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Dave Campbell | 11/18/2009 | 0 Comments
Silverlight 4 Beta is out! Yes boys and girls, you heard that right!! This morning at PDC, Scott Guthrie announced the news. And I was so interested in posting this, I had a bad link for Shawn's site -- that's now fixed -- sorry Shawn!! Go to Silverlight
 
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It took me a while to come to this blog post from Bart. He wrote a very simple and easy to understand article on how you can invoke a workflow engine from a IIS / Self Hosted WCF service. This is very useful from the layered architecture perspective since most service-oriented systems will not have the presentation layer calling the workflow engine directly. More often than not (depending on the complexity of the system), you will want to inject a communication service layer in the middle to handle...
April Meeting - April 12, 2007 We're giving away a fully licensed copy of Windows Vista Business Edition this month! GC.NUG is pleased to announce Murray Gordon will be speaking at our user group. Murray is the Director of Technology at Cambar Solutions (www.cambarsolutions.com), a consultation services and custom supply chain software company to many of the world's largest distribution companies. Murray Gordon brings more than 10 years of technology consulting and systems integration experience...
Developer Developer Developer Days have been a great success for the UK Microsoft development community, because it is a community event run by the community for the community. But credit where credit is due, this event would not be possible without the support of a generous sponsor. NxtGenUG Fest 07 is an ambitious community event; the aim is to create an event that is the best it can be with a strong theme about looking into the future. To have truly world class speakers and presentations about...
I just discovered the SqlBulkCopy class in .Net 2.0, and it seems awesome! Now I don't have to shell out to BCP anymore! We'll see though, I haven't done any performance testing yet...
I have been working for a period of time on a new Windows Forms 2.0 project - which is driving me slowly insane. Is it just me, or is the typed dataset databinding in visual studio 2005 and .Net 2.0 just horrendous to use unusable - there are very few (possibly none) what I would call real world examples of how to create your typed dataset and then get the update, delete and adding new rows to a datatable. Using stored procedures - if you dont generate the typed dataset with a select, insert, update...
Robin Harris just posted a near-heresy on his ZDNet blog: he thinks that SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is overhyped, and will die a painful death as businesses discover the difficulties in monetizing it and making it reliable. Come on now--hype, in our industry? Please! Actually...I agree that we are indeed well into a hype cycle regarding web services, and we would do well to make sure that SOA doesn't become the next "Golden Hammer." This is a term coined by Brown, Malveau et al. in their...
Here is a nice overview of the web server usage statistics from the April 2007 Netcraft survey: http://www.serverwatch.com/stats/article.php/3670036. Server No. ofSites Market Share No. of SitesWith .com domains Apache 66,899,485 58.86% 36,803,903 Microsoft-IIS 35,377,426 31.13% 22,721,673 Unknown 2,761,059 2.43% 2,042,800 Sun-ONE-Web-Server 1,663,476 1.46% 1,244,246 lighttpd 1,382,843 1.22% 1,182,516 Oversee 845,404 0.74% 726,754 Zeus 488,838 0.43% 154,088 Netscape-Enterprise 241,852 0.21% 122,194...
Frank Ohrtman, who talks about everything WiMAX, has started a new series of posts about how WiMAX could potentially advance specific vertical industries. Delivery Industry Agriculture I would like to see an article about how WiMAX could help the ParaTransit industry. EnGraph has a digital manifest application that runs on Windows CE and it would be better adopted with the bandwidth and cost benefits of WiMAX. Technorati tags: Frank Ohrtman, WiMAX, ParaTransit, EnGraph...
I published the pictures from our trip to the Seattle area 2 weeks ago on my PhotoAlbum. In order to train us with WPF, 8 developers and 3 designers involved in the project had the chance to follow a training given by IdentityMine, an excellent firm specialized in WPF development in Tacoma, WA, not far from Seattle. The training week was amazing, and we also took the opportunity to drive to Redmond, where Microsoft has its headquarters and campus, to meet a few architects with whom we were already...
I am pretty sure there are reasons behind this but I still find it irksome. In order to listen to the music I have to deal with three! different volume controls. 1. Device Volume - Which I can control via the Keyboard 2. Application Volume - Which I can't control via the Keyboard 3. The actual speaker knob - Nope can't get that one via the Keyboard either. ;) Anyone, does Vista fix this? I kinda doubt it. What I would like to see is the ability to quickly toggle a beautiful (ie not a gray screen)...
