My blog has moved to http://www.lamber.info. Click on the redirect button below
to be redirected to the blog post.
Please update your bookmarks and use the new url for getting new updates.
This tool is intended for all those developers in the pre-SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 era. My colleague Martin developed a Visual Studio plugin called WADA (W3WP Advanced Attacher), that gives you the possibility to attach fast to the w3wp process by using some useful filter criteria needed by SharePoint 2007 developers (and also by web developers).
Download and test WADA from here.
Best regards,
Patrick
If you use SharePoint 2010 and you leave all web application settings to default, you will notice that the browser will always prompt you to save a linked PDF file to disk when clicking on the link. However, in most scenarios, you probably want to let the browser open the PDF directly in the browser window for faster viewing.
You can do this by changing the general settings of you web application to allow the “Browse File Handling” to “Permissive”. A step-by-step guide with screen shots can be found here.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
SharePoint 2010 does not include out-of-the-box an iFilter for PDF files. An iFilter is used by the search component of SharePoint to index files of a certain kind (for an PDF iFilter PDF files). Withouth this filter, the content of your PDF files is not extracted and filtered. However, you can use the free iFilter of Adobe to solve this problem. If you are interested, you may find useful the step-by-step installation guide on this link.
Please note that there are also alternatives to the Adobe iFilter. If your core business is based on indexing PDF files, you probably should consider to buy a license of the well known iFilter for PDF files of Foxit. Based on this post (German) and this post (English), Foxit PDF iFilter is faster in indexing than the version of Adobe.
Hope this helps,
Patrick