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...is not straightforward. The problem is that many (all?) of log4net's classes are not serializable. This includes the implementations of the ILog interface, which means that if you plan on using log4net loggers in your SharePoint workflow code like so... private ILog logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof... ...you're out of luck. As soon as the workflow is dehydrated, you'll get a nice exception stating that type X (probably LogImpl) is not serializable. One solution to this problem is to recreate ...
wow so this is what it feels like blogging from the iPhone. I waited and waited trying to justify the expense, but it never happened. So like any true techie I bought it. What is really annoying is I cannot seem to get google docs to create. I am not done but overall is good.
Oh and something else some games do not repect SILENT. Thanks discovery tank game, the people around me liked the sound effects.
Microsoft MVP Richard Seroter started a series of posts on building enterprise mashups using RSSBus. Part 1, and Part 2. A few weeks ago our Executive Director / Chief Architect / Technology Overlord recently asked me to build a real, live enterprise mashup application to demonstrate for our IT leadership group. Our goal was to show that RSSBus could be used to quickly and efficiently aggregate data in compelling new ways. In the next few posts, I’m going to walk through our use case, and how I built ...
This weekend I received an email from one of my blog’s readers asking my how to search for content on my blog. To be honest, my first reaction was to wonder why someone would ask me such a silly question. But then I thought on it and realize that I didn’t know the answer, but I was pretty sure that Google could do it. For the few of you that watched the video that Microsoft produced where I answered some questions that were asked of me off camera, I said that the most important tools that a Platform ...
I recently posted on How To Receive Configuration Updates without restarting a .NET Windows Service. For some reason it never showed up in Google Reader. I guessed the reader maybe missed it for some reason. Perhaps it was something in the naming of my post. Like I mentioned in the article, it is possible to update the configuration and not have to restart the service. I was interested in learning how when I saw that log4net was doing it. I didn't take quite the same path they did, but I was influenced ...
Clint Edmonson called me out on this trip down memory lane and, since I want to use up as much of his Google juice as I can, I thought I would jump in.Initially, this very much reminded me of those "Surveys" that go around in chain e-mails and (gasp!) MySpace pages, but this idea quickly caught my interest. Here is the current link(ed) list: Michael Eaton (post) —> Sarah Dutkiewicz (post) —> Jeff Blankenburg (post) —> Josh Holmes (post) —> Larry Clarkin (post) —> Brian Moore (post) ...
I downloaded Chrome the second I heard it was available. It's damn fast, it looks good and it has some great new usability features that I really like. I figured why not give it a thorough test drive and make it my default browser for a day? Sadly, it didn't quite make 24 hours. Sure it's stable (other than that one "Evil Here" bug. feel free to click here if you're running Chrome to see what I mean.) Yeah it looks good, plenty of reclaimed screen real estate. It's extremely fast and of course works ...
Here is a funny except from Google Chrome EULA. Which by downloading and installing Google's 'browser' Chrome you agree to with no contest. First thing I though of before even finding this: Hmmmm let me hand over my browsing history to the Google guys...right. Turns out it's worse then just browsing history. http://www.google.com/chrom... 11. Content license from you 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, ...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Google hater. Google has come out with some pretty neat tools over the years and their search engine has been rock solid for years (I was an early convert to Google search), but their latest entry to the tools market hasn't quite got me sold on it yet despite hearing so many great things from so many of my friends and others on the web. One of the things I took interest in was the built in task manager. As an experiment I fired up Chrome, IE 7 and FF3 and had all three ...
This is one of common questions that I get during my presentations/conferences. We see MS with OS, Office line of products, Server/middleware products, designer products, games, etc. In addition to that, MS is also competing with enterprise like Google and Oracle on multiple avenues. At high level, it looks amazing to me. Anyone would agree that having developed and delivered these kind-of stack of products is itself an achievement. And delivering world class products and competing with market leaders ...
It is a VISUAL STUDIO 2005 PROJECT! Of course we're talking about the Windows version here :). See short note... More Information Source: CodeProject Lounge Post. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio,VS,VS 2005,Visual Studio 2005,Google Chrome,Google,Chrome,browsers Cross posted from weblogs.asp.net/meligy ...
Google Chrome I downloaded Google Chrome on my Windows XP SP2 machine tonight and played around with it. Great First and foremost, I dont have to restart my computer after the installation, which is not the case with IE beta 8. Microsoft are you listening. This is 2008, I dont have to restart my computer for the install to complete. Docked elements like "find, download, etc.," they are awesome. if you want them as free floating, you can drag them out of their dock. Neat idea, (though not invented ...
