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The following steps show how to install SharePoint 2010 on VMware workstation 7.0. Host computer used during the preparation of this walk-through was a Vista (32-bit) machine and guest machine used was VMware workstation 7.0 with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (64-bit).

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Suppose you want to show a custom error message in your event receiver class, here is how you do it: class myClass : SPItemEventReceiver { public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties) { properties.ErrorMessage = "Your custom error message"; properties.Cancel = true; } } In the web.config, set "StackTrace"

The following code will open an existing xml document from the library, update it and save it back to the library. XmlDocument fyle = new XmlDocument(); fyle.Load(existingFile.OpenBinaryStream()); //You can load the new document with any data but here i am using binary data from an existing file. Change it to suit your own needs. Method to define existing file is shown at the end. XPathNavigator

Category: "Admin" Tip Level: Beginner The following form template cannot be found: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:formname:-myXSD-2007-08-20T18-44-25 Do you get this error when you try to activate, deactivate or remove a form template from SharePoint? Yet when you try to upload the same form, you get a message telling you that the form already existed. Usually

It seems straight forward. Isn't it? but it may not be as simple and straight forward for the newbies as it seems at first. A colleague and a friend of mine recently was struggling with the same issue and he learnt the lesson after spending considerable amount of time experimenting with different solutions. You get a security exception when you write your own component to be used in a report in reporting

Scenario: You have a list in SharePoint that contains user data (profile including name, phone, etc). You have an InfoPath form that has a text box to enter a user ID and a button to show record against the User ID entered in the text box. Being a developer, a programmatic solution is very easy for me. With a few lines of code I can extract filtered data from a SharePoint list. What about those

Ramp Up program has launched SharePoint for developers track today. Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology. The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper, v-lab, codecast and slidecast). This SharePoint track, along

Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203468.aspx Codeplex site: www.codeplex.com/spg This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications.