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December 2005 - Posts

UK MSDN Nugget Videos - Alternate Methods for Viewing

We've been making and publishing these little MSDN "Nugget" videos in the UK for quite a while and they've been successful for us in the sense that people download them and watch them and when I meet folk at events they often say "Hey, I watched that Read More...
Posted Friday, December 23, 2005 3:56 PM by mtaulty | 7 Comments

Windows Forms, ScrollableControl, AutoScroll and Focus

If you're ever playing with Windows Forms, ScrollableControls, AutoScroll and you're having problems with controls jumping about on the screen when they get focus then this is the article you need to read . I've been playing with this a little lately Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 4:29 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WSE 2.0 and 3.0 Tracing Tools: Source Code

Someone pointed out to me that the source code for the WSE 3.0 and WSE 2.0 tracing tools is not really available online. The tool history is documented here so I won't go into it yet again :-) At one point, I created a GotDotNet Workspace for the tracing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:41 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Windows Vista December CTP: On MSDN Downloads

Go here to download. I managed a pretty quick download of it but haven't got around to installing yet. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:34 PM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

WinFX: December CTP

The download page for the December CTP of WinFX is up here . I was looking around the MSDN subscriber downloads site to see if a corresponding Vista build was also available but it looks like it's not up there just yet although the public news sites have Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:18 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Blimey

I guess this is the shape of things to come :-) I imagine that the whole thing gets a bit warm and perhaps noisy but, still, that's a pretty impressive bit of kit. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 16, 2005 2:29 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WCF: WsHttpBinding, UserName Security and the "Exception identity check failed for outgoing message" error.

I've moved on from playing with WCF Transport security and started trying to look at message security. I configured my service like this; < services > < service type = " Implementation " > < endpoint address = " http://localhost:9200/service Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:03 PM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

WCF: Tracing and Diagnostics

When I first saw a WCF build I had a play around with the tracing capabilities and, at the time, I wasn't particularly impressed. It might have been the build of the tracing viewer tool, it might have been my lack of knowing what to do or a combination Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 6:29 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

TweakUI: Applications Stealing Focus

I'd forgotten that I needed this. One of my pet hates is the way in which I'm typing away in a Word document or an email and some other application leaps to the foreground with a dialog which has a couple of buttons on it and I press the space bar into Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:45 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

WCF: HTTP Transport Security and Custom Authentication

In the WCF there are 2 modes of security - transport and message where the former pushes the work down to the transport layer (HTTPS etc) and the latter pushes the work into the SOAP layer and works across multiple networking hops and so on. When you Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:34 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Blog Downtime

This site might go down for a day or two over the next couple of days as my hoster is going to move the site onto a new server - hopefully the delay won't be for too long. Thx. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:10 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Windows Communication Foundation: More Nuggets

I started a whole series of nugget videos about the WCF and it looks like a lot of them got published in one big go so I thought I'd do a bit of additional "promotion" for them here. There are some more of these yet to come. These ones are all ( I think Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:48 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WCF: Basic HTTP Profile with Mutual Certificate Authentication

Following up on this post I spent a really long time trying to get WCF (Nov CTP) to work with mutual authentication over the basic HTTP profile that I thought I'd try and do a complete write up of what I did in order to share it. In the end ( like most Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:22 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

WCF: Getting WSDL, Help Pages and Metadata from Simple Console Apps

Something that really bit me hard today. I wrote a simple "hello world" console application with WCF that was listening on http://localhost:8080/service and I was asking it for its WSDL document and it kept refusing. I was using ServiceHost.Open(typeof(MyImplementation)); Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:04 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WPF : Dynamically altering styles

I was thinking about the WPF and its support for styling and how that corresponded with what a website designer can do with CSS for their website. It was Ian's post over here that got me thinking about it. I had a little play with the Nov CTP of WPF to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:53 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

WPF and standard dialogs

Charles Petzold blogs that he's found the standard dialogs for the WPF hidden away in Microsoft.Win32. I was looking for the same thing today and had decided that I needed to bring in Windows Forms in order to get to the OpenFileDialog but then I came Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:00 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Rant 3: BT and their weird phone calls

This ( http://mtaulty.com/blog/archive/2004/11/30/925.aspx ) happens to me again today. I had a phone call from British Telecom which went like this; BT: "Hi, this is X from British Telecom, we're just ringing about your phone…" Me: "Ok" BT: "Could you Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 11:23 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Rant 2: Email Signatures

There might be a bit of "tongue in cheek" here… ;-) What is it with email signatures? I've noticed that they're growing and growing and I'm getting more and more email (admittedly, most of it internal Microsoft mail) where the email signature is bigger Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:37 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Rant 1: The "soft-sell" of the call centre

I'm just in the process of moving house and I've had to phone a number of companies (credit cards, insurance and so on) and let them know that I'm changing my address. I've noticed a new line of patter that the call centres seem to have developed. It Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:30 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Pandora

I'm guessing that this is "old" and everyone knows about it by now but I'm finding this; http://www.pandora.com really interesting right now. I remember a graphical version of this (probably by the same people) which would let you explore a map of music Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:06 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

And here is the SQL News: SQL Midday Briefing

The chaps over at the SQL Server FAQ are running a new LiveMeeting slot in lunchtimes that covers a bit of news, updates and has a live demonstration on an aspect of SQL Server. Sounds like an interesting format to me. The next one is tomorrow, sign up Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 2:48 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WSE 3.0: Tracing Tool Updated for RTM bits

I've updated my WSE 3.0 Tracing Tool for the RTM bits of Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0 and WSE 3.0. The download for the new bits on the RTM is here . If you've not been following the WSE Tracing Tool generally then here's a bunch of posts that'll Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:56 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Networking, FTP and MTU ("Connection Reset By Peer")

I know that this has hit me a number of times and it's hit me again today so I thought I'd share it here. From various laptops, I've had problems trying to FTP files to my website. Using command-line FTP I can see the problem by switching on hash printing Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:01 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Upcoming UK SQL Server Events

Just doing a bit of "promotion". There's an event entitled "SQL Server Up and Running" and it's in London on the 6th February. They've got some great speakers lined up including Kalen Delaney and Niels Berglund so you're in for a top notch day at a nominal Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:54 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments