Alexander Brütt

Create/Delete site collection with PowerShell

Today I played some minutes around with Powershell for SharePoint 2010 and easily created a new site collection and also deleted it.

Create new site collection:

New-SPSite  -url http://mymachine/sites/powershell -template STS#0  -OwnerAlias “mydomain\alexander.bruett“  -Name “Powershell Testsite”

Delete site collection:

Remove-SPSite -Identity http://hbv83025270/sites/powershell -Confirm:$False

If I were an IT-Pro, I’d love this

SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 target Framework problems

Today, I tried to add a reference to the assembly Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.dll and got this warning:

The primary reference "Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, Version=14.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c,
processorArchitecture=MSIL" could not be resolved because it has an
indirect dependency on the framework assembly
"System.Web.DataVisualization, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" which could not be resolved in the
currently targeted framework. ".NETFramework,Version=v3.5". To resolve
this problem, either remove the reference
"Microsoft.Office.Server.Search,Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c, processorArchitecture=MSIL" or
retarget your application to a framework version which contains
"System.Web.DataVisualization, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35

Solution:

Create a .reg file and add this lines:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\
v2.0.50727\AssemblyFoldersEx\Chart Controls]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Chart Controls\\Assemblies"

Run this file and the entry will be added to the registry. Restart Visual Studio and the warning will be gone.

Low budget SharePoint Services 3.0 Development Environment

I tried to set up a development environment for SharePoint programming at home on my machine and found out that this isn’t a trivial task if you don’t want to use evaluation software and do not want to invest more than 1000 $.

The big cost factors are operating system and devlopment environment:

• Windows Web Server 2008
• Visual Studio 2008 Standard