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GUI for STSADM

03-Apr-09

Are you tired of using the command-line version of STSADM? Then, download STSADMWin, the GUI for the powerful command line utility STSADM, from here .
I found STSADMWin a very helpful tool. It lists all the STSADM commands in dropdown, and as you select a command, all the parameters for the command show up. You won’t [...]

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Creating CAB files using MakeCab.exe

02-May-08

If you are working with Sharepoint or Infopath sometime you need to use makecab.exe, it is a command line utility to create cab files from Microsoft. You can use makecab utility from command prompt.
Command line output from MakeCab/?

MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] [/L dir] source [destination]
MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] /F directive_file [...]
source  – File [...]

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Displaying ASP.Net error pages in WSS

13-Nov-07

Normally while developing applications in WSS, if any error occured, the WSS will give it’s own error page, and it contains nothing much information about the error, like unexpected error occured. To enable to view the ASP.Net error page we need to modify the web.config in the Root directory. Change the customErrors mode from “On” [...]

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"Object reference" error while deploying webpart using VS 2005

12-Nov-07

Today, while deploying webpart to our WSS 3.0 server we got some funny errors like object reference not set to an instance of an object. The team got stuck in there for more than 3 hours. After lot of googling we found it is because of missing some entries in the WSS Content Database. To [...]

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Which w3wp.exe process belongs to which App Pool in IIS6

09-Nov-07

While debugging webparts , event handlers etc. in sharepoint we may need to attach the w3wp.exe. But the real problem is that to identify which w3wp.exe is for the sharepoint webpage we are trying to debug?, there may be two more w3wp.exe processes. In that time we can attach the two w3wp.exe processes it will [...]

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