None of the selected features can be installed or upgraded. Setup cannot proceed since no

While installing Microsoft SQl 2005 you may face this message...

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Setup------------------------------
None of the selected features can be installed or upgraded. Setup cannot proceed since no effective change is being made to the machine. To continue, click Back and then select features to install. To exit SQL Server Setup, click Cancel.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=SQLSetup90&EvtType=28108
------------------------------BUTTONS: OK------------------------------
To solve this problem:
To get around this issue, run the setup.exe from the SQL installation source from your Run command with the parameter SKUUPGRADE=1 or UPGRADE=1.
For more ref
Hope this helps you people!

Microsoft Research Worldwide Telescope

Microsoft Research Worldwide Telescope
Microsoft’s research and launch of Worldwide Telescope, Microsoft is tiring to do something similar to Google's Earth, Moon, etc. ?
Go check out Telescope
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Microsoft Research Worldwide Telescope make your computer to function as a virtual telescope.

Radial Racing Programming support

Recently I have launched the Radial Racing Programming support to support all developers across the global by submiting reuseable codes and tools

My first launch was in CodePlex.com TabControl WebPart

Deploying Office Solutions Using Windows Installer

Deploying Office Solutions Using Windows Installer

How to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office system (also known as Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, or VSTO 2005 SE) solution using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

More on that...

This article demonstrates how to use the installer

learn how to

Wonder Microsoft Web Developer Kid

Wonder Microsoft Web Developer Kid

Retrieve File Security Information using C#

Retrieve File Security Information using C#

Verify if file exists in the directory using the System.IO namespace. And retrieving the security information and other details. This as been demonstrated using the Windows forms application.

if (File.Exists(openFileDialog1.FileName))
{
//MessageBox.Show("File exists!");
lbl_existstatus.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.SeaGreen;
lbl_existstatus.Text = "File Exist the directory";
}
else
{
lbl_existstatus.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
lbl_existstatus.Text = "File Missing in the directory";
}

Query the secuirty inforamtion of the file using the System.Management.

using (ManagementObject o = new ManagementObject(@"Win32_LogicalFileSecuritySetting.Path='" + fileName + "'"))

for more download the sourcecode.

Enterprise Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies hosting environment Document

This policy document outlines the items and processes for managing customization within an enterprise Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies hosting environment.

One of the very usefull document for any sharepoint developer.

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Complete list of built in out of the box web services available in the SharePoint 2007 and many more...

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions - Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions - Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts

Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator. Please also download the User Guide and Samples listed in Related Resources.

1. Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates
   Web Part
   Team Site Definition
   Blank Site Definition
   List Definition
   Empty SharePoint Project

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.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit containing Labs, Demos and PPTs

The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Silverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework.

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Microsoft 2008 Most Valuable Professional for SharePoint Server

I'm very glad to inform you all that, I have been awarded as Microsoft 2008 Most Valuable Professional for SharePoint Server by Microsoft.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates
Web Part
Team Site Definition
Blank Site Definition
List Definition

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Windows Live Authentication in MOSS 2007 - Configuration and Integration Live Authentication in SharePoint 2007

Windows Live Authentication in MOSS 2007 - Configuration and Integration Live Authentication in SharePoint 2007

Windows Live Authentication 1.0 which is available in CodePlex. Download and install the .wsp file to SharePoint server 2007. Download Link

While installing these are the three main initial steps to follow.

Step1:

Step2:

Step3:

These three steps as to success, then only the installation completes.

Next is live ID registration in https://msm.live.com/app/default.aspx

Now the registration page appears.

After click submit, you will redirect to a page displaying the important information to be noted.

Now click on the manage the application to do the maintain the application.

Next the important configuration using the command window.

Finally you need to add the defaultProvider for the Web Application that will authenticate Live ID users, you will replace the following in the web.config for the Web Application: with You can find an example portion of the complete web.config herePerform an IISRESET and you are done

Finally the configuration file changes for your web application

Now when you try to login to your site using Windows Live ID, you may face this error "Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. "
To solve this first try this operation

stsadm -o upgrade -inplace

If not solved, try out this option Try installing the Service Pack for SharePoint Click Here
When i logged in using my Windows Live ID it says that

Error: Access Denied
Current User
You are currently signed in as: ac592e0e0b189909163bccfeff41cace

This means the feature WindowsLiveAuthenticationSettings is not actived in your site, we need to active this feature. Lets see how.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\WindowsLiveAuthenticationSettings

After activating the feature using stsadm.exe (for more ref:)

After activated

Other reference:

Setting Up the Domain Name System for Active Directory

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface.

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'joelo' as blogged External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint in detail in his blog site

Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system

Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system

One of the very usefull poster for office developers

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InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in the form's

'InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in the form's. Policy settings prevent opening Internet forms with managed code. To fix =this problem, contact your system administrator."

When i tried to run the InfoPath Solution from Visual studio 2008, i'm getting this above mentioned error. When i googled also i don't find any good solution. After that i changed the security setting of the form to fully trusted, then it worked for me. I don't know this is the right solution but it also solve the problem :)

Step: go to tools>Form options>Security and Trust> select Fully Tructed radio button

Microsoft Office InfoPath does not recognize some or all of the command line options. Exit and restart Microsoft Office InfoPath with ...

"Microsoft Office InfoPath does not recognize some or all of the command line options. Exit and restart Microsoft Office InfoPath with the correct command line options"

As usual when I step into Microsoft’s latest tools I have been attacked with some irritating error messages. To solve this error and to win this bug war same old trick was used to attack Microsoft errors in reply, I tried installing Service Pack for InfoPath 2007 and it worked for now. More importantly this error got solved but I don't know what the new things to raise mean while :) …

SP1 Download Link which i used

Error: this template attempted to load an untrusted component 'Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Vsta, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9b

---------------------------Microsoft Visual Studio---------------------------

Error: this template attempted to load an untrusted component 'Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Vsta, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c, processorArchitecture=MSIL'. For more information on this problem and how to enable this template, please see documentation on Customizing Project Templates.

---------------------------OK ---------------------------

When i try to create new InfoPath Form Temaplate project using Visual Studio 2008 i got the above mentioned error mentioned error message. After some analysis i found that InfoPath 2007 as be installed in the development machine.

Heroes Happen Here. And I'm the one

Heroes Happen Here. And I'm the one

I received the Heroes happen here certificate from microsoft!

_getCursorIndex for FireFox and Internet Explorer

_getCursorIndex for FireFox and Internet Explorer

getCursorIndex function works for FireFox. Hope this works for Internet Explorer also

_getCursorIndex: function() {
return this.get_element().selectionStart;
},

getCursorIndex function works for Internet Explorer

_getCursorIndex: function() {
return o.value.lastIndexOf("Your String")
},

System Center Capacity Planner 2007

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution that provides best-practice guidance and hardware-specific knowledge to help information technology professionals make solid architecture decisions when planning a new deployment or changes to an existing deployment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and other Microsoft server products as add-in application models become available. Before installing System Center Capacity Planner 2007
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