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SharePoint Mobile View

To access the mobile view of our SharePoint sites, we just need to do the following,

just append to the url _layouts/mobile

from

http://servername:port

http://servername:port/_layouts/mobile

That’s it..

Using Hyperlink in WPF application

To user hyperlink in WPF application we could do something like this

Click here

</Hyperlink>

</TextBlock>

However the NavigateUri works only if we are placing the hyperlink within a page. To use it within a windows-based application we need to hanlde the RequestNavigate event and write the code ourselves.

Something like this

Click here

</Hyperlink>

</TextBlock>

private void Hyperlink_RequestNavigate(object sender, RequestNavigateEventArgs e)

{

Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo(e.Uri.AbsoluteUri));

e.Handled = true;

}

While using hyperlink we could also provide handler for Application.NavigationFailed event in case if navigation fails.

That’s it ….

Using Custom Configuration Section and Configuration Manager class in .NET – 2

Suppose we want to create a custom config section in this following manner

</queryTypes>

For implementing the above custom section we need to first define a class inheriting from ConfigurationSection class

Add reference to System.Configuration dll.

Create a new config section class in the following manner

// implement ConfiguraionSection class

class QueryTypesSection : ConfigurationSection

{

public QueryTypesSection()

{

}

[ConfigurationProperty(“”, IsDefaultCollection = true)]

public QueryTypesCollection QueryTypes

{

get

{

return (QueryTypesCollection)base[“”];

}

// Represents a configuration element containing a collection of child elements

public sealed class QueryTypesCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection

{

protected override ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement()

{

return new QueryTypeElement();

}

protected override object GetElementKey(ConfigurationElement element)

{

return ((QueryTypeElement)element).Name;

}

public override ConfigurationElementCollectionType CollectionType

{

get

{

return ConfigurationElementCollectionType.BasicMap;

}

protected override string ElementName

{

get

{

return “queryType”;

}

// Defining QueryTypeElement with name and value attribute

public sealed class QueryTypeElement : ConfigurationElement

{

// defining name attribute

[ConfigurationProperty(“name”, IsRequired = true)]

public string Name

{

get

{

return (string)this [“name”];

}

set

{

this[“name”] = value;

}

// defining value attribute

[ConfigurationProperty(“value”, IsRequired = true)]

public string Value

{

get

{

return (string)this[“value”];

}

set

{

this[“value”] = value;

}

Now to register your custom section do the following

</configSections>

And to use it within the application

QueryTypesSection queryTypeSection = (QueryTypesSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection(“queryTypes”);

QueryTypesCollection queryTypeCollection = queryTypeSection.QueryTypes;

foreach (QueryTypeElement se in queryTypeCollection)

{

string name=se.Name;

string value = se.Value;

}

That’s it…

Using Custom Configuration Section and Configuration Manager class in .NET – 1

At times instead of using appSettings section we would like to define our own custom section within configuration file.

Suppose we want to create a custom config section in this following manner

For implementing the above custom section we need to first define a class inheriting from ConfigurationSection class

Add reference to System.Configuration dll.

Create a new config section class in the following manner

// inherit the class ConfigurationSection

class SimpleConfigSection : ConfigurationSection

{

public SimpleConfigSection()

{

}

// using ConfigurationProperty attribute to define the attribute

[ConfigurationProperty(“id”,IsRequired = true)]

public String ID

{

get

{ return (String)this[“id”]; }

set

{ this[“id”] = value; }

}

// using ConfigurationProperty attribute to define the attribute

[ConfigurationProperty(“name”, IsRequired = true)]

public String Name

{

get

{ return (String)this[“name”]; }

set

{ this[“name”] = value; }

}

Now to register your custom section do the following

</configSections>

And to use it within the application

SimpleConfigSection simpleConfig = (SimpleConfigSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection(“SimplConfigSection”);

string id = simpleConfig.ID;

string name = simpleConfig.Name;

That’s it …

Logging off from Oracle\Siebel CRM On Demand Web Service within a .NET application

There are two ways of logging off from an active session within CRM On Demand

// pass the url in that case no need to set the header

// only set sessionid

string logoffUrlString = “servername/Services/Integration;jsessionid=” + SessionID + “?command=logoff”;

HttpWebRequest req = HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(logoffUrlString);

// make the HTTP call

HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

Or else

string logoffUrlString = “servername/Services/Integration?command=logoff”;

HttpWebRequest req = HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(logoffUrlString);

// set the session id in header

req.Headers[“JSESSIONID”] = SessionID;

// make the HTTP call

HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

Within Web Services Utilization List of Admin Tab in the CRM On Demand application we can see the login and logout info.

That’s it ..

“An unexpected error has occurred” error message in SharePoint.

Normally within SharePoint if an error occurs we would be receiving quite an unhelpful error message i.e. “An unexpected error has occurred”. It is because by default the detailed error messages are turned off for security reasons.

Here are the steps for getting the full error messages

1) Go to the MOSS site for which you would like to enable it.

Most likely to be found at c:inetpubwwwrootwssVirtualDirectories and a sub directory with your web application’s port number.

2) Locate and open the web.config file for editing.

3) Find out the following entry