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How do you “stop” activating a feature within the feature receiver?
I have a feature receiver with some long running code, hence I use SPLongOperation and delegate for better visual appearance. Basically my feature receiver looks like so:
public override void ...
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Can't deploy Admin Approved Form Template using XSNFeatureReceiver in SharePoint 2010
I am trying to deploy an Administrator Approved InfoPath form template to SharePoint 2010 as a feature. I've done this lots of times in 2007 and never had an issue - but this will not play ball.
I ...
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How to handle web references becoming stale in a web feature activation
We have a number of web-scoped features all stapled to a site definition, so they are all activated in turn when a web is created from the definition.
It seems the feature receivers all share the ...
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Best method to create custom NewForm / EditForm
I am new to sharepoint development and need to create some custom NewForm/EditForms for a new custom list I am creating. It seems like I have two choices:
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Web Template - Receivers Not Firing
I have a custom web template used to provision site collections that activates features with onet.xml and is deployed as a farm solution. I've tried both feature receivers and event receivers (on ...
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FeatureActivated event receiver giving access denied when trying so set WebApplication property
When a Site event feature is activated I am trying to set some properties on the web application. My feature uses this value.
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties ...
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Feature Activation Logic (Prevent Activation)
I have three site collection features used to set branding throughout the site collection. I want to prevent the accidental activation of one of the features if one of the three is already activated; ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': <nativehr>0x80070002</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>
I have a feature. On the FeatureActivated event I am creating a list if it is not there. I also have an EventReceiver that in the elements.xml on the Receivers node has the attribute ListUrl. This is ...
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Is SPFeatureCollection.Add method asynchronous?
I have a quite complex application that is split into several features.
In order to hide this complexity, I set the IsHidden property of the feature to true, then have created a "master" feature. ...
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Error on feature activated property creation
Im trying to create custom properties on feature activated event, but it doenst work, does anyone has any suggestion, what the problem could be?
When i do a console application and try there my code ...
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How to catch the feature activate time
I am trying to write one program such that, when ever a feature is activated then it should display the activated time in the sharepoint list. for that i written following code.
public class ...
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SP2010 Reset all subsites to inherit masterpage using c#
I'm creating a site feature reciever which sets a custom master page on the root web. I would also like the master page set on the root to be inherit to all the subsites.
What is the most elegant way ...
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Will feature receiver get activate if user has no permissions to a site?
Here's what I need...User does not have access to a site (http://myserver/sites/MySite). When user tries to access they are redirected to ugly AccessDenied.aspx.
I was researching and found that ...
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Preventing alerts from being sent when programmatically updating list item
I have a feature receiver which batch updates a particular field / column in my list. Code is provided below.
NB: This is very simple list item batch processing code which I got from ...
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Why do I get a security validation invalid error updating a field from a feature receiver?
Trying to change the title field of a document library to be required..doesn't want to work.
SPList docLib = web.Lists["Process Aids"];
SPField field = docLib.Fields["Title"];
field.Title = "Display ...
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SPListCollection.EnsureSitePagesLibrary() throwing SPException (specified title already exists in this Web site)
I am attempting to call SPListCollection.EnsureSitePagesLibrary() upon FeatureActivated. The method is throwing the following exception:
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: A list, survey, ...
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SPWebConfigModification class will not update Central Admin application's web.config file
Using SharePoint 2010 I am trying to use the SPWebConfigModification class to make some basic changes to web.config files on applications in the farm, including the Central Administration web.config ...
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Event Receivers not added when installing wsp
I have a set of event receivers for a SharePoint 2010 content type and Library. Previously, these would install and automatically be activated when I ran a script to install the wsp solution. I dug ...
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failed to create receiver object from assembly sharepoint 2010
I have created two features and I want both use same receever class so I created a class MyFeatureReceiver (some where in project SP/MyRecievers/) which implements SPFeatureReceiver and has a ...
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Deploying webparts to default.aspx with a SiteDefinition feature dependency
I tried deploying a Site Definition with a custom default.aspx page.
Within the <WebFeatures> node of the Site Definition's Onet.xml I tried to reference a Feature which would get a web part ...
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How to rename a file in the 14 hive - edited-
I need to rename the user.aspx file in the 14 hive layouts directory in a feature event receiver. Is this possible ...if so...how?
OK - Bad idea....This is what i want to do: I have a custom ...
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The breakpoint will not currently be hit - debuging feature receiver
I need to debug my feature receiver, so I set up few breakpoints, but when I hit F5 in VS2010, they are all missed, and it says that "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been ...
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Visual Studio 2010 Workflows not associating with list
Probably a silly question: I have a vs2010 project with workflows in a site scoped feature. When i deploy through visual studio the workflows are associated with lists. However when i deploy ...
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Backup a file while custom feature activated?
We have a custom application page "custom.aspx" on the Layout folder, would like to rename the original file "custom.aspx" to "custom_bak.aspx" before the updated/modified custom application page ...
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SPWebConfigModification class not found?
Using Sharepoint 2010, I am trying to use the SPWebConfigModification class to add connection strings the the sharepoint's web.config.
