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Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:09 PM

Extending Data Contracts

So let's say you're working on a WCF app and following a contract-first driven development model and autogenerating your data contracts based on XSD schema definitions. Svcutil does a reasonable job of creating your data contract classes. Curiously, collection
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Monday, July 21, 2008 8:56 PM

How To Debug Windows Service OnStart

The article, How to: Debug Windows Service Applications details how to attach to a running process to debug a service. This works when the code you're debugging a logical issue rather than finding the root cause of an early failure when the service starts
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:43 PM

Using a FM Transmitter with a Zune

Like many geeks, I'd like the ability to play music anywhere in my house from the music collection that I have aggregated on a PC sitting in my home office. The only thing special about this PC is that it has the Zune client installed. It's not a Window
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:35 PM

Planning for Windows Home Server with the Drobo

For several months now I've been considering putting together a home network that meets the following requirements: Centralized back up - computers, media files, and other documents are backed up to and available to be restored from a single location
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Monday, June 23, 2008 7:06 PM

Recover Documents from MOSS 2007 Database

Introduction A couple years ago I wrote a prior post on how a simple VBS script can be used to extract a document from a SharePoint 2003/WSS 2.0 database ( Recover Documents from SharePoint 2003 Database ). After seeing the traffic routing to the post
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:30 PM

Generic DataContract Serializer or The Last DataContract Serializer on Earth

Alternate post title is written with apologies to Vicent Price. When working with any technology that requires a contract driven approach, like WCF, there is often a need to serialize and deserialize objects if they don't come from a well know source
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:54 AM

Flickr and .NET

I recently came across this article: Flickr-ing about with .NET . Anyone who has uploaded photos to Flickr or has an interest in the site can programmatically walk the site with this API. It's rather straight forward. The difficulty lies in coming up
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Friday, September 22, 2006 12:41 PM

Inferring SharePoint 2007 Web Service Parameters

The SharePoint 2007 SDK documentation for the Beta2TR is currently lacking in details around invoking the web services. One approach you can use is to use the .NET Reflector to crack open the assembly and see what the service in question does with the
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:42 AM

Infopath Form Serialization and Schema Names

If you are working with SharePoint 2007 workflows, then you've probably had a need to serialize and deserialize InfoPath forms xml data based on the instructions here: How to: Access Association and Initiation Form Data in a Workflow . I've found that
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Sunday, September 17, 2006 4:30 PM

Recover Documents from SharePoint 2003 Database

This will not work with MOSS 2007. If you are looking for a MOSS 2007 solution for recovering document go here: Recover Documents from MOSS 2007 Database At some point a file will be accidentally deleted from a SharePoint library. There are tools to guard
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