Comments on: Activating selected Features during the deployment of a package in Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:18:00 +0000

@Roland: You're welcome. The 'Menu Command' thingy is a Visual Studio bug. Hope it will get fixed in 11.

By: Roland Oldengarm

Roland Oldengarm — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:28 +0000

Thanks man, this really helped me out!!!
Only thing: In the Project context menu I see "Menu Command" as title instead of the correct title :) Took me a second longer to find it :)

By: Martin Buus

Martin Buus — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:55:46 +0000

Hi
Thanks for this awesome extension! It's a lifesaver when having features with featurereceivers which adds content on activation ;) Normally the content would be add x times the feature was activated…

BR
/Martin

By: Mavention Activate Selected Features v1.1 - Waldek Mastykarz

Mavention Activate Selected Features v1.1 - Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:58:19 +0000

[...] I’ve just published a new version of the Mavention Activate Selected Features extension with a bugfix for the issue that occurred while trying to open the dialog with new SharePoint projects. [...]

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:21:02 +0000

@El Topo: Thank you for sending the fix. I will try to add the fix as soon as possible and release a new version.

By: El Topo

El Topo — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:16:48 +0000

Dear Waldek,

I took the liberty of analyzing your vsix package 'Activating Selected Features'. It turns out there is a bug in method FillFeaturesPicker from class FeaturesPickerDialog. You miss checking selectedFeaturesIds for null before running Count(). This throws an exception when there is no Mavention_FeaturesSelectedForActivation project property specified. Here is a proposed version after the fix:

private void FillFeaturesPicker(IEnumerable featuresFromPackage, IEnumerable selectedFeaturesIds)
{
List source = new List(featuresFromPackage);
List list2 = null;
if (selectedFeaturesIds != null)
{
list2 = new List(selectedFeaturesIds.Count());
using (IEnumerator enumerator = selectedFeaturesIds.GetEnumerator())
{
Func predicate = null;
Guid featureId;
while (enumerator.MoveNext())
{
featureId = enumerator.Current;
if (predicate == null)
{
predicate = delegate(SharePointProjectFeature f)
{
return f.Feature.Id.Equals(featureId);
};
}
SharePointProjectFeature item = source.Cast().Where(predicate).FirstOrDefault();
if (item != null)
{
list2.Add(item);
source.Remove(item);
}
}
}
}
this.featuresPicker.SelectedItems = list2;
this.featuresPicker.AvailableItems = source;
this.featuresPicker.SelectedItemsLabel = "Features to activate:";
this.featuresPicker.AvailableItemsLabel = "Features in the package:";
}

It would be great, if you could fix the code and repost the package on code gallery, as the extension is highly useful.

Best Regards

By: EL Topo

EL Topo — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:13:11 +0000

Great idea for extension. Too bad it does not work :(
I am receiving the same exception as Michail and Sachin when clicking 'Select features to activate'. Any chance that you could check and fix this problem? Or maybe you could just post the source code, so we could diagnose and fix the problem for ourselves?

By: Sachin Dekate

Sachin Dekate — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:45:41 +0000

I am getting following error…

Unhandled exception occurred while calling method 'configureFeaturesActivationMenuItem_Click' of type 'Mavention.VisualStudio.SharePoint.ActivateSelectedFeaturesProjectExtensions, MaventionActivateSelectedFeatures.Implementation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. Exception: System.ArgumentNullException. Message: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source

By: Lluís

Lluís — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:35:18 +0000

Hey Mihail, i am having same problem with this component, is complaining about the PublicKeyToken, so i checked my token value in the template.xml of the unique featurei have in the project, qich by the way was full O O, i will recheck everything, let's see if we can find the error.

Cheers!!

By: Mihail

Mihail — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:01:31 +0000

I get this error by Clicking "Select Features to activate…" button: