SharePoint | Rajendra Dewani

The Execute method of job definition “SPSolutionDeploymentJobDefinition” threw an exception, Value cannot be null.

January 2, 2011Written by Rajendra Dewani

I have developed an Timer Job Definition,feature & feature receiver to create the timer job.

On WSP deployment on my local machine it install with no issue 🙂

Now when deploying on the WebFarm environment with a Front end server , I faced following error.

The Execute method of job definition “SPSolutionDeploymentJobDefinition” (id “030bb074-94a8-4f5d-bf34-b4ca735c1693”) threw an exception. Failed to create feature receiver object from assembly “Company.Project.Business, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1f12345e9c67bc89”, type “Company.Project.Business.EventReceivers.MyTimerJobFeatureReceiver” for feature C0857DB8-1636-11E0-AC62-40DFDED72085: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.get_ReceiverObject()

Initially I thought It is something wrong with the Event Receiver Class and the application could not find the class. Changed the scope of Class, changed the name of the class, restarted IIS, But I no result.

After two hours of troubleshooting, I restarted

Blog, SharePoint SharePoint, Sharepoint 2007, sharepoint 2010

http 500/503 Internal server error on SharePoint 2010, Windows 2008 64 bit

November 1, 2010Written by Rajendra Dewani

1 Comment

If you are facing Error 500/503 on SharePoint 2010 on a Windows 2008 64x bit machine.

Here is the solution.

Go to the IIS,

Go to the App Pool of your website.

Change the Advance setting setting as per the below image

i.e.. Enable 32-bit Application to False

Blog, SharePoint http 500, sharepoint 2010, SP 2010

Get PageLayout Name in Sharepoint but having a performance issue

November 1, 2010Written by Rajendra Dewani

I googled and found one of the easy way to get the PageLayoutName.

if (PublishingWeb.IsPublishingWeb(web))
{
PublishingWeb publishingWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);
PublishingPageCollection publishingPages = publishingWeb.GetPublishingPages();
PublishingPage publishPage = null;
var spfile = SPContext.Current.File;
Guid id = spfile.UniqueId;
if (publishingPages[id] != null)
{
publishPage = PublishingPage.GetPublishingPage(publishingPages[id].ListItem);
currentPageLayout = publishPage.Layout.Name;
if (currentPageLayout.EndsWith(".aspx"))
{
currentPageLayout = currentPageLayout.Substring(0, currentPageLayout.Length - 5);
}
}
}

The above code is having a heavy performance issue as I am getting all the PublishingPages and searching is in Pages.

One of the already ways is to use CAML Query in

Blog, SharePoint PageLayout, Performance, SharePoint

SharePoint/MOSS Enter Key On Search Box Not Working In Firefox

September 12, 2010Written by Rajendra Dewani

I cam across a strange situation where the page of my SharePoint website just refreshes itself when I search on my site using the Enter key. I noticed this was only a problem when I use Firefox.

On Goggling I found following solutions

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointecm/thread/87574c13-91d6-48fe-8346-01e77e0094b3

http://blog.drisgill.com/2009/08/firefox-doesnt-respond-to-enter-key-in.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jjameson/archive/2009/10/01/enter-key-does-not-submit-search-in-moss-2007-from-firefox.aspx
I modified the solution by Jeremy Jameson, to suit my requirements.

    <script language="javascript"> function replaceOnKeyPress()
    {
    var theInputID = $("input[name$='InputKeywords']").attr("id");
    if(typeof(theInputID) != "undefined")
    {
    var theFunction=theInputID.replace("InputKeywords", "");
    var LastindextOf =theFunction.lastIndexOf("");
    if (LastindextOf >0)
    {
    theFunction=theFunction.substring(LastindextOf+1,theFunction.length);
    theFunction = theFunction + "_Submit();";
    var txt = document.getElementById(theInputID);
    var browser = navigator.appName;
    if (txt && (browser == "Netscape"))
    {
    txt.onkeypress = function(e)
    {
    var key = String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode);
    if (key == "\n" || key == "\r")
    {
    eval(theFunction);
    return false;
    }
    }
    }
    }
    }
    }
    replaceOnKeyPress();
    </script>

Blog, SharePoint Enter Key, FireFox, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2007

Custom SharePoint 404 page works in IE but shows HTML tags in Firefox

August 5, 2010Written by Rajendra Dewani