Ritu's Tech World

Few days back i was exploring about new improvements and features in SharePoint 2010. I came across a very good article about setting up Managed Metadata service application here

You can easily dispaly your own HTTP 404 Page Not found Error page for each of your SharePoint Web Application. A custom Error page can be associated with each Web Application in SharePoint and you can redirect the 404 error page to your own specified error page. SharePoint has it's error Pages stored at this location: 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\ERRORV4.html 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\sps404.html The one we need is the sps404.html. If you open this page you will see: STSNavigate("/_layouts/spsredirect.aspx?oldurl="+ requestedurl); Here spsredirect.aspx is the Error page currently used by sharepoint. So what we need to do is, first make a copy of the sps404.html, rename it - in my case mscom404.html and save it at the same location (14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033).Now in the STSNavigate replace spsredirect.aspx with your own aspx page. The url in STSNavigate should be a properly working url, then only the redirection will work. as you can see in the code above, i'm placing my e

while working in VS2010 and creating SharePoint Content Types using CAML, i came accross an interesting issue. the issue was that when creating a content type, it was not showing up in the Site content Types page. Then after struggling a lot and almost exploring all the properties available, i found that there is a property called "Overwrite" and setting it's value to "True" i.e. Overwrite=True, makes the content type available in the Site Content Types Page.

There is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 called "Ratings" which means you can rate any item (Audio, video image..etc.) in a library. this feature comes activated in "Team Site" but for a Publishing site, you need to manully enable this feature. The feature does not show up in the list, it is a hidden feature. You need to enable it from Power Shell (SharePoint 4.0 Mangement Console). Here is how you turn it on for a publishing site: enable - spfeatureid - "915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3" - url " ". Then in order to rate an item in the library, go to the library settings and click Ratings Settings. in "Allow items in this list to be rated" select yes .

recently i got to know about the SharePoint's Tracing service. Tracing Service is used by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to manage trace output. Tracing is usually needed to debug things in SharePoint....if you are not actively and regularly debugging things, you may not need this and can stop the service, as the logs occupy a significant size on the system (.....in GB's). Read more ..

W hile trying to access WCF service into my Silverlight application, i came accross "Cross-Domain" policy issue. As i'm new to WCF service, i didn't know that an access policy file is required. By default, Silverlight supports calls to Web services on the same domain or site of origin. Same domain means that calls must use the same sub domain, protocol, and port. This is for security reasons and prevents cross-domain forgery. You can enable Web services to be called by a Silverlight application in another domain by deploying a Web service that uses the correct cross-domain policy file at the root of the domain. You need to add this crossdomain.xml file to the root of IIS hosted service directory. Read more about Cross-Domain policy here .