Deviations

Have i talked you about real life stories J … well here is another one. This time is about MOSS 2007 and InfoPath forms and about getting a new column for a promoted field that was already assigned to a Site column (resulting in duplicated Site Columns...

I spend most of my work time troubleshooting or managing the process of troubleshooting technical issues onsite, with the customer teams and with Microsoft’s support people. Doing that so often, I’m found wondering on what knowledge can I take from each...

The end-user just called you and stated that no matter how many times he keeps trying, the result is pretty much the same. Ok, so it seems that the suggestion is not good enough. What can you do if all you have is this error message and a complaining...

Very often, I’m asked to troubleshoot some client-side issue regarding web applications. Because, most of those times, I’m not onsite at the customer experiencing the issue, or because often this issue occurs on some remote site or branch office, it can...

Hi, After debugging for quite some time, and looking almost every day at memory dumps you start to think “I really need a command to this, to do that,…” in order to easy on some of the repetitive work and allow you to more quickly...

Hi folks, here it is, another real life story…   A while ago when I arrived to a customer site, he came to me and told me that he had a problem in his MOSS 2007 Server Farm, that for 3 days no one was able to access one of the intranet main site...

Hello, Let me start by clarifying that this only applies to x86. The reason for this is that on x86 the first field on a CONTEXT (more info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679284 ) structure is a flag with the value 0x1003f. More...

No, this is not “just another” article about implementing Splash Screens in Silverlight :) Sure, I’ll briefly present the procedure, but what I really want to show is how easily we can assess, in our development machines, the splash...

Hello, Sometimes i have to do live debugging in order to understand what’s going on inside a process. Usually when this happens i need to set breakpoints on specific methods. Let’s say that I what to set a specific breakpoint on a method...

Hello, This time I’m going to address something that most times is somewhat straight forward to analyze yet many people I deal with don´t know how to proceed when a blue screen appears. In this blog post I assume the server is already configured...

Hello, It´s been a while since my last post. I´ve decided to start a new topic regarding debugging posts. It´s called quick tips debugging code and here is my first post on the series. Sometimes while debugging an issue I have...

One of the most common issues I deal with are related to blocking. Some of this are pretty straight forward to identify, Others not that easy, especially if you have a process with many threads. When I have to troubleshoot blocking on WaitHandles (e.g...

The problem A customer of mine has recently had a problem on one of the first Windows 7 machines he installed; the problem was that when trying to connect to a SSAS from Excel it kept asking for credentials.   So what was the problem with this machine...

The n-Tier headache The huge growth of the Multitier application architectures has drastically changed the way we envision, develop and support software solutions. The notions of greater scalability, reutilization of services and independent software...

One of the long waited features of Silverlight was Web Camera and Microphone support. This feature was welcomed with great enthusiasm and passion when Silverlight 4 Beta was unveiled at the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) last November. ...

Blend/Silverlight 3 introduces a new powerful feature – Behaviors. Behaviors allow designers to take advantage of new levels of interactivity declaratively, without writing code. In short, a behavior is a reusable piece that encapsulates some functionality...

One of these days a customer asked me if there was an easy way to build a Web Part that would be able to switch between the list views, and also wanted it to look and feel like a view of any list in Sharepoint . The first thing that crossed my mind was...

In a perfect world, computer applications would be syntactically and semantically correct and complete, thus exhibiting no errors nor flaws. Ours is not a perfect world, though, and even worse is that a significant part of those computer applications...

With the release of Internet Explorer 8, many customer sites suddenly had rendering errors and problems displaying the site correctly. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/default.aspx In order to avoid expensive and time consuming corrections...

On my previous post I wrote about the complexity of implementing perspective projections with Silverlight 2 since it only supports 2D affine transforms . Well, as you surely already know by now, with Silverlight 3 you’ll be able to apply 3-D projections...

“Why”? With this post I want to demonstrate how to reuse Web User Controls in multiple web projects to avoid the duplication of code and interface. How many times many of us needed a Web User Control created in another web project, and use it directly...

Recently, my customer started complaining that an externally-facing web site was not working properly. Apparently no changes had been made to the web site… This is very common in the field: nothing happens and software starts decaying in what seems to...

After the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server build 12.0.6314.5000, the stsadm Sync operation introduced a new parameter – “ignoreisactive”, specially designed for the issue described in the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx...

One of this days, when I was just talking with some of my colleagues we start wandering about Authorization mechanisms, and rapidly they evolved to all sort of techniques. They talk about COM+ Roles, they talked about ASP.NET Roles, they talked about...

Often, i get the question on how to see what the framework is doing, how to set breakpoints, do live debugging in order to understand what is under the hood. So, I decided to write on the subject and about the approach I usually take when doing live debugging...