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Friday, March 14, 2014

C# - Resizing Arrays - Add String to String Array

Guys,
here's a simple way to add a string to a string array (C#):

String[] Sorting;
foreach (String StringObj in StringObjCollection)
{
Array.Resize(ref Sorting, Sorting.Length + 1);
Sorting[Sorting.Length - 1] = StringObj;
}

C# - CollectionBase - Sorting a collection

Based on my blog post about creating a collection using the CollectionBase class yesterday, I figured out, how to sort a collection based on the class CollectionBase.

public List<MyClass> SortByColumnSortColumn()
{
List<MyClass> SortedList = this.List.Cast<MyClass>().ToList();
SortedList = SortedList.OrderBy(x => x.SortColumn).ToList();
return SortedList;
}

Thursday, March 13, 2014

C# - Creating a Collection class

Creating a simple Collection class is very easy.
Assuming we have a class like this and want to create a collection class from it...

public class MyClass
{
public string Name;

public MyClass()
{
}
}

We can easily create a collection of it by using the CollectionBase class in the .NET Framework.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace My_Project.Classes
{
public class MyClassCollection : System.Collections.CollectionBase
{
#region Variables
#endregion

#region Properties
#endregion

#region Constructors
#endregion

#region Methods

public void Add(My_Project.Classes.MyClass NewMyClassObject)
{
List.Add(NewMyClassObject);
}

public void Remove(int index)
{
// Check to see if there is a MyClass at the supplied index.
if (index > Count - 1 || index < 0)
// If no MyClass exists, a messagebox is shown and the operation
// is cancelled.
{
throw new Exception();
}
else
{
List.RemoveAt(index);
}
}

public My_Project.Classes.MyClass Item(int Index)
{
// The appropriate item is retrieved from the List object and
// explicitly cast to the MyClass type, then returned to the
// caller.
return (My_Project.Classes.MyClass)List[Index];
}
#endregion
}
}

Now we can use the Collection class:

// create MyClass Object 1:
MyClass MyClassObject1 = new MyClass();

//create MyClass Object 2:
MyClass MyClassObject2 = new MyClass();

//creating the collection object:
MyClassCollection Col = new MyClassCollection();

//adding both objects to the collection

Col.Add(MyClassObject1);
Col.Add(MyClassObject2);

//removing an object from the collection:
Col.Remove(1);

//getting the item object from a collection
MyClass NewObject = Col.Item(0);

Here is a good walkthrough from Microsoft:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xth2y6ft(v=vs.71).aspx

SharePoint - Internal Names List

Here is a list of internal field names in SharePoint.

