SharePoint installation problem is date related
I seem to be bumping into SharePoint issues at the moment. Okay, last week’s wasn’t SharePoint specifically and was down to dcpromo, but only came to light ...
VB.NET’s missing features will be added
A few weeks ago, I complained that VB.NET was missing features that programmers using languages of the braces and semicolon ilk had had for ages.
Port Requirements for Microsoft Windows Server System
Excel spreadsheet illustrating network ports used by Microsoft products. Interesting and useful both at the same time.
IIS6 after dcpromo
If you install IIS6 on a Win2K3 server before promoting the server to be a domain controller using dcpromo, some IIS permissions don’t get upgraded correctly:
Mounting ISO files virtually
_The following tool for Windows XP allows image files to be mounted virtually as CD-ROM devices. This tool is provided here for your convenience, and is unsu...
FrontPage Server Extensions error
I was trying to remove FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 from the default virtual web on my Windows Server 2003 install so that I could install Windows ShareP...
COMDEX Key Note
Last night I watched the online video of Bill Gates giving his key note at COMDEX. Partly as a measure of the difference in audience at COMDEX compared to th...
Handling the meta data
Joe Gregorio suggests that WinFS can’t work because people don’t add relevant meta-data to their files today. I think he is missing the point somewhat.
WinFS - it’s what people want
I made it back from the PDC yesterday after staying on for a few days in LA. Just got to get over the jet lag again now - currently have little clue what day...
Last minute change
So, I made a last minute decision to attend a different session than I had planned. When I arrived at the room for Indigo Web Services Protocols and Architec...
InfoPath really needs pitching properly
I figured that while I was here, I really ought to visit some sessions explaining stuff I could go away and start really working with in a real sense almost ...
Yukon do it with XML!
I attended the Building Database Applications with SQL Server “Yukon”: XQuery, XML Datatype session this morning by Arpan Desai and Istvan Cseri. This covere...
Will the sky be indigo?
Drew has great notes on yesterday’s Indigo Serialization talk by Doug Purdy. Doug has a really unique presentation style and I swear he had his microphone tu...
ASP.NET Whidbey
I attended ScottGu’s “Overview of ASP.NET ‘Whidbey’” presentation this afternoon and to a degree, I got that same feeling that we had when the .NET 1.0 stuff...
Open source anyone?
Interesting to see an NUnit task demonstrated in the MSBuild presentation. They also explained how they see a distinction between NAnt and MSBuild in a polit...
Utility Belt Computing
Surprise appearance by Batman this morning, stopping by to show us the Smart Devices on his utility belt.
PDC Keynote
It’s probably too early to know what to make of the technical content shown during the keynote. Presentationally, though, it was classic. What with showing t...
California Dreaming
Well, I’ve been so snowed under with work stuff for the last few weeks and I notice it’s almost 2 months since my last blog entry(!). I’m way behind on RSS r...
Custom configuration section handlers
I read Keith Ballinger’s excellent Web Services: Architecture and Implementation with .NET a few months ago, and it gave a fascinating approach to using XML ...
Missing compiler features from VB.NET
Having spent probably more time in the last couple of months on a project using VB.NET than I might otherwise have chosen, it seems to me that the same probl...
Wikis, Grafitti, and Process
Clay Shirky: Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. When I was CTO of a web design firm, I noticed in staff meetings that we only ever talked ab...
Handling Errors in ASP.NET II
Brad describes using the Application Error event to catch application-wide exceptions and handle them gracefully. This is pretty much what I’ve been doing, ...
Updated RSS feed
Apologies to those people seeing a string of old posts from me in their RSS readers. I’ve updated my RSS generating code to (hopefully) correctly handle ETag...
POPFile and Outclass for spam
After reading Simon’s recommendation for POPFile a week or so ago, I decided that I would give it a go after all. I’d looked at it previously but decided not...
AndAlso OrElse
Paul Vick provides a bit of history about where the short circuiting logical operators got their names. One of the projects I’m working on currently is bein...
Handling Errors in ASP.NET
CraigBlog: This is where it pays to be friends with Fritz Onion. :) I pinged him, and he suggested a clever little hack (in the good sense of that word) to ...
Designing with a Wiki
Scott Watermasysk: In part 1 of the interview, Anders mentions an internal wiki that is used for the design process. I would love to read that some day.
MSBlaster and help written “by nerds for nerds”
The last week or so has been a depressing one for advocates of the Windows platform with lots of publicity surrounding the W32.Blaster.Worm that spread like...
ASP.NET Web Services documentation and derived classes
This is another gotcha that I ran into this week. The documentation pages generated by the ASMX engine don’t seem to handle derived/base class types correctl...