It is a very nice browser.. is the feeling, I got after using it for an hour or so. So the first impression is good. But I can't write this blog post using it. So there is lot to be still done. For example it doesn't shows the RichEditBox toolbar as shown below over the Post Body entry box. Similarly it is unable to show XML content as XML and renders it as html (without tags). These just some examples, I am sure Google will incorporate all such features in coming releases. The things which I liked ...
Download the BETA http://www.google.com/chrome More info on Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.... See this comic book about it too: http://www.google.com/googl... Technorati Tags: Google,Google Chrome,Chrome,Browsers,Firefox Cross posted from weblogs.asp.net/meligy ...
Apparently Google sees the need to compete with highly popular Internet Explorer and Firefox according to this article. The product is called Chrome and it suppose to have a more sophisticated Web browser better suited for displaying the dynamic and interactive content blossoming on the Web. Today was going to be the release of the product but there is no official news from Google as to when we can look at the new browser. I'm not sure if we need another browser but like everyone else, I'll take ...
Normally I’d look at any new announcement from Google like a kid unwrapping a present on Christmas morning: they’re typically cool, and at worst good for 10 min of attention until I put it aside to focus on something else. But their announcement of Chrome made me want to pick up my iMac and throw it out the window. One of the biggest banes to a web developer’s existence has always been the plethora of browsers that we have to test our applications against. Keith Elder recently blogged about how CodeZone ...
Check out my new live search component to the right here -> I came across this on Heather Solomon's blog, thought it was cool so had a play and set one up for my blog. To start with get yourself over to http://search.live.com/site... select the advanced option. I think it only works if you have your blog on a custom domain like blog.steveclements.net as www.geekswithblogs.net/stev... doesn't work. I also created a live search macro for geekwithblogs.net and used and existing one for msdn ...
A while back I ported the C# Google Search Appliance API to VB.NET. You can find it here. The original API was ported over from JAVA by MC+A. Enjoy ...
I was reading this article on BBC today, online maps 'wiping out history', and I couldn't believe what I was reading. For me, this is just another example of someone who cannot cope with the fact that the Internet is changing their jobs, just like the librarian I wrote about in this other article. This article now is about the president of the British Cartographic Society, Ms Mary Spencer, saying that the Internet maps are leaving important landmarks that are part of History out, and that people ...
If you’re an RSSBus user who is using my Google Calendar –> Twitter or Flickr –> Twitter services, you might notice a minor change to both. I changed Twitterminder so that tweets resulting from Google Calendar entries are prepended with “GCal: “. I did the same thing with the Flickr->Twitter script, it will now prepend “Flickr: “. Related: How to call these services from your own applications. Related: How I converted TwitterMinder into Flickr->Twitter by changing 4 lines of code ...
I was searching for information on SAAS and ASP on goolge tonight. For some reason google thinks I'm a virus... I think they need to double check their logic. Google Error We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, ...
After reading the comments on my previous post mentioning I liked C# regions and got the general concensus is that these are very bad and evil inventions. I typed "C# Regions" into google and sure enough the first result was titled "C# Regions Considered Harmful" So my next question was why can this little handy things be considered harmful. I have come to a conclusion and answer is over use. A lingering voice tells me this might open a horrible debate about whether they should or should not be used. ...
*Moved to: WPF ThreadingI was having a problem getting multi threading working with the ObservableCollection, and struggled to find a solution. So I asked my friend Google and after a while it directed me to Kevin's blog and specifically to his post on WPF Cross-Thread Collection Binding - Part 4 - The Grand Solution. Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
Often you may want to create predefined html links in your SharePoint site along with your custom site definition. An example of this is the initial announcement you always get when you create a new team site: "Get Started with Windows SharePoint Services!". Creating items in Announcements list in the onet.xml file is pretty straight forward but to create html links in a links list you would have to use the following format: <Field Type="URL" Name="URL">http://<ur... ...
Sometime in the past, a friend asked me how to update a control to show status while his code is doing a loop of stuff. Essentially changing the text of a label (or sophisticatedly we can say a text-based progress bar). In my past coding with MFC and WinForms, it's fairly easy enough, you just invalidate and do an update (Invalidate / UpdateWindow in MFC or Invalidate / Update in WinForms). This approach also coincides with how Windows UI operate, where you specify the region that needs to be redrawn ...
This next post might be rather obvious to most of you, but I figured I wasn't the only one that didn't know how to do this. I was recently working with a new ASP.NET MVC project and got tired of typing out the fully qualified class names. This seems like something that would be rather common, but a quick Google search didn't turn up anything useful. I figured that there had to be a way to import a namespace, so intellisense to the rescue, I noticed that there was an <%Import %> directive. Sure ...
"Good morning everybody, you're tuned to Computers 2K8 on sports radio 850 The Buzz" and so began today's show as we do every Sunday morning from 8am - 10am here in Raleigh, NC. You can download the show from the show's website or you can listen do us live as we stream the show across the web. Here a few of the topics discussed on this week's show... Gmail Crash Leaves Google App Admins Nervous The whole "computing in the cloud" idea took a quite a hit this week with the Google Apps outage that affected ...
ImapBack: ImapBack makes a complete copy of your emails, on any IMAP server, from Gmail to Google Apps, to your own custom IMAP server located anywhere in the world! These backups can be stored on another IMAP server, on our servers, or on your local hard drive. You can schedule any interval of backups (Daily, Hourly, Weekly, Monthly) as well as creating a backup on-demand. On a related note, if you need an easy way to view and control IMAP access control, check out my IMAP ACL Manager application. ...
Mostafa Murad, a great UI designer whom I've worked with in two companies, was having a BIG dish party yesterday. Maybe in the occasion of himself recently becoming a team leader in ITWorx or just out of hospitality. He put few simple rules (I'm quoting him here): It is not solely barbecue anymore, you are free to bring whatever food you like. You are free to invite your friends or family members. Many people will bring their spouses and children. There is a big clean garden which is very suitable ...
MPI (Meeting Planners International) Monthly Meeting Website: www.mnmpi.org Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Topic: Marvelous Meetings: Kick-off Event & Committee Sign-up Kick off the 2008-2009 MPI MN year at its August meeting where you will be able to hone your leadership skills as well as be “educated” by committees from MPI MN including Membership, Education, Finance, Community Outreach, Leadership, and Communications. Each of these committees will be showcasing what they offer to our chapter ...
Yes, color... I took a quick look through Google to get an idea of colors vs moods, and just grabbed the first site that popped up. The site isn't important, but I wanted to give credit. I was more interested in the correlation such as: Blue: Calm, harmony Black: Formality, elegance Green: Nature, Jealousy Purple: Royalty Red: Love, danger (whoa... interesting juxtaposition) White: Reverence, Innocence Yellow: Joy, Optimism And why did I go on this search? ... I was looking to see if I could find ...
Is it really that important? I've seen too many applications meet their end because people got caught up in the tripe. I've personally lost development time to "Go back and use that font" or "Make it that color blue instead". In my personal experience, managers and customers (and it gets worse as you go higher up the food chain) defer to you on all the really important stuff but try to meddle in the details. Just say no! This happens for two reasons: People like forcing demonstrable change on the ...
If you're developing workflows for SharePoint 2007, you are probably familiar with the Item property of the SPWorkflowActivationProperties class. Usually your workflow gets an instance of SPWorkflowActivationProperties when the OnWorkflowActivated activity executes, which is bound to a public field on the workflow class so you can hang on to it for the lifetime of the workflow. Perhaps one of the more useful properties of this class is Item, which returns an instance of SPListItem, representing the ...
I have just heard about a new search engine in town - Cuil. Apparently it pronounces "cool". Immediately I rushed to try it out. I can tell it is worth experimenting with, although the results returned were less relevant than using Google. So Google is a king to me still, but all in all the visual appearance is more appealing to me so I added this engine to my search engines array inside the IE that immediately hang and FireFox 3 that survived this brutality. Anybody up to improving ones searchs ...
Nowdays I am in charge of database optimization on our project. First I needed to see what the problem was, second resolve them. So I set on a profiler in Sql Profiler. Being overmotivated I added lots of events to trace which resulted in a table with very many columns. I also did another evil thing, I set the trace to roll at 20M. This resulted in 98 trace files . I tried to find some way to import them in SqlServer, but the SqlProfiler interface only allowed 1 trace file at one time to be saved ...
I like SharePoint Designer (aka FrontPage for SharePoint)...As we all know I have been designing websites since 1997, when I was 15 years old. FrontPage and Dreamweaver were my friends after high school, so I know the good and the bad sides of the programs. Today I was attempting to use a custom edit form in SharePoint Designer and a datasource linked to a list. For the life of me I could not get it to work, so I spent a little portion of the day on Google looking for another option. I found a little ...
