CodePlex- Managed Metadata focused solutions-Part 1

From past some months, I have been wondering that if there any other site from where i can find out the great amount of work done by community in the Code Plex (www.codeplex.com) .  For all of you guys who don’t know about Code Plex, CodePlex is an open source project hosting website from Microsoft. It allows shared development of open source software. As i have … Continue reading CodePlex- Managed Metadata focused solutions-Part 1

Unable to attach List with ListItem event recievers in SharePoint 2007

Whats wrong with me, now we are close to New Year eve of 2012, and Yeah SharePoint 2010 is out in the market since 1 year and half. And today i faced a scenario, which i had gone through repeatedly during 2007-2009. I have written a event receivers for my list items in SharePoint 2007 ( Item added, Item adding,etc) for one reason or the … Continue reading Unable to attach List with ListItem event recievers in SharePoint 2007

Bye Bye to Twin Technologies(Maventor), Welcome by KalSoft

I have been off for a while from my blog, due to my job switch from Twin Technologies (Maventor) to Kalsoft as Senior SharePoint Consultant. The last month (mid Oct-Mid Nov) was very hectic for me. If i just stand up and look down behind the road for my time in maventor, here are some top gains. My time with Maventor went very well. Got … Continue reading Bye Bye to Twin Technologies(Maventor), Welcome by KalSoft

SharePoint Techies User Group- OCT 2011 event

Last week i was quite busy with the User Group event preparation.Couldn’t get any time to update my blog. Any way the yesterday event went great. We have 3 session in it. Some comments from the User you can download or view my presentation below STUG- SharePoint 2010 for ASP.net Devshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=stug-sharepoint2010forasp-netdev-111009033728-phpapp02&stripped_title=stug-sharepoint-2010-for-aspnet-devs&userName=shakykhan View more presentations from shakykhan. you can download the presentation of Ali Zia by … Continue reading SharePoint Techies User Group- OCT 2011 event

Spider acknowldege SharePoint site www.fcpakistan.com

Guys, Some weeks back, i finished a project named as Food Connection Pakistan. Its a SharePoint 2010 internet facing site, which got some finest branding and functionality. Even Pakistan famous IT Magzine Spider has some thing to say about this project. ” FC Pakistan is a promising entry on the Web . It has the potential of becoming the ultimate local food guide, provided it … Continue reading Spider acknowldege SharePoint site www.fcpakistan.com

Download multiple file as Zip in SharePoint 2010

Today i have come across with a question from my friend, (Syed Ahmed Osama). He was trying to create a feature which enables to download multiple files as a single zip file. After googling it for some time, i found a very nice feature http://www.deviantpoint.com/post/2010/05/08/SharePoint-2010-Download-as-Zip-File-Custom-Ribbon-Action.aspx In order to deploy it, you can use the following post http://jethroseghers.blogspot.com/2011/04/download-multiple-files-from-sharepoint.html. (For the step 4 mention in the above … Continue reading Download multiple file as Zip in SharePoint 2010

‘Recycle IIS Application Pool’: 0x80070005 Access denied

Guys, Its quite often that take backup of site collection and restore it in different machine. Once it done you try to run your code. Problem arise that when you deploy your solution through VS 2010, it gives you the above error. In order to rectify is just that your current user(from which you are logged on the machine) is in site collection administators. That … Continue reading ‘Recycle IIS Application Pool’: 0x80070005 Access denied

cannot uninstall the language pack 0 because it is not deployed

Some days back i have deployed my wsp with powershell, all webparts pages giving the error as .. webpart are not type as safe. As you know that it is a general error, so i updated the web.config with all the webparts plus extra dlls as the type  safe. But when i was about to uninstall the solution it gives below error. cannot uninstall the … Continue reading cannot uninstall the language pack 0 because it is not deployed

Cleared all certifcation, regarding SharePoint 2010

Today i  achieved two milestone. Firstly I cleared  PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator certification, thats mean that i am now Microsoft Certified IT Professional. and other one is that now i have all the certificaiton for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Exam 70-668: PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator Exam 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications Exam 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring Exam 70-573: … Continue reading Cleared all certifcation, regarding SharePoint 2010

input string was not in a correct format, lookup additional column

Problem: I have a list, which have a Lookup(Venue)+additional column as ID(“Venue:ID”) you can see in the above picture, when i try to get the value of the “Venue:ID” and convert into int32 through my code, it gives me an error input string was not in a correct format, To mistake i was making is that, lookup always bring value like some this “2;#2”; so … Continue reading input string was not in a correct format, lookup additional column