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Fixed: Sharepoint 2010 The timer job for this operation has been created, but it will fail because the administrative service for this server is not enabled

30 November 2011 |

I was using installing WSPs and I got this error Error The timer job for this operation has been created, but it will fail because the administrative service for this server is not enabled. If the timer job is sched uled to run at a later time, you can run the jobs all at once using stsadm.exe - o execadmsvcjobs. To avoid this problem in the future, enable the Microsoft Shar ePoint Foundation administrative service, or run your operation through the STSA DM.exe...

Install SharePoint 2010 Language Pack on windows 7

29 November 2011 |

  Download first download language pack from this link http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3411   Extracting the Package to extract the package open command prompt  and navigate to the folder that has the package and then type in ServerLanguagePack.exe /extract:c:\FolderName where FolderName is where you want the extracted files to be Modify package configurations we need to modify package configuration file to skip the check for windows 2008 to do that navigate to c:\FolderName\Files\Setup\ and open this file Config.xml ...

Problems running SharePoint 2010 Configurations Wizards for the first time

27 November 2011 |

  I Just installed SharePoint on my machine now and I got two consecutive errors the first one was   Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel An exception of type System.IO.FileNotFoundException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.   and the fix was to install this package Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu From the URL http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17331   and the second problem was Failed to call GetTypes on assembly Microsoft.Office.Server.Search ...

Android Splash Activity removed from history

20 November 2011 |

I usually have a splash activity either to load and prepare variables for execution or just to check for latest updates to the application and its data. I just don’t want the users to be able to click back on their mobiles and go back to that splash activity I looked at a lot of internet posts but this is the simplest I have added the noHistory Attribute to the splash activity in the manifest file 1: <activity ...

Convert Flash to HTML5 [Swiffy]

19 November 2011 |

Google has recently released Swiffy Swiffy is a tool that acts as a Flash extension and allows compiling your flash projects into HTML 5 files.     and then you can export the flash projecs instea of SWF to HTML   Download Link is here http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/extension.html   Google has also provided samples here including projects with action scripting Here you go check this link http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/gallery/example3.html

SQL Server Management Studio Row Limit

08 August 2011 |

    if you are tired of the limit of editing and selecting rows in Management studio this is how you can change it. from tools menu select options and this is how you can change it. know that loading a lot of rows affects the client machine memory to say the least not to mention locking rows in case of editing.

Switch URL to Youtube video, Switch URL to Hyperlink using c#

02 July 2011 |

a friend of mine (who is not a developer) has told me that facebook is somehow affiliated with youtube and his reason was that if you type a video URL in the post box in facebook it automatically appears as video it took me 10 minutes to build this demo, this demo takes a block of text “post text ” which presumably includes a youtube URL and turns it into a youtube video in a webpage   1: private const string FIND_URL_REGEX = "http://([\\w+?\\.\\w+])+([a-zA-Z0-9\\~\\!\\@\\#\\$\\%\\^\\&amp;\\*\\(\\)_\\-\\=\\+\\\\\\/\\?\\.\\:\\;\\'\\,]*)?"; ...

Test Mail Server [smtp4dev guide]

18 April 2011 |

during development it’s sometimes necessary to test sending an email, sometimes you need to know if there’s something wrong with your code or if it’s something that the adminsitrator needs to fix on the mail server. there’s an open source dummy mail server that you can use to check if the mail functionality is working, the utility just sits there in your system tray and pops up a balloon when it catches an email. and when you click on the balloon you can get a list of all...

Service msftesql was not found on Computer[CRM 4.0 Installation & SQL Server 2008]

09 April 2011 |

when installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on a SQL Server 2008 machine I get this error on the verification screen of CRM Service msftesql was not found on Computer <computer name> … there’s a simple fix for this problem, all you have to do is to allow CRM to update when the installer starts there’s also a KB that I wanted to include here

Run Indexing Service on windows 2008 (r2 also) [Service CiSvc was not found on computer]

08 April 2011 |

Microsoft indexing service has upgraded starting windows Vista release and the older indexing service has upgraded into the newer windows search service However the Indexing service can still be installed on newer versions of windows and here is how Server Manager Click Roles Click Add Roles Then you need to Select the File Services on the Server Roles Screen Click next and on the Role Services Screen select indexing service under windows server 2003 file servies  ...