Bits & Pieces – A blog by Kannan Balasubramanian
I am in the process of Upgrading a web application from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
While I am preparing a cheat sheet, this article will have all the sites and pointers I have referred so that it can be referred by anyone in the future.
Migration Related References:
Migrate to SharePoint 2013 – Supported scenarios
SharePoint 2013 Upgrade Process (Click here for direct link)
Was searching for articles related to SQL Tuning for SharePoint 2013 and found one. Visit the following link to further read about it.
http://www.peters.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=75&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Recently out of normal development routine I was discussing with my development team regarding the IT side of SharePoint 2010.
One of the aspects we were discussing about was the “Disaster Recovery.” Being developers, “Disaster Recovery” was a mere term rather than an important IT aspect for them and I fastly realized it was slightly boring for them.
Post discussion I decided to give them some links so that they can refer when needed. Found out following were some of the links they can quickly read and understand.
Disaster Recovery for SharePoint 2010
Configure Disaster Recovery Farm with SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 – 10 Steps to Disaster Recovery
The following is the fix for the error “HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is invalid” when trying to browse an IIS Express site using a different host name or IP address.
1. Exit the IIS Express instant currently running.
2. Open IIS Express’s applicationhost.config located at the following path C:\Users\<user>\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
3. Find the entry for a particular site (e.g “Test” running in port 6306) which you are developing.
e.g.
<site name="FlickrTest" id="10">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="E:\Projects\BB Apps\FlickrTest" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:6306:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>4. Replace the following
bindingInformation=”*:6306:localhost” with bindingInformation=”*:6306:*”
5. Save the file.
6. Start a command prompt in administrator mode and run the following command.
netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:6306/ user=Everyone
7. Now debug the site again and you should be able to access the url using IP address or host name.
Microsoft on 18 May 2011, released an update KB2496898 to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems to include support for the new Indian rupee symbol (₹). This update included font support, locale changes and keyboard support. With the Windows update, it is now possible to use alt code text entry to obtain the Indian Rupee symbol – Alt 8377.
Alt + 8377
Source: Wikipedia
Recently I was planning to format my 64GB USB Drive with FAT32 format as my Car Player doesn’t support another format and Windows 8 or Mac OS X had the only option being NTFS or exFAT.
So after little bit of googling found out that there is an utility available called fat32format here http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm.
If you want to know the default allocation sizes, check out the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365
I was testing out my own WCF REST Service using Fiddler and was getting error response “The incoming message has an unexpected message format ‘Raw'”.
After spending time diagnosing the message the clue was, the WCF was getting a request with no content type.
My contract was specifically expecting the request format to be XML using the following attribute
RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml
Hence added the content type as “application/xml” and things went fine.
The following is an example of Fiddler’s request for a REST POST with composite data type
Type: POST
URL: http://localhost:1510/GalleryService.svc/RestService/GetDataUsingDataContract/
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Request Header:
User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: localhost:1510
Content-Length: 198
Content-Type: application/xml
Request Body:
<CompositeType xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Net.BinaryBits.Apps.BBGallery.WebService"><BoolValue>true</BoolValue><StringValue>String content</StringValue></CompositeType>
During our course of developing applications we might come across number of scenarios. One of the scenarios might be creating a .NET web service which can be exposed as SOAP and REST.
The following link explains with code on how to implement that.
Ever wanted to copy a list of files as text from Windows Explorer?
The following has been tested in Windows 8 Pro.
The following link helps to identify the current version of SharePoint deployed
http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/blog/SitePages/SharePoint%20versions.aspx