Hitchhiker guide to enterprise development

Error when adding roles or features in Windows Server 2008

2009-06-09T10:03:11Z

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 it said something like "Cannot open an anonymous level security token. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070543)" I have encountered this error a couple of times . I guess it is some configuration it gets changed when installing some products. I tried...(read more)

Enterprise Library 5.0 is being cooked! Make your suggestions.

2009-01-29T01:11:00Z

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$ 20$ Make possible to have a centralized configurations for many applications. (Now you can do it but all the logs are written into the same file, the event log end up in the same source) The desired effect would be to have a central configuration file but each...(read more)

Windows Vista Ultimate Update (Tinker)

2008-11-09T22:39:00Z

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......(read more)

4 hours with Silverlight (and Hosting)

2008-11-06T00:37:00Z

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 ....) But what is even more incredible is the productivity you get right from the beggining. A .Net programmer doesn't have a deep learning curve and can accomplish many tasks within minutes. The first Silverlight component I decided to do was a simple...(read more)

PDC videos

2008-11-04T18:28:00Z

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 Azure, Windows 7, Visual Studio 10, Team Foundation, Silverlight, C# 4.0, Office 14, Live services, Paralell Computing Platform ......(read more)

It's the End for Windows 3.11!!

2008-07-11T12:50:33Z

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's Embedded Blog : It's the End for 3.11!!...(read more)

Web References in Visual Studio 2008

2008-06-12T00:45:00Z

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 Reference" (without Web) that means it is using a Reference to a service no matter which protocol is using (This is something not enough stressed a Service doesn't imply to be a web service). This Service Reference is in fact a WCF proxy (if...(read more)

Strong Naming Guidance Application Block for Visual Studio 2008

2008-05-23T15:14:00Z

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/SourceControl/DownloadSourceCode.aspx?changeSetId=18160 (Note that this is not a stable release) If you are too lazy busy to download, open VS and compile you can download here the msi....(read more)

First impressions of Visual Studio 2008

2007-12-19T01:54:00Z

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 new UI, specially the new refactor functionality. I really liked the "Organize Usings", which takes a file and removes all the unnecessary using clauses and order the rest of them. That is prety useful since some times you can see files that their using...(read more)

.Net Framework Source Code released

2007-10-04T00:58:00Z

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 code was already "visible" using tools like Reflector. But now we will have the complete detail of the source code (private variables names, comments ...) and we will also have the possibility to debug it with Visual Studio 2008. So we can understand...(read more)

Save the planet

2007-07-07T13:59:51Z

QuickStart: http://realestate.msn.com/Improve/Green/Article2.aspx?cp-documentid=440485 How to: http://liveearth.msn.com/green Advanced features:...(read more)

Mad.Nug Event Enterprise Library 3.1

2007-06-16T19:50:00Z

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 madNug events are held at Microsoft's Madrid office Paseo del Club Deportivo, 1 Centro Empresarial La Finca - Edificio 1 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) Tel: 91 391 99 99 The event will be held in spanish so here is the agenda: Breve Introducción a...(read more)

Encrypting long text asymmetrically

2007-06-13T10:02:00Z

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 two common issues. The first one is what most people want to do is encrypt a text, not a number or a sequence of bytes. The .Net framework has implemented the most popular algorithms, and they are all based on byte arrays. There are many blogs and articles...(read more)

Policy Injection App. Block simple sample

2007-06-04T19:14:00Z

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 are smooth or even better, transparent. The idea is to intercept calls before and after a method is called. Some of this functionality could be tracing, transactions, performance counters, exception handling, security etc ... In web scenarios some of...(read more)

WSDL Merger

2007-05-22T18:18:46Z

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 WSDLs that had imports, but it seems that some tools don't support that keyword so I had to merge all the generated files (wsdl and xsds) into a single one. Searching a little bit in live.com ( http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%22wsdl+merger%22...(read more)