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Kerberos problems

Kerberos problems

I have been having a lot of Kerberos double hop problems on the network at work, and although I have not yet managed to fix them… I did find these useful pages:

TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0

TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0

This is the first full release  of the TFS Sticky Buddy application  written in VB.NET 9 and WPF with Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit.

End of another Sticky week...

End of another Sticky week...

As you have probably noticed I have been soldiering on with the TFS Sticky Buddy  project, and I though I would share.  

TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 released

TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 released

All to soon and it is that time again…I have been developing, hell bent on getting a working sticky buddy  online, and here it is… Download TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 Now  …

TFS Sticky Buddy v0.3.1 CTP1

TFS Sticky Buddy v0.3.1 CTP1

  There is a Community Technology Preview release of the Team Foundation Server Sticky Buddy  digital dashboard project that is built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I have used the source code from the Family.Show project to create functionality and a look that is appealing.

Creating a better TFS Sticky Buddy (Core)

Creating a better TFS Sticky Buddy (Core)

  Over the last week I have been looking at the source for the Family.Show  application from Vertigo  . I needed to look at methods of presentation of hierarchical information graphically using WPF and I saw this as a good representation of that sort of data. So I se about not only converting it to VB.NET but adding generics to the mix.

Bug in ObservableCollection?

Bug in ObservableCollection?

I seam to be having a little problem. Now, this may be me being stupid, but I can’t get an ObservableCollection to work if you pass it a generic type!

Developer joins TFS Sticky Buddy project

Developer joins TFS Sticky Buddy project

I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of interest in the Sticky Buddy project  . I was particularly exited when Siddharth Bhatia contacted me, but disappointed that he could not get the proof of concept versions to work.

What the 0x80072020?

What the 0x80072020?

I have found a small bug (as in, “Not working as expected!”) in the new .NET 3.5 PrincipalContext classes. When you are running on an ASP.NET site in impersonation mode you cannot retrieve information from active directory without the following error:

Waffling on SharePoint...

Waffling on SharePoint...

Documentation, documentation and more documentation.. The life blood of IT. The only problem being that it is very difficult for a technically minded individual such as myself to write documentation with NO technical content what so ever! These documents are what the business really want; They do not care that the workflow capabilities of SharePoint bring easer workflow to the masses, they only care that it is there; They do not care that we will be deploying on 2 front end servers with 1 application server and a database server for the first initial farm, they only care that it will work.

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