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In VB.NET it is actually possible to return an Anonymous type from a function and use it somewhere else. In VB.NET you need to use late binding so you can’t change the “Option strict” compiler option to true as I have always done in the past. This option, that defaults to “Off”, is the main reason that C# developers scoff at VB, but this feature is now available, controversially in C#.
I decided as part of my .NET 3.5 learning curve to rebuild Duncan Mackenzie ’s Xbox to Twitter application just for fun… When you call his web service you get a XboxInfo class back that contains all of your Xbox Live Information. I wanted to be able to add a method to this called “ToInstanceString” that I would use to both display your Status, and to detect when it had changed.
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I had been trying to find an application that provided updates to twitter from my Xbox. There is such an application written by Duncan Mackenzie , but I could not get it to work. I tried everything and ended up decompiling the application to see what was wrong. Well, it seamed that the guts of the application was missing! The source code has all of the UI elements, but none of the bit to do the updates.
I had a number of problems installing SharePoint 3.0 Service Pack 1 and then Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 . In fact, I managed to put my server completely out of action and I have been trying to fix it off and on for a couple of weeks (I have been on holiday). This being my only day in for the rest of this year, I thought I should give it another go, as I did not want the server down for another week…
I am sorry to tell you all that I am now (as of Friday past) off for the holiday period. With a little luck and some saved holidays I will not be back in the office until the 3rd January 2008 :) I will be in the office for damage control on the 31st, but apart from that I am a free man…
Well, I was browsing the Microsoft downloads site looking for SP1 for SharePoint and a wee popup asked if I would like to see the http://download.microsoft.com beta…
Well I think I have found the root of the problem with my Microsoft office SharePoint Server 2007 dev box! It was McAfee plain and simple. Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event Category: Gatherer Event ID: 2424 Date: 13/12/2007 Time: 09:36:06 User: N/A Computer: GLA1VS09 Description: The update cannot be started because the content sources cannot be accessed. Fix the errors and try the update again.
I thought I should create this blog as I am going along because I usually forget some critical item that gubs my server if I try it again
wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en#filelist Not realy installing updates, more like unpacking…
So far it is exactly the same show as with the WSS update. Installing updates before moving onto the main feature… And it did not ask me to install WSS SP1 this time.. That is another one of those mixed signs…
Over the past year of using the Windows Mobile Device Center on Vista as well as ActiveSync 4.5 I have become increasingly disillusioned with them both and searching for another tool that would do the job better.
I came across this amazing new service which is very similar to ClusterMaps , NeoWORX . It is a bit of a pain in Flash as the system resources required for flash these days seams a little excessive, but I would like to see it running as a WPF XBAP.
Well, due to my campaign to get lots of free bandwidth I now have an additional 2.3 GB on top of my initial free 2GB bringing the grand total to 4.3 GB of online storage with Mozy !
A few months ago I found a cool site called Community Credit . I did not understand the premise at first, but after seeing the prizes page, I thought, what the heak! Community Credit is the brain child of one David Silverlight, and yes, it is quite possible that “Silverlight” was named after him :). What is this wondrous site you may ask…Well, its part bragging, part recognition, and part prizes :)
It is fantastic news that GeeksWithBlogs.net and Community Credit have now both said their vows and are now fully integrated with each other. Awww, so cute.
All be it it is only popularity, but they are stars non the less… Willy-Peter Schaub brought and update of the Team System Widgets page to my attention and I remembered that I had submitted the TFS Event Handler I built and headed over to take a look.
I am having a look at Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 as a solution to our disparate user identity problem. Some of the bigger companies out there have solved this problem, and in many of the smaller companies it just does not exist, but we have many system that hold meta data about our employees. From HR systems to Active Directory and custom web based address books. Because of Aggreko’s unprecedented growth these systems have outgrown our capacity to maintain the consistency of the data, with small groups responsible for each repository and everyone not knowing where ALL the repository’s are or who controls them.
Well, I currently have two referrals :) Thanks to Garrett Hoofman and Andrew Stifora who got their fingers out and got backed up ! Hopefully the others that have signed up with my referral link will complete a backup as well so we can all benefit (well me!) from the extra space.
I was looking for an online backup solution and Scott Hanselman provided it for me: Thanks Scott and good luck with all the new stuff :).
Better late than never, but I attended a MSDN event on Tuesday night in Edinburgh. Although I eagerly signed up for it, I did not expect to learn a lot:
Well it seems that Microsoft took the generally felt community suggestion and bundles Team Explorer with Visual Studio 2008 team Suit. I don’t know if they did the same with VS2008 Pro or the other version, but it would seem a good idea.
Something occured to me after seeing the Family Show application from Vertigo . If you have not seen this application it is definitely worth a look. What I want to achieve would be to display and allow the edit of company Higherarchical data through a similar interface to the one presented in Family Show.
In my quest to play with test VB 9.0 and it very cool features I created a little application to update Active Directory. I was asked by my boss (Andre) to get some sense of order into Active Directory for the users that will be involved in the proof of concept for MOSS 2007. So I immediately thought of an application to automate this.
I am a little confused by the RTM release of VS2008. I cant find a copy of the Team Explorer RTM or wither it is bundled with Team Suit. This would be a problem if I uninstalled everything only to find that I can’t get my source control…
Well, its official. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 went RTM this morning…. So I will be spending the next wee while moving to the full release. if I can ever get the MSDN site to load. At the moment I have been waiting a couple of minutes for it, and no sign yet… That’s everyone in the UK and probably European development communities hitting the site mercilessly. I know I will be…
I decided that I should have a go at this LINQ thing, so as .NET 3.5 will be RTM at the end of the month I am using LINQ and .NET 3.5 in my new Locator project.
Well this was fun… All the examples of how to connect through a proxy from SharePoint are missing a crucial piece of information! <system.net> <defaultProxy> <proxy usesystemdefault = "false" proxyaddress="http://proxyservername" bypassonlocal="true" /> </defaultProxy> </system.net> This is the accepted route, with an exception to e added to the proxy to use anonymous authentication…
You receive error 401.1 when you browse a TFS Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6 This little problem occurs when you have Windows 2003 SP1 or later installed and you try to change your Team Foundation Server to a friendly name, like say tfs01.[intranet].[company].com.
Well, setting up TFS 2008 is pretty easy. I have done an upgrade before, but I have now deployed my first pure TFS 2008 server to a clean environment. I have Reporting Services, SQL and TFS on one box and SharePoint 2007 in my Farm. Word of warning:
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