Before I get into this I am not an Office Live Small Business or Office 365 expert but I have used Office Live Small Business for number of years as a light weight way of managing some parts of my business. I now need to migrate to Office 365 and one of the areas which concerned me was around custom lists which had attachments. I had a number of these with lots of rows and I had been waiting for some information on how these would be migrated and hoped they would just be migrated for me automatically....
Thanks to Seif Attar for highlighting this problem. It seems MSMQ doesn’t like sending to computers with names longer than 15 characters (which some may remember is the NetBIOS limitation). To try it out, I created a queue on a Windows XP machine with a computer name of VeryLongMSMQServer and sent off some test messages to DIRECT=os:verylongmsmqserve... I requested acknowledgements so I could see any errors and wasn’t disappointed: As soon as I renamed the machine to ShortMSMQServer,...
If you have seen the Windows Phone commercial where the father is in the grocery store with the shopping list in OneNote you have gotten you first taste of the flexibility that can be had with OneNote. I like most consultants have a lot of fires going and once and I am finding that the templates in OneNote are helping me to get a handle on the different projects and tasks I need to track. I started using OneNote to do simply what its name suggests: take and organize notes. Lately though I am finding...
Most of us spend our time in Visual Studio writing .NET code within a Visual Studio solution. Given this situation we find it very easy to integrate with Team Foundation Server for our source control and have a well known work pattern. But what happens when you want to use TFS as source control for non-Microsoft development? The most important thing to remember is that source control should be as transparent as possible to the developer. If the particular language or product does not have an Integrated...
I have just installed the latest stylecop 4.7.7.0 and the latest nightly build of Resharper (build 42) and they work well. Stylecop now has a feature whereby you can override the maximum number of issues reported. I used an an as-downloaded copy of PowerCollections and increased the limit to 100,000 issues and did a ReScan all with Stylecop. Here are the last 3 lines of the report:------ StyleCop completed ------========== Violation Count: 15080 ==========...
Yeah it's a tough question especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet . Today, life would be virtually impossible without it. When I was in elementary school I always dreamed of becoming an artist. I loved to paint and draw because I can express my thoughts and emotions through art. But things changed after I graduated in high school because my family couldn't afford to send me to university. I earned my BS degree because I got a scholarship...
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Disclaimer Firstly, I must come clean, I work for a digital music company which is involved in digital music streaming and downloads. In no way are the views expressed are the views of the company for which I work. They are merely the subjective views of an atypical music consumer. I say atypical because despite being over 40, I seek out new bands on the radio, using listen again on 6Music and BBC Introducing programmes, such as Christian Carlisle’s excellent BBC Sheffield programme. I make an effort...
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Recently someone was showing me WCFStorm for testing WCF services, which is very simple to use.However, SOAPUI certainly has a lot of power.I needed to add an image to send to a service and noticed that referenceshttp://www.soapui... My XML ended up looking like this:<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schem... xmlns:ubox="UBoxMobileServi... xmlns:ubox1="UBoxMobile.Dat... <soapenv:Header/>...
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Visual Studio 2010 offers a collection of extensions that help the developer's life. In this list I try to share some that I hope will help you as they have helped me. Visual Studio Achievement Extension This extension is less useful than the whole list, but one of my favorites. NuGet Package Manager This is a package management system for the platform. NET that simplifies the inclusion of third-party libraries in your projects. The included libraries are automatically updated. Productivity Power...
Given recent changes in my personal life with my son's diagnosis I will probably be blogging more on a bi-weekly basis instead of weekly for a while. I'm hoping this will be a temporary change until we get things all in order. Also, I may be sprinkling in a few C++ posts as well to keep things fresh. I've been working on a C++ project as of late and though it is no longer my primary language, I still feel it has a lot of power and is worth knowing well.Thanks for your understanding...
Pros and Cons of NOLOCKI have seen some developers use WITH (NOLOCK) when querying in SQL Server and wonder why they use. Now i explored it and found that its useful to improve the performance in executing the query. However there is a disadvantage in using it. The disadvantage is that one may not be sure that they are getting the data which is currently being updated in the Table ie Without lock protection, you cannot be guaranteed that the data isn’t changing during the time that the query is running.With...
The landscape of SQL Azure backups is changing rapidly. A few tools are becoming available at no charge and Microsoft is adding capabilities over time. Here a quick update.Microsoft ToolsMicrosoft offers two primary backup mechanisms so far:Export/Import feature available on the Azure Management portalThe COPY operation as part of its T-SQL CREATE DATABASE statementThese mechanisms do not offer a scheduling component and do not work together. To obtain a transactionally consistent backup, you first...
