While migrating my MCMS 2002 database to MOSS 2007 I experienced a hang situation in the export step. Even after a couple of hours no progress was visible. No CPU was used by any related process and no filesystem activities was visible. Finally I received a note from the product team that this is a […]
I’m currently preparing a migration of one of my MCMS 2002 databases to MOSS 2007. To achieve this I need to create a new web application that should work as destination for the generated MCMS website. While creating this site using the Create or extend Web application option I experienced a strange behavior: everything went […]
On my first attempt the creation of the config database failed with the following exception: Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The language is not supported on the server. —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8102005E): The language is not supported on the server. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.CreateSite(Guid gApplicationId, String bstrUrl, Int32 lZone, Guid gSiteId, Guid gDatabaseId, […]
I just tried to setup a new box with MOSS 2007. When running the setup program I noticed that I did not get prompted whether I would like to run the basic or the advanced setup. And on the Server Type screen all options except Stand-alone were grayed out: This was pretty anoying as my […]
Looking at the first MCMS book (Building websites using MCMS) we received one 4-star review and four 5-star reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews here. And I just saw that our second MCMS book (Advanced MCMS development) got three 5-star reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews here. And our 3rd book focusing on integrating MCMS with […]
As some of you might already heard of: Lim Mei Ying (MCMS MVP), Spencer Harber (MCMS MVP) and myself are currently working on a book that covers enhancing MCMS websites using ASP.NET 2.0 features. It will deal with all the glitches of properly installing MCMS with VS.NET 2005 and SQL 2005, known issues and for […]
As I dicussed earlier MCMS is not supported with Team Foundation Server. The reason is that the developer tools shipped with MCMS are incompatible with Team Foundation Server and raise an exception when items are checked in. This might be a significant design limitation for customers, so I spent some time to identify a workaround […]
[Via Somesegar] …we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework… Read more…
[Via Andrew Connell] Now if this isn’t just damn cool!!! On this site you can add content to VS 2005 documentation topics and edit contributions from other users. Our goal is to extend the documentation with code examples, tips and tricks, and other information that you add. And they’ve even added RSS feeds! MSDN Wiki […]
Although not officially supported, MCMS 2002 SP2 works fine with Web Parts as I outlined earlier. A couple of weeks ago Ali Mazaheri, a collegue from Microsoft Consulting Services contacted me to get some tips as he had to create a proof of concept for using ASP.NET Web Parts on MCMS template files. The requirements were […]
Ryan Donovan has posted a nice article with an explanation on the future of Commerce Server 2006 Integration with MCMS: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2006/03/03/543073.aspx
I have posted a solution for this problem in a subsection of this article but someone who is just looking on how to get AJAX working in general might not find it easily. The probem with AJAX is that the client does a silent postback from Javascript using the Microsoft.XMLHTTP COM object. This technique is […]
