Author Archives: Stu

Cannot Access a Disposed Object – ModelStore

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Stu

If you use the database schema compare tool in Visual Studio 2012 you may see the following error when trying to compare the database with the source: Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: ‘ModelStore’ For me, this was arose … Continue reading →

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User Profile Sync

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Stu

Sometimes, when trying to create an alert in SharePoint you receive the following error message: You do not have an e-mail address. Alert has been created successfully but you will not receive notifications until valid e-mail or mobile address has … Continue reading →

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MVP SharePoint WebPart

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Stu

There are many development patterns available and one that I like is Model-View-Presenter (MVP). With the MVP pattern, there are different variations that you can use. For example, there’s a variant called Passive View and another called Supervising Controller. They … Continue reading →

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Create Zip File

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Stu

SharePoint Short #17 Not so much a SharePoint post, but can be used in a SharePoint project, so counts for me 🙂 Using the WindowsBase assembly provides access to the System.IO.Packaging namespace and the PackagePart class. Using this class to … Continue reading →

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DateRangesOverlap

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Stu

When working with calendar items created with recurrence patterns, there’s no immediately obvious way through the object model to expose the individual recurrence items. If you create a calendar event with a daily recurrence pattern which generates 6 separate events, … Continue reading →

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