Jonathan Mast's Blog
My blog surrounding SharePoint, JQuery, HTML, Silverlight, Technology, other nerdsauce, and anything else I'm finding exciting lately.
RSSSharePoint App Development Getting Started Resources
I started to put together a parking lot of links and resources for App development in SharePoint. Then I figured that a blog post is as good of a place as any. MSDN hosts a series of pretty good … more
Rackspace and SharePoint911
This morning Rackspace announced the acquisition of SharePoint911. Being an employee of SharePoint911 (and now Rackspace), this has a pretty direct effect on me TL.DR: Rackspace Acquired … more
SharePoint Project Deployment Error: Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool': The local SharePoint server is not available. Check that the server is running and connected to the SharePoint farm.
If you build your development environment on a single server then chances are your dev account is an admin (or your developing as a domain admin) and so you’ll never run into this. But if you … more
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Error:The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.
I think a lot of people probably see this error at some point in time and they always assume it has something to do with the name of the project or the name of the feature. What is really … more
Quick Tip: Creating a Custom SharePoint HttpHandler (ASHX) using Replacement Tokens
I’ve done this a few times recently, thought it would be good to share. Since 2007 we’ve known that there was a handy little pattern for creating and deploying an HttpHandler within the SharePoint … more
SharePoint Saturday Columbus Redux and Presentation Follow Up
I spent a few minutes researching the word “Redux” to try to figure out whether or not the title of this post would be an appropriate use for it. I think I’m at least pretty close. It … more
How To: Remove Orphaned Web Application Pool Objects from Central Admin
First the long story of how I got here, if you don’t care about it, just skip the next three paragraphs, if you don’t know what a paragraph is, just click here. I came upon a scenario in my … more
How To: Disable “New Folder” button in the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon via Feature
I dug through this thanks to a post on the MSDN forums… thought I would copy the results of my findings here. Basically the use case is: for some reason you want to enable Folders within lists and … more
Cincy SPUG–Jan 6 Presentation
I wanted to get this out before the holiday season start. But hopefully we see everyone out for the next Cincinnati SharePoint Users Group. The meeting is on January 6 at Max Train. … more
Obligatory Happy Holiday Post (with some large-ish announcements)
I love the Holiday season. I think I especially love the emotional aspect of the December holidays. I have two young children and this was really the first year that my oldest (3.5) really … more