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Month: May 2011

Another reason smoking is bad

Another reason smoking is bad

Here’s another reason why smoking is bad (as if we need more reasons).  I was out walking my dog, and I always walk past a city bus stop.  Each day I walk by and am amazed at the number of extinguished cigarette butts people stuff in the sign post (through the holes) as they put their smoke out before getting on the bus.  Apparently, when you stuff a lot of flammable objects into a tightly contained area with exposure to…

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Visual Studio language support for C# not installed

Visual Studio language support for C# not installed

What?  I just get a new dev laptop (yeah, pretty proud myself, HP Pavilion dv7, triple-core i5, 6GB RAM, 640GB HD, 17.3″ display…) and I install VS 2008 and 2010, SQL, etc.  Start working on an existing website using VS 2008 and it says “Visual Studio language support for C# is not installed.  Code-editing Intellisense will not be available.  Markup Intellisense for server controls may not work”.  You gotta be kidding me… So I hit the googleverse and attempt to…

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SCSM Authoring Tool won’t install

SCSM Authoring Tool won’t install

I’ve been tasked with designing the end-user side of SCSM at our company, including building the web page users will use to submit helpdesk tickets and build the workflows behind the scenes. So I went to install the SCSM Authoring Tool on my Windows 7 box, and every time it would break in the same spot, telling me “VS Shell 2008 SP1 is not installed”. I followed the prerequisite list exactly and in order, yet it still told me this,…

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Bad webpart causing SharePoint site to break

Bad webpart causing SharePoint site to break

I ran across a discussioni online today (can’t recall where it was, unfortunately) that mentioned what to do when you put a SharePoint web part (2007 or higher) on a site and it breaks, or the web part itself is faulty. You’ll usually get an error page that you can’t get past. The solution is rather easy…append “?Contents=1” to the end of the site url. For example, if your site that you put the web part on is “http://server/path/site/subsite/SitePages/Home.aspx”, your…

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