If you made a developer machine for SharePoint on Windows 7 (x64), you must remember - run visual studio only "Run as administrator" even if your account is administrator for developing SharePoint solutions.

Or you can turn off ULC but I don't recomend it.

While testing SharePoint solution with SPLists I often need empty list. I'd like to have analog for "Truncate" in SQL, but there's nothing for SharePoint.

So I wrote a short PowerShell script for deleting all items in SharePoint List. Here it is (read more...)

I found very nice extender for Ditto Modx.

When using snippet Ditto with custom page Ids, you have strange sorting - I haven't even understood which one.

For sorting documents as you write in &documents=`[x, xx, xxx, xxxx]` you shoul use the ditto-extender below.

Write Ditto callout this way:

[[Ditto? &tpl=`razdel200` &documents=`[1,4,3,5,212,23,44]` &extenders=`customsort`  ]]

You should save file "customsort.extender.inc.php" in assets/snippets/ditto/extenders/

<?php

if (!function_exists('customsort'))
{
function customsort($a, $b)
{
$pos_a=array_search($a['id'],$GLOBALS['documents']);
$pos_b=array_search($b['id'],$GLOBALS['documents']);

if ($pos_a == $pos_b)
{
return 0;
}
return ($pos_a < $pos_b)?-1:1;
}
}

$GLOBALS['documents']=explode(',',$documents);
$orderBy["custom"][] = array ("id", "customsort");
$ditto->advSort = true;

?>

Then documents are in the order you needed.

I have added a solution for Sharepoint 2010 with PowerShell and wanted to install it. But While installing a solution I got an error:

Install-SPSolution : Admin SVC must be running in order to create deployment timer job. (read more...)

Today I tried to delete a SharePoint site (SPWeb) with child sites inside. I tried to delete it form administrator interface but I got an error. Something was wrong with templates or site structure. So I decided to use PowerShell for SharePoint. (read more...)

Today while coding a Sharepoint timer job I needed to clean my SPList.

I tried common ways of deleting using "foreach" and "for i++ ..." but I got the error. I couldn't delete list and create it again in timer job because of custom views. As usually for SharePoint solution is not ordinary 🙂 (read more...)

While coding a solution to parse billings I needed to find first and last days in month. The first day is easy - just set "01" for day. But for last day there is nice solution, hope it'll help you

   DateTime today = DateTime.Today;
   DateTime endOfMonth = new DateTime(today.Year, today.Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1);

My name is Alexey. I have two kids - Mark and Marta.

I'm a web developer and administrator. Besides my job I sometimes make different sites, but most of  my time I spend with my kids. I like to make their photos because my kids very nice.