My problem is that the class SPWebConfigModification is not ...
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Get current user in SPFeatureReceiver?
I am working on a web application-scoped feature which creates a site collection. I would like to set the person who activated the feature as site collection owner. To do that, I would have to either:
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Failed to load reciever assembly
me again =) ... I have issue during deployment. It throws: Failed to load reciever assembly ... I tried to GAC that assembly, also microsoft.office.sharepoint.clientextensions.dll and ...
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Delete page from the Site Pages library
Wondering if someone has the code to delete a page from the Site Pages library in a Feature Event Receiver on de-activation
TIA
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Add an <assembly> to web.config with SPWebConfigModification
I am trying to add an assembly to configuration/system.web/compilation/assemblies - but with the following code it I get Expression must evaluate to a node-set.
private SPWebConfigModification ...
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Feature Activated Event not triggered when creating a new sub site with web template
When I create a new site I have a Web Scoped FeatureActivated event that I would like to run. The feature does get Activated but the FeatureActivated event is not triggered.
The site is created with ...
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Perform a blob cache flush in a feature event receiver
I have a site collection scoped feature that should provision a css file to the "Style Library" of a site collection. The feature also performs cleanup of the file in the deactivation receiver.
I ...
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SPDispose check gives error
SPDispose gives error Disposable type not disposed Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite ***This may be a false positive depending on how the type was created or if it is disposed outside the current scope ...
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ContenTypes on List Definition not added
I've an ListDefinition with some references to existing Content Types (provided by CTH) but when the list is created the content types are not added.
elements.xml
<Elements ...
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How Do I Rename a List Instance's Field's StaticName in FeatureUpdating?
I am creating a custom WSP in Visual Studio. This solution has several custom content types with custom fields as well as a list instance with content types enabled. Unfortunately, i need to change ...
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removing a sharepoint solution duplicates entry in web.config?
My intentions is to be able to add and remove web.config changes when a solution is installed or uninstalled.
The code below and the powershell below works ALMOST as expected.
When I add sp ...
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Powershell Deployment - Enable-SPFeature Error
I get the following problem activating a feature in powershell:
Enable-SPFeature : The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: ...
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Disable Web-scoped features on Web deletion
I have a SPWeb ( http://example.com/site ), created used a custom web template, with several features activated on its scope.
When I delete the SPWeb it would be desirable that all the features ...
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Deleting Site Columns and Content Types Programmatically
I have a feature that adds two site columns to a content type on activation. On deactivation it's supposed to delete them, but I'm getting the following error:
"Site columns which are included in ...
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Programmatically set homepage in Sharepoint Foundation
I need to set the homepage to default.aspx in my FeatureActivated event receiver. I tried
rootWeb.RootFolder.WelcomePage = "default.aspx";
rootWeb.RootFolder.Update();
but that doesn't seem to be ...
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Error while activating custom feature
I have a wsp package installed as farm solution. package has event reciever on activating feature. When I go to Site Collection Features and activate this feature i get an error
Error
File ...
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How can I pass an argument to a FeatureReceiver during solution setup?
I have this Sharepoint 2010 solution containing 3 projects:
Class Library with Model classes
Class Library with LINQ to SQL data context
Sharepoint 2010 project
WCF REST service
3 Visual web parts
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Error while creating Event Receiver
This is Sample of my Code
SPList list = new SPSite(siteURL).OpenWeb().Lists[listName];
SPEventReceiverDefinitionCollection eventReceivers = list.EventReceivers;
SPEventReceiverDefinition ...
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Problem activating feature on child webs
I have a feature that is manually activated. In a feature receiver I also activate the feature on any child SPWebs in existence. I would like some code to run only on the SPWeb where the feature is ...
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Get deployed .aspx page in feature receiver to add WebPart
I have a SharePoint solution which deploys an aspx page in a custom folder in the Layouts folder. I need to get this page in the Feature Event Receiver so I can add to it a WebPart.
In the ...
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Cannot set the associated group from a feature receiver
In a feature receiver, I want to create group and set the associated owner group of the Web.
This feature is activated automatically from a custom site template (I think this the root of the problem).
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Failed to load receiver assembly, missing service recycle?
I'm activating a feature using PowerShell and every "once in a while" it fails with the error "Failed to load receiver assembly". It seems to be complaining because some service or application is ...
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Execute SPFeatureReceiver only on site creation
We have recently upgraded from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 and we aren't yet ready to train users on the new interface, so I've created a SPFeatureReceiver that will set the site template back to the 2007 ...
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How to test if page layout is in use
I have created a module with a few files that I update & delete via spfeature. Thing is if a page layout is in use I cannot delete it and it throws an error, even when inside a try{ }catch{} . How ...
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Unable to create Sub web Programmatically in Feature Receiver
I have write code in Feature Receiver to Create SubSite but while Feature is activating it returns the error
http://pc31:2000 contains illegal character ':'.
This is My Code where I got Error. ...
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how to remove a published content type from subscribed site collections
I have a small Visual Studio 2010 project with one farm level feature that I deploy to a site collection which is configured as my content type hub. The FeatureActivated event adds a site column and ...
