I ran into a frustrating error the other day when I was preparing a demonstration machine for a TFS demo. The issue revolves around the report builder tool for SSRS and BI reporting, the issue occurred when I tried to preview a report I had built in Report Builder 2.0 (SQL Server 2008 R2). Basically when I tried... 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: TF30275: Error while uploading file
I was involved recently in a TFS implementation for one of our clients where after succesfull installation and configuration of TFS/SharePoint they received an error message when creating a team site using the agile template. The initial error was coming back as the connection to the SharePoint portal had failed and it could not complete... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: One or more field types are not installed properly.
Whilst working on a recently upgraded SharePoint 2010 site (database attach upgrade) I attempted to modify an existing web part. As soon as the page went into edit mode I was presented with the following SharePoint error: "One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010: Exporting a List
To export a list from a SharePoint site you can follow the steps below. Ensure that the user account performing the process is a member of the farm administrator group In Central Administration, on the Home page, click Backup and Restore on the left hand menu. On the Backup and Restore page, in the Granular... Continue Reading →
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