I was recently asked to provide some code which could query the managed metadata service of a SharePoint 2010 implementation and extract the terms for use in a separate web site. This turned out to be a bit more complicated than I initially thought as the architecture called for use of the SharePoint Web Services,... Continue Reading →
Windows Azure Development: The target “CoreCompile” does not exist in the project.
Recently I have looking into SharePoint integration with Windows Azure (I will post more about this project, when it works:-)), and I ran across some warnings when I was publishing a new MVC3 application to my Azure instance. The warning I received was "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\4.0\Microsoft.Common.targets\ImportAfter\Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.SandboxedCompilation.targets(47,5): warning MSB4057: The target "CoreCompile" does not exist in the project." As... Continue Reading →
Error Uploading Solution to SharePoint Solution Gallery
If when you upload a solution to the solution gallery in SharePoint 2010 you receive the following error. "This solution contains invalid markup or elements that cannot be deployed as part of a sandboxed solution. Solution manifest for solution '64afe4f8-6a99-42e8-9845-43fc18cc49f8' failed validation, file manifest.xml, line 10, character 4: The element 'Solution' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/' has invalid... Continue Reading →
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