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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:44 AM

invoking IIsApplicationPool.EnumAppsInPool may result in 'Unknown name' exception

So if you are using ADSI to invoke EnumAppsInPool to get all the applications assigned to a given application pool. It might result in a “Unknown name. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020006 (DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME))” error. So what I have found is that if you
Posted by mpoulson | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:19 PM

Media Center 2005 and the DirecTV D11 Set-top-Box (getting IR to work)

So today I got my a new D11 Set top box (STB) from DirecTV. I put it in place and then started up Media Center 2005 box (with Rollup 2, aka Emerald). When I went through the wizard to setup my TV signal I was sad to see that MCE did not know the IR codes
Posted by mpoulson | 6 Comments
Monday, March 06, 2006 3:31 PM

How does IIS generate the Site ID?

So in IIS 6 when you create a new site programmatically you have the option to specify a SiteID or you can let IIS 6 do it for you. If you let it do it for you it will make this kinda hash of the site name. You have to use this ID when you are doing any
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Monday, March 06, 2006 3:01 PM

WiFi coming to Capital Hill Seattle

So I live up on 10th Ave E in Seattle and a very good friend that lives directly across the street from me. So a few months ago I started to plan "neighbor net". A free wifi service to people in my area. So what has been done so far: I purchased 2 Cisco
Posted by mpoulson | 0 Comments
Monday, March 06, 2006 9:05 AM

Don't assume the SQL user is a DBO

Following up to my other post http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/03/06/544576.aspx . When you write an application that is going to do work with the SQL database DO NOT HARD CODE DBO. It is a security risk to the hoster if they allow the user
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Monday, March 06, 2006 8:57 AM

Don't write that application in Full Trust

If you are writing an ASP.NET web application that is to be used in a hosted environment (like a forms application) set the trust mode on your dev box to Medium. Many hosters will not let you run asp.net applications in Full Trust mode. So people end
Posted by mpoulson | 5 Comments
Friday, March 03, 2006 1:39 PM

When using IIS adsi and IIS:// IIS must be installed

If you are using ADSI to manage your IIS servers via .net you need to make sure IIS is installed on the server that calls the ADSI code. If you don't have it installed you might have an error like. System.Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
Posted by mpoulson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:57 AM

My new universal remote - Harmony 880

Yesterday I got my new remote ( http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/detailsharmony/US/EN,CRID=2084,CONTENTID=9933 ). It is sweet. It works great with my Pioneer Elite Plasma, Pioneer Elite Receiver, Media Center Extender, and Marantz DVD player.
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