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Hyper-V VM Not Starting Due to Insufficient RAM, Even Though You Have Enough? Kill googlecrashhandler.exe

So this morning I start up my computer, and start up my SharePoint Development VM. I get a message saying that my VM won’t start. It says “Unable to allocate 6144 MB of RAM: Insufficient resources exist to complete the … Continue reading

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Hey, SharePoint: Why Do You Screw Up My Content Type When I Deploy It Through Visual Studio?

So, we all love the way Visual Studio 2010 allows us to debug our SharePoint code with a single bounce on the F5 button, right? Isn’t it nice the way we can deploy with confidence, knowing that we debugged our … Continue reading

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My Upgrade Actions Can’t Have a Comment? Really, SharePoint?

So I’m doing new work on a SharePoint feature that’s already deployed, so naturally, I have to do some upgrade actions to deploy some new fields to a content type. There are a few fields to add, and since the … Continue reading

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Adventures in Uninformative SharePoint Messages, or The Sandbox is Too Damn Busy for Your List Receiver

Hey, non-programmer-type people who read my blog: The following is highly technical. Feel free to ignore. Still here? Great. So, here’s the situation. Tell me if it seems crazy. There are things that, to me as a programmer, don’t seem … Continue reading

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Sharepoint: Updating Workflow Task Causes NullReferenceException (a fix)

Hi there, ordinary blog readers! Unless you’re a SharePoint developer, this entry isn’t for you. I’m putting this up to save future developers the head-against-wall-banging that I encountered while trying to fix this problem. So, I’m kind of new to … Continue reading

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