dialog… :) Editing the file requires elevated privileges for…Continue reading Troubleshooting guide for Windows hosts -file
This post describes how to fix Windows Authentication on a SharePoint server failing on other local addresses than plain old localhost. Symptoms You get the standard Windows/Basic Authentication prompt when accessing your SharePoint site, but the site won’t accept your credentials when your accessing the site using an address like http://website. However, using address like http://localhost works fine (but of course may cause other problems). You also get event log entries like this (most likely in System -category): The program w3wp.exe, with the assigned process ID,…Continue reading Windows Authentication fails on SharePoint for all hostnames (other than localhost)
