How to remove corrupted web part from Sharepoint pages

Sharepoint doesn't store a physical aspx pages. They stored the pages in database and when an aspx have erratic web parts you cannot access the page from sharepoint designer in anyway to take away the web part that is causing the problem. And this issue could lead the sharepoint page not being able to render. One way to remove the problematic web part while having trouble accessing the page which host the web part is to get access to web part maintainance page. By appending ?contents=1 to the sharepoint page, you will be able to access to web part maintainance page and will able to remove the erratic web part. The link you should enter to access the web part maintainance should look something like http://mysharepointserver.com/default.aspx?contents=1

Once get access to the web part maintainance page you can either delete, close or reset the web part that is causing the problem.

Autheticating HTTP Basic Authentication with X509 Certificate on SSL Web Service On WCF

This takes me quite awhile to figure out how to get it done on WCF. My requirement is I need to construct a client to connect to a web service with X509Certificate and HTTP Basic Authentication is needed to authenticate myself to web service. This is dual authentication mechanism. Although I can find out how to use X509 Certificate relatively easy it took me some time to play around with my config file to get the HTTP Basic Authentication correct. Here's what I did

First, I need to get the x509 behavior declare under

<behaviors>
<endpointbehaviors>
<behavior name="X509DigiCert">
<clientcredentials>
<clientcertificate findvalue="Myx509Cert" storelocation="CurrentUser" x509findtype="FindBySubjectName">
<servicecertificate>
<authentication certificatevalidationmode="None">
</servicecertificate>
</clientcredentials>
</behavior>
</endpointbehaviors>
</behaviors>

Next I need to create my own custom binding. You need to specify authenticationScheme="Basic" for Basic Http Authentication and requireClientCertificate="true" to tell WCF we are using X509 Certificate.


<!-- Use custom binding for HTTP Basic Authentication + X509 Certificate Authentication.-->
<custombinding>
<binding name="OtherPublishedDataWebServiceServiceSoapBinding" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00"
sendTimeout="00:01:00" >
<textMessageEncoding maxReadPoolSize="64" maxWritePoolSize="16"
messageVersion="Soap11" writeEncoding="utf-8">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="100000" maxStringContentLength="100000"
maxArrayLength="67108864" maxBytesPerRead="65536" maxNameTableCharCount="100000" />
</textmessageencoding>
<httpsTransport manualAddressing="false" maxBufferPoolSize="67108864"
maxReceivedMessageSize="67108864" allowCookies="false" authenticationScheme="Basic"
bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
keepAliveEnabled="true" maxBufferSize="67108864" proxyAuthenticationScheme="Anonymous"
realm="" transferMode="Buffered" unsafeConnectionNtlmAuthentication="false"
useDefaultWebProxy="true" requireClientCertificate="true" />
</binding>
</custombinding>

Lastly, identify endpoint and make sure you include behaviorConfiguration with the previously declared behavior name X509Digicert and for binding configuration use the custombinding that we have create above. It should look something similar to this.

<endpoint address="https://mywebservices.com/OtherPublishedReports"
behaviorConfiguration="X509DigiCert" binding="customBinding"
bindingConfiguration="OtherPublishedDataWebServiceServiceSoapBinding"
contract="OtherPublishedReports.OtherPublishedDataWebService"
name="OtherPublishedDataWebServiceServiceSoapBindingQSPort" />

For Basic HTTP Authentication User Name and Password you have to include in your code. Sample code snippet below.

Dim report As OtherPublishedReports.OtherPublishedDataWebServiceClient = New OtherPublishedReports.OtherPublishedDataWebServiceClient()
'Adding Credential
report.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "User"
report.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "Password"