SharePoint 2010 Setup unable to proceed due to a pending system restart

Hi friends,

This is the article which i found on Donal Conlon blog, which helped me to resolve the issue of setup failure due to pending system restart which got resolved by renaming only single system registry key as explained in Donal's article link is given below:

http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/sharepoint-2010-setup-unable-to-proceed-due-to-a-pending-system-restart/

The registry key which needs to be renamed is “PendingFileRenameOperations”  to “PendingFileRenameOperations1” which we can find in following location "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager".

Then just proceed the Sharepoint 2010 installation without restarting the system and it works!!!!

Convert Object to XML in C#

Add following name space:

using System.Xml; using System.Xml.Serialization;

Then add below code in class file




/// <summary>

/// Serializes a class to xml text

/// </summary>

/// <param name="item">Class to be converted to XML</param>

/// <returns>XML string representing class</returns>

public static string SerializeObjectToXML(object item)

{

    try

    {

        string xmlText;

        //Get the type of the object

        Type objectType = item.GetType();

        //create serializer object based on the object type

        XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(objectType);

        //Create a memory stream handle the data

        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

        //Create an XML Text writer to serialize data to

        using (XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter =

            new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8)

                { Formatting = Formatting.Indented })

        {

            //convert the object to xml data

            xmlSerializer.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, item);

            //Get reference to memory stream

            memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;

            //Convert memory byte array into xml text

            xmlText = new UTF8Encoding().GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());

            //clean up memory stream

            memoryStream.Dispose();

            return xmlText;

        }

    }

    catch (Exception e)

    {

        //There are a number of reasons why this function may fail

        //usually because some of the data on the class cannot

        //be serialized.

        System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(e.ToString());

        return string.empty;

    }

}