April, 2007

This post is yet another technology placeholder. I found the other day my PDC 05 notes and specifically Linq which I thought I better check in on again. I came across Wes Dyer's blog , which is sensational but my head hurts. Instantly like the guy...

I was reading Mick Badran’s blog and noticed he belonged to the TechEd 2007 community bloggers site I picked up on two key articles Configuring TFS to use SharePoint 2007 and the CC.NET Vista Sidebar Gadget CC.Net I have used a few projects...

I've been creating some WPF examples to hook up with my WCF applications by using Expression Blend I first started reading this article match my GridView and databinding If in doubt goto the MSDN there is just some excellent writing and samples done here...

I was throwing a simple WCF FaultException yesterday and came across the same problem as this on the forums The client was trying to catch a fault as below: catch ( FaultException < InvalidOperationException > fexc) { MessageBox ...

At a customer we are some creating a mini series of information sessions about key developments in the Microsoft development space Neal Cross demonstrated a nice mortgage gadget last night. Here is the link to the programmable web mashup site Neal was...

What’s in a development architecture? I've had this posed at several customers where no set practices are evident. More often than not an organic development process is adhered to. Regardless of SDLC methodology a development architecture I propose...

I quote a recent article as it struck me as a rational for a comprehensive development architecture and environment. The article begins: "A software 'fix' sent up to NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft in June 2006 ultimately led to its failure...

Beware: Adding the following attribute to a member of the the underlying service class [ OperationBehavior (TransactionScopeRequired = true )] when the class is marked with the the follow attribute: [ ServiceBehavior (InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode...

When creating a new subscriber interface for a WCF service recently I discovered this elegant little pattern "firing" a list of Action generic Delegates . Basically for each subscriber it calls the anonymous method // create a delegate for the call...

One of our customers pointed out this interesting article to me today: ABN Amro compensates victims of 'man-in-the-middle' attack It shows why key fobs are really only part of answer to one problem. It worries me that the executive board member...

After reading an article titled Apple delays Leopard to October I discovered that Bootcamp had indeed been updated. The annoying thing is that I have been checking the site for a while but not realising that the version number changed from 1.1.2 beta...

I am implementing a WCF reference model this week as part of a presentation. You realise some basics in the process of hosting your new services Principle 1: Services needs hosting (adding a service to config doesn’t host it) ServiceHost host...

I've been meaning to create a post to host some of my Vista links I like. Here is a nice link for some Vista tools and one of I like particularly is the Vista wallpapers that were not included in the final build.

Last week I had some issues convincing my machine that it could indeed run the WGA tool I came across a bunch of genuine advantage tips and tricks to help along the way: http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=956524&SiteID...

Im working my way through an unusual TFS issue: The item $//Security/Security.vsd is locked for check-out by (null) in workspace (null). The problem appears to be a changed workspace while the item was checked out. Thanks to James Manning for the...