Automating signcode
Rob MacFadyen writes:
minOccurs=”1” and ASP.NET web services
One of the projects that I’m working on involves putting together a web service interface to a booking system so that business partners can integrate our inv...
iText JAVA-PDF library for .NET
Alan Flaherty: Try iTextSharp, I’ve been using it for creating rtf documents and it’s a really nice piece of work, (and its free :)). It’s a c# implementati...
Switching Source Code Control Providers
Scott Watermasysk: Anyone who needs to switch between Source Code Providers can not be without Harry’s latest utility: SccSwitch. VSS to GotDotNet to Vault …...
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 contains core Data Access components such as the Microsoft SQL Server OLE DB provider and ODBC driver. [ Microsof...
Webalizer Win32
Jeff Smith: There is a webalizer port for Win32. Works great. Make sure you turn off the built in reverse DNS lookup or it will take days to analyze any dec...
NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Released
NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Released: At long last, NUnit 2.1 is released in its initial Beta version. Highlights of this release include support for the .NET framework...
ASP.NET WebServices calling Apartment-Threaded COM Components…
Scott Hanselman’s Weblog: If you’ve ever had to call a VB6 Component from an ASP.NET (ASMX) XML Web Service, you may (most probably) get threading errors. In...
sitecopy for Win32
sitecopy is a program for maintaining and synchronizing local and remote copies of web sites. The program will upload files to the server which have changed ...
VSIP Developer Community Center
VSIP Developer Community Center: Register to become a Visual Studio Industry partner and get FREE access to the VSIP SDK. As a VSIP you will have access to t...
IIS Debug Toolkit: IIS Crash/Hang Agent & IIS Dump (Version 1.1)
_Two tools make up the IIS Debug toolkit and are designed to help figure out what requests were in flight when IIS terminates unexpectedly or take action whe...
Gotcha with STAThreadAttribute and Managed C++
Adam Nathan: Gotcha with STAThreadAttribute and Managed C++
HttpResponse.WriteFile
_Someone please fix the braindead implementation that loads the whole file into memory before returning it to the client._ [[Simon Fell](http://www.pocketsoa...
Filtered exception handling
_[Duncan](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma) points out a [little something extra](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/posts/10518.aspx) that VB.NET's Try...Catch ...
Creating Windows ISO CD images
iunknown.com: Steve Shockley set me a pointer via my comments to the Windows Compact Disk Management Script. Thanks, Steve! I wish I had known about this BEF...
Visual Basic faces uncertain future in .NET world
Scott Swigart: Also, yes, VB existed before .NET, but I don’t see what’s muddled about the language. If you want to see a kludge, look at what happened to C...
Framework 1.1 and NUnit gotcha
iunknown.com:
Static methods and locking
Richard Birkby points to the Dr GUI article about locking with static methods: A Special Dr. GUI: Don’t Lock Type Objects!
Web Services Enhancements 2.0 Tech Preview
Download the WSE 2.0 Technology Preview, which includes a policy framework, enhanced security model, and a lightweight, message-oriented, SOAP programming m...
DirectCast revealed
Panopticon Central: Essentially, if you know that what you’re converting is exactly what you say it is, then you can use DirectCast to bypass the little bit...
Language divergence
After what I wrote yesterday, I came across PaulV’s comments on the same subject:
The Big Mistage of VB.NET
So even though a lot of C# developers wish VB would just go away, it’s not going to happen. [Sean ‘Early’ Campbell & Scott ‘Adopter’ Swigart’s Radio Webl...
Never have a red/blue person work for a black/white person
simplegeek: I once talked to a guy that ran a game development company. He talked about the artists that he employeed. Developers, he said, saw problems as ...
SMART disk utilities
_I just downloaded a copy of [ActiveSMART](http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/) after my BIOS told me to replace my HDD on my desktop computer. The only reas...
RSS and SourceSafe
Greg writes: “Hot out of the RAI lab…RSS feeds generated from Visual SourceSafe. Many development shops use some kind of email notification for source change...
The XML Big Picture
_If you were confused about XML, [this picture](http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html) will help or make it worse. :)_ > > _But the cool thing ...
Googling your weblog
_Funny you should ask. I remembered writing about just that on my weblog a while back. So, I fire up Google, type in "SAP .NET Scoble" and out came the answe...
/nosplash: Undoc’d VS.NET command line switch?
_The startup time of VS.NET 2003 seems vastly improved over the initial release..._ [[Shawn A. Van Ness](http://weblogs.asp.net/savanness/posts/9124.aspx)]
The XML API Challenge
_Everyone knows what the right answer is, but the problem is that half of them know that it is "fix it" and half of them know it is "don't fix it", and they ...
