Bigger Sharepoiunt slide library thumbnail SOLVED !!!

This worked for me to get a better thumbnail

Note that the solution relies on having a naming convention for your files which you apply after you have loaded them up to the slide library eg ENG_02_0010, ENG_02_0020 rather than leaving them named as is when uploaded to Sharepoint.

1.Create another field called Preview say and make it a picture (format url as picture)
2. For each uploaded slide put the url link as http://siteName/slidelibraryName/_t/ENG_02_0010_pptx.jpg (same name as your slide with a _pptx.jpg extension)
3. Get rid of the standard thumbnail from your view and put this new column next to the selection box

Worked for me , much bigger and readable thumbnail !!!

PS
In SP designer you can find all the jpg thumbnails in the _t directory under the slide library

unhandled error 4004 silverlight major issue child element

Can get the dread element already has a child element error...this is very generic.
Get the right error
Run f5, go debug , windows, processes and select all processes and right click with mouse to detach.
Run the program until get an error eg. data form scrolling and it blows up

Should get a better error message e.g load operation failed for query 'GetUser'

This error in the dataform scrollling up and down and it blows up after while caused by messing up web.config...some forms authentication stuff left in

esp fix up to have profile enabled =false and rolemanager enable and set up
set up identity impersonate=true

Silverlight ria - data sources from domain sercvice disapear

Two reasons cannot see domain services data sources in order to drag and drop

1) vs not installed in default location c:\...etc (search web)

2) you have regenerared a entity framework framework and domain service and
the name of the entity does not match...eg complianceentities2 now. Make sure in edx model and classes all names match. Also check web.config file in project make sure connection has the right name etc.

Issue with Silverlight ria project running on network drive

Has issues with Silverlight running on network drive

1) Open devenv.exe.config (in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE on my machine), and add this



....

Restart Visual Studio and it should work

2) Make sure that you have set your project to load from a proper letter drive e.g I:\finance systems\.... rather than unc \\servername\... YOU WILL FIND THAT THE DESIGNER PART OF YOUR XAML WILL NOT DISPLAY AND INTELLISENSE IS NOT WORKING FOR SOME THINGS ESPECIALLY YOUR DOMAIN SERVICE

Resized user photos in sharepoint users and groups

edit file:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\Lists\USERS\schema.xml (by default)

****** IMPORTANT : YOU NEED TO REBOOT SHAREPOINT TO HAVE THESE CHANGES SHOW UP****
****************************************************************************

find the height /width in TWO(2) places in the file:



make this Width="300" Height="200" this is the pic size when you click in for details on the person

"

make this width="88" height="77" this is the listing pic size

reduce size of the wss content database LOG

– Truncate the log by changing the database recovery model to SIMPLE
ALTER DATABASE WSS_Content
SET RECOVERY SIMPLE;
GO
– Shrink the truncated log file to 5 MB

use wss_content
DBCC SHRINKFILE (WSS_Content_Log, 5);
GO
– Reset the database recovery model.
ALTER DATABASE WSS_Content
SET RECOVERY FULL;
GO

NOTE: Don't leave ur db Recovery in SIMPLE mode...this will cause some problems when u try to delete site collection from sharepoint central admin.
ALWAYS keep it in FULL mode.

SSE Express issues searching local sharepoint site with no top level site created

Current state of my sharepoint site collection has a sub site root/sites/portal but no top level site as such ..i deleted it i think to clean things up. When putting the top level address in SSE express content source for local sharepoint sites it failed to find the object , seems you need a top level site..even if its blank.
Not a problem created a wiki with just permissions for me , set SSE content source to search sub sites as well under this adress and all works. Ideally will move sub site to top level to sort whole thing out finally.