Because I have moved to a new company, new position, and I am using new technologies this seems as good a time as any to change the focus of this blog. I have received some commentary to broaden my perspective and I will take this change to change and broaden the scope of my blog. More than just code I plan to include all sorts of things I come across in my job like: General coding practices and SOLID coding principals Interviewing and career advice For other things I am passionate about like my...
Last updated: 2012-02-02 This is a big post – over 12200 words – and so I’ve decided to make it available as a PDF download, which you can get here: http://www.bobtacoindustrie... It has bookmarks for easier navigation along with a Table of Contents and page numbers. I expect that I will revise this from time to time and welcome any suggestions, feedback, and (especially) corrections. If so I will update the Last updated field at the top and will create...
Inviting all the people who wish to expand their knowledge in the field of Microsoft Technologies. I will be conducting FREE classes on various streams in Microsoft Technologies like: SharePoint - Administration and Development Visual Studio - 2010 C# and .NET 4 LINQ Team Foundation Server 2010 SSIS ASP .NET Programming Office Apps & Open XML Basic SQL Server and Queries Windows Azure One Note All the courses will be taught using Microsoft Official Curriculum. Soft copies of Lab material, Virtual...
A new version of Firefox is now out - version 10!In Firefox, go to Help, About FireFox, wait for the download to run and apply...
A friend of my runs a site called Hairlosstalk.com I am very happy for him as he worked very hard on the site authoring articles after countless hours and years of research and blogging and writing and chatting and on and on. So certainly for anyone male or female wanting to get good advise on preventing Hair Loss and growing back some lost hair, his website gets a ton of traffic and for good reason...
<?xml version="1.0"?><project name="schemaspy" default="main" basedir="."> <property name="src.dir" value="src"/> <property name="build.dir" value="${src.dir}/build"/> <property name="metadata.dir" value="${build.dir}/metadat... <property name="kb.dir" value="${build.dir}/kb"/> <property name="program.dir" value="${build.dir}/program... <property name="project.dir" value="${build.dir}/project... <property name="account.dir" value="${build.dir}/account...
Over the years of being a FTE and a contractor I see in my gmail account the list of company email addresses that I have had over the years. Certainly I wouldn't be able to recall all the email addresses prior to using gmail. Like me VarsityGold.com and Dataquick.com email, and Phoenix New Times email addresses along with Today.com etc...tom.stickel@grsgroup.com Thomas.Stickel@sperry.ngc.com tomstickel@pqa.com thomas.stickel.ctr@navy.mil Tom.Stickel@suntrust.com tom.stickel@nih.gov tom.stickel@scc.virginia.go...
Back in 2009 I was tasked with automating database dictionaries and schemas outputs for the CI (Continuous Integration) Server called Hudson ( which is probably now owned by Oracle and will become a name like Jenkins, but I digress. CruiseControl and CruiseControl.NET for Windows is another popular free CI, both of which are superior to the lightweight CI of TFS ).I setup ANT scripts with regular expressions that would get called nightly to rebuild the creation of html and image files with the schemaspy...
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HTML5 Cookbook, by Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson, provides an overview of HTML5 along with problem/solution scenarios which will allow developers to hit the ground running using HTML5. It also includes chapters on how to implement the new features available in HTML5, including native audio, native video, geolocation, the canvas element, local storage, drag-and-drop, and more. This book is perfect for intermediate to senior level developers who are looking to get up to speed on the new semantics...
The InvokeProcess activity is very useful when it comes to running shell commands and external command line tools during a build process. When it comes to integrating with TFS source control during a build, the TF.exe command line tool can be your friend, as it lets you do most of the usual stuff such as check-in, checkout, add, modify workspaces etc. However, it can be a bit tricky to handle the output from tf.exe, since it often produces warnings that is not necessarily a problem for your build....
I've been receiving requests for the source code of my MessageBox controls for ASP.NET and so I've decided to upload my project in CodePlex so everyone can use it. You can check and download the controls here: http://proudmonkeycontrols.... Download Documentation Feel free to visit my project page and provide your valuable feedback! Thanks...
Stylecop 4.7.7.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... release announcement reads:"Updated release "4.7" for project stylecop This is now compatible with the Visual Studio 11 Preview.Install order should be : VS10VS11R#6.1.1 msi (for VS10)R#6.1.1 vsix (for VS11)StyleCop 4.7.4.0 (or later) This version is now compatible with R# 5.1 (5.1.3000.12), R# 6.0 (6.0.2202.688), R# 6.1 (6.1.37.86) and R# 6.1.1 (6.1.41.36) available from http://confluence.jetbrains...
