Author Archives: Peter Gerritsen

New languages available for Soccerino

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Soccerino is now available in more languages besides English: -Dutch -German -Portugues -Serbian -Polish If you would like to translate it into your own language, you’re very welcome to. You can download the language source file from: http://www.babelzilla.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6237 Bookmark to:web design Tweet

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Tam Tam Lauches Soccerino – World Cup 2010 Pool for SharePoint AND Facebook

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At previous footbal tournaments we had a lot of success with our SharePoint football pool webparts. This year we launch Soccerino, available on SharePoint (2007 / 2010) AND Facebook. More information on soccerino.com UPDATE: We have a resource file available if you want to the application in you own language. Just download the zip-file below [...]

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New sample project for SP2010 Word Automation: UI

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I’ve just published a second sample solution for the SP2010 Word Automation project on CodePlex. This solution will add a button to the Ribbon when browsing document libraries: When the button is clicked a modal Dialog is shown that will allow the user to specify the options used for conversion: When the Ok button is [...]

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2 new worflow activities added to SP2010 Word Automation

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I’ve added two new worfklow activities, Convert Folder and Convert Library, to the SP2010 Word Automation project on CodePlex. Because you can’t associate workflows created with SharePoint designer to libraries or folders, these actions won’t use the current item from the context, so you need to specify the input and output library or folder by [...]

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SP2010 Installation – Error creating configuration database

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When I tried to install the new RC of SharePoint 2010 on my machine, I got an “Error creating configuration database” message. When I went to the installation log I found a “User cannot be found” error. The cause was that the configuration wizard could not find the AD controller, which was easily solved by [...]

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CodePlex project for Word Automation Services

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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

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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

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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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SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile System

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In SharePoint 2010 there are quite a few interesting changes to the User Profile System. In this post I will outline some of them. Profile types You can specify sub-types for profiles. For each profile property you can configure for which types the property is used. A user will be able to see or edit [...]

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Issues deploying FAST Search Server 2010 Beta

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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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