Author Archives: Peter Gerritsen

CodePlex project for Word Automation Services

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on January 13, 2010
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I’ve just published the first release for a CodePlex project I started to provide sample projects / solutions for using the Word Automation Services in SharePoint 2010. Word Automation Services allow you to convert document to and from different formats. File formats the service can read: Office Open XML (DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM) Word 97-2003 [...]
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Force Visual Studio 2010 to add a SafeControl Entry

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on January 11, 2010
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When you create a project in Visual Studio 2010 on one of the SharePoint project templates it will take care of all the packaging for you. But when I was working on a project with custom workflow actions, the SafeControl entry that is needed for making it work was not added to the generated manifest.xml [...]
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Getting Custom Workflow Activities into SharePoint Designer 2010

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on January 11, 2010
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Developing a custom workflow activity for SharePoint 2010 doesn’t differ that much from developing one for the MOSS 2007 platform. So by following the different articles on that you will be able to create one with ease. SharePoint 2010 still uses the same mechanism with an .ACTIONS file and adding an “authorizedType” element to your [...]
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Issues deploying FAST Search Server 2010 Beta

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on January 5, 2010
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I just had a tough time deploy FAST Search Server 2010 Beta on a new SharePoint 2010 farm. Upon searching the internet it looked like I had the same issue as loads of other people, a not complete/wrong installation guide. But even after reviewing the posts in this thread and reading the post from Manfred [...]
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InfoPath Form Template stays in “installing” state

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on December 1, 2009
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When I was testing to deploy a solution containing some form templates I got an error. Not very strange, because I was testing it. The main downside though was one of the templates remained in the installing state. Apparently the easiest way to remove this template is by using some custom code, in this case I just used [...]
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Provisioning a Document Set

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on November 6, 2009
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In this post I’ll show you how to create a project in Visual Studio 2010 with the new SharePoint project and item templates to provision a Document Set from a feature. DISCLAIMER: The examples are build on and tested against a Beta 1 build of SharePoint 2010 and a Beta 1 build of Visual Studio 2010, so [...]
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Coding against a Document Set

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on November 6, 2009
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I’ve just had a 5 day training on development for SharePoint 2010. We’ve seen some cool stuff, were able to do some Hands on Labs and talk to other SharePoint experts about the new stuff that is coming up. One of the best things though about this training was the ability to try some stuff [...]
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DateTimeField vs. FieldValue in a publishing page

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on October 30, 2009
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In one of our projects we needed to show the Modified date and time value in publishing page. Not a big deal you would think. The only issue we had when using a FieldValue control is that the time that would be displayed was 1 or 2 hours later than the actual value. After I changed this [...]
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BadImageFormatException when updating a Dynamics CRM Plug-in

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on September 29, 2009
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Today I was working on a Dynamics CRM 4.0 Plug-in we’ve developed in the past and I needed to update the plug-in on our CRM server. When I loaded the assembly in the Plug-in Registration tool I got the following exception: Unhandled Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Crm.Sdk, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one [...]
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