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If you are trying to create Sharepoint 2007 Workflow project and receiving error message:

“A 32-bit version of SharePoint Server is not installed. Please install a 32-bit version of SharePoint Server” then try this solution.

1. Install the following:
   • SharePoint Server 2007 SDK and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK - The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software development kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
   • Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint ver 1.2 or  ver 1.3 – this addin provides developers with support for building workflow-enabled applications using Windows Workflow Foundation. Compatible with the released versions of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Windows Vista, and the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components
2. Create a new Workflow project with STSDEV or create template Workflow project by yourself according to this tutorial.

References:

1. sharepointbuzz
2. stackoverflow
3. blah!blah!BLOG!!

Development HowTo, Problems, SharePoint, VS2008, Workflows

Add following code to file: FCKEditor\editor\fckeditor.html

window.onload = function()
{
  // 25-11-2008 Han:  Fixing the issue with the backbutton, when the back/forward button is hit then the html to display is
  // still HTMLEncoded which will cause the control to display html control sequences in the editor.
  // The easiest solution is probably to always htmldecode the value before it is beaing displayed in the editor, this can be done
  // using the statement below.
  // FCK.LinkedField.value=FCKTools.HTMLDecode(FCK.LinkedField.value);
 
  FCK.LinkedField.value=FCKTools.HTMLDecode(FCK.LinkedField.value); // THIS LINE
 
  InitializeAPI(); // existing code line
  .......
}

After adding the code line you will have to make sure that the javascript is downloaded to the client, so in your browser delete the local files ( tools->internet options->delete files).

And then it should all work as expected.

Source: FCKEditor forum

Development FCKEditor, HTML Editors, Problems

• SecurityTrimming doesn’t  work with Menu control and when Windows authentication is used. Menu becomes invisible or only root node is visible.

Create root node as

<siteMapNode url=”home.aspx” title=”Home” roles=”*”>.

If it still doesn’t work try to add roles attribute to other siteMapNodes.

• How to refresh an UpdatePanel using JavaScript?

Use __doPostBack() method in JavaScript code:

function someFunction ()
{
 
__doPostBack('UpdatePanel1', '');
 
// or try this if code above doesn't work:
// __doPostBack('<%= UpdatePanel1.ClientID %>', '');
 
}

Development AJAX, asp.net, JavaScript, Problems

Error: The specified metadata path is not valid. A valid path must be either an existing directory, an existing file with extension ‘.csdl’, ‘.ssdl’, or ‘.msl’, or a URI that identifies an embedded resource.Source: forums.microsoft.com

ADO.NET Entity Framework

OS: Vista x64

Platform: VS 2008

The catch is that apparently the designers are not supported on 64-bit machines. You should copy two files from %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5 to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5:

• Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll
• Microsoft.Data.Entity.targets

then restart Visual Studio and rebuild your solution.

Tools ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Problems, Visual Studio 2008

Error: The selected file is not a valid solution file.

Platform: VS 2008

Description: When one trying to use VisualSourceSafe 2005 with VisualStudio 2008 one get above error.

Solution:

• First install Visual Source Safe 2005 Update CTP
• Next run as administrator the following command: regsvr32 “%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\tdnamespaceextension.dll”

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/richardb

Tools Problems, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008