If you have or are part of a project on CodePlex, you know how annoying the TFS login screen is every time you start Visual Studio 2008. This really got to me. So much so that I sat down to figure out how to get Windows 7 to remember this. Open the Control Panel, then click on User Accounts and Family Safety. Then click on the Credential Manager. Once there, click on “Add a Windows credential”. Set the network address to tfsxx.codeplex.com (replace this with your server name), user name to SND\user_cp...
To be honest, I haven’t been working on my entry to the Dare to Dream Different Challenge lately. I was distracted by a comment on my blog by Jens Kühner correcting my post where I stated that Linq was not possible without generics. Well, that got me searching, and I could only find proof implementations of Linq without generics, but not a full implementation of Enumerable.cs targeted to the Micro Framework. So I started writing one. Although, it is not complete yet, I thought it was far enough along...
My kit arrived on Friday for the Dare to Dream Different Challenge. Very very cool. The only minor disappointment was that the supplied XBee modules were Series 1. Fortunately, I had a few 2.5 modules laying around from a past project that I upgraded to ZB. Fortunately for me, Michael Schwarz created a library that contains code to talk to 2.5 and later modules for the desktop and micro frameworks. After a few hours of leaning how his library worked (and not worked with Series 1) and upgrading XBee...
I just got back from the Toronto Code Camp. I attended Bruce Johnson’s “Binding Objects in ASP.NET 2.0” and “Introduction to the .NET Enterprise Library 2.0” (Bruce covered for Bill Dunlop who couldn’t make it). After lunch, I caught Shaun Hayward’s “Professional Look-and-Feel using Infragistics”, Sheldon Fernandez presenting “Code Access Security in Practice” and “OpenNetCF Smart Device Framework 2.0” by Mark Arteagea....
I was in a code review this week, and we came across the mistake of locking the type of a static class for thread sychronization (probably because it was documented in MSDN to do it this way). http://msdn.microsoft.com/l
I've heard, from time to time, that MSDE cannot be used for distributed applications. This is not true! I wasn't able to find any Microsoft Knowledge Base articles specifically for this, but I was able to find bits and pieces here and there, which I have combined here. To enable the network libraries of your choice, run (TCP/IP and/or Named Pipes are a good choices): Installation Drive/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN/svrnet... If you have access to SQL Server client tools, you...