I posted an article on MS BRE side effects yesterday. I had immediately to withdraw it for a few hours because I realised it was incomplete (and actually a little wrong) in one part. Then I noticed I had swapped the legend text on the graph making it appear that caching made things slower, rather than faster! I then discovered today that for the last three years I have been completely ignorant of the fact that you can drag and drop object constructors onto the 'assert' argument in the Rules Composer...
It is not so strightforward as it suppose to be. Below are the bat files with comments: @rem ----------- Deploy.Policies.bat --------------------------------------------- @call Settings.bat @ECHO. @ECHO. Deploy Policies: @ECHO. ====================================================================== @ECHO. @Time /T @ECHO 1) Create the ResourceSpec.xml file. @rem BTSTask ListApp /ApplicationName:%ApplicationName% /Server:%BizTalkDataBasesServer% /Database:%BizTalkConfigurationDataBase% /ResourceSpec:"%CurrentBuildPath%\ResourceSpec.xml...
I'm currently taking part in a meeting in re the Microsoft "14" DAC. I know there's not much I can say about it, but I can say that I think I'm either in over my head, or that I need more context. I missed last week's meeting as well as the in-person kick-off meeting event last month, so I know I'm missing an SL (the metric unit of the "sh*t load") of context here. When I can provide more info, I will, or I will at least try. Dave...
Wow, its only been a week since the initial post about how the Mad Mexican wants to help save the Easter Seals, and already support has started to pour in! On behalf of the Mad Mexican, he wants to send his thanks to everyone who's helped out so far, but there's still work to do! Any amount will help: $5, $10, $20. We know that with the millions of fans the Mad Mexican has, we'll be able to blow open the record books of support for this worthy cause*. To pledge your support, just visit THIS LINK!...
A minor glitch while getting CI Factory up and running. I discovered how important it is to make sure that you keep your version of SVN.EXE (command line SubVersion) in step with that of TortoiseSVN. As TortoiseSVN informs you of upgrades, I'd happily updated it to v1.4.x automatically, leaving my SVN.EXE at 1.3.x. The gotcha was that the installation of CI Factory was fine - it used the older v1.3.x client to create the project tree. After I had used TortoiseSVN to add some projects, it was only...
Here's your chance to learn about WPF and WWF free-of-charge: Collection 5134: Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics are for experienced Developers and Software Architects who are looking to adopt Microsoft's next generation technology within their solutions. Topics covered within the collection include: Windows Presentation...
Where's Tim hasn't been getting much attention the last couple of months. A little bit here and there, but nothing like the Digg days of last summer. I've got several requests for information the last week or so though. Joab Jackson (who did a National Geographic story last October) is working on an article. Ronan Fitzgerald (who did an article in The Guardian) has been emailing me about the Social Geocoding studs NavXS. Davey Winder is also working on a mashup article. I'll post the links to these...
I'm not sure why I never gravitated to this blog site. Before creating this one, I had one for a couple years at theSpoke. Recently I added one at Windows Live Spaces, since theSpoke seems to be quietly dying of neglect (which is a pity, because I've felt for years it serves a solid need). Anyway, if anyone is looking for me, you can probably find me here. Thanks...
Scott Johnson over at the ExtraLife web site linked to this article in Wired, You Grew Up Playing Shoot'em-Up Games. Why Can't Your Kids? I'm a dad of two young boys now, ages 4.5 years and 19 months. I know I've been pretty cautious about letting them watch me play any games on my XBox 360 or on my PC. I normally play once they go to bed because I really don't want them to see me playing Gears of War, Lost Planet, or GRAW. And the one time that my oldest woke up he snuck downstairs and found me...
Visual WebGui is.... User-Friendly – Visual WebGui was designed to be the next VB6 for the web. Simple to program, simple to deploy. With a full WinForms API and design time support you can start developing complex AJAX applications in seconds with no web know-how. Secured – Visual WebGui was designed to provide for military grade secured AJAX applications by eliminating client side service consumption and business logic processing using an empty client concept. The browser is used as a looking glass...
The piece is entitled "Because They All Suck". Anyway, he's tired of this endless debate. So am I. Of all of these types of debates, actually, C# vs. VB .NET. Java vs. .NET. When I was in college is was Vi vs. Emacs. And each side always has their impassioned followers, full of points about why theirs is better and yours sucks. He thinks that both camps are wrong. They both suck. The only truly sublime end-user experiences I've had have been with computers that weren't computers-- specialized devices,...
There's an interesting post at Tyner Blain regarding Business Requirements. Their piece is a follow-up piece to a piece by Robin Goldsmith. I find both pieces fascinating because they deal with whats and hows, two items that I find myself constantly bringing up in our design meetings whether they're with the clients or not. The difference between REAL business requirements and system requirements is not the level of detail. The difference is qualitative. Business requirements are whats. System requirements...
Paul Thurrott claims to have the inside scoop on both Vista SP1 and XP SP3. Microsoft will ship Windows Vista SP1 concurrently with Longhorn Server in Q3 2007 and SP1 will include a major kernel update for Vista that will bring the client OS up to speed with the version of the Windows kernel in Longhorn Server Certainly that has been my impression for quite some time. If you spend any time trying to read between the lines with MS, that's the only reasonable conclusion. He's not happy at all about...
A couple of weeks ago I've had the pleasure of attending outbrain.com's "friends night out". A small get together of bloggers, outbrain.com crew and sympathizers. Not only was it great fun, it was also educational as Dr. Nahum Sharfman (of shopping.com fame) gave a short talk about the recent web 2.0 startup boom. Dr. Sharfman's bottom line seems to be that nobody knows what's going to catch on and what isn't, with the one exception that a viable business model should be the prerequisite for anyone...
In the past I have noticed that system testers find it difficult to test middleware applications such as those implemented using BizTalk. System testers generally don't want to read BizTalk xml messages dumped out to disk, they like to be able to query for their test results via some form of GUI. Many are adept at writing SQL to return result sets containing the test data they want to analyze. I came up with the idea of using BAM relationships between different activities within a single view to...
"Never under-estimate the little man, they'll past you without warning..."...
Great Article from Dino Esposito - MSDN Magazine Hotmail Inbox Grid with code evailable in both VB and C# 2005...
When you first use a new piece of software do you trust it right away, or does it need to earn your trust? The same goes for the code you write, are the kind of person who just re-reads some code and says "it will work" or do you doubt yourself until your unit tests are complete and all passing? I'm the untrusting type, and when it comes to my code I rarely trust my unit tests at first. If I can't write perfect code on the first attempt (like all people), how can I think that my first attempt at...
For some time now the Large Data Types has been trumpeted around as the next best thing in the T-SQL world. There is a great entry about it on Fotia (See here: http://www.fotia.co.uk/fotia/DY.13.VarCharMax.aspx) However, when you try to do a PRINT command in SQL Management Studio, you will only print out the first 8,000 characters. I still haven't figuired out why that is the case, but perhaps it is a limit on the text-box in SQL Management Studio. Anyway - hopefully you won't need to spend hours...
Windows Live Messenger is coming to the Xbox 360 on the week of May 7th. I don't know how useful I will find this, but it's good to see Microsoft continuing to expand the 360 beyond gaming...
Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Read 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without...
Chris posted on his blog about the demise of the Axim PPC line. Interestingly enough, when you look at the types of devices entering the Windows Mobile marketplace there are two distinct lines forming: communication enabled devices and rugged devices. Take a look at the list of Mobile devices on Microsoft's site. Only 4 of them (one being the cancelled Axim) are wife-wants-to-electronically-create-a-shopping-list grade, while the others are "rugged" or specialied to fit a certain environment. Compare...
I have been looking at the best ways in which Lipper can work with Excel in our next-generation application and took a look at ExcelPackage - an Office Open XML file creation library. I was quite impressed with how easy it is to create Excel documents on the fly with our latest financial information and then to delivery that file to the end user via a web service or something. The nice thing is that you can create exciting looking Excel documents (using Office 2007) on the server with very little...
It's kinda official, I'm a member of the Office "14" DAC. I would have loved to go to the kick-off meeting, but I couldn't get work to pay for it. I can't say much more than that (or I'd have to kill you, blah, blah, blah), as I'm under a NDA, DNA, T&A, or whatever. I will post whatever I can (read as "whatever I see other members are posting without getting in too much trouble"), and I hope that I can attend some of the in-person events in the future. ...
http://www.cbs4denver.com/video/?id=29524@kcnc.dayport.com After my sister took state in diving looks like the local news team went out to her school and interviewed some "star" atheletes. [Ginormous Grin] My other sister is at CU for video production, you can hear here 'produce' here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSzhjzc9Hs I am so proud of both of my sisters...
Dell Axim, RIP: 2002 - 2007 It's true, I no longer use mine (gave it to my father, as a matter of fact), but I was very happy to get my Axim when it came out and am saddened that Dell seems to have called an end to the line...
