crawl space of programming

Today I had a problem with the "Navigate Up" button in SharePoint 2010. The server moved once to a new URL, but the navigation was still pointing to the old one. The internet told me to change the masterpage.

If you are building an WPF application you could need images as background or as buttons or whatever. With your  first build or debug you will see the images will be stored in a folder that should not change. If you change it the application cannot find its images and crashes. So if your installing this application you will need to make sure the pictures are in the exact place. There are possibilities to make the path of the path dynamic, but even that is not the best solution.  So how to make sure your files will be where your application will be.  The solution is to embed the images, but how..? Of course there are some hacks you need to know. First of all you need to right click on your project in Visual Studio. Go to "Properties" and then "Resources". Add a resource and choose existing file. Choose your image.

If you are going into the User Information List, you will sometimes see it is not up to date. There are two jobs (User Profile to SharePoint Quick Sync and User Profile to SharePoint Full Sync). The quick sync will only add new member into your list and somehow it does not work sometimes. So you need to trigger the full sync. The question is how.. there is no point in the UI to do so and not even PowerShell is able to start it. The good old stsadm will rescue us. There are two commands you need to execute in your SharePoint Managing Shell (as administrator).

Once I was looking for a problem in SharePoint, I've spent some time digging the ULS Logs. There was an error with the message " Failed caching field with id '{GUID}' ". The first problem I had was the question: which field? So I decided to build a script that returns the name of the field. After I knew the name, I wanted to know where the field is used, so I extended the script. Now it returns the Lists and Content Types where the field is in use.