Category Archives: sharepoint

“Access denied” when trying to create a new application on WSS (Sharepoint) 3.0

Today morning I installed WSS 3.0 on my Vista Machine. The installation was successfully completed and I was able to login to the central administration page. But when I clicked the Create New Application link, the WSS is asking for … Continue reading

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GUI for STSADM

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, … Continue reading

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Creating CAB files using MakeCab.exe

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 … Continue reading

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Displaying ASP.Net error pages in WSS

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 … Continue reading

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"Object reference" error while deploying webpart using VS 2005

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 … Continue reading

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