If you ever encounter a crash when choosing the items to display in Visual Studios toolbox, then try this solution: Start Visual Studio in safe mode using: Start->Run->devenv /safemode In the Toolbox “Choose items”, accept any error message the appear Restart Visual Studio as per normal and the problem should be fixed.
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Toolbox –> "Choose items" crashes Visual Studio
Posted in bugs, visual studio, tagged visualstudio bugs on March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
An error occured while validating or updating the directory service connection. No update was performed.
Posted in bugs, sharepoint, tagged bug, sharepoint, userprofiles on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I got this error whilst trying to get User Profiles to work. Things to check: Domain name is correct If using custom sources, try creating a new custom source and deleting the old one
Server Out Of Memory – There is no memory on the server to run your program. Please contact your administrator with this problem. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId)
Posted in bugs, sharepoint, tagged bug, onet.xml, sharepoint on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are lots of reasons this error message can occur, see: http://www.google.com/search?q=sharepoint+Server+Out+Of+Memory. In my case it happened when a new site was being provisioned using a custom site definition during the ApplyWebTemplate call. Turned out the there were subtle errors in my onet.xml. In particular I was referencing some document templates using an incorrect path:
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Crashes when exiting the application, in module ModName:msenv.dll
Posted in bugs, development, visual studio, tagged bug, visualstudio, windowlayout on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After recently increasing my monitor setup to 3 flat screens! I decided to embark on the ultimate 2-window Visual Studio layout, docking most of my non-text editor windows on monitor 2. After lots of precision placements of windows, I thought I had better close Visual Studio so that it saves my new layout. Well fat [...]
Target Audience property not displaying / missing for web parts
Posted in bugs, sharepoint, tagged audiencefilters, bug, sharepoint, targetaudience, webpart on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I came across this problem on a web application that had been working fine, then all of a sudden the “Target Audiences” property disappeared from the web part tool pane. To solve this problem I re-associated the web application with the Shared Service Provider (SSP) and bounced IIS. 1. Web applications are associated with [...]
