PPM Tricks

A new update to Visual Studio 2013 is out, and as always there are a lot of general improvements and some improvements targeted SharePoint/Project Server. The most noticeable changes for SharePoint development (and SharePoint App development) is:  - Better IntelliSense for JavaScript  - JSON improvements (Loading and IntelliSense)  - Better HTML IntelliSense  - #Region support in HTML  - Razor bugfix  - XAML Designer bugfix (Silverlight) (Download it from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2994375 ) Complete release notes Team Foundation Server You can create trend charts and aggregate data from work item queries. When a new work item chart is created, you can see three new chart types: Stacked Area , Area , and Line . You can move items in the backlog to the top position ( Move to Top ) or to any position you want to determine ( Move to Position ). You can enter the "full-screen mode" for all the pages in the Backlogs hub. Yo...

Received this error today when trying to create a SharePoint solution against a newly created site. My first problem was the site was configured to use a port which was already used by another web site. Therefore the site could not start at all. In my case both Default Web Site and SharePoint - 2000 was both using port 2000. Changing the port of Default Web Site and I was able to start the site. However now I still received the same error message. When browsing the site I realized I did not have access to the site. Giving access to my user and I was able to deploy the solution. To sum up this post:  - Check the site can start  - Check the site can be browsed  - Check your user have access to the site