Below is a quick fix, which allows RIA service to be consumed as a WCF Service.

Add the following in your end point on RIA Host Service. You will need to have the latest version of RIA Services installed.

<endpoints>        <add name="OData" type="System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting.ODataEndpointFactory, System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting.OData, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />      </endpoints>

Also add Reference to Microsoft.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting in RIA Web project.

Happy Coding!

This was because javascript was conflicting with COGNOS js scripts and below is a quick fix.

Put the below code in your HTML code.

var $x = jQuery.noConflict();
$x(document).ready(function () {
//$x(“”);
});
All your jquery manipulation needs to use “$x” as prefix.

Hope this helps!

I also made sure that all the prerequisites are installed, but during the Sharepoint configuration wizard, I got

Failed to register SharePoint services.
An exception of type System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.
System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.

It happened while registering “SharePoint Foundation Search V4″ and “Sharepoint Server Search 14″. The log file, which wizard refers to is not really that helpful!

After trying couple of times with no luck, I just changed the user name under which the service runs from “Local Services” to “Local System” and also starting the services, while the wizard was running.  Just make sure that you start the service while the wizard is still running and is on Step 5.

This fixed the problem..

Good luck!!

I won’t go in details of how to adding and deploying new custom page layouts using feature,  but you can refer here for it :

http://blogs.msdn.com/syedi/archive/2008/08/01/custom-site-definition-for-collaboration-portal-template-sharepoint-2007-wow-moss.aspx
http://spreflections.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/deploy-master-page-and-page-layout-as-a-feature/

Once you have a added a custom page layout, you don’t want the user to pick from any sharepoint built-in page layouts.

To achieve that functionality you can mark those layout types to be hidden on the feature activation code. As all the page layouts are item in a list which is source controlled via sharepoint you will need to check out the file and then only update the “Hidden Page” attribute.

here is how you can ahcieve it.


using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
SPList list = web.Lists["Master Page Gallery"];
foreach (SPListItem item in list.Items)
{
//Note that if your page layout's content type needs to be different
if (item["Associated Content Type"] != null && (item["Associated Content Type"].ToString().IndexOf("Article Page") != -1
|| item["Associated Content Type"].ToString().IndexOf("Welcome") != -1))
{
item.File.CheckOut();
item["Hidden Page"] = "True";
item.Update();
item.File.CheckIn("");
}
}
list.Update();
web.Update();
}


now when the feature is activated, user will only be able to see custom page layouts.

Good luck!

With SWFUPload once the file is uploaded there is no actual implementation (i have come across ) to delete file once uploaded. I have implemented this using asp.net, but it wont be hard to convert that to different web technologies. In this implementation i have used jquery (http://jquery.com/) to handle delete file-function.

Some of the files are modified  for demostration purpose. You can enhance it accordingly. In this example i havn’t created any custom control to keep things simple, but there are many implementation of SWFUPload as asp.net custom control.

(fileprogress.js)

The logic is quite simple to delete the files. Once the files are uploaded setComplete function is invoked & in that, we will need to attach a DIV & an anchor tag for delete link.

(deletefile.ashx)

Attached are all the zip files created in VS.NET 2008.

• Handler.ashx is for uploading & checking if file exists
• deletefile.ashx for file deletion
• fileprogress.js modified for attaching deletion event
• handlers.js modifed for checking server response on file exists
• swfupload.js modified (FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS             : 300)
• swfupload.queue.js  not modified.

(default.aspx)

Download source code here

Recently i have been told to display our firm’s time entry in sharepointy calendar view.. First of all it sounded very interesting & still it is

It nearly took me an hour to get a hang of  SPCalendarView control provided by ms (thanks to http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=60). My main challenge was not to display data out for Sharepoint list, but integrate it with one of our core systems.  With SPCalendarView & SPCalendarItem its very easy to display data in a webpart format, but the problem happens, if you intend to use javascript in DisplayFormURL.

It will show you an error :

You must specify a server relative URL at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPCalendarItem.set_DisplayFormUrl(String value)

Googled for an hour but with no luck. So i tried to modified the Generated HTML of the Calendar View and hurray it worked!!!. Look at the Render function below which has all the modification. I haven’t use SPCalendarItem’s item.ItemID property, but you can customize it for your purpose.

When the Webpart is getting rendered, i replaced “/replace?ID” with my javascript string. You will also need to replace  — ONCLICK=”GoToLink(this);return false; with a blank string. This will prevent displaying the message “Invalid URL”

Look at the status bar in below mentioned images!.

If you had to open a new window (which i had to), when the user clicks on a particular item you can achieve it using the following lines.

//while adding a new item, you can improve the logic here, but this was just for testing.
item.DisplayFormUrl = "/replace/window.open("+ Page.Server.UrlEncode("'") + "item.aspx?time_uno=" + row["id"].ToString();

//when the rendering happens!

StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(textWriter);
calView.RenderControl(htmlWriter);
string replaced = htmlWriter.InnerWriter.ToString();
replaced =Page.Server.UrlDecode(replaced);
replaced = replaced.Replace("/replace/", "javascript:");
replaced = replaced.Replace("?ID=", "');");
replaced = replaced.Replace("ONCLICK=\"GoToLink(this);return false;\" target=\"_self\"", "");
replaced = replaced.Replace("onfocus=\"OnLink(this)\"","");
writer.Write(replaced);

So here it goes

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;

namespace TimeEntry
{
[Guid("a4e02451-4738-4adf-ab8f-36a27d81c813")]
public class TEViewer : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart
{
/// <summary>
/// Create all your controls here for rendering.
/// Try to avoid using the RenderWebPart() method.
/// </summary>
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
base.CreateChildControls();

/// <summary>
/// Clear all child controls and add an error message for display.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ex"></param>
private void HandleException(Exception ex)
{
this._error = true;
this.Controls.Clear();
this.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(ex.Message));
}
}
}