Thursday, September 09, 2004 - Posts
I tried to install the SharePoint web part templates today and got this error:
"Visual Studio .NET must be installed before you can install the Web Part Templates for Visual Studio .NET."
But of course, Visual Studio is installed. I found two answers to the problem on the Usenet:
Add Missing Registry Keys
Reinstall Visual Studio
Along the way I also discovered that you must either have the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll on your machine or on a share you can access in order for the install to proceed.
I needed to create a publisher for exceptions to a text file (XML would be better but the requirement was for text...). I based my publisher on this article I found on C# Corner. But it has one problem associated with using files, that unfortunately loomed large. Concurrency. To a certain extent the code handled the problem by tossing the error into the Event Log if the provider threw an error, but this was not acceptable for my requriement. So I needed to modify the code to handle the issue. Essentially, I modified the overriden Publish procedure to trap the error related to the StreamWriter and then sleep for a set amount of time and try again. After too many failures at writing to the file the error eventually gets written to the event log (so it is not lost).
privateconst int WriteAttempts = 5;
private const int SleepTime = 500;
void IExceptionPublisher.Publish(Exception exception, NameValueCollection additionalInfo, NameValueCollection configSettings)
{
// Read and set up configuration
SetConfig(configSettings);
// Create fileName
string logFilePath = CreateLogFilePath();
// Create Message
string logMessage = CreateLogMessage(exception, additionalInfo);
int attempts = 0;
bool written = false;
// Write the entry to the log file.
while(!written && attempts <= WriteAttempts)
{
try
{
// Append to file if exists or create new file
using ( FileStream fs = File.Open(logFilePath, FileMode.Append,FileAccess.Write))
{
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs))
{
sw.Write(logMessage);
written = true;
}
}
}
catch
{
attempts++;
Thread.Sleep(SleepTime);
}
}
if(attempts > WriteAttempts)
{
throw(exception);
}
}