MOSS 2007: Failed to create sample data. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was thrown. Provisioning did not succeed. The site template was not provisioned successfully.

by vivek 8/23/2010 11:19:15 PM
I have been studying SharePoint for sometime and thought of installing SharePoint 2007 on my Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Finally, it gave me something to write about . During the installation process, SharePoint 2007 SP2 setup failed with an error Careful look at the configuration tasks showed it actually failed in step 8 As always I thought of looking at the issue further and checked the diagnostics file Task evalprovision has failed with an unknown exception Exception: M... [More]


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PFE India team and Microsoft GTSC India is hiring

by rahul 8/13/2010 12:49:05 AM
You think you are smart? You think you can explain the concepts of your technology really well? Do you like sharing your knowledge? Do you like travelling? Are you self-driven? Do you like being in touch with geeks who love technology and love to share their knowledge in order to learn more? Do you consider yourself a champ in SQL or IIS/ASP.NET? If your answer is "yes" to all of these, and you are interested in joining Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team… f... [More]


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Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage–after installing KB977377

by Vivek 7/21/2010 2:49:00 AM
Few days back, one of my colleague faced the above error when he accessed the web site that was hosted on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 machine which had IIS 7 installed and configured. Not sure what changed, but the error was very crude and didn’t give any information on what was causing it. This is a simple web service application which required client certificate authentication. With little or no information about what caused the issue we started troubleshooting the issue right f... [More]


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IIS 7 | Troubleshooting

Did you know - There is a method called Lorem that gives you a bunch of text

by rahul 7/17/2010 1:35:33 AM
Today, while working with one of my colleagues, Chetan… I found a pretty neat trick to get some junk text in MS Word or Outlook. Just type something like =Lorem(5, 2) and hit enter. Basically, you are telling to create 5 paragraphs of 2 lines each and so on… I just tried with =Lorem(3, 10) and I got the following. Not bad! Having it in English would have been better I guess Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pul... [More]


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Did you know - You can use ItemTemplate to create bindings with visual representation

by rahul 7/9/2010 4:52:00 AM
In this post find out how easily you can use databinding to create a listbox which gives visual data representation. First up, create a class [Student.cs] like as follows… Notice the Students class below is an ObservableCollection.  using System; using System.Net; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Documents; using System.Windows.Ink; using System.Windows.Input; using System.Windows.Media; using System.Windows.Media.Animation; using System.W... [More]


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Did you know | Silverlight | Tips and Tricks

Did you know - There is an icon called Outline in VS2010 that helps in selecting control

by Rahul 7/7/2010 5:22:00 AM
This is another cool thing in VS2010 which goes unnoticed. In any Silverlight project, drag and drop a StackPanel. With the StackPanel selected, Double-Click Button control multiple times, to get 4 different button controls. Something like this… You can add a lot of controls in different layers (like a Tab control). Let's say you want to select all button controls and give them an equal size. How do you do it?Did you know that there is a an icon called Outline, that looks like this&he... [More]


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Did you know - VS 2010 gives you an option of Auto while working with the Grid in Silverlight

by Rahul 7/5/2010 5:15:00 AM
In any Silverlight project you can hover your mouse over the edges of the Grid and click it. You can drag and drop multiple controls inside this Row or Column. Let's say, you get a grid split something like this… If you like you can resize the cell size. But, it can be a good idea to go "Auto". if you hover your mouse near the cell's left edge, you will get a choice like the following… (for fixed, proportion and Auto). If you click Auto, you will find t... [More]


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Did you know | Silverlight | Tips and Tricks

Did you know - You can set the Resource for any control directly from VS2010 designer

by rahul 7/2/2010 5:31:00 AM
In a Silverlight application, Create a resource in App.xaml. Something like this… <Application.Resources> <RadialGradientBrush x:Key="GreenRadialBrush" > <GradientStop Color="DarkGreen" Offset="0" /> <GradientStop Color="White" Offset="1" /> </RadialGradientBrush> <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="SampleLinearBrush" > <GradientStop Co... [More]


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Did you know - Windows Key + X shows a pretty useful screen

by Rahul 6/30/2010 5:31:00 AM
I never saw this before, and today I have hit this by accident. Windows + X key brings up the following screen on Windows 7. I found it pretty useful! For ex… you can change your presentation settings in just a couple of clicks! Cheers, Rahul Quote of the day: A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw


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Did you know | Tips and Tricks

Did you know - In Silverlight stretch doesn't work if you have width/height set explicitly

by rahul 6/28/2010 5:31:00 AM
In a Silverlight application, drag a border control, and inside the border drop a rectangle. Somewhat like the image below. The question here is… Horizontal Alignment setting has a default value Stretch. How come it is behaving as if it is Center? <Rectangle Height="71" Name="rectangle2" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1" Width="101" /> In the code above, you can see I haven't specified Horizontal Alignment. Hence, it should be Stre... [More]


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