Code Over Easy

  • How to fail your consumer.

    How to fail your consumer.

    I must be in a bit of a ranting mode this week, but I couldn’t get past this one. So I’m implementing a web based calendar for a client.  I decide to use a fairly normal jQuery plugin called FullCalendar.  For the most part, it works as you’d expect. Query a list of events.  Render […]

  • For the love of Pete make your error message meaningful!

    While debugging some custom SharePoint code (not written by me, mind you) today I ran in to this little gem: Cannot complete this action. Please try again. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.MapUrlToListAndView(String bstrUrl, String bstrUrlToMap, Guid& pgListId, Guid& pgViewId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetListFromWebPartPageUrl(String pageUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetListFromUrl(String pageUrl) at MyWebPart.EventCalendars.EventCalendars.GetCalendarUrl(Uri current, Uri referrerUri) at MyWebPart.EventCalendars.EventCalendars.CreateChildControls() Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company. […]

  • Studying for MS Exam 70-480

    This month I have been studying to take the Microsoft certification exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with Javascript and CSS3. The first resource I leveraged was Microsoft Virtual Academy and the freely available online video course presented by Jeremy Foster and Michael Palmero.  It did provide a cursory overview of the topics in the exam, though in the context of Windows 8 […]

  • Migration for site failed: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

    An unexpected error while converting a SharePoint web application to Claims Authentication revealed an unexpected cause.

  • Locked file in SharePoint Configuration Cache

    This post will deal with all of the following fantastic error messages: Access to the path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\<guid>\<guid>.xml is denied. File system cache monitor encountered error, flushing in memory cache: System.IO.InternalBufferOverflowException: Too many changes at once in directory:C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\ It all began for me when attempting to do a routine clearing of the SharePoint configuration cache in the […]