Save site collection as template

/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx

it will create wsp file

Versioning of Visual Studio SharePoint Workflow

This article is copy of
Phil Wicklund'sbook of SharePoint Workflow

Thanks to him for solving biggest problem of Sharepoint State Machine Workflow.



You built this compelling Visual Studio workflow and deployed it into production.
But, after a few months, the business requests a small change to the workflow. You go
back into the workflow code, add a few activities to fulfill the request, and redeploy
the workflow into production. To your shock, all the workflows start breaking! You’re
frantic because you’re certain you adequately unit-tested the changes and can’t figure
out what might be going wrong. You didn’t version your workflow.
Workflow versioning is an important technique. When a workflow goes idle, the
state of the workflow is saved into the database. This saving of a workflow’s state is
called hydration. When the workflow resumes, the state is dehydrated out of the database,
and the workflow starts processing again. Versioning is important because, if you
change the assembly while the workflow is hydrated (saved in the database), there’s
no guarantee that, when the workflow is dehydrated, it will match the construct of the
new assembly. If it doesn’t match the construct upon deserialization, the workflow will
break. Changes like adding or removing activities and changing property values may
necessitate a new workflow version. The best practice is to create a new version every
time rather than deploying the assembly and crossing your fingers.
Think of a new workflow version as a new workflow. The basic technique is to
make your assembly increment the version number with each build (rather than leaving
it at 1.0.0.0 forever). Then, for each upgrade, you create a new feature for that
version of the workflow, pointing to the new assembly. You add the new assembly into
the global assembly cache (GAC) alongside the old assembly. Last, you specify that
the old version cannot start new instances of the workflow and then you add the new
workflow onto the list. This way, the old version of the assembly never changes, so
there’s no risk of hydrated workflows breaking when they are dehydrated. You deploy
another version of the assembly and add the new workflow to the list and disable previous
versions. You don’t want to remove the previous versions because that will
orphan those running instances. For the full set of procedures, follow the steps in
table below to create a new version for an existing workflow.

Add Custom button to SharePoint ribbon with server side code to execute

To add custom button to ribbon we will need to do below things:-

1.       Create SharePoint Empty Project.

2.       Add new “Empty Element”.

3.        Map Layout folder.

4.       Add One JS file to Layout folder.

5.       Add Application Page to same folder.

6.       Crete 2 logo images

Look at below solution Structure:-

 

Output:-

Custom button will be enabled only when item is selected:-

Code:-

Customize SharePoint Content Editor Web Part in VS 2012 classic webpart

1. Paste below code in cs file of classic web part(Not visual web Part)

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages;
namespace POC2012CEWP.MyClassicCEWP
{
    [ToolboxItemAttribute(false)]
    public class MyClassicCEWP : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart
    {
        private string _content;
        private HtmlGenericControl editableRegion = new HtmlGenericControl();
        private HtmlGenericControl emptyPanel = new HtmlGenericControl();
        private bool IsInEditMode
        {
            get
            {
                SPWebPartManager currentWebPartManager = (SPWebPartManager)WebPartManager.GetCurrentWebPartManager(this.Page);
                return (((currentWebPartManager != null) && !base.IsStandalone) && currentWebPartManager.GetDisplayMode().AllowPageDesign);
            }
        }
        protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnInit(e);
            if (this.IsInEditMode)
            {
                SPRibbon current = SPRibbon.GetCurrent(this.Page);
                if (current != null)
                {
                    current.MakeTabAvailable("Ribbon.EditingTools.CPEditTab");
                    current.MakeTabAvailable("Ribbon.Image.Image");
                    current.MakeTabAvailable("Ribbon.EditingTools.CPInsert");
                    current.MakeTabAvailable("Ribbon.Link.Link");
                    current.MakeTabAvailable("Ribbon.Table.Layout");
                    current.MakeTabAvailable("Ribbon.Table.Design");
                    if (!(this.Page is WikiEditPage))
                    {
                        current.TrimById("Ribbon.EditingTools.CPEditTab.Layout");
                        current.TrimById("Ribbon.EditingTools.CPEditTab.EditAndCheckout");
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Sharepoint designer Cannot perform this operation. The file is no longer checked out or has been deleted

"Cannot perform this operation. The file is no longer checked out or has been deleted."
 

 SharePoint Designer is out of sync with SharePoint and you have to delete its cache in order to rebuild it. The cache is composed of these 2 folders:

• %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache
• %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache

Open the folders and delete all cache data


You can try saving below code in .bat file and running it


cd "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache"
del *.web /S /Q "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache"
cd "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache\"
rmdir /S /Q "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache\."
mkdir "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache"
dir "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache"
dir "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache"
pause

 

Enable/Disable Developer Dashboard Powershell command SharePoint 2010

Type below commands in Powershell

$service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$addsetting =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$addsetting.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::On
$addsetting.Update()


Make it OnDemand


$service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$addsetting =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$addsetting.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::OnDemand
$addsetting.Update()


Turn Off

$service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$addsetting =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$addsetting.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::Off
$addsetting.Update()

Write to workflow history list state machine workflow sharepoint 2010 C# code

void WriteToHistoryList(string comment, string outcome)
        {
            SPWorkflow.CreateHistoryEvent(workflowProperties.Web, this.WorkflowInstanceId, 0, workflowProperties.Web.CurrentUser, new TimeSpan(), outcome, comment, "");
        }