A Special Dr. GUI: Don’t Lock Type Objects!
Dr. GUI describes how to avoid potential deadlocks in multithreaded programs by not using the common, but wrong, idiom of locking a type object. [MSDN Just ...
PowerToys for Visual Studio .NET 2003
PowerToys for Visual Studio .NET 2003 are a collection of cool utilities and tools developed by Microsoft that enhance Visual Studio. This initial collection...
Web user controls with images
Scott Guthrie writes:
DateTime.Parse
I’ve been working on an application that needs to handle the case where different users and/or different servers are located in different time zones. To acco...
Moving on from Radio
I decided last November that I was going to find the time to develop a system to replace Radio Userland as my blogging software. Lots of people had been repo...
How to generate a unique session id for an ASP.NET application
It is often useful to be able to track a user session through your ASP.NET application whilst avoiding the use of server-side session state. The following co...
Don’t call into the CLR from SQL Server
From time to time I’ve considered making a call from a SQL Server stored proc into a .NET assembly via COM Interop using the sp_OA stored procedures as a mec...
Don Box favours using
Don Box favours using and over named complexTypes in XSLT. I've been having problems getting Intellisense to work correctly in VS.NET with schema using s...
Windows Application Verifier
Craig points to a cool Microsoft tool called Windows Application Verifier, which will watch a malfunctioning app and tell you what it’s doing wrong. Perfec...
Searching is a skill
Sometimes it is difficult to discern when a seemingly everyday activity requires an element of skill to get the best results. Yesterday, Jon Udell talked abo...
Fixing Outlook 2003 Beta 2
Outlook 2003 Beta 2 Users: Here’s the Fix for All the Instabilities
HTML Tidy from .NET
I’ve been looking at the HTML Tidy Library Project based on Dave Raggett’s HTML Tidy program and I wanted a way to call into the library from .NET. The two l...
Managed Extensions for C++ Frequently Asked…
Managed Extensions for C++ Frequently Asked Questions MSDN FAQ for MC++.
Network Security -or- “Don’t ask. You…
Network Security -or- “Don’t ask. You can always apologize later.”.
How to run ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1 on the same box….
How to run ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1 on the same box.
Speaking of ASP.NET, I hit chapter 4 (the HTTP…
Speaking of ASP.NET, I hit chapter 4 (the HTTP Pipeline) in_ Fritz Onion’s book_, and let me tell you, this book is a keeper. It’s not the book I’d recommend...
Red or Green
When you get an MSDN subscription refresh that says “All DVDs in this shipment are red. You may archive all previous red DVDs.” but all the DVDs in the box a...
Daniel Bright @ 04/02/2003 10:52 AM [quote] This…
[ Daniel Bright @ 04/02/2003 10:52 AM](http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000007200&blog_entry_id=216#5037163)
Amaya
Amaya - W3C’s Editor/Browser
InfoPath FAQ
The InfoPath FAQ is here. [via Sean ‘Early’ Campbell & Scott ‘Adopter’ Swigart’s Radio Weblog]
Magic, The User Inteface Library for .NET The…
Magic, The User Inteface Library for .NET
aim for the brain
Cool game written in Flash. Oh, and do “aim for the brain” - nice animation. :o)
RDF Primer Primer
RDF Primer Primer“The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a system for storing and sharing data between computer programs. This document will help you un...
Win2k3 Http API
HTTP API / http.sys / Sam talks about IIS6. The New Request Processing Architecture of IIS 6.0/Win2K3. [Sam Gentile’s Blog]
LumiSoft Mail Server
LumiSoft Mail Server is written in C# with source. The site says the program is freeware although it isn’t clear what license the source is released under.
MSF Resource Library To make it easy for…
MSF Resource Library To make it easy for customers to learn and apply the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), Microsoft has created materials and services ...
Good Article on when to read your email and when…
Good Article on when to read your email and when to code.
Running the World’s Busiest Corporate Web Site on Windows Server 2003
Running the World’s Busiest Corporate Web Site on Windows Server 2003
Outlook 2003 VBA Problem
I’m running Outlook 2003 B2 and I have a problem using VBA if my account doesn’t have administrator access (maybe power user but I only tried admin). If I tr...
The Loader Lock Issue. If you’re using…
The Loader Lock Issue. If you’re using Managed C++, read and understandthis. It’s big, it’s important, and worthwhile to keep in mind…. [Commonality]
Unskilled and Unaware of It
A commentor pointed me to this fantastic article in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology entitled Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Re...
Descriptons Are OPTIONAL. OK, so it looks like a…
Descriptons Are OPTIONAL.
Abbreviated RSS fields
I have been giving some thought about this recently. I am going to release an optional “short-description” feature tonight that I hope everyone will use for ...
