After my botched Windows 8 install, I decided to go back to Ubuntu. I still would like to figure out a solution with Windows on this laptop so that I could use it for work but right now having linux is better. I decided to document some of the issues I ran into in case I need them later.

My team has recently created quite a few awesome WCF services that can surface data via REST or JSON. The next step, was building an interface on top of the services using AJAX.

Since the services were hosted on a SharePoint farm, it is super easy to just upload an HTML file into a document library and start coding away. However, eventually this process breaks down; I needed a way to deploy these files to different environments and keep them in some sort of version control system. (No, a document library doesn’t count as version control)

Imagine you work for a large company that uses Microsoft Project Server. Since you have many employees, having MSP sync individual permissions for every user to every site is simply not scalable. Instead, you’d like to use some Active Directory groups that are already set up to manage permissions in the workspace.

So you disable the workspace permissions sync in PWA:

1. Navigate to PWA
2. Click Server Settings
3. Click Project Workspace Provisioning Settings
4. Validate that the “Workspace Permissions” checkbox is unchecked

Then, perhaps you write some code that is wrapped up in a nice SharePoint feature to manage setting up the permissions yourself. Everything works great….

… until you start getting reports that some user’s permissions aren’t quite right for some project sites.

I ran across a strange error while deploying a very simple DLL. It contained only one class; a web services proxy class to the Lists SharePoint web service that I generated using the wsdl tool. Here is the error:

Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1).

error CS2001: Source file ‘C:\WINDOWS\TEMP_zm3ve2y.0.cs’ could not be found

error CS2008: No inputs specified

I was writing a little web services app to help delete individual permissions from a site and thought about trying XPATH on the result to get what I needed. I had some trouble so thought I’d put together a small example for later reference.

Quick update to SPUtility.js today! I’ve added support for rich text fields, unchecking multi-select checkboxes, and choice fields with fill-in values. I also have some thoughts on future SPUtility.js updates.

Version 0.5 of SPUtility.js has been released onto the codeplex site! Go check it out!

After recently doing a lot of work heavily customizing NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx for a SharePoint list, I ran into a major issue after I moved my list into a publishing site. The issue appeared when I added a webpart onto my EditForm.

SPUtility.js version 0.4 should be getting released soon (week or so??). I wanted to put a quick post out there to highlight some of the upcoming features and fixes.