Microsoft has made available both the SharePoint Server 2010 SDK and the SharePoint 2007/ WSS 3.0 SDK help for download and installation.
With the new Help Library Manager in Visual Studio 2010 used to install Help Content books covering selected topics.
To add the new help to your local computer running Visual Studio 2010 just request the new content and update.
- Open the click Help, and then
select Manage Help settings or type <ctrl>f1,m.
- Click the link Install content from online or <alt>o
- Once the list of available content form online is displayed, scroll down the SharePoint Products and Technologies and click the Add links.
- Then click the Update button to download and install.
So I found the way to set the appSettings and connectionString in my web.config using appcmd.exe, but I tried every think I could to add an http Module to the <httpModules> section of the <system.web> with no success.
As it turns out in IIS 7 both <httpModules> and <httpHandlers> in <system.web> have been moved to <Modules> and <Handlers> in <system.webServer>. If you are using both the old location and the new location you will need to add the following item in the <system.webServer> section of the web.config file.
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration=”false” />
</system.webServer> |
You can now use the following appcmd.exe commands:
Add Module (httpModule)
Set appcmd =C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe
Set SiteName=”Default Web Site”
%appcmd% set config %SiteName% /section:system.webServer\Modules /+”[name='<http Module Name>',type='<Module class and assembly information>']“ |
Remove Module (httpModule)
Set appcmd =C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe
Set SiteName=”Default Web Site”
%appcmd% set config %SiteName% /section:system.webServer\Modules /-”[name='<http Module Name>']“ |
Reference:
ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0 at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/381/aspnet-20-breaking-changes-on-iis-70/
While SharePoint provides a place to configure alternate access mapping for each of the SharePoint site it does on update the bindings in the IIS configuration. In order to do this you can use appcmd.exe with the set site command.
With a large number of site binding to be configured for the different Site and server in SharePoint, for example if you have 4 web application on 4 server with 1 to 5 binding (average say 3) that would be 4 x 4 x 3 = 48 binding to be assigned to the SharePoint sites. By making use of 4 batch command files you can reduce the number of error accrues the server and there web application.
The following will add a new binding to the site
| Set appcmd =C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exeSet SiteName=Default Web SiteSet IP=192.168.0.1:80Set FQDN=www.contos.com
%appcmd% set site “% SiteName%” /+bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='%IP%:%FQDN%'] |
The following will remove an existing binding to the site
| Set appcmd =C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exeSet SiteName=Default Web SiteSet IP=192.168.0.1:80Set FQDN=www.contos.com
%appcmd% set site “% SiteName%” /-bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='%IP%:%FQDN%'] |
Using a combination of addition and removals you will be able to configure all the web application on all server the same.
References:
Binding <binding> on the IIS site.
Today Microsoft announced that the next SharePoint Conference will be in Anaheim, CA on October 3-6 2011.
Register to be notified and stay up to date on all conference announcements SPC 2011 site
Registration will open spring 2011.
Check out the early Early Bird Registration @ www.techdays.ca
Toronto dates are October 27th and 28th.
The thing we all do, or at least I do time to time is not stop and read the messages that my application are providing. I this case I could not get Windows Live Writer or Word to connect to my new Blog site, a wordpress site. But when I stopped and read the message in the pop-up dialog box, it not only told me the issue but there to fix on my wordpress site.
So next time stop and read the messages before trying to force your way to get it to work!
Moving from my old blog in the SharePoint to Wordpress blog site is not easy. There are may different oppions for presentation and information on the site that need to be considered. But I will get it working. and like SharePoint I can always change is later.