I ran into this particular issue and didn’t find any answers to this specific question online. Here’s how I was able to accomplish this. A couple notes about my scenario: I used slsvcutil.exe to generate my service. I could not get connected to a service through “Add Service Reference” when connecting from outside the ISA server protected connection. This connection was tested and successfully retrieved data from a Windows Phone 7 device. I figured on the scale of success this was the platform that...
Exchange is a complex and large product which can have one thousand and one possible issues, one more obscure as the next. The purpose of this guide is to shed some light, where possible, to how things work in Exchange (and outlook), how they can break and how you should approach the issue at hand. Unfortunately it is very time consuming to create a complete troubleshooting guide where every dependency is explained in detail. But that is not the aim of this document anyways. What is the aim? Give...
During the lifespan of an Exchange server a database can become very, very large in the size it takes on the disk, much larger than the space used by the mailboxes that reside in the database. This is because whilst mailbox sizes will expand and shrink according to their data usage, the Exchange database only expands. Any space freed up by deletes in mailboxes or even the removal of a mailbox all together become whitespace in the database file. In the worst case you could have 40 GB of mailboxes...
As you might, or not, be aware off there is no item level based recovery in Exchange that is natively supported by Microsoft. So to perform recoveries we need the recovery storage group (captain obvious). The purpose of this is to mount the database you want to recover from on the Exchange server and use exmerge to merge the data you are recovering into the active database. An RSG will not be accessible to users and you can only create one at a time. Exchange 2003: 1. Open Exchange system manager...
Troubleshooting the information store service can be straightforward yet immensely complicated if you don’t know what is going on. For this reason I think it is important to know that there are 3 likely culprits that will cause your information store service to go down and refuse to come up: · Database problems · Active directory problems · Antivirus software Trying to work out which is the culprit can be hard, elimination is probably the easiest way to work through this… So let us get started! 1....
Usually you’ll get alerted to this issue with a call saying that users have not gotten any new email for a while. They will still be connected to Exchange in outlook, you can still log on to the OWA and, when looking at your hub servers, you can see that the all services are up and running (Note that it is possible the transport service could be stopped…). A number of reasons can exist as to why you are not getting any mail flow: · Your recipient polies are not configured correctly · The receive...
A fairly common (and annoying) problem which seems to like to popup after migrations, yet not unsolvable. The key issue here is that there are new users added to the directory but they are not showing up in outlook. Now, if you are like most organisations then outlook will be operating in cached mode. So log in to OWA and test if you can see the new users there. I’m giving it a 99% chance that you will (and if you don’t you have a serious problem at hand!) The reason you are not seeing these new...
We all get those requests where there is a certain service that requires to send mails by using your company email server. Whilst an open relay is generally a way to get your domain blacklisted forever, allowing an internal relay is usually a necessity. By default Exchange is setup to deny relaying from any IP address, including your internal network. In this section I will show you how to allow relaying from your internal network. Exchange 2003: 1. Open the Exchange system manager 2. Expand the...
Running a CCR or DAG is a great way to have a server resilient database. Relying on an asynchronous copy of the log files (Each log file gets copied over only when the store has released it) it copies over the log files from the active node to the passive node so it can be played in to the passive nodes database. But whilst being a great failover solution both solution are also quite high-maintenance, CCR more so than a DAG. Running in to a situation where the CCR or DAG is down because of to many...
PSC Group is proud to announce that the Windows Phone version of its Project Risk Profiler application is now available in the Marketplace. This application allows project managers and stakeholders to evaluate the high level risks and benefits associated with proposed project before committing to it. The application is based on a methodology used by PSC when initiating projects and is a port of the iPhone version of the application. Each negative and positive attribute of a project is given a raking...
Something I came across that I never knew was possible was that you can put c# code inline in a XAML file in a WPF app (I assume this would work in Silverlight as well). Not that you would ever want to do this, but sometimes you just need those geek points! Make a WPF application, in the XAML file put the following… <Grid> <Button x:Name="button1" Click="button1_click">te... <x:Code> void button1_click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { button1.Content = "Inline Code...
It has been a while now since I moved over to Git. So far out of all the SCS’s that I have used, this has been the least painful and the most enjoyable. For those of you looking for a team approach for using Git, I suggest you read the following post… http://nvie.com/posts/a-suc...
There are times that we need to prompt the users when doing certain actions on the page. One practical example is to confirm the user when deleting a certain record just like what I have demonstrated awhile back about Displaying a Confirmation Message on GridView Deleting. If you noticed on that demo I simply use plain JavaScript to display the confirmation message. In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to use the ConfirmBox control in delete scenario. Note that just for the simplicity of this...
ASP.NET MVC 3 Walkthroughs & Books 1. Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3 - Rick Anderson http://www.asp.net/mvc/tuto... 2. Building an MVC 3 App with Database First – Julie Lerman a. http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... 3. Walkthrough: Retrieving Entity Types with a Stored Procedure (Entity Data Model Tools a. http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... 4. Book – Wrox - Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 http://www.wrox.com/WileyCD...
We’re well under 2 months to Prairie Dev Con – West in Calgary, and it appears some of you need an extra push to register. So why attend? Well, there’s the three days and over 80 sessions spanning software development, IT Pro, and Agile topics. There’s the pre-conference workshops available on WP7, TFS, and Agile as well as the Microsoft IT Pro Camp and Azurefest events. And there’s the value – comparable conferences in other cities will run you almost double the cost in registration, hotel, and...
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Create PROCEDURE [dbo].[ts_Dates] @isTo bit AS /* ---------------------------... --Last Dates Display-Value Pair for DropDown List for date greater than ---------------------------... exec [dbo].[ts_Dates] 0 exec [dbo].[ts_Dates] 1 */ declare @minToDate datetime declare @minFromDate datetime select @minToDate = min(<date>) from <table>; select @minFromDate = DATEADD(MONTH,-1,min(<da... from <table>; --print @minToDate --print...
Hi, it's really handy to be able to add Trace to your .Net application using the System.Diagnostics.Trace class.The only problem is how the heck do you get it to Trace out at runtime?The simple solution is to add this to your app config file... <system.diagnostics> <trace autoflush="true"> <listeners> <clear/> <add name="textwriterListener" type="System.Diagnostics.Te... initializeData="c:\temp\out... traceOutputOptions="ProcessId, DateTime"/>...
While doing my usual rounds of reading the news I came across an interesting post in the New York Times Bits blog: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.c... . It seems that most of the big players in the internet mail world (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more) have been working together in an attempt to formulate a new way of better identifying not-spam (and thereby more easily identifying spam) by using...
Geekswithblogs Gets a Facelift
Celebrating the five year anniversary of the first post on Geekswithblogs, the GWB team has launched a new look and functionality for the community designed to help the community continue to grow and increase interaction amongst bloggers.
The new design offers bloggers and readers the ability to quickly check recent posts, popular posts, Twitter users from the community, community news, and featured bloggers.
The redesign also makes it easier for bloggers to find tutorials on how to get the most from their blogs, support information, and a community-wide tag cloud.
We hope that you will enjoy the new features and look. Here’s to another five years and to everyone that makes up Geekswithblogs!
GWB Goes to PDC ’08 – Let Us “Tag Your Top”
Geekswithblogs is proud to be a Silver Media Sponsor for the upcoming PDC ’08! This will be a great opportunity for face-to-face interaction with the developer community.
If you happen to be going to Los Angeles for the PDC, and we highly suggest you do, make sure to swing by the Geekswithblogs booth (#100) in the Expo Hall to say hi! We will have some amazing looking Geekswithblogs stickers hot off the press ready to “tag your top” – so bring your laptop by to take it from drab to fab!
GWB Podcasting from PDC ‘08
Make sure to look for fellow Geekswithbloggers Chris Williams and D’Arcy Lussier roaming around the floor. They will be playing the part of on-site GWB ambassadors and roving reporters; stop and chat with them!
We’d like to know what you think about the upcoming podcast. We are thinking of firing PodcastStudio.net (the official podcast of GWB) back up after the event and would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
GWB and PDC ’08 – We’ll Make You Famous!
A major part of our display at our PDC booth is going to include a video featuring none other than the Geekswithblogs community members! We’re proud to have you as contributors to a large, healthy blogging community and want to give you some additional exposure.
Here’s what to do; record yourself saying “I’m a geek with a blog, and I…”. Simply fill in the rest with something interesting about yourself. It could be anything from what technology you love, what you like to do in your spare time, where you live, etc.
Examples include:
- I’m a geek with a blog, and I rock at ASP.NET.
- I'm a geek with a blog, and I support my development community by presenting at user groups.
- I'm a geek with a blog, and I love playing guitar.
- I’m a geek with a blog, and I volunteer to help the homeless.
- I’m a geek with a blog, and I chug energy drinks.
First 30 bloggers that send in a video with at least 5 statements get a ultra-stylish Geekswithblogs t-shirt with their blog URL on the back!
Stay tuned for FTP information for uploading your files!