Hitchhiker guide to enterprise development

Error when adding roles or features in Windows Server 2008

davidhernandez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:03:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Enterprise Library 5.0 is being cooked! Make your suggestions.

davidhernandez — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Vista Ultimate Update (Tinker)

davidhernandez — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:39:00 GMT

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)

davidhernandez — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:37:00 GMT

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 ....)...(read more)

PDC videos

davidhernandez — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

It's the End for Windows 3.11!!

davidhernandez — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:50:33 GMT

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...(read more)

Web References in Visual Studio 2008

davidhernandez — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:45:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Strong Naming Guidance Application Block for Visual Studio 2008

davidhernandez — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:14:00 GMT

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...(read more)

First impressions of Visual Studio 2008

davidhernandez — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

.Net Framework Source Code released

davidhernandez — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Save the planet

davidhernandez — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:59:51 GMT

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

davidhernandez — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Encrypting long text asymmetrically

davidhernandez — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Policy Injection App. Block simple sample

davidhernandez — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:14:00 GMT

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...(read more)

WSDL Merger

davidhernandez — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:18:46 GMT

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...(read more)