John Liu .NET

1. In solution, select the Feature
   
   
   
   Change the “Folder Name” property to new name. Press Enter – VS.NET will try to help you rename everything correctly.  The reason this field is called “Folder Name” is because SharePoint packaged solutions are deployed to the 14 HIVE, and are organized by folders there.
   Double click on the feature to bring up the Feature designer UI, you still need to change the Title and Description
   
   
   
2. To rename the web part
   
   
   
   Change the Folder Name
   You still need to change the actual UserControl file name
   
   
   
   As well as the user control filename, class name… standard .NET stuff.  Some tools such as VS.NET’s rename tool, or if you use Resharper, can help you with class renaming.
   
3. WARNING: generally renaming packages is very bad after you have deployed to production. This should not be done lightly. 

Was working on a presentation on SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight.

Finally, I get to marry my two favourite technologies in one awesome demo.

There’s not a lot of people blogging about this yet, but what we were digging up was very delightful.

In bullet point form – because this is a brain dump blog post, and if you want to know how everything ties together you’ll have to catch up to one of the user groups where I present this stuff (or Adam Cogan… he gets around a lot more than me):

Technologies that made it possible:

• SharePoint web services
• SharePoint REST / OData services NEW
• This is actually great news for the AJAX / JavaScript crowd.  Technically, you can write JQuery solutions that will query SharePoint for you.
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll(s), and the corresponding Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.dll(s) – which are awesome wrappers
• CAML is nearly gone, but still lingers on for huge data processing.
• LINQ to SharePoint is the new crafting knife
• Silverlight XAP files can be uploaded anywhere
• Silverlight web part can load XAP files and run them
• So a user that can upload a short movie to SharePoint, then configure a Silverlight movie player to play that movie… already has the permissions required to run custom XAP applications.
• Which, if you stop and think about it, is a “different” deployment model!

Hi Apple,

When I first got my iPhone it truly was a thing of joy. New apps were being created and continued to blew away my expectations of what a phone can do.

Not anymore, I have not found anything worth downloading or buying in the last month. I've browsing through the paid apps section now and filtering anything above $10. Still nothing that I'd consider truly must-have.

I will not buy anything above $10 for a platform that I’m considering to abandon in the next cycle.

I gave up a bit.
I cleaned out my iPhone apps list, call it a defrag, if you will - it is now down to only 20. At its height I had well over 7-8 pages full of apps.

I don't know what it is that you are doing - but perhaps it's also what you are NOT doing.

Whatever it is, I call it a design flaw.

Please bring back the developers and the great apps.  Otherwise you will lose your users - me.  There are plenty of other mobile vendors that are eyeing your market and they will happily take your developers from you.

I remember the days when I was using a Mac and we had no software.  I don’t know if you had forgotten those dark days.

Microsoft has begin to move and has blasted off with the SharePoint 2010 sneak peek website – I can’t help but think the timing was strategic – right after the NZ SharePoint conference, before the US SharePoint conference coming up in October.  If this had go up one week before the NZ SharePoint conference – there would have been many speakers ambushed with questions they might not know how to answer.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/

Anyway, the areas I’ll be paying extreme close attention to are:

Overview:

• Love the ribbon!
• Love the cross browser support!
• Love the AJAX – though the video looks like there were still full screen refreshes
• Curious about Visio services
• Curious about Business Connectivity Services
• Like the SharePoint designer – wish they allow more admin control to turn off features so that it can be more accepted in the enterprise.

Admin:

• Like new central admin
• Love SharePoint best practice analyzer!
• Love usage reporting and logging!
• Love the unattached content database recovery!

Developer:

• Curious about VS.NET 2010 integration – I hope it’s heaps better than VSeWSS 1.3
• Love LINQ for SharePoint!
• Curious about Developer Dashboard
• Love client object model!

Anyway, lots of love for now – no hate yet.

Working on a client’s SharePoint site – I wanted to pop into the IIS configuration screen:

Now when your IIS manager shows you a blank page – you know something’s up.
Event log shows a horrible series of errors repeating event IDs:
6398: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob (ID <guid>) threw an exception. More information is included below.
Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

7076: An exception occurred while executing the Application Server Administration job.
Message: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

6482: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.ExcelServerSharedWebServiceInstance (7d2d13a5-e9ca-4b92-972c-8e3bdfcaced4).
Reason: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

Fortunately, many people have blogged about this issue – if you bing it you’ll see many references pointing to the same MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;946517

This is scheduled to be included in the next service pack – affects both Windows Server 2003 sp2 and 2008 sp2.  In our case we needed to request the hotfix and install it right away.