TFS Event Handler Revisited
As I now have a TFS server in the office and we have Go-Live on 1st February I will be revisiting the TFS Event Handler prototype. I think there is too much work in the main code to get it working, but I should be able to rework the Prototype for Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008.
Xbox Live to Twitter Update (v0.2.3)
I have updated the Xbox Live to Twitter application and it works quite well now. There are currently too many updates as you can see from my twitter on the left of my blog .
Returning an Anonymous type...
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#.
My first Extension method...
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.
I always like a good Serenity plug...
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Xbox Live To Twitter
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.
SharePoint 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1 Update
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…
Festive holiday studying
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…
Silverlight cream, kinda, but it is interesting!
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…
No love between McAfee Enterprise and MOSS 2007
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.
