The following tool makes quick work of trying to find differences in the GAC for remote servers and evens offers up a nifty HTML report. Very nicely done.

http://gaccompare.codeplex.com/

A couple things – you need to have Admin rights on the remote computers, the tool does take a while to do the compare (so be patient) and to get the HTML report and other cool features, right-click in the results pane after it has loaded.

W3wp.exe is the worker process that Internet Information Services (IIS) uses for the application pools on your site. Each application pool, is assigned a separate worker process. That way an exception or crash in one of your application pools doesn’t affect other sites running in a different app pool.

To identify which w3wp process belongs to which application pool, here is what you will need to do. NOTE: this is specific for IIS 7.

In Task Manager, switch to the Processes tab. From the top menu, click on View and then Select Columns…, ensure that PID (Process Identifier) is checked.

Now open a command window (Start -> Run -> cmd.exe) and change directory to the following path,

cd c:\windows\system32\inetsrv

*notice that inetsrv may be inetsrv32 or inetsrv64 depending on your specific version of Windows Server.

Once in this directory, type the following:

appcmd list wp

The output will appear with the Process ID (PID from Task Manager) and the associated application pool belonging to it.

Another helpful command is: appcmd list requests

This will list all current requests and other useful information, such as time in milliseconds to help you identify long running requests.

The issue stems from the performance counters on the server being disabled. To verify – run the following at the command line,

lodctr /q:PerfProc

If you see the following,

[PerfProc] Performance Counters (Disabled)

The performance counters are not running. To activate them, run the following command,

lodctr /e:PerfProc

Once done, close any instances of the IIS Manager that you had open. Reopen IIS Manager, and you should now see the Worker Processes feature. Now only if the error message could have told you all that :-).

Thanks to the following for information about this issue:

http://bit.ly/b9yhrV

The WebDeleted.aspx page references the simple.master page which we redirect to our customized application master page. Apparently this results in the page trying to load in elements that are out of context for it. The solution was to stop redirecting simple.master and instead route it back to the SharePoint out of the box simple.master.

So with the three columns, the following CAML query can be used to query items that should be currently displayed:

SPListItem item = GetItemFromSomeWhere();

if (item.ParentList.BaseType == SPBaseType.DocumentLibrary)

{

// This item is from a document library – it probably contains a file.

}

So can’t I just add a height:0; rule to my css? Well that will work – until the control within my div decides to render content and now its hidden.

So the fix? Add an html comment within the div. Yep, sounds crazy – but if your empty div is empty, save for an html comment, it will now not render any height.

Here’s how the fix looks like:

Yay Microsoft! Your rules for HTML parsing makes perfect sense!

Oh really? My response went something like, “Isn’t that the purpose of memory management and having an Garbage Collector?” Apparently not.  Whatever, so I call Dispose after my objects, no big deal.

Until one day I stumble upon this lovely error:  “Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid” Say what?!

So I google it and find out that I’m trying to dispose the current context of an SPWeb that needs to be used by other controls on the page.

Oh lovely, so how in the world then should I know when or when not to dispose? This is so retarded. Microsoft/Sharepoint fail.

For the self-employed, the idea of CoLabing is great. It gives you the chance to get out of the house, change up your routine, and get motivated by being around other people. Mind you, there is a membership fee, but for what you get, I think its well worth the money (plus, you get your own downtown office! can you say Baller??)

For me, CoLab solves one of the two main problems that i faced with being self-employed: one – regular income and two – being around people. Had CoLab been around when I was laid-off last year, I could easily still be freelancing today.

Apart from helping the self-employed, CoLab also helps to foster and grow the tech community within Orlando (something that is very important to me) by giving those who work here a sense of community and connection. Now that’s awesome!