Month: June 2015

Sometimes when logging to a Sharepoint site using a Sharepoint account fails and the site asks for authentication again , it’s possible that the account is locked. To resolve, use a admin or system account to unlock the locked account.

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Run the VM on a seperate hard drive, this will improve the disk IO since the host machine’s hard drive and the VM’s can spin separately from each other.

If possible, use an external SSD drive, especially for Sharepoint development. SSD will improve performance dramatically.

Make sure your VM have sufficient RAM for development. Upgrade the host machine to have more RAM and allocate more to the VM helps a lot.

Optimize the VM’s OS and app settings, disable unused services and applications.

To fix this problem. Check if there are validators preventing the page from saving, put in fake data to stop validation.

When developing webparts, put in code to disable validators while in edit mode.

//if we are not in display mode disable all the validation controls to make sure saving the page the webpart is on works.
if (SPWebPartManager.GetCurrentWebPartManager(Page).DisplayMode != WebPartManager.BrowseDisplayMode)
{
    foreach (var validator in Controls)
    {
        if (validator is BaseValidator)
        {
            ((BaseValidator)validator).Enabled = false;
        }
    }
}