Document Library fields

Display Name	Internal Name	GUID	Type
ID	ID	{1d22ea11-1e32-424e-89ab-9fedbadb6ce1}	Counter
Content Type ID	ContentTypeId	{03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634}	ContentTypeId
Content Type	ContentType	{c042a256-787d-4a6f-8a8a-cf6ab767f12d}	Text
Created	Created	{8c06beca-0777-48f7-91c7-6da68bc07b69}	DateTime
Created By	Author	{1df5e554-ec7e-46a6-901d-d85a3881cb18}	User
Modified	Modified	{28cf69c5-fa48-462a-b5cd-27b6f9d2bd5f}	DateTime
Modified By	Editor	{d31655d1-1d5b-4511-95a1-7a09e9b75bf2}	User
Has Copy Destinations	_HasCopyDestinations	{26d0756c-986a-48a7-af35-bf18ab85ff4a}	Boolean
Copy Source	_CopySource	{6b4e226d-3d88-4a36-808d-a129bf52bccf}	Text
Approval Status	_ModerationStatus	{fdc3b2ed-5bf2-4835-a4bc-b885f3396a61}	ModStat
Approver Comments	_ModerationComments	{34ad21eb-75bd-4544-8c73-0e08330291fe}	Note
URL Path	FileRef	{94f89715-e097-4e8b-ba79-ea02aa8b7adb}	Lookup
Path	FileDirRef	{56605df6-8fa1-47e4-a04c-5b384d59609f}	Lookup
Modified	Last_x0020_Modified	{173f76c8-aebd-446a-9bc9-769a2bd2c18f}	Lookup
Created	Created_x0020_Date	{998b5cff-4a35-47a7-92f3-3914aa6aa4a2}	Lookup
File Size	File_x0020_Size	{8fca95c0-9b7d-456f-8dae-b41ee2728b85}	Lookup
Item Type	FSObjType	{30bb605f-5bae-48fe-b4e3-1f81d9772af9}	Lookup
Effective Permissions Mask	PermMask	{ba3c27ee-4791-4867-8821-ff99000bac98}	Computed
ID of the User who has the item Checked Out	CheckedOutUserId	{a7b731a3-1df1-4d74-a5c6-e2efba617ae2}	Lookup
Is Checked out to local	IsCheckedoutToLocal	{cfaabd0f-bdbd-4bc2-b375-1e779e2cad08}	Lookup
Checked Out To	CheckoutUser	{3881510a-4e4a-4ee8-b102-8ee8e2d0dd4b}	User
Name	FileLeafRef	{8553196d-ec8d-4564-9861-3dbe931050c8}	File
Unique Id	UniqueId	{4b7403de-8d94-43e8-9f0f-137a3e298126}	Lookup
ProgId	ProgId	{c5c4b81c-f1d9-4b43-a6a2-090df32ebb68}	Lookup
ScopeId	ScopeId	{dddd2420-b270-4735-93b5-92b713d0944d}	Lookup
Virus Status	VirusStatus	{4a389cb9-54dd-4287-a71a-90ff362028bc}	Lookup
Checked Out To	CheckedOutTitle	{9d4adc35-7cc8-498c-8424-ee5fd541e43a}	Lookup
Check In Comment	_CheckinComment	{58014f77-5463-437b-ab67-eec79532da67}	Lookup
Checked Out To	LinkCheckedOutTitle	{e2a15dfd-6ab8-4aec-91ab-02f6b64045b0}	Computed
Document Modified By	Modified_x0020_By	{822c78e3-1ea9-4943-b449-57863ad33ca9}	Text
Document Created By	Created_x0020_By	{4dd7e525-8d6b-4cb4-9d3e-44ee25f973eb}	Text
File Type	File_x0020_Type	{39360f11-34cf-4356-9945-25c44e68dade}	Text
