Category: SharePoint

SharePoint DirectoryNotFoundException (0x80070003)

SharePoint DirectoryNotFoundException (0x80070003)

I’ve been dealing with an interesting SharePoint error for the better part of a day-and-a-half now and I thought it was worth sharing. The error surfaced was a DirectoryNotFoundException (0x80070003) when attempting to call BreakRoleInheritance in an asynchronous event receiver....

SharePoint ListData.svc 500 Error

SharePoint ListData.svc 500 Error

If you’re fighting with the SharePoint ListData.svc with an odd error: An error occurred while processing this request. And you are using an OData operator like endswith, you may encounter this error and be puzzled with why it works for...

Interviewing for SharePoint

Interviewing for SharePoint

Yet another post on interviewing 🙂 As both an interviewer (mostly) and an interviewee on topics of SharePoint, I’ve been working on refining my questions and technique here to get right to the core of understanding a candidate’s suitability. As...

SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Thoughts

SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Thoughts

I can’t say that I can add much more to the tutorials and articles already out there on the Net on this topic, but I’d like to point to the definitive example of how to implement one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg193964.aspx David Taylor’s blog...

jQuery parsererror and WCF Data Services

jQuery parsererror and WCF Data Services

If you’re using WCF Data Services (REST APIs for SharePoint, for example) and you’re getting the mysterious “parsererror” error message from jQuery, chances are you’ll need to modify your scripts according to this bug report. The root of the error...