Sharepoint - Empty Recycle Bin

Introduction:

With SharePoint User level recycle bin(that is displayed in Quick Launch), there is no way to ‘Empty’ the recycle bin in a single go. We have this option in Site Collection Recycle Bin. May be this is done deliberately to prevent users from deleting all items by accident! This is definitely a fallback from developers perspective.

Description:

A way to Empty  the recycle bin without going through the pain of manually deleting each of the files or selecting the files and clicking on the ‘Delete Items’ button.

·         Open your SharePoint Recycle Bin Page by clicking on the Recycle Bin icon on the Quick Launch.

·         Simply copy the below JavaScript statement into the address bar and click Enter.

javascript:emptyItems();

Note: 

Be careful as all of the items will not be to sent to Site Collection Recycle Bin. This a good tip for development phase.

SharePoint 2010 - Object Model Code on External List - BDC Exception Solution

When you're working with the Object Model Code on an external list in SharePoint 2010 you might stumble upon the following problem:

Microsoft.BusinessData.Infrastructure.BdcException: The shim execution failed unexpectedly - Proxy creation failed. Default context not found..
---> Microsoft.Office.SecureStoreService.Server.SecureStoreServiceException: Proxy creation failed. Default context not found.

This is caused by the fact that there is no default SPServiceContext, meaning SPServiceContext.Current is always null. The problem is that, for example, when you are working with methods like listitems.getdatatable() you need a current context, since the underlying code will use SPServiceContext.Current

To solve this issue you can create a code block that will fill the current SPServiceContext:

using (var site = new SPSite("http://localhost")) { // Get context for the site. var context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site); // Assign context in SPServiceContext.Current using (var scope = new SPServiceContextScope(context)) { ... listitems.getdatatable() } }

After closing the using codeblock your current SPServiceContext will be empty again.