HTML File Type	HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type	{0c5e0085-eb30-494b-9cdd-ece1d3c649a2}	Text
Source Url	_SourceUrl	{c63a459d-54ba-4ab7-933a-dcf1c6fadec2}	Text
Shared File Index	_SharedFileIndex	{034998e9-bf1c-4288-bbbd-00eacfc64410}	Text
Edit Menu Table Start	_EditMenuTableStart	{3c6303be-e21f-4366-80d7-d6d0a3b22c7a}	Computed
Edit Menu Table End	_EditMenuTableEnd	{2ea78cef-1bf9-4019-960a-02c41636cb47}	Computed
Name	LinkFilenameNoMenu	{9d30f126-ba48-446b-b8f9-83745f322ebe}	Computed
Name	LinkFilename	{5cc6dc79-3710-4374-b433-61cb4a686c12}	Computed
Type	DocIcon	{081c6e4c-5c14-4f20-b23e-1a71ceb6a67c}	Computed
Server Relative URL	ServerUrl	{105f76ce-724a-4bba-aece-f81f2fce58f5}	Computed
Encoded Absolute URL	EncodedAbsUrl	{7177cfc7-f399-4d4d-905d-37dd51bc90bf}	Computed
Name	BaseName	{7615464b-559e-4302-b8e2-8f440b913101}	Computed
File Size	FileSizeDisplay	{78a07ba4-bda8-4357-9e0f-580d64487583}	Computed
Property Bag	MetaInfo	{687c7f94-686a-42d3-9b67-2782eac4b4f8}	Lookup
Level	_Level	{43bdd51b-3c5b-4e78-90a8-fb2087f71e70}	Integer
Is Current Version	_IsCurrentVersion	{c101c3e7-122d-4d4d-bc34-58e94a38c816}	Boolean
Select	SelectTitle	{b1f7969b-ea65-42e1-8b54-b588292635f2}	Computed
Select	SelectFilename	{5f47e085-2150-41dc-b661-442f3027f552}	Computed
Edit	Edit	{503f1caa-358e-4918-9094-4a2cdc4bc034}	Computed
owshiddenversion	owshiddenversion	{d4e44a66-ee3a-4d02-88c9-4ec5ff3f4cd5}	Integer
UI Version	_UIVersion	{7841bf41-43d0-4434-9f50-a673baef7631}	Integer
Version	_UIVersionString	{dce8262a-3ae9-45aa-aab4-83bd75fb738a}	Text
Instance ID	InstanceID	{50a54da4-1528-4e67-954a-e2d24f1e9efb}	Integer
Order	Order	{ca4addac-796f-4b23-b093-d2a3f65c0774}	Number
GUID	GUID	{ae069f25-3ac2-4256-b9c3-15dbc15da0e0}	Guid
Workflow Version	WorkflowVersion	{f1e020bc-ba26-443f-bf2f-b68715017bbc}	Integer
Workflow Instance ID	WorkflowInstanceID	{de8beacf-5505-47cd-80a6-aa44e7ffe2f4}	Guid
Source Version (Converted Document)	ParentVersionString	{bc1a8efb-0f4c-49f8-a38f-7fe22af3d3e0}	Lookup
Source Name (Converted Document)	ParentLeafName	{774eab3a-855f-4a34-99da-69dc21043bec}	Lookup
Title	Title	{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}	Text
Template Link	TemplateUrl	{4b1bf6c6-4f39-45ac-acd5-16fe7a214e5e}	Text
Html File Link	xd_ProgID	{cd1ecb9f-dd4e-4f29-ab9e-e9ff40048d64}	Text
Is Signed	xd_Signature	{fbf29b2d-cae5-49aa-8e0a-29955b540122}	Boolean
Merge	Combine	{e52012a0-51eb-4c0c-8dfb-9b8a0ebedcb6}	Computed
Relink	RepairDocument	{5d36727b-bcb2-47d2-a231-1f0bc63b7439}	Computed

