Monthly Archive: December 2009

Problem with VS2010 beta 2 Site Definition

New Site Definition in Visual Studio 2010

I encountered the following problem while creating a new custom Site Definition in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. The problem occurs when trying to create a new Document Library in the site based on the custom Site Definition. Error message: Read on to see the solution for this error. Visual Studio 2010 now has native integration of …

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Looking for SharePoint 2010 Feature (GU)IDs

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Have you ever been looking for a feature (GU)ID in SharePoint? Well here is an easy way to find them. I needed default SharePoint feature guids for the development of a custom Site Definition. Using a custom Site Definition you can automatically activate SharePoint features within the onet.xml file. Here we go: Open the SharePoint …

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