Comments on: Imtech Get SPMetal Definition Extension

By: Tobias Zimmergren

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:09:57 +0000

Awesome work Waldek. I like Scot's suggestion as well, to be able to generate the definitions for selected CT's or lists.

By: Oscar Bautista

Oscar Bautista — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:03:09 +0000

Thanks so much. My site collection was broken like you suggested. I created a new one and ported the data over.

Thanks -

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:41:02 +0000

@Oscar: perhaps your Site (Collection) is broken? Have you tried creating a new Site (Collection) and trying to use SPMetal/SharePoint Explorer?

By: Oscar Bautista

Oscar Bautista — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:10:09 +0000

I am trying to use SPMetal that shipped with VS. Below is my command. The strange thing is that it worked once, but not it isnt working.

SPMETAL /web:http://www.technologyblends.com /namespace:TechnologyBlends /code:TechnologyBlends.cs

I also tried using your tool and I cannot get that working. I am able to create a SharePoint connection. It sees my site, but when I click to Expand (plus sign) on Sites I get this error:

Server Explorer Error:
Unable to retrieve information for this node, possibly because the node has been deleted or its connection disrupted. If the item exists in SharePoint, be sure it is accessible.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:18:24 +0000

@Oscar: With SPMetal you mean the .exe that ships with SharePoint 2010 or the extension that I made?

By: Oscar Bautista

Oscar Bautista — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:43:21 +0000

I am trying to use SPMetal. When I enter the command and run it I keep getting Object Reference Not Set to an instance of an Object".

I do not know how to get past this?

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:31:36 +0000

@Scot: cool idea! What could be done is to extend the List and Content Type nodes and then generate the parameters.xml in the background and use those while running SPMetal.

Thanks Scot!

By: Scot Hillier

Scot Hillier — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:21:44 +0000

Cool, but what I really want is to do it for a selected list or content type using the parameters.xml. That way, I don't get everything for the site – just the items I want.

Scot

By: Jeremy Thake

Jeremy Thake — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:59 +0000

it'll keep you busy for atleast another 5 mins

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:40:45 +0000

@Jeremy: It turns out that the string at the end is just SPMetal. When writing the output to a file the remark is being displayed on the screen. While printing on the screen it's just there below the generated code. I guess I'll have to solve it using a temp file for the code.