Custom list fields

Display Name	Internal Name	GUID	Type
ID	ID	{1d22ea11-1e32-424e-89ab-9fedbadb6ce1}	Counter
Content Type ID	ContentTypeId	{03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634}	ContentTypeId
Content Type	ContentType	{c042a256-787d-4a6f-8a8a-cf6ab767f12d}	Text
Title	Title	{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-be6ddd247}	Text
Modified	Modified	{28cf69c5-fa48-462a-b5cd-27b6f9d2bd5f}	DateTime
Created	Created	{8c06beca-0777-48f7-91c7-6da68bc07b69}	DateTime
Created By	Author	{1df5e554-ec7e-46a6-901d-d85a3881cb18}	User
Modified By	Editor	{d31655d1-1d5b-4511-95a1-7a09e9b75bf2}	User
Has Copy Destinations	_HasCopyDestinations	{26d0756c-986a-48a7-af35-bf18ab85ff4a}	Boolean
Copy Source	_CopySource	{6b4e226d-3d88-4a36-808d-a129bf52bccf}	Text
owshiddenversion	owshiddenversion	{d4e44a66-ee3a-4d02-88c9-4ec5ff3f4cd5}	Integer
Workflow Version	WorkflowVersion	{f1e020bc-ba26-443f-bf2f-b68715017bbc}	Integer
UI Version	_UIVersion	{7841bf41-43d0-4434-9f50-a673baef7631}	Integer
Version	_UIVersionString	{dce8262a-3ae9-45aa-aab4-83bd75fb738a}	Text
Attachments	Attachments	{67df98f4-9dec-48ff-a553-29bece9c5bf4}	Attachments
Approval Status	_ModerationStatus	{fdc3b2ed-5bf2-4835-a4bc-b885f3396a61}	ModStat
Approver Comments	_ModerationComments	{34ad21eb-75bd-4544-8c73-0e08330291fe}	Note
Edit	Edit	{503f1caa-358e-4918-9094-4a2cdc4bc034}	Computed
Title	LinkTitleNoMenu	{bc91a437-52e7-49e1-8c4e-4698904b2b6d}	Computed
Title	LinkTitle	{82642ec8-ef9b-478f-acf9-31f7d45fbc31}	Computed
Select	SelectTitle	{b1f7969b-ea65-42e1-8b54-b588292635f2}	Computed
Instance ID	InstanceID	{50a54da4-1528-4e67-954a-e2d24f1e9efb}	Integer
Order	Order	{ca4addac-796f-4b23-b093-d2a3f65c0774}	Number
GUID	GUID	{ae069f25-3ac2-4256-b9c3-15dbc15da0e0}	Guid
Workflow Instance ID	WorkflowInstanceID	{de8beacf-5505-47cd-80a6-aa44e7ffe2f4}	Guid
URL Path	FileRef	{94f89715-e097-4e8b-ba79-ea02aa8b7adb}	Lookup
Path	FileDirRef	{56605df6-8fa1-47e4-a04c-5b384d59609f}	Lookup
Modified	Last_x0020_Modified	{173f76c8-aebd-446a-9bc9-769a2bd2c18f}	Lookup
Created	Created_x0020_Date	{998b5cff-4a35-47a7-92f3-3914aa6aa4a2}	Lookup
Item Type	FSObjType	{30bb605f-5bae-48fe-b4e3-1f81d9772af9}	Lookup
Effective Permissions Mask	PermMask	{ba3c27ee-4791-4867-8821-ff99000bac98}	Computed
Name	FileLeafRef	{8553196d-ec8d-4564-9861-3dbe931050c8}	File
Unique Id	UniqueId	{4b7403de-8d94-43e8-9f0f-137a3e298126}	Lookup
ProgId	ProgId	{c5c4b81c-f1d9-4b43-a6a2-090df32ebb68}	Lookup
ScopeId	ScopeId	{dddd2420-b270-4735-93b5-92b713d0944d}	Lookup
File Type	File_x0020_Type	{39360f11-34cf-4356-9945-25c44e68dade}	Text
HTML File Type	HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type	{4ef1b78f-fdba-48dc-b8ab-3fa06a0c9804}	Computed
Edit Menu Table Start	_EditMenuTableStart	{3c6303be-e21f-4366-80d7-d6d0a3b22c7a}	Computed
Edit Menu Table End	_EditMenuTableEnd	{2ea78cef-1bf9-4019-960a-02c41636cb47}	Computed
Name	LinkFilenameNoMenu	{9d30f126-ba48-446b-b8f9-83745f322ebe}	Computed
Name	LinkFilename	{5cc6dc79-3710-4374-b433-61cb4a686c12}	Computed
Type	DocIcon	{081c6e4c-5c14-4f20-b23e-1a71ceb6a67c}	Computed
Server Relative URL	ServerUrl	{105f76ce-724a-4bba-aece-f81f2fce58f5}	Computed
Encoded Absolute URL	EncodedAbsUrl	{7177cfc7-f399-4d4d-905d-37dd51bc90bf}	Computed
File Name	BaseName	{7615464b-559e-4302-b8e2-8f440b913101}	Computed
Property Bag	MetaInfo	{687c7f94-686a-42d3-9b67-2782eac4b4f8}	Lookup
Level	_Level	{43bdd51b-3c5b-4e78-90a8-fb2087f71e70}	Integer
Is Current Version	_IsCurrentVersion	{c101c3e7-122d-4d4d-bc34-58e94a38c816}	Boolean

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

C# - SharePoint 2010 - Building a SharePoint 2010 feature, which creates new content types with new site columns programmatically

Hi guys,

I thought, I try to write in English instead of German language now to reach more people. Sorry, for my bad english in advance. :-)

This code gives you a nice way to create new content types with new site columns programmatically in a SharePoint 2010 Feature (C# / Visual Studio 2010). The difficulty is to create a new site column from a managed metadata service. This code took me 1 day, but it works fine now. Have fun with it.
If you have any hints, to improve the code please write a comment below. Thanks. :-)

const string TermStore = "Managed Metadata Service";
const string TermStoreGroup = "TermStoreGroup";
object[][] Data = new object[][]
{
//new object[] { 0="Content Type Name", 1="Field Name", 2="Field Type", 3="Required", 4="AllowMultipleValues" }
new object[] { "Content Type Name", "Property 1", "TaxonomyFieldType", true, false },
new object[] { "Content Type Name", "Property 2", "TaxonomyFieldType", true, false },
new object[] { "Content Type Name", "Property 3", "TaxonomyFieldType", false, false },
new object[] { "Content Type Name", "Property 4", "TaxonomyFieldType", false, false },
new object[] { "Content Type Name", "Property 5", SPFieldType.Text, false, null },
new object[] { "Content Type Name", "Property 6", SPFieldType.DateTime, true, null }
};

