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• For the love of science please fix your Name ActiveX Control Problem

  I am astonished with how many public facing SharePoint sites are out there without this problem fixed. You know the one I am talking about. The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control' from 'Microsoft Corporation'... Posted May 05 2008, 01:39 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error

• Error: HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

  I was working on an Enterprise Search deployment the other day and I encountered this lovely error. I found the answer buried in some forum posts, but I wanted to tell you what side effects I found when implementing the solution (and I wanted to make... Posted May 01 2008, 02:15 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Tracing Service lost trace events

  If you are like me, you go to the SharePoint logs folder often in an attempt to try and resolve various errors you may encounter when working with SharePoint. I noticed on some of my servers, that I was receiving an entry similar to the one below in my... Posted Apr 17 2008, 11:02 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS

• How to: Add a Group to a Site Collection

  As you may know SharePoint has its own internal security groups that you can map Active Directory users and groups into. This lets you create custom security groups without having to store them in Active Directory. This is not always a best practice but... Posted Mar 31 2008, 03:44 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error

• Help! My SearchBox Web Part won't Submit

  I have caused this to happen a number of times and the answer isn't obvious at first, so I thought I would post on it and explain what causes it and how to fix it. The behavior usually occurs for me when I am deploying a SearchBoxEx web part via a... Posted Feb 28 2008, 02:12 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• BDC: Could not create profile page for Entity

  I have seen quite a few searches for this warning in our stats, so I thought I would address the following message received when importing an application definition into the Business Data Catalog. Could not create profile page for Entity MyEntity. The... Posted Feb 27 2008, 08:53 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Business Data Catalog

• SPSqlDataSource: This control does not allow connection strings with the following keywords: ‘Integrated Security’, ‘Trusted_Connection’.

  I ran into this one again lately when deploying. We are folowing best practices with our connection strings by using Integrated Security. We have several controls on the web site making use of SqlDataSource controls. However, at runtime, we are left when... Posted Feb 11 2008, 10:28 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error, ASP.NET

• COMException (0x81020037): The file blah.docx has been modified by domain\user.

  I was working on an ItemEventReceiver the other day and ran into this lovely unmanaged exception. Luckily, the fix is easy, because I knew exactly what I had done wrong. I noticed there wasnt a ton out there on Google about it, so I figured I would post... Posted Feb 05 2008, 08:37 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error

• Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor

  This error has been pissing me off for a long time. I have an environment that works great for remote debugging most of the time. However, every couple of days when I show up for work, I encounter the following error. Unable to connect to the Microsoft... Posted Jan 31 2008, 09:22 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: Error, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Remote Debugging

• The DataSourceID of 'TopNavigationMenu' must be the ID of a control of type IHierarchicalDataSource. A control with ID 'topSiteMap' could not be found.

  Today's topic is how to resolve the following error. The DataSourceID of 'TopNavigationMenu' must be the ID of a control of type IHierarchicalDataSource. A control with ID 'topSiteMap' could not be found. Go ahead, search Google for... Posted Dec 05 2007, 02:32 PM by C-Dog's .NET Tip of the Day Filed under: SharePoint, Error, Code Access Security