Sharepoint @ Buenos Aires Codecamp 2011

BA Codecamp 2011 is coming soon and Tellago is going to be part of it! More than 10 architects from our team will be presenting the most innovative technology sessions on next October 15. I’m very happy to be speaking at this event! Along with my colleague Mariano Escurra, we will be presenting Best Practices using Javascript and JQuery in Sharepoint 2010. Bellow is the abstract. Register!!

Mejores prácticas utilizando Javascript y JQuery en SharePoint 2010
El uso de Javascript es una parte importante en la construcción de cualquier sitio web interactivo, siendo JQuery una de las bibliotecas Javascript más utilizadas. Al crear este tipo de sitios sobre SharePoint 2010, los desarrolladores pueden combinar el uso esta biblioteca con el modelo de objetos cliente Javascript (ECMAScript) mejorando notablemente la experiencia del usuario final.
Durante esta charla abordaremos los aspectos más importantes del modelo de objetos cliente ECMAScript de SharePoint 2010 y su integración con JQuery siguiendo las mejores prácticas.

Fixing Sharepoint’s “Cannot connect to the configuration database” error

I have Sharepoint Server 2010 installed in my development environment. It happened a couple of times that the computer hangs and the Sharepoint Configuration dabatase remains in a corrupted state. When I try to access the Sharepoint local site from the browser it gives the following error:

Cannot connect to the configuration database. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPageUserException: Cannot connect to the configuration database.

So, how did I fix it?

I first used this addselftosqlsysadmin.cmd script to add my account to the SQLServer sysadmin group.

Then performed the following commands from SQL Server Management Studio:

select state_desc from master.sys.databases where name = 'SharePoint_Config_5ffca14b-db6f-4b30-9dd8-8317ee0f4f45'

The result was: SUSPECT, confirming we had a problem.

Then run:

ALTER DATABASE [SharePoint_Config_5ffca14b-db6f-4b30-9dd8-8317ee0f4f45]  SET EMERGENCY;

GO

ALTER DATABASE [SharePoint_Config_5ffca14b-db6f-4b30-9dd8-8317ee0f4f45]  SET SINGLE_USER;

GO

DBCC CHECKDB ([SharePoint_Config_5ffca14b-db6f-4b30-9dd8-8317ee0f4f45] , REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS) WITH NO_INFOMSGS, ALL_ERRORMSGS;

GO

ALTER DATABASE [SharePoint_Config_5ffca14b-db6f-4b30-9dd8-8317ee0f4f45]  SET MULTI_USER;

GO

That’s it! I run the state_desc command again and this time it says: ONLINE

Solved!

Azure Bootcamp @MS Argentina

I participated yesterday in the Azure Bootcamp that took place at Microsoft Argentina. Along with Vanesa Guccione, my colleague at Lagash, we talked about advanced roles. The contents of the presentation included the new features of the platform, such as full IIS mode, startup tasks, remote desktop plugin and local storage. We also talked about input and internal endpoints and inter-role communication, showing some demo code as well. You can download the material from here.

How to find Visual Studio command bars

When developing a Visual Studio Addin it is a common task to add custom commands to existing menus and toolbars. It is a common problem too, not to find the proper command bar (we have to traverse all command bars to see its names, the names are not unique, etc). In these two posts: Using IVsProfferCommands to retrieve a Visual Studio CommandBar and  Using EnableVSIPLogging to identify menus and commands with VS 2005 + SP1 it is very well explained how to solve this problem.

The answer relies on the fact that every toolbar and menu is uniquely identified in Visual Studio by a ...

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