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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization: BCS + WCF

I'm here because I'm trying to implement a scenario of user profile synchro with bcs connecting to wcf service. Here is the context: A remote web service is returning a full list of employee infos. ...
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How to submit data from repeatable table in infopath form to a sharepoint list?

I have a infopath form created from a sharepoint list content type. In this form I need to add a repeatable table to send data to another sharepoint list. So when people submit this form the original ...
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Custom Web Service not cannot find User

I have created a Custom Web Service for my .NET application that performs various functions against a Sharepoint 2010 site. I use a standard function to run each function as an impersonated user (so ...
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WCF: SPWeb.Update() throws NullReferenceException (eventually)

We have a custom WCF based service for automating some common tasks within our SharePoint 2007 environment. There is an issue with a piece of code that modifies the title of a SharePoint web. The ...
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How to consume custom WCF service hosted in Sharepoint 2010 from outside in C#?

I've this WCF web service hosted inside a Sharepoint 2010 web application. This service is created using the following factory: ...
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How to properly call an external WCF Service from SharePoint?

I would like to call an external WCF Service from within SharePoint 2010. Using normal WCF calls immediately causes a SocketException (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host), ...
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Int type as Entity key into BCS Model

The BCS Model can't create a form for the "Update" operation if the key of Entity has a type of uint, int, long or ulong when I use WCF as a data source. It works fine with the string type. Does ...
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Call SharePoint WCF web service protected by claims based authentication

I'm using SharePoint 2010 as a document store for a front-end .NET application. The SharePoint farm is using Claims Based Authentication. I want to call a WCF web service on the farm with a ...
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Calling WCF Service from a workflow in Sharepoint Online

Is there any way to call a WCF service from a sharepoint online workflow (Sandboxed Solution)? I have looked up quite a few samples but they all seem to use farm solutions which is obviously not an ...
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ScriptManager ServiceReference in SharePoint

I have always used jQuery.ajax to retrieve data from listdata.svc or lists.asmx in SharePoint and from some custom web services. Now I will try Microsoft Ajax Library and especially ServiceReference ...
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SharePoint Takes 15 Seconds to Load Page

I've got a problem with my SharePoint 2010 farm and I can't think where to start. Bizzarly, this is happening in multiple completly seperate environments (DEV/TEST/PREPROD/PROD). Every so often ...
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Is it possible to configure a WCF Rest Service in SharePoint?

I'm trying to make a WCF Rest service inside SharePoint. I'm using webHttpBinding as the binding and "WebGet" attributes on my service methods. I deployed in a standard web application and it worked ...
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Get content of Multi-Line text field in Sharepoint 2010 Data Services

I am using listdata.svc service to retrieve data from Sharepoint 2010 I have a List and it has a Multi-Line text field which has append option on. when you append text to multi-line text field, it ...
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Is SPContext.Current Supposed to Be null in Custom WCF Service?

Here is the scenario: Custom WCF Service deployed in SharePoint 2010 Site is using Claims Based authentication (FBA, NTLM) .svc is deployed to ISAPI in the hive Service is configured using custom ...
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WCF Service Endpoint not found (but service operations work OK)

Here is my problem: Does anybody know how to configure a WCF service hosted in Sharepoint to show standard WCF welcome page (the one with description and a link to wsdl)? I want to underline that I ...
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REST API + Expand Recurring Calendar Events?

Is there a way using the REST API (through javascript) to expand recurring calendar items? Or is there a helpful client side utility to assist with this?
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Should this be a sandboxed solution?

My company outsourced the creation of a SharePoint WebPart for connecting to our cloud service. The WebPart connects to our service by using our REST API. When configuring the WebPart you supply ...
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Posting JSON to a REST WCF endpoint in Sharepoint using cksdev

http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/sharepoint-2010-access-wcf-service-with.html?showComment=1323864446083#c4340503928745769810 has an example of using JQuery Ajax to GET or POST to ...
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BDC Entity with TypeDescriptor System.String[] gives errors when crawling

Is it possible to crawl a BDC content source with an entity that has a property of type string array (System.String[])? At one point I had this working successfully in my dev environment but it ...
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What WCF Binding is required for HTTPS in SharePoint

I currently have the following WCF Binding. The web service is being called from a SharePoint Application Page using AJAX.Net. Anonymous Access is turned off from within Central Administration. ...
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Error while referring “/_vti_bin/ListData.svc”

While trying to refer "ListData.svc" service in my VS.NET WinForm project, I am getting an error The HTML document does not contain Web service discovery information. Metadata contains a reference ...
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External List from External Content Type: missing and/or error

I've created an ECT w/ Read List and Read Item operations using SharePoint Designer, saved it, and given myself permissions. The ECT's external data source is a WCF service. When I try to create an ...
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Connecting to WCF service from SharePoint

I have a WCF service that lives on another server that I am trying to connect to from an EventReciever in a SharePoint 2010 feature. I have gone through all the hoops of configuring the feature in ...
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Custom WCF service - namespace location problem

I created a custom web service in my sharepoint using CSKDev template. Everything looks good when I'm testing my service locally. But problems came up when I decided to test it on our sample farm with ...
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Problem with WCF Web Service in SP2010

I've followed this tutorial and also this one (tried every possible combination of those) to deploy a custom WCF service in Sharepoint 2010. But I'm not having any luck. Once the service is deployed, ...
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SP2010, Odata, anonymous access

