Comments on: A better way to obtain fields values of an SPListItem

By: Pioter

Pioter — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:51:33 +0000

@Demis Bellot correction for Waldek solution.
Guys, You ommit one thing, null value is a good value for reference types (for eq string ;)). Both of you threat null as not optained value (return false)

By: Panoone

Panoone — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:23:22 +0000

Ugh. Legacy dev VM with RTM installed. For some reason SP1 was never offered through Windows Update. Maybe a WSUS setting for web servers. Anyways…after finally locating the SP1 update and waiting am hour for it to complete, I ran an update check again. Lo and behold there were a vast number. ;)

Will try again when it's all over. I'm done for this week.

By: Panoone

Panoone — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:07:14 +0000

I think I cracked the problem. We recently upgraded our SQL server to 2008. I tired opening a DB connection to the server through VS and iot failed with the message:

"This server is not supported. Only servers up to MS SQL 2005 are supported."

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:41:27 +0000

@Panoone: No, there is no debug mode. Good luck!

By: Panoone

Panoone — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:34:01 +0000

Nope. It's on 80. Oh well. Will give it another shit this morning and see what happens. Is there a debug mode at all?

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:29:10 +0000

@Panoone: Only if it's on a port different than 80.

By: Panoone

Panoone — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:31:46 +0000

No UAC but will try a Run As anyway. Do I need to append the internal port to the URL fir a host header web app?

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:25:20 +0000

@Panoone: If you're running with UAC enabled, have you tried running the tool as admin?

By: Panoone

Panoone — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:10:25 +0000

Forgot to mention this is a MOSS farm. :)

By: Panoone

Panoone — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:07:48 +0000

Hi Waldek, running of the server. Odd. Seems like a permission issue, perhaps as a result if running within the context if VS? Yet I have no problem with WSPBuilder, DB connects to SP through VS, or any stand-alone tools. It's an SP farm with single server + dedicated SQL box.