Monthly Archives: July 2009

Explorer View breaks after IE8 install on Windows 2003

Since installing Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows Server 2003 development machine I’ve been unable to use Explorer View, with the error: Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your browser may not support … Continue reading

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Debugging file locking in the GAC

Do you ever find that your solution files have been “successfully deployed” according to SharePoint, yet the updated code isn’t taking effect? Perhaps you are trying to debug but breakpoints aren’t being hit when normally there’s no problem. Yet for … Continue reading

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Gotchas configuring SSO

SharePoint 2007 seems to have some real weirdness going on with configuring SSO. I’ve been setting it up in a test environment in a very simple way, using the farm administrator account for everything: Microsoft Single Sign-on Service account, Single … Continue reading

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“The rows you modified could not be saved to the server due to validation errors”

Encountered a strange problem copying and pasting between the datasheet views of two contact lists. Only the Contact and Country fields were showing in the datasheet view. When doing the paste, the following error appeared: The error gives some clue … Continue reading

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