I have encountered this error many times: A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate. Error Code 0x8007232A “DNS Server Failure” Activations errors are explained in the page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938450 It seems that the machine cannot...

I wanted to add a new feature in my Windows Server 2008 but had problems when viewing the server management console: "Server Manager encountered an unexpected error while collecting data about the status of this computer" when clicking in the detail link...

Enterprise Library 5.0 is being planned, if you want to "be part" of the planning team you can do it! I've already seen the 100$ formula in other projects and I really like it. To spend your virtual 100$ go to Grigori's blog . Here are my 100$ ...

There is a new game included in one of the latest Vista Ultimate Update. It is a puzzle game that is really addictive. You can also record a video, within the game...

After watching some of the great tutorial videos in Silverlight.net I decided to play a little bit with Silverlight 2 and VS2008. It is incredible all the funcionality that offers Silverlight with a plugin of 4.5 MB (WCF, Drawing, DataBinding, Linq...

Here are the videos of the PDC. Just the week after the end of the PDC we can see all the presentations of the PDC that shows us present and future of Microsoft Development. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ Here we can see the presentation of Windows...

Many people has echoed the news about extending the life of OEM Windows XP. But there is not much fuss about that Windows 3.11 is going to be discontinued in embedded in 3 months (November 1st 2008) ... 16 years after its release!     John Coyne...

Some guys has asked about what happened to the Web References in Visual Studio 2008. Well if we pay a little bit of attention, by default in VS2008 there is no right button over the project -> "Add Web Reference". There is a "Add Service...

Enterprise Library 4.0 has been released and the Strong Naming Guidance Application Block has been removed from the EntLib, but it is available as a separate download in entlibcontrib : The direct link is here: http://www.codeplex.com/entlibcontrib...

Now that there is a new release of Visual Studio I wanted to take a closer look at it to see which are the improvements and new features. I really wanted to get to the new stuff about Linq and the .Net framework 3.5. But I got lost fiddling with the...

The .Net Framework 3.5 Source Code will be released later this year. (announced in http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx ) This isn't going to be a major revolution since the...

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I will be speaking about the new version of Enterprise Library 3.1 at the madrid .Net User group event in July 19. It is a two hour dynamic presentation with demos where people can participate, ask questions or share their oppinions/experiences. The...

One of the recurring tasks that everybody has made in every programming language has been asymmetric encryption. With .Net it is very simple to encrypt data, it is well documented and there are lots of blogs and articles, but people still run into...

Now with the new version of Enterprise Library 3.0 we can play with Aspect Oriented Programming. The goal of AOP is to insert some functionality that is not "business related" without altering the existing code or to make it flexible enough so changes...

Working with Web Services is supposed to be interoperable, but that's not quite 100% true, there are always some glitches when working with other platforms. Recently I faced one of those. With .Net I could easily create and consume web services by using...

Ok, since I don't have time for nothing I started a new activity... I have uploaded to the codeplex site the specifications of a new application called Carnival . This application is meant for masking data from a database. The idea is quite simple. Take...

I have seen many projects with a lot of documentation and also projects with almost no documentation and almost none that have the right amount of documentation. Some methodologies require writing a lot of docs (planning, design etc ...) before starting...

Hello, I have been playing around a couple of days with WebDav and I found it really interesting how simple it was to retrieve and modify messages from OWA. WebDav (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a standard that help us...

Ok, after a month and a half working with Windows Vista I think here are my first impressions about this great product. What I did right after installing the OS? Look for the Games, of course. I think it is the very first I do whenever I get hold of...

Ok, since there are many products coming out (both commercial and free) here it comes what I hope it will be a serie of posts titled "Firts impressions about ...". The intention of these articles are to share my experiences, show others what to expect...

Ok. We are all set, after a phase of feedback and polls here it comes the new features of the EntLib. http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2006/09/26/773213.aspx I'm pretty happy with all the changes, since there are no radical changes so migration...

Mocking HttpContext object...

Yes, I must admit that I am deviating the purpose of this blog (enterprise development) a little too early (2nd post) But I have always been attracted to video games and its development (since I had an Amstrad CPC 6128) and later on with DIV Games...

Ok, so here we are ... In front of a blank page trying to write something. I hope this will happen only once. My goal is trying to post not very frequently, but at least regularly. This blog is aimed to my experience in the field, problems I have...