SharePoint 2010 Tip of the day – stsadm command for activating the developer dashboard

I don't think I'll be able to keep it in my memory since we only need to do it once per environment so here's the magic command as a reminder.

stsadm -o setproperty -pn developer-dashboard -pv OnDemand

SharePoint 2010 Tip of the day – New Profile Picture Storage (and retrieval) mechanism

Unlike the 2007 edition where the picture was stored on each user "my site", they are now hosted in a central library "User Photos" under your mysite url

So in order to access this repository, just point your browser to :
http://sharepoint2010/my/User%20Photos/Forms/AllItems.aspx (adapting the computer name / domain to your needs obviously)

Like all pictures libraries, uploaded images are resized in 3 dimensions (large, medium, small) and you can access a specific picture by using the url above with something like

"http://sharepoint2010/my/User%20Photos/{0}_{1}_{2}Thumb.jpg"  where {0} is the domain name, {1} is the login name and {2} is the requested size (L, M or S).

Now I need to find a way to retrieve the my site application url (from a sandbox solution, that will be … fun !)

François

SharePoint 2010 Tip of the day : Don’t forget to do a full crawl to be able to search / find the freshly imported profiles (from your AD or other source)

I had a very hard time this morning configuring the profile synchronization in SharePoint 2010 (damn, that thing is really fragile) but now my profiles are imported correctly from Active Directory.
I used a People Core Search Result webpart in my site collection and I was unable to retrieve any profile regarding of the settings that I used … Turned out that a full crawl was needing to harvest all profiles

If someone can explain me what's behind SPS3 and the "site$$$people" stuff that have been found by the crawler, I would be more than glad to know !

Reminder : Auto logon in Windows 2008 Server

• Click Start, and then click Run.
• In the Open box, type Regedt32.exe, and then press ENTER.
• Locate the following subkey in the registry:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon
• Double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type your user name, and then click OK.
• Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type your password, and then click OK.NOTE: If the DefaultPassword value does not exist, it must be added. To add the value, follow

  these steps:

  1. On the Edit menu, click New, and then point to String Value.
  2. Type DefaultPassword, and then

     press ENTER.

  3. Double-click DefaultPassword.
  4. In the Edit String dialog, type your password and then click OK.

  NOTE: If no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows automatically

  changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon key from 1 (true) to 0 (false), disabling the AutoAdminLogon

  feature.

• On the Edit menu, click New, and then point to String Value.
• Type AutoAdminLogon, and then press

  ENTER.

• Double-click

  AutoAdminLogon.

• In the Edit String dialog box, type 1 and then click OK.

SharePoint 2010 Tip of the day : What to do when you are unable to publish PowerPoint to a slide library ?

• Go to Start->Administrative Tools->Server Manager
• In Server manager Click on Features and the click Add Features
• Select the Desktop Experience Feature and install it. Then Restart the Server (Required for installation of the feature)
• Go to Start->Administrative Tools->Services
• Select the Web Client Service and Start it.

Many thanks to Anshul who figured this out !

C# tip of the day – How to Bind Enum Types to a bindable control in ASP.NET

Let's take a simple color enum : 

public enum eColor

{

   black, 

   white, 

   blue

}

In order to bind it a drop down list : 

ddlAvailableColors.DataSource = Enum.GetNames(typeof(eColor));

ddlAvailableColors.DataBind();

And to get the value back : 

eColor selectedColor = (eColor)Enum.Parse(ddlAvailableColors.SelectedValue); 

Sweet isn't it ?