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When did I build that project in Visual Studio?

Posted by Jake in Visual Studio on November 21, 2012

Have you ever started a build in Visual Studio and went off to do some other darn important things? Then when you come back twenty-seven minutes later, you look at the Output Window and say… “Did I build that yet or is that from an hour ago?” Well, I do. It’s not easy getting older. But, there’s a simple command you can put in the “VS Project Properties – Build Events – Post-build event command line” that will output the time the build finished. “Time /T” Pretty ingenious, no? Yeah, not really, but it works. I even have some screen shots for those who can’t read! Cool slide-show mode too.

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Error occurred in deployment step ‘Recycle IIS Application Pool’: The local SharePoint server is not available. Check that the server is running and connected to the SharePoint farm.

Posted by Jake in SharePoint, Visual Studio on November 4, 2010

Update: I received a similar error to the one listed above:
Error occurred in deployment step ‘Recycle IIS Application Pool’:<nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> Access denied.
For this error, make sure that you are a Site Collection Administrator

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Visual Studio 2010 properties window – commands & descriptions missing

Posted by Jake in Visual Studio on June 23, 2010

In the Visual Studio 2010 Beta, the Properties Window contained a sub-window that enabled the generation of handlers for workflow properties (not just workflow properties, but any item that had an a event property). I found this to be a quick and consistent way to create those event handling stubs. Upon upgrading to the release version of VS2010, I noticed that the command window was missing:

To display the commands, bring up the context menu for the properties window (right click) and check the commands option. The same goes for descriptions.

Installing Visual Studio 2010 on computer with VMWare running

Posted by Jake in Visual Studio, VMWare on June 7, 2010

This was a curious matter. I installed Visual Studio 2010 on a machine that had VMWare Server running. The VS install went through a restart and installed just fine. When I tried to launch VMWare to access a VM through VMWare Web Access, the VMWare configuration site was not running. Turned out that the VMWare Host Agent (VMwareHostd) was not started (even though it was still set to startup Automatically)! I started that service and was able to access the VMWare config web site. This happened on two different dev machines, so some part of the VS install was being stubborn.

Adding a CSS file to a SharePoint 2010 Application page in VS 2010

Posted by Jake in SharePoint, Visual Studio on June 1, 2010

A quick run down on the steps to add a Cascading StyleSheet to a SharePoint Application page in Visual Studio 2010

From the Visual Studio 2010 Solution Explorer, select the project, right click and select the Add option and then the “SharePoint Mapped Folder…”

The “Add SharePoint Mapped Folder” dialog is presented which displays all the folders under {SharePointRoot}:

Select the location that you would like to place your Stylesheet, which in most cases will be: {ProgramFiles}\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES

Once the STYLES folder is added, it may be easier to add a custom folder that will contain your CSS file(s)

Now that the folder structure is complete, you can add a stylesheet to that folder:

Inside your application page, reference the stylesheet within the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead ContentPlaceHolder similar to: <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/_layouts/1033/styles/Sohema/sohema.css" />