How is it possible that I'm just learning about the "GROUP BY ALL" option? It sounds like it would save a lot of time. It worries me though that Microsoft says not to use it anymore because it will be removed from a future version. Is there a good alternative? ...
I'm pleased to announce that the next ArcReady tour scheudle is set and ready to go. Our subject for this go-around is "Architecting for the User Experience" and our guest speaker will be Chris Bernard, UX Evangelist for Microsoft. Read all about it and register at www.arcready.com. Remember, this is a free event and, besides the great content, there will be food and some great giveaways, include a copy of Expression Web. We're really excited about the program we're putting together for this tour....
Brian Button writes on the hardest part of being an Agile Project Manager. It is, essentially, remembering to do nothing. Ok, not nothing, but having as little direct involvement in the team's progress as possible. Why? Because you want your agile team to grow as a team, and to be, well, agile. If Brian gives them the answers to their issues, they become less an agile team, and more of a top-down team. As he says: The idea is that the team must learn to recognize the issues that they have, understand...
Visual Studio has this annoying habit of expanding the solution folder tree, especially when synchronizing with Visual SourceSafe. Even without that problem I sometimes find myself with many expanded tree nodes in the Solution Explorer and I want a quick way to collapse them all. So I searched for a macro based solution to the problem and came up with the VS.Net Macro: Collapse All from Captain LoadTest. This macro was not designed to collapse a non-expanded folder's sub items. So I made a few quick...
So last I was trying to create myself a nice little web page for domain. I've had this domain for about two years now and I still don't have a web page for it, just sub domains and such. So I finally got around to making a website for it. I've got quite a bit of experience with C# and asp.net so that was the logical choice. So I threw together a page template in a MasterPage and then put it up... The table that contained everything wasn't centered. So I went back into the code, told the div surrounding...
See all Windows Vista gadgets at http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?l=1&ti=2". Some of them are really cool, my personal favorite is the one for ebay...
In the world of RSS and newsreaders there is a war of preferences going around over how people prefer to read their feeds. Categorized by feed, type of feed, or as a “river of news.” In other words first in, first displayed, in a long list and you simply scan top-to-bottom. I have tried both and IMO both have merit. River of news lets you see everything in an instant, and I find it useful for quickly locating important event. Then I read the “normal” stuff later on. When I am ready to consume all...
Er, well, uh, so far, just the one way I suppose. I'm looking into other ways to edit this blog. I'd like to be able to hook MS Word (2003 or 2007) into the .Text blog system, or even Google docs, but I'm too busy to try it right now. If anyone has any real cool, techie way to do it, please post. I'm always up for the new and novel. Thanx in advance, Dave...
I like using online RSS readers because they are easy to access and they stay up and polling for content. I don't need to worry about having a reader up and running. Lately I have been noticing that Bloglines is missing posts. I had a similar problem with NewsGator. Almost as if they are not polling for updates as frequently has they should. Anyone have a good recommendation for an online RSS feed reader...
It seems that the web based eventlog viewer have been taken out of SharePoint Central Admin in MOSS RTM as the EventLog.aspx page is missing. It is a shame as I find it useful to see the last 25 event log message output with their full description on a single page. It is annoying when you have to click on each individual Event to see their description in Windows Event Viewer, the up/down arrow doesn't help much either since after clicking a number of times you tend to forget what the description...
Microsoft's Enterprise Library version 3 is now available. The two big new features are: Validation Application Block - Developers can use this application block to create validation rules for business objects that can be used across different layers of their applications. Policy Injection Application Block - Developers can use this application block to implement interception policies that can be used to streamline the implementation of common features, such as logging, caching, exception handling,...
When I first learned a lot about the Edge Server role in Microsoft Exchange 2007 last year at TechEd, I asked about the reporting that would be available. IT managers and directors love to request metrics on spam, discarded email and volume and the Edge server seemed to be the place where the raw data would best be obtained. Today I see a Message Statistics Sample Agent on Microsoft Downloads. From the official release: The Message Statistics sample agent examines and records aggregate information...
Write up of the upcoming ArcReady events in the Central Region - Josh Holmes Blog - Architecture meets User Experience at upcoming ArcReady events...
The DotNetNuke Corporation released version 4.5 on Saturday. If you need a Content Management System or a starting point for an ASP.NET Web Application then you need DotNetNuke. Here are some details from the official announcement. DotNetNuke Enriches User Experience A highly focused three month release cycle results in DotNetNuke® 4.5, a new release with integrated Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX support, a web-based installer, and a variety of other high value enhancements designed to improve the user experience....