Lots more ASP.NET page template links [Stephen S…
Lots more ASP.NET page template links
Managed Office Add-In Info
Managed Office Add-In Info:
Scott Guthrie opens a window on ASP.NET. It’s…
Scott Guthrie opens a window on ASP.NET.
Page template techniques with ASP.NET
Page template techniques with ASP.NET:
HOW TO: Connect to Microsoft Desktop Engine…
HOW TO: Connect to Microsoft Desktop Engine (Q319930)
ASP.NET Dynamic Controls Placeholder
Haven’t looked at this in any great detail but might be worth returning to:
Side-by-Side COM with Windows XP and .NET
Yesterday, I spent some time experimenting with the side-by-side support for COM components within Windows XP. I’ve uploaded my sample code here.
Hitting Code Complete. A tester – sitting in…
[ Hitting Code Complete](http://dotnetweblogs.com/ScottGu/archive/02162003.aspx#2493). _A tester -- sitting in their office -- can configure the operating sy...
Darren Syzling @ 02/15/2003 06:01 PM. Been…
[ Darren Syzling @ 02/15/2003 06:01 PM](http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000007200&blog_entry_id=187#4558368). _Been running as non adm...
Smartphone. …….having the ability to…
[_ Smartphone_](http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2003/02/15.html#a1022)_. .......having the ability to leverage my development skills as well as code I've al...
Windows Update
Windows Update isn’t possible when you’re not an administrator for fairly obvious reasons when you think about it. It does seem to be possible to run IEXPLOR...
Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold
Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold [via Drew’s Blog]
Craig’s AppList
[ Craig's AppList](http://staff.develop.com/candera/weblog/stories/2003/02/14/craigsApplist.html). _I've been_[_ taking the plunge_](http://staff.develop.com...
Not being the administrator
After a day and a half of running without being an administrator, I’ve only run into a refreshingly small list of “issues”:
Developer Lifestyle If you’re a Windows…
Developer Lifestyle
RSS. Greg has some thoughts on GUIDs in RSS >…
[RSS](http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2003/02/08.html#a995). _Greg has some thoughts on_[_ GUIDs in RSS_](http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?po...
Behind The Scenes Once we got the computer on the…
Behind The Scenes
Open Source IE Web Controls. Microsoft recently…
Open Source IE Web Controls.
The Log Parser 2.0 tool lets you run SQL-like…
The Log Parser 2.0 tool lets you run SQL-like queries on log files of almost any format, and then display the results in a file format of your choice, in a ...
.NET Application Updater Component This article…
.NET Application Updater Component
Greg Reinacker @ 01/31/2003 04:29 PM. What do…
[ Greg Reinacker @ 01/31/2003 04:29 PM](http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000007200&blog_entry_id=179#4401835). _What do you think of th...
What do you guys think? There is still time to…
_What do you guys think? There is still time to address this for NewsGator v1. I'm leaning toward defaulting to no referrer, and allowing the user to overrid...
RSS readers misusing the referer field? Very few…
RSS readers misusing the referer field?
Internet Explorer Fitted-Width Printing I’ve…
Internet Explorer Fitted-Width Printing
I have been too busy to blog or even keep up to…
I have been too busy to blog or even keep up to date with my RSS subscriptions for the last few weeks so I am trying to catch up today. Even though many post...
I’ve been working on fixing up my IE Printing…
I’ve been working on fixing up my IE Printing helper which broke when IE6 SP1 was released (I think). According to Q220830 (INFO: Syntax of the Res: Protoco...
In real life, you never have to stop to consider…
In real life, you never have to stop to consider whether, for example, the failure of gravity to operate as expected is a possible explanation for some probl...
Outlook Based Aggregator. Greg Reinacker:…
[_Outlook Based Aggregator_](http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1088.html)_._[_ Greg Reinacker_](http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=523)_: .....
Is it possible to just get the raw HTML that is…
Is it possible to just get the raw HTML that is sent to the browser when a web control is rendered?
BaseCodeGeneratorWithSiteThis is the sourcefor…
[_BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite_](http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/keywordsrch.aspx?keyword=BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite) [_This is the source_](http://www.gotdo...
Don’t Forget RenderControl!. > > Is it…
[_Don't Forget RenderControl!_](http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/001846.shtml)_._ > > _Is it possible to just get the raw HTML that is se...
Who says Windows can’t be reliable? This is a…
Who says Windows can’t be reliable? This is a Windows XP laptop that is only being rebooted because I need to reformat it to use for a different task:
18 Steps to a TCP/IP Boot Disk All you need is…
18 Steps to a TCP/IP Boot Disk