Is anonymous access to listdata.svc possible? I'm trying to just simply get list items and display them using json but I either get asked to login or a 401 unauthorized. It's a claims based site ...
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SharePoint hosted WCF service: file uploads

I want to host a custom WCF service in SharePoint 2010. In the service, I have a method which accepts a byte array for sending files. The file is then processed by some custom logic and stored as an ...
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WCF Service @ SharePoint 2010 TimeOut

I have been developing on SP 2010 for a while now. Mostly I have been working with the Client Object Model. Though I am at a point where I need to read out the UserProfiles from inside SharePoint. ...
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Impersonation in a net.tcp WCF-service in a claims based/Kerberos solution

I have tried to keep this as short as possible, dont hesitate if you want more details. Im trying to get impersonation (of calling user) to work over a net.tcp WCF-Service in a Sharepoint ...
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Dynamically connect to any Service Reference

This is a WCF project. The idea is to use this WCF Service as a "go-between" between my ASP.NET site and SharePoint. This way I avoid CAML in the ASP.NET site and it keeps all of the code that ...
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WCF Data Source within SPD

I have had considerable trouble adding a WCF 4.0 application as a data source within SharePoint Designer. I am able to connect to the WCF service as a SOAP Service Connection and find the available ...
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merge two lists with WCF Services and Linq

How do I merge two lists when using REST services? You can't use union with linq and dataservicequery so I'm not sure where to go. The following doesn't work with dataservicequery... var docQuery = ...
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How to get list data using ListData.SVC in Silverlight Application?

I am “not” looking for solution which uses webrequest to get xml from listdata.svc. I am "not” looking for clientcontext ( since Silverlight app will be deployed to the different server where ...
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WCF service request limit

I have setup a WCf service in my project using this tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff521581.aspx However, I'm POSTing lots of byte[] data to the service tocreate a file. I ...
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Is it possible to use spquery in WCF for sharepoint

I created custom wcf that retrieve items from the list. Is it possible to use spquery within the wcf to filter the list items
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WCF end point not deploying to ISAPI folder

I have Site level Feature. I have created a mapped a SharePoint folder to ISAPI. I have added a folder (myfolder) into the ISAPI folder. I have created a .svc (endpoint.svc) file and a web.config file ...
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How to create an external data source based on a Web Service?

Can you please advise me "How to create an external data source based on a Web Service"? Usually WCF can be a data source, but I am not strong on WCF. Could I use the existing web service as an ...
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Ideal way to Secure Custom Application

We are developing an application which is going to do some CRUD operations for a couple lists and offer our customers to download files. We are using REST services as well as Sharepoint Web Services. ...
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Create an item (with Choice/User Fields) using Sharepoint Data Services

I am using Sharepoint 2010 Data Services to create items on a table. My table has a column called Priority which has High, Medium, and Low items in it. When I try to create an item in this table ...
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External wcf (Soap/rest) datasource to external content type

I'm looking for a way to use an external datasource (WCF SOAP or REST) and include the results in a list. Using the External Content Type directly for a WCF service does not work, as I get a XML error ...
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How to deploy a WCF Service in a specific web application

created my WCF Service in my local machine, now I have to deploy this to another server. I copied my dll and wsp files and try to add it to the other server using • Add-SPSolution c:\deploy\.wsp ...
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My custom WCF Service can only be access using http://<servername>:<port>/_vti_bin/myservice.svc

I've used the "Walkthrough: Creating and Implementing a Custom WCF Service in SharePoint Foundation" from MSDN to create my cusom WCF Service and deploy to my Sharepoint 2010 server. The wsp is ...
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Server-Related problem when using WCF to communicate with sharepoint

I have a simple get list method for sharepoint /// <summary> /// Returns a list of sharepoint lists /// </summary> /// <returns>A list of sharepoint ...
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How can I host WCF services in _vti_bin?

I am converting a feature from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. Part of my project is to convert my feature from the old style manifest, ddf, makecab method to the newer Visual Studio SharePoint ...
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Could not find endpoint element with name '' and contract '' in the ServiceModel client configuration section

I have tried days to solve this damn error. I am calling the same service in asp.net and it works fine, but when I call it in a sharepoint solution it does not work. This is the error that I receive. ...
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Why WCF service does not work in sharepoint web part?

I have created a web service using WCF which gets the data from SQL into sharepoint. I have hosted it in IIS. It works fine when I call the service in the browser. I can see the wsdl. I used an ...
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Override a WCF Data Services CSDL

I'm dealing with an issue with a SharePoint 2010 Hosted WCF Data Services. So Keep in mind that i'm restricted to work with .NET 3.5. In order to generate the CSDL endpoint for descripting my ...
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Get SPWeb from SPContext in WCF hosted on SharePoint

I have created and deployed a WCF service in SharePoint and I am sending requests using JQuery. Every thing is working fine except for sub sites. Lets say I have these two service URLs: - ...
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TaxonomyField not updating

I have a little function that updates a taxonomy field on a listitem. It does work when I call it from the SharePoint site, but If I call it from a WCF service (built on top of SharePoint's WCF ...
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Create a new SharePoint Site using WCF instead of Sites.asmx - CreateWeb

I am trying to ascertain whether there is a WCF equivalent of the CreateWeb method in the sites.asmx Web Service to be able to create a new SharePoint site. I was under the impression that the ...

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