November 2005 - Posts

posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

AsyncOperationManager.

I learnt something new today that I hadn't seen before in .NET 2.0. I got it from this link here and it is somewhat related to something I posted a long time ago about capturing ExecutionContext back here   Essentially, it was this class called AsyncOperationManager Read More
posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:48 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

WinFX November CTP and IMG files

I just downloaded the WinFX November CTP bits from here   In doing so, the SDK came on a .IMG file which I didn't really have a clue what to do with - not a format that I've had to play with before.   It turns out that renaming this to .ISO and mounting Read More
posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:23 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Laptop.Wipe(); Laptop.Install()

I was out doing a couple of talks on VS 2005 and SQL 2005 and I don't have another one for a little while to do off my own laptop so it gives me time to finally get around to installing the RTM of VS 2005 and SQL 2005 (I've been using RTM versions in Read More
posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:56 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

InfoCard Documents

I picked up a post from somewhere that included the links to these new InfoCard docs that look very useful to me;   Guide to Integrating with InfoCard Technical Reference for InfoCard   I've updated this post after starting to wade through these documents. Read More
posted Monday, November 21, 2005 6:58 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

UK SQL Server Events

The SQL Server User's Group has a couple of great SQL Server events coming up with the fantasic Mr Itzik Ben-Gan author of books such as this one   The first event is in Reading at Microsoft on the 29th November and it's on "Advanced Querying and Query Read More
posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 1:34 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Big News (for me): November CTP of WinFX now available

The November CTP of WinFX is now available (start here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E5376297-DA10-4FC3-967D-38C96F767FC4&displaylang=en)   This supports the released version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework Read More
posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:43 PM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Indigo - Basic Http Profile with SSL in a self-hosted service ("The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send")

I was playing with Indigo (PDC build) today and trying to get a basic self-hosted (i.e. outside IIS) application to use the wsHttpProfile alongside SSL or "transport" security.   This is purely for development, not for any kind of production.   I was Read More
posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:33 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Post Event Slides: SQL Server 2005 Day at Thames Valley Park

Eric and I did an event 3-4 weeks ago down at Microsoft in Reading which was called something like "SQL Server 2005 for SQL Server 2000 developers".   Unfortunately, there's been a number of problems in trying to publish the slide-decks for this event Read More
posted Friday, November 11, 2005 10:22 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Chairs!

You can decide for yourself whether this is a dev related post or not. I picked up my new chair today. I'm experimenting with one of these;     The proper hyperlink is here (http://www.stokke.com/product.asp?p=Variable&la=EN&na=UK&div=M) Read More
posted Friday, November 11, 2005 2:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Dino Esposito on Atlas

I was just reading this posting (http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2005/11/09/430078.aspx) from Dino Esposito who's been listening to some stuff on the AJAX framework "Atlas" that the ASP.NET guys are building to add on to ASP.NET 2.0.   Now, I tend Read More
posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:12 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

WSE3.0 RTM Available for Download

A few people have been asking me what the timeframe is like for WSE 3.0 now that .NET Framework 2.0 has RTM'd.   It looks like WSE 3.0 has now gone RTM as well - download is here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=018a09fd-3a74-43c5-8ec1-8d789091255d&displaylang=en Read More
posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:05 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack

If you've got SQL Server 2005 then you're going to want to be aware of the Feature Pack that's gone onto the web up here;   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D09C1D60-A13C-4479-9B91-9E8B9D835CDC&displaylang=en     Read More
posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:35 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 UK Launch Slide Decks

If you attended the Visual Studio, SQL and BizTalk launch event in Birmingham on Tuesday then you might be interested in grabbing hold of the slide-decks for the various presentations (I use them to steal pictures generally :-)).   They should be up on Read More
posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:29 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

"The system cannot execute the specified program" - continued…

Just to follow up on this post: http://mtaulty.com/blog/archive/2005/11/07/8944.aspx where I can't run my application once I've built it with "ClickOnce Security" switched on from VS 2005.   I found that using FileMon didn't work for me and using the Read More
posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:37 PM by Mike Taulty :: 3 Comments

Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 Launch

I was at the Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 UK launch at the ICC in Birmingham today where I was doing a session with Gudge and David and the whole event seemed to go very well to me and I had a thoroughly good time.   It's Read More
posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:57 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Visual Studio Express Tools: Free

It looks like the Visual Studio Express Editions website has been updated for the RTM versions of the product with the added bonus that it's been revealed that the products are going to be available for free.   Go here http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx Read More
posted Monday, November 07, 2005 12:57 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Hosting WSE 3.0 with HTTP.SYS

Aaron Skonnard has an impressive bit of kit over at his blog site for hosting WSE 3.0 services with HTTP.SYS - see here http://pluralsight.com/blogs/aaron/archive/2005/10/14/15571.aspx   Now, on first glance you might be thinking, what? Let's recap; Read More
posted Monday, November 07, 2005 12:40 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

"The system cannot execute the specified program" or "Computer says no".

It's not often that this happens to me but today I'm stuck trying to debug something and I don't know what tool I can use.   I built a ClickOnce application. As part of doing that, I used Visual Studio 2005 (I'm still on beta 2 for WinFX versions so I Read More
posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:22 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

C# and Zip Files

I need C# access to zip files today and I found this implementation http://www.organicbit.com/zip/ which I thought I'd share.   There are others out there but this one seems to come under a less restrictive licensing model than some of the more popular Read More
posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:20 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Details on the new MCP programme

A lot of people have asked me over the past few months about when we would announce the details of the new MCP exams to go alongside Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0.   I noticed today that the new details on MCPs have been posted to the MSDN Read More
posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:02 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Avalon: Building a Media Center-like UI

I like this article http://www.mperfect.net/backRow/ about a guy's experience with trying to build a UI similar to the new Apple "Front Row" (or Windows Media Center which is more functional from what I've seen) using the Windows Presentation Foundation. Read More
posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:52 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Interesting post on the "Windows Live" Announcement

At this point, I haven't quite got the Windows Live announcement that was made yesterday. I've been and visited www.live.com and I've seen that it's a nice portal with some RSS capabilities but, to be honest, it's not exactly blown my socks off and I've Read More