Retracting and Deleting Solution files from SharePoint

Some time its really very pain full when u have to retract the Solution files in SharePoint Development environment

this looks pretty easy if you are doing this from Central Admin but your solution does not get retracted immediately , instead it creates a timer job for you , and SharePoint knows when the timer job will run and retract your solution .

it become more frustrating , when you ran the command to retract the solution and now you want to delete the solution .

so one shot solution of all those crappy stuffs can be found here in this blog

alex thissen has explained it beautifully

go through his blog

click here

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SharePoint List : Reading and Writing Value to loopup Fileds

Hi All,
just wanted to Share this link which says how can we read and write values in LoopUp Fields of SharePoint Lists.

Link to Post

this post is by Alec

Customizing Toolpart (Toolpane) of Webpart In SharePoint

i have go a call form one of my friends regarding customizing the Toolpart of sharepoint webpart,as i mostly use Return of Smartpart for Webpart development so i didnt have any idea about it, then i went to my best frined Google.com and got hell alot of results on customizing toolpart ,

the best and easy one was by Liam , in his two parts of tutorial he has given very simple logic for developing a custom toolpane webpart part1 , part 2.

Now this blog just display how to add contents to the webpart's toolpart , but how to add functiolity and pass the value from Toolpart to you webpart page. hmmm thats a good question , that is even very easy .

u just need to create property in Webpart class , just use that property in Toolpart and on apply change() method just pass the corresponding values to the webpart and can perform ur required

// webpart calss file

namespace ToolPartPrograming

{

public class ToolPartExample1 : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart

{

public ToolPartExample1()

{

}

private string ddlValue;

public string DdlValue

{

get { return ddlValue; }

set { ddlValue = value; }

}

protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer)

{

base.RenderContents(writer);

writer.Write("The value selected in DropDownlist is " + DdlValue);

}

}

}

//Toolpartclass file , must be written in different class file

namespace ToolPartPrograming

{

class ToolpartClass : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ToolPart

{

public override void ApplyChanges()

{

ToolPartExample1 objTP1 = new ToolPartExample1();

objTP1.DdlValue =ddlDropDown.SelectedValue; //Pass the value this ddl is bounded with Toolpart

}

}

}

SPEmailEvent Handler not firing

I was suffering from this problem that my email event handler was not firing up. i work around then foounf out that i have to go for infrastrusture updates for the SharePoint. and then it worked find,

but later i hv faced one big problem , that when i was updating my code . it was not working , it was not getting refacted . after running trhough i came to know that the sharepoint code which runs under sharepoint timer job , dont take new code untill you either restart the timer of sharepoint or create new version of dll and deploye in to the GAC,

so if you are facing this kind of problem the folllowo the process.

it holds good for the Workflows if you have used Timer event in it .

Use Command

Net stop sptimerv3

Net start sptimerv3

this will reset the timer and the new code will be in effect

Should not Use SPUser variable in Wokflow

Hi if Error
" Could not create activity of type 'MXKnowldgeObjectWorkflow.Workflow1'. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MXKnowldgeObjectWorkflow.Workflow1..ctor() C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.MOSS\My Documents\Vikash\MXKnowldgeObjectWorkflow\MXKnowldgeObjectWorkflow " The Compile Time Error , so just remove the SPUser variable form your workflow Code and to find the Current Person in the Workflow use the follwoing code snippit
i got this code from the Net , i'll let u know abuot the devlopper who has given this code

private string GetTheCurrentUser()
{
string ModifiedbyUserName = Convert.ToString(workflowProperties.Item.GetFormattedValue("Modified By"));
string[] strChar = { "ID=" };

string[] strChars = ModifiedbyUserName.Split(strChar, StringSplitOptions.None);

Int32 iUserID = Convert.ToInt32(strChars[1].Substring(0, strChars[1].IndexOf("\"")));
return iUserID.ToString();
}

SharePoint and We

HI
Can any one tell me how to customize a content query webpart to Access The List Items of The SharePonit List ?

Thanks and Regards
Vikash Kumar Sharma