David Waddleton's Geek Speak : Cool Stuff

ASP.NET AJAX Beta / CTP Release

David Waddleton — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:46:00 GMT

The ASP.NET AJAX Beta is now live. This release includes a number of significant changes: 1) An update to http://www.asp.net/ and http://Ajax.asp.net/ to support the release 2) A comprehensive whitepaper detailing changes between the CTP’s and Beta 3)...(read more)

Why and how would I Mock a Web Service? (In VS 2005)?

David Waddleton — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:30:00 GMT

Well, in my current project, this question appeared very early on. Since, I am doing Test-Driven Development, I need to test my web service data layer, but I don’t need it all of the time. I used a pattern called Constructor based Dependency Injection...(read more)

Geek Speak: Team System Installation Error? ( Don't Rename your Machine!!) but if you need to.

David Waddleton — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:53:00 GMT

Just in case you ever do what I did during my installation. You are thinking, why would you ever do something like that. Well, I had a machine conflict on my network, who would guess!! Well, I had to rename my machine and sure enough. VSTF did not work!! I did what any sane person would do. Uninstll, VSTF, Sharepoint and SQL to clean up what I did. Well before you do all of that, you may want to try this.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=143989&SiteID=1
(Note: TF30076 Server Name provided does not correspond to a server URI that can be found , is not the title of the error that I received, but the fix is there. )

Well, to make a long story short. I re-installed everthing, but TFS had issues at the very end. It was 99.9% complete and I did not want to start over. It will tell you that the Event Services are not available. I checked everthing and IIS was running correctly. The issue is that the registry, still had references to my old machine name, which is what it was using to reference the web services.

If you do the following and replace your machine name and reference to your TFS server and everthing should be ok.

1. Type regedit on the command prompt
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER node. Expand that
3. Under that expand the Software node
4. Under that expand the Microsoft node
5. Under that expand the Visual Studio node
6. Under that expand the 8.0 node
7. Under that expand the Team Foundation node
8. Under that expand the Servers node

Geek Speak: Cool Stuff in spare time? Window Media Encoder SDK

David Waddleton — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:32:08 GMT

Well, I have a little spare time. Between moving boxes and my kids soccer, so you know I don’t have that much. Well I have XM Radio and I just love it. Well, becuase of where I live and Seattle area, traffic. The trees get in the way when I am driving. I am discovered the Windows Media Encoder SDK. If you have not used this it is very COOL.

You can get the Windows Media Encoder @ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
The Encoder allows you to record Audio and Video.

I love to listen, to my XM Radio at work, well, my favorite channel is not on the internet version of XM. I record a cycle of programs, 8 hours. I have created a simple static wrapper, that allow for recording in segments or whole chunks. The API’s allow for the discovery of what devices you can record from. Since I know when I want to record my programs. I just hook my XM radio in to the input of my notebook and just record. This part of the process is using the AT command to schedule the recording. The second part is a WinForm application, that allows the splitting of large audio files.

Here is the source for my helper that I created. ( Source in Zip File )

Here is the location for the Windows Media Encoder SDK @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/downloads/default.aspx

Geek Speak: Testing Tip with VSTS

David Waddleton — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:30:43 GMT

Situation: I am testing some code that had a constructor that using the configuration file.

        public XmlBase()
        {
            if (ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings  != null)
            {
                connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["dbConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
                con = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
            }
        }

While testing it may seem that you need to override the constructor
to pass in some other information for testing.  But, with VSTS you
you just need to implement the same type of functionality like NUnit.

1. Take the config file that you want to use in the test and copy it 
to where the dll is where the testing project created and rename
<project.dll>.config.
2. Test the code.

 For more information: 
http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/peter/archive/2005/07/13/6179.aspx