static SPField AddField(string title, SPFieldType type, Boolean required, SPFieldCollection fields)
{
// If the field is not in the collection,
if (!fields.ContainsField(title))
{
// Add it.
fields.Add(title, type, required);
}
return fields.GetField(title);
}

static void AddFieldLink(SPField field, SPContentType contentType)
{
// Is the FieldLink in the collection?
SPFieldLink fieldLink = contentType.FieldLinks[field.Id];
if (fieldLink == null) // No, so add it.
{
fieldLink = new SPFieldLink(field);
contentType.FieldLinks.Add(fieldLink);
}
}

static void AddFieldLink(TaxonomyField field, SPContentType contentType)
{
SPFieldLink fieldLink = new SPFieldLink(field);
if (contentType.FieldLinks[fieldLink.Id] == null)
{
contentType.FieldLinks.Add(fieldLink);
}
}

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
try
{
using (SPWeb spWeb = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb)
{
foreach (object[] CurrentData in Data)
{
SPContentType contentType;
if (spWeb.ContentTypes[CurrentData[0].ToString()] == null)
{
contentType = new SPContentType(spWeb.ContentTypes["Document"], spWeb.ContentTypes, CurrentData[0].ToString());
contentType.Group = "Content Type Group";
spWeb.ContentTypes.Add(contentType);
spWeb.Update();
}
else
{
contentType = spWeb.ContentTypes[CurrentData[0].ToString()];
}
if (CurrentData[2].ToString() == "TaxonomyFieldType")
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(spWeb.Site.ID))
{
TaxonomySession taxonomySession = new TaxonomySession(site);
TermStore termStore = taxonomySession.TermStores[TermStore];
Group termStoreGroup = termStore.Groups[TermStoreGroup];
TaxonomyField NewField;
if (spWeb.Fields.ContainsField(CurrentData[1].ToString()) == false || (spWeb.Fields.ContainsField(CurrentData[1].ToString()) == true && spWeb.Fields[CurrentData[1].ToString()].TypeAsString != CurrentData[2].ToString()))
{
TermSet termSet = termStoreGroup.TermSets[CurrentData[1].ToString()];
NewField = (TaxonomyField)spWeb.Fields.CreateNewField("TaxonomyFieldType", CurrentData[1].ToString());
NewField.SspId = termSet.TermStore.Id;
NewField.Group = termStoreGroup.Name;
NewField.TermSetId = termSet.Id;
NewField.AllowMultipleValues = (Boolean)CurrentData[4];
NewField.TargetTemplate = string.Empty;
NewField.CreateValuesInEditForm = false;
NewField.Open = false;
NewField.AnchorId = Guid.Empty;
NewField.Title = CurrentData[1].ToString();
NewField.Required = (Boolean)CurrentData[3];
spWeb.Fields.Add(NewField);
spWeb.Update();
NewField = (TaxonomyField)spWeb.Fields[CurrentData[1].ToString()];
}
else
{
NewField = (TaxonomyField)spWeb.Fields[CurrentData[1].ToString()];
}
AddFieldLink(NewField, contentType);
}
}
else
{
SPField NewField = AddField(CurrentData[1].ToString(), (SPFieldType)CurrentData[2], (Boolean)CurrentData[3], spWeb.Fields);
AddFieldLink(NewField, contentType);
}
contentType.Update();
}
}
}
catch (Exception exp)
{
throw;
}
}

Friday, March 7, 2014

Visual Studio 2010 - SharePoint 2010 - Debugging - "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document"

SharePoint Solutions zu debuggen kann manchmal schwierig sein. Ich stoplerte über das Problem, dass der Debugger an der markierten Stelle nicht anhielt, sondern stattdessen nur die Meldung brachte: "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document". "Hmm, wieso funktioniert der Debugger nicht. Der müßte doch da rein laufen. Und jetzt? Was tun?", waren meine ersten Gedanken.

Das Problem ist aber relativ schnell gelöst.

Über "Project" im Menü auf den "Project - Properties" navigieren:

Auf den Punkt "SharePoint" navigieren und dort unter "Active Deployment Configuration" den Punkt "No activation" auswählen.

Nun wird beim Starten des Projekts das Feature nicht automatisch aktiviert, sondern man muss es manuell aktivieren. Sobald das Feature manuell aktiviert wird, läuft der Debugger wie gewohnt.

Das ganze ist auch hier beschrieben:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798479.aspx

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