Creating a custom Biztalk Adapter is a complex process. But fortunately there is a tool available at CodePlex called Biztalk Adapter Wizard that simplifies the process. This is a great tool but has some minor issues, the worst of then is when you create a Receive Adapter it creates a new instance of StreamAndUserData on the SubmitBatch method, the bad news is that if you try to compile the project it will fail, because there is no reference to that class. Well if you Google the error message you ...
Last week I was trying to decide whether to finally go ahead and order Learn and Master Guitar. I'm not sure how I originally found out, but it seems to be a very popular system. The reviews for it are great. Almost too great. Every review seemed to be so good that I started to question the authenticity of them. First, take a look at these Google search results for learn and master guitar. So why not believe them? The reviews seemed a little too close to the same. Every link title "is this a scam" ...
There's a new search engine in town, headed up by a former Google employee who apparently was the brainchild behind the current incarnation of the world's best used search engine. (http://money.cnn.com/2008/... Cuil (pronounced Cool) launched today, and at first glance...its as flakey as Twitter! It's also not as reliable as Google, even though that CNN Money article I mention above says that its supposed to have three times the web index of Google. I did some ...
I happened to find a cool new application over the weekend, Fring. Fring is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes. I find that even on my crappy GPRS connection Fring works remarkably well. You can check ...
Wow, just 30 minutes after posting about my continuing education... that blog entry showed up in my google search results. Obviously, this wasn't helpful in my search for old articles that I've posted, but it amazed me that their crawler picked it up already!
Funny thing happened when I tried to install Silverlight Beta 2 on this XP machine. I downloaded the exe and ran it, but I got a dialog asking me about something called SQLab Server Side Implementation. Odd...what would this have to do with Silverlight? Turns out that SQLab is a product of Quest software, and is a tuning tool for Oracle (or so my Google results tell me). Now, I do have Toad and a bunch of Oracle stuff installed on this machine, but it doesn't make any sense as to why I'm getting ...
As with most spatial operation, every ESRI - ArcGIS / Mapobjects developer or end user in the GIS world prefer a spatial selection by drawing a rectangle or a polygon. Off-course its easy with desktop application, Try that with a javascript, its different challenge. I have started working on a Virtual Earth with MOSS project recently and I must say Iam definetly impressed compared to Google earth / Google Maps. I will post another article shortly after this on comparing the two products and my preference ...
Today I managed to sneak into the Farnborough Airshow under a trade pass to sample the delights of this bi-annual event without the public crowds of the great unwashed in my continuing search for innovation. After all, the defences, aviation and IT industries are joined at their respective hips as innovations in one are keenly felt in the others. Take for example the Eurofighter Typhoon Cockpit, it is pretty uncomplicated and has far fewer switches and buttons than most jet fighters. Pretty amazing ...
If you count the number of pages linking to a Wikipedia page, there may be none but it still appears on the first page of the search results. Google seems to rank pages from Wikipedia higher up in the results. One possibility is that it doesn't seem to be using the regular PageRank algorithm for some websites. Either that or the PageRank algorithm uses a list of 'favorite domains' when ranking pages. I considered the possibility of 'favorite domains' a little more and Googled it a bit when I came ...
For some reasons, it took me a few google search attempts to find the following tools: MSDN includes Workflow Monitor Sample -Windows executable to view details of tracked workflows. When downloaded, copy EXE to your bin directory when custom workflow DLLs are located. Ensure that tracking database doesn't have too many instances, to avoid timeouts. Jon Flanders put together the ASP.NET implementation of the Workflow Monitor SDK sample. MSDN Tracking Samples mostly described how to store tracking ...
I've been using Google Desktop Search for some time now. Most of it however, I don't find useful. I never search my desktop, and store my mail on a different server, so I miss out on a lot of the Google Desktop value proposition. So why use it at all? The answer is Google Quick Search. Google Quick Search is the little dialog that pops up whenever you press Ctrl twice. I enter a phrase and hit enter and the phrase is automatically sent to the Google search page, rendering the search results in my ...
Starting in mid July, Microsoft will be selling Office by subscription. Including Office will be a security software program called Live One Care. The costs will be $70 a year. Even though Google has free web based programs that compete with Office, many students and teachers still prefer to use Office. This announcement is a win win and you can purchase the product at Circuit City. Technorati Tags: Office,Microsoft,Circuit City ...
You've probably read my earlier post about setting focus on a form element. All went well. Then, things went to the U.I. guy who went crazy with the TextBoxWatermarkExtender control and now none of your forms have focus on a form element any more :-( I guess the developers of the TextBoxWatermarkExtender didn't think of all the possible ways in which people would use the control - some people actually do want to keep the focus on a control to help their keyboard-loving users. Anyway, I set out to ...