Sitting here at TCCC I decided, why not blog it up for a few minutes? I had my presentation this morning and it was OK, I should have the slides and other info up in the next week for anyone interested.
So far I've listen to talks about BizTalk and XNA (both by fellow GWB's). Next is Silverlight followed by some ASP .Net stuff.
I might have to stop going to Chris's XNA talks, I always want to start creating games after seeing them...
My son informed me yesterday that we have the notorious 3 flashing red lights on our Xbox 360. This is the third time in three years that we've had this problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907534
I called Xbox support, initiated a repair order, and will be waiting another month before my son can play it again. I'm amazed by the lack of quality hardware in the Xbox. Fortunately they keep repairng it at no cost to me, but I'm getting tired of annual repairs...
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Free SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities
Link:
http://www.codeplex.com/SPDActivities/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Available%20Activities
These are add-ons for Office SharePoint Designer and are used in building up Workflows for SharePoint sites. I will be making use of Copy List Item Extended Activity in one of my blogs. This activity lets the user copy items from one site to another (from a subsite to another subsite in the same site).
Other activities include:
sending attachment...
Now with more reflective imagey goodness!
The new theme is a work in progress. I am porting Carl Mason's SummerFruit theme for Wordpress. I've got most of the major stuff, I just need to get the comments and contact form styled.
~Lee...
Windows Vista: Pros and Cons
I just bought a laptop which has Windows Vista. Since I wasn’t sure if it’s feasible to keep it with this Operating System, I researched to see the advantages and disadvantages of Vista. Here is what I gathered out of personal use and research
What I love about Windows Vista:
· The increased security, although you can also get this by having Service Pack 3 on Windows XP
· The new looks, which in my opinion are way better than those of Windows...
I learned a few things the hard way and thought I'd pass them along in case it helps someone else. I bought a PowerEdge 2900 last winter planning on consolidating my five machines onto a single virtualized server. The PE 2900 has a pair of quad Xeons, supports up to 48 GB of RAM and 10 SCSI/SATA drives. Plenty of room for growth to support Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Doing my homework, I downloaded and burned the System Management Tools v. 5.5.0, A00 (5.4+ needed for Windows Server 2008 support)...
So today I ran across the dreaded "Error: Subreport could not be shown." The odd thing was that the report and subreport executed fine in business intelligence studio, yet this problem arose when the report was deployed to the SSRS server. The key to broken subreports that execute fine in stand-alone mode are the report parameters passed in from the root report to the subreport. A little background: The subreport was being called iteratively in a table where each row in the table contained the...
Not very amazing or technical but thought I'd post a bit about it anyways. Anyone that gets asked how to show a repeating decimal in Word, for example representing the fraction 1/3 in decimal is 1.33333333 with 3 repeating to infinity. Normally there would be a line above the last 3 (the line is called a vinculum).
Now to show the 3 with a line above it in Microsoft Word you need to use a field code that superimposes one character over the other.
Press Ctrl-F9 to insert the field delimiters...
Eduardo is an architect and consultant with Daugherty Business Solutions. He recently started blogging. Check out his post on Habbits of Effective Architects. You can also see him give a talk on this post at this month's Chicago Architects Group meeting.
Happy blogging Eduardo...
Conquer Online - Game Review
Conquer Online, is a game that I have played for about three and a half years. I had 3 characters in all, two trojans which are characters which can hold two weapons, and i also had an archer - everyone knows what an archer is!
The environment of the game was wonderful, it is colorful and very Chinese related. Character customization is pretty amazing for a free of charge online game. At the beginning one chooses the type of character: trojan, archer, taiost or warrior,...
We are very pleased to be holding this meeting in cooperation with the Central Florida BizTalk User Group. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2 Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, the latest version of BizTalk, is an exciting tool that all .NET application developers should know about. BizTalk fills two key business needs: enterprise application integration, and business process automation. This...
I'm going to PDC2008 in Los Angeles. I've never been before, but am told I will have a total nerdgasm. Several coworkers are going too, so I'll have some guidance.
I will try to post what I can, as often as I can, but we'll have to see (I'm not very good at keeping up with my blog).
Dave...
"Fix the Architecture" - Open Discussion We have a great group of members with a variety of experience, so bring your architecture problems and leverage those experiences and creativity to help solve them. This is an open discussion format and depending on how many people we have and how many problems we may split up into small groups or try to solve problems one at a time. Please bring your topics to discuss. We also have a backup topic of Tips for Performance in a Web Architecture. When...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 4
Breaking Inheritance
The owner has the permission to create unique permissions at the time you create a site. If you change your mind later, you have to break inheritance.
To stop inheriting permissions from a parent site:
1. Browse to the People and Groups page for a site
2. Click the site permissions header in the Quick Launch bar.
3. Choose Actions > Edit Permissions – a dialog box confirming that you wish to stop inheriting permissions...
Manning Publications has a program called MEAP. MEAP stands for Manning Early Access Program - basically buying a book as a PDF before the paper version is published, in fact, before it is even finished. Good for new technologies like ASP.NET MVC of Silverlight.
Now I know that electronic versions have a marginal cost compared to paper versions, but Manning are taking this to extreme levels;
In April, I bought the MEAP title, The Art of Unit Testing, $24.99
By August, the completion of...
Please join us on Thursday 10/16, at the Microsoft Bloomington office for our monthly MNSCUG meeting. This month we have Jim Thomson from Intel to provide an overview and demo of using SCCM SP1 and the new Out of Band management features that are possible on vPro enabled systems from 5:00-5:45. Following that, we will finish the night with a round table discussion. Since vPro and Power Management will be fresh in our minds, one topic I'd like to discuss is Software Delivery strategies and what...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 3
People and Groups
Site Settings > Users and Permissions > People and Groups
Group is a container for assigning permission levels to a user. Permission levels are a container for storing a set of individual permissions and these permissions are what give rights to a user.
Site Permissions section lets the admin/user view the permissions assigned to particular users and groups in the site. From here, one can create new permission levels.
Creating...
I’ll be honest that this did happen to me, and thankfully the MSDN straightened me out. For those of us who normally program for winforms, sometimes the switch to an ASP.NET project can prove to be a whole new world. For instance, I was working on a straightforward single page in ASP.NET 1.1 so that members of the same project could gather some information easily. The form itself had one field, and I wanted to ensure that the field was a number only. I added a RegularExpressionValidator and pointed...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 2
Dependencies and descriptions
Most of the permissions are dependent on other permissions. When choosing a permission which has dependencies on other permissions, these are automatically selected.
For permissions who have dependencies, visit the following link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101001491033.aspx#3
Tips on Administration of SharePoint Permissions
It is suggested that at the beginning one uses the standard...
Send Cookie in HTTP Header WebRequest
Problem: You are using a third-party web service to which you are connecting with your own web service. The third-party web service is divided into two phases. Phase 1 is dependent on nothing i.e. you just pass the parameters and the web service returns the details you would like. Phase 2 though is dependent on the first. The problem is that the second phase -- apart from the method parameters -- also requests that you pass on the JSessionID value which was...
The Ann Arbor Day of .NET is just over a week away! We have finalized the agenda and you can find it here:
http://www.dayofdotnet.org/AnnArbor/Fall2008/Agenda.aspx
There are a lot of great sessions and it is sure to be the best Ann Arbor Day of .NET yet. Hope to see you there...
