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2101 of 2683 | Lancement de Dynamics CRM V4 - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 est disponible !en français, anglais, allemand et espagnol   NOUS Y SOMMES ! La nouvelle version de notre logiciel de gestion de la relation client est disponible. Ce lancement marque une étape importante pour Microsoft et ses partenaires.   Avec Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, nous offrons aux entreprises de toutes tailles - aux PME comme aux groupes multinationaux -  une flexibilité inédite. Outre la possibilité de choisir le mode d’implémentation, sur site ou à la demande, le mode d’acquisition, licence perpétuelle ou facturation à l’usage, et l’interface d’accès à leurs données CRM, nos clients bénéficient ......

2102 of 2683 | Limit Outbound Documents in 4.0 (AIF) - In Dynamics AX 4.0, there are two AIF actions that support retrieving data from an external system: QueryEntityKeys and QueryDocument. If a request message contains the QueryEntityKeys action, AX returns one ore more entity keys that match the query criteria specified in the request. If a request messages contains the the QueryDocument action, AX returns one or more documents that match the query criteria specified in the request.   As it ships, AX will return 1,000 records (each record being contained in an XML document) by default when one of these actions is used. If you want to increase the number of records returned, this is done on the Value mapping form. ......

2103 of 2683 | SharePoint Designer workflows fail to start - Failed on Start (retrying) - I ran into this issue while at a customer one day.  The scenario was I have BizTalk sending documents to a SharePoint library which would then initiate a workflow in SharePoint.  The document would arrive and I would get an error message in the library saying the workfow Failed on Start(retrying).  After a couple of minutes the workflow would then complete.  This only seemed to be the case when I was using a workflow built with SharePoint designer.  Here is the fix if you ever run into it:  Paste the following code into the .config file for the BTSharePointAdapterWS under the first configuration element and it should fix your problem.     <config......

2104 of 2683 | Suppressing Transactions During an Operation - Service operations have a declarative attribute for automatically placing the operation within a transaction. Is it possible to do non-transactional work within a transacted operation without having to do everything by hand? Yes. This is most easily done by creating a transaction scope that suppresses the ambient transaction. Here's a code example that uses TransactionScopeOption.Suppress: using (TransactionScope s = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Suppress)) { ... s.Complete(); } Creating the transaction scope excludes the contained operations from the ambient transaction but doesn't have any effect if no transaction is present. Calling Complete in this......

2105 of 2683 | There are NO intellectual property rights issues with Open XML - One of the interesting pieces of FUD floating around out there about Open XML is that there are IP issues with it and that is why countries should reconsider yes votes etc. etc. This is a factually wrong line of logic, and one that has been perpetuated throughout the process because most people a) don't have a law degree and b) don't want to take the time to think about - so it is easier to assume the worst. The following text comes from a piece that was pulled together to help people understand these issues. It is too long of a doc to put up in its entirety, so I'm just going to pull a few sections. ******* Microsoft has made legal commitments to Ecma International, to ISO/IEC, and to al......

2106 of 2683 | Time For A Change - Every 2 or 3 years I get the yearning to make a change.  After 2.5 years of doing ARCast and speaking about architecture I've decided once again to make a career change.  Starting Feb 8th I will become the primary WCF / WF evangelist at Microsoft. But Ron (you say) - are you an expert on these technologies?  Um... no.  I would have to say that I am somewhat familiar with them, but by no means am I the world wide expert (though I hope to become that).  In fact, after 2.5 years of thinking at a much higher level I am rapidly coming back down to earth to discover how much I really don't know about these things. So what will I do? I will learn my friends... I will ......

2107 of 2683 | WCF + WF: verteilte Anwendungen mit .NET 3.5 - Jetzt ist es endlich offiziell. Beim Launch Event gibt es am Donnerstag die Deep Dive Post Conference. Damit es wirklich "Deep" ist, freue ich mich zusammen mit Christian Weyer eine Doppel-Session zu Windows Communication Foundation und Windows Workflow Foundation: verteilte Anwendungen mit .NET 3.5 geben zu dürfen. Christian, erinnerst Du dich noch?...(read more)...

2108 of 2683 | Web 2.0, SOA, Mobile Applications on your next plane/train ride - Announced at the Strategic Architect Forum, you can now get The Architect Journal to go. If you are looking to provide input for better outcomes :) and would like to use this kind of application (WPF) in your enterprise, ask for source! Happy New Year!...

2109 of 2683 | Configuring ASP.Net 3.5 applications for IIS 7 on Vista - Ok, it is complicated... There are some issues. So I am logging everything that I can as I do it. 1st Error: "configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode="Deny" or the legacy allowOverride="false". " This issue can be resolved only if you have Administrative Access on your machine. Go to %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config Edit. if it says you do not have have permissions to open it, click start -> Inetmgr -> go to the directory in which you want to give permissions. Right Click -> Edit......

2110 of 2683 | CRM 4.0 and ISV.config modifications - If you want to add custom menuitems, modify navbars, add funtionality to toolbars etc. you need to modify so called ISV.config. In CRM 4.0 it can be done pretty easily with these simple steps: Export current ISV config: Settings -> Customization -> Export Customizations and then select ISV Config and press Export Selected Customizations. Save .zip file and edit .xml file inside it Import modified file from Settings -> Customization -> Import Customizations Enjoy your modifications! Actually that same has been presented in really cool Silverlight ScreenCast in here (it's really worth checking out!). BUT... what if your UI customizations aren't showing up in the UI?! Well the ......

2111 of 2683 | Demanding Permissions - How do I restrict access to an operation to particular Windows users? There are three standard ways of doing something in WCF: through code, through attributes, and through configuration. Let's try to solve the problem using each of these methods. Restricting access through code is done by creating a custom ServiceAuthorizationManager. Restricting access to a service operation could be done this way by looking up the service operation during the access check and comparing the caller's SID to the list of approved users. This method seems pretty clunky because it brings in a lot of service machinery unrelated to the service operation we want to secure. However, this method als......

2112 of 2683 | Using Reflector to search through code and resolve .NET issues - As you already know, i spend my days analyzing dumps for customers, and more often than not I don't have access to the customers code.  I could probably ask for it but it usually takes a long time and even then I often just get partial code, and sometimes, if the customer has multiple environments or if there has been recent changes, the code I would get may not correspond exactly to what was running in production when the dump was taken.    I'm sure many of you are familiar with Lutz Roeder's Reflector already...  I just have to say, I just love this tool... it has made my life soo much easier over the years that it's not even funny......

2113 of 2683 | "How many people does this license cover?" , "What is MSDN?" - Clearing up some confusion around licensing. - Technorati Tags: licensing,cals,processor,external connector license,visual studio,msdn,developer tools,software assurance,developer licensing questions Hi, Happy New Year to you. I thought it might be interesting to write a piece about your entitlements as far a licensing is concerned as it seems to be an area that causes confusion. Licensing for developer tools is very straight forward. Each developer that is using Visual Studio needs to have a license. Licenses cannot be shared  or used company wide. Visual Studio can be purchased as a stand alone product or with an MSDN Subscription. "I thought Visual Studio was MSDN" I hear you say. Well, back when Visual Studio 2005 was lau......

2114 of 2683 | What's New in Orcas - The official list is a little hard to find but here's the overview of the big new WCF features in Orcas. WCF and WF Integration-Workflow Services: The .NET Framework 3.5 unifies the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) frameworks so that you can use WF as a way to author WCF services or expose your existing WF workflow as a service. This enables you to create services that can be persisted, can easily transfer data in and out of a workflow, and can enforce application-level protocols. For more information, see Creating Workflow Services and Durable Services. For code samples, see Workflow Services Sample......

2115 of 2683 | Architecture: Multi-channel with WPF - As architects, we should see the world with tendencies oriented eyes, being aware of the different signals that the market shows behaving like explorers. Sometimes is a difficult task that demands us going the extra mile – I like to see a good architect as that one that can properly filter what is important and what is not. The latest trends on the consumer space are showing us that we should care about the multichannel experience. On this blog entry I am going to focus on the user experience and how affects the architectural decisions. We should have a common programming model to develop user interfaces, but at the moment is a bit challenging with many technologies around, making very dif......

2116 of 2683 | MSDN In-Person Event: What’s New in IIS7 and Extending ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services - What you doing Jan 15 *or* Jan 22? Wanna have some IIS7 and ASP.NET fun? Join me! What’s New in IIS7 and Extending ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services Event ID: 1032359637 https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032359637   Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:00 PM - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 12:30 PM Theater - Regal Stratford Stadium 14 411 Barnum Ave. Stratford Connecticut 06614 United States MSDN Event Location - Jan 15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------......

2117 of 2683 | MSDN XML-API Webcast this week! - I just got back from the holiday break so this notice is a little late, but I will be presenting a webcast on using the LiveMeeting XML-API's.  Here is the description of the talk. The Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service XML APIs provide robust and versatile programmatic access to Live Meeting functionality. Microsoft, partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), and customers have applied the APIs to integrate Live Meeting scenarios into a diverse set of applications. In this webcast, we introduce you to the API library and its capabilities. We walk through several basic integration scenarios, including scheduling a meeting, launching an ad hoc meeting, and gathering usage or bil......

2118 of 2683 | Speaking on VS2008 with Western MA .NET - 1/8/08 - For those of you in the Springfield, MA area tonight (Jan 8th), I'll be visiting with the Western Mass .NET Users Group to speak on "What's New in Visual Studio 2008?". Now that Visual Studio 2008 is released and available, it's important to understand the new available features and adoption strategies.  This demo-heavy session will cover many topics, including new features for Windows application developers: Client Application Services, WPF integration, WinForm/WPF interop, and Office development.  New features for web developers: new ASP.NET controls, integrated AJAX, CSS tools, nested master pages, JavaScript IntelliSense and debugging. Plus new features for everyone: unit tes......

2119 of 2683 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK ??? - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) is for developers, system customizers, and report writers. It contains all new information about creating plug-ins, working with custom workflow activities, using the new Web services, using new data management features, and much more. This SDK contains information for developers writing server side code, custom business logic, integration modules, workflow assemblies, and more. It provides an architectural overview of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the entity model, security model, and Web services. Sample code and walkthroughs guide you through the new features. The SDK also contains information for developers customizing the Web clie......

2120 of 2683 | Lucascan's top 5 tips for a healthy ASP.NET application - These tips are reasonably well-known and have been blogged by others.  However, considering how often I come across these common “mistakes”, I felt yet another blog post was worthwhile: 1) Disable ASP.NET debugging in production! I cannot emphasize this enough, Set debug=”false” in all your web.config’s.   I’m regularly pleasantly surprised by how many production issues can be resolved by simply disabling ASP.NET debugging.   815157  HOW TO: Disable Debugging for ASP.NET Applicationshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/815157 More info on the “evils” of having ASP.NET debugging enabled in production environments is discussed in the following blog post by one of......

2121 of 2683 | Maintenance Mode And Server Availability (Another Solution) - Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of OpsMgr 2007 console indicating server being offline. In my previous post I tried to walk through one possible implementation of the workaround to recognize server unavailability. That post also contains information about reasons behind scenario described above so I won’t repeat myself here. I will spend short time to discuss impact of that workaround to RMS and compare with solution I will suggest in this post though. One of the biggest “issues” with previous implementation is potential duplication of alert. Dependency monitor rolls up health state of the instance of its contributing health......

2122 of 2683 | New Ribbon Reference: RibbonX for Dummies - Those of you out there building custom Ribbon UI for Access/Office might be interested to know that the Dummies folks have recently released a guide for building Ribbon UI titled (as you might expect) "RibbonX for Dummies".  The book is a general guide to building Ribbon XML, and it does include a section specifically on Access 2007.  ...

2123 of 2683 | Profiling des applications avec Team System 2008 - Une des fonctionnalités les plus intéressantes de Visual Studio Team Developer est le profiling d’application. Cette fonctionnalité a été améliorée pour l’édition 2008. Elle reste cependant assez méconnue. Nous allons passer en revue les fonctionnalités de profiling. Les contextes d’utilisation sont les suivants : Connaître les performances et l’ensemble des appels de ses sites Web, de ses applications client riche, de ses tests unitaires, de ses tests de performances, savoir exactement comment s’exécute les applications, les allocations mémoire, le fonctionnement du Garbage Collector,  le nombre d’objets instanciés… Les fonctionnalités sont disponibles pour le C++ natif et......

2124 of 2683 | Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter – Silverlight 1.0 Trainingsvideos galore! - Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter ist ein eintägiger Workshop für Entwickler und Designer, der alle Grundlagen und einiges an fortgeschrittenen Konzepten zum Thema Silverlight 1.0 vermittelt. Die Workshopserie findet derzeit (noch) nur in den USA statt, aber alle Videos der acht Sessions sind ab sofort online zum Ansehen und als Downloads verfügbar. Die (englischsprachigen) Sessions im Einzelnen sind:  An Introduction to Silverlight Getting Started Programming Silverlight Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio Silverlight XAML A Development Story Media, Markers and More Popfly and Silverlight Silverlight in the Future Wer über Grundkenntnisse in JavaScript ve......

2125 of 2683 | Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter video now available through MIX University - MIX University, a section of MIX Online website the has got a new addition: Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter site.On November 29th 2007 a full day event was organized around Silverlight 1.0. This event was recorded and you can now view all the sessions online or download them in .wmv, .wma or .mp3 format. Eight sessions going from development in Silverligh 1.0, Expression Blend and the designer - developer workflow, XAML, Media and Popfly to a look at the future of Silverlight are available. Good news is also that if you like the interface of the video site itself, which is made in Silverlight, you can grab the source code through Adam Kinney's blog! No reason why not to get started......

2126 of 2683 | Silverlight training videos - Adam Kinney and co held a training day at Microsoft's campus in Redmond to help people get started and answer some fundamental questions about what the technology could do. The great news from us that don't live in the Pacific Northwest is they recorded all of the audio and video for the day and put it online. It includes the following: An Introduction to Silverlight - Mithun Dhar Getting Started Programming Silverlight - Jesse Liberty Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio - Arturo Toledo Silverlight XAML - Laurence Moroney A Development Story - Adam Kinney Media, Markers and More - Ernie Booth Popfly and Silverlight - Adam Nathan Silverlight......

2127 of 2683 | 2008 Prediction: The year of the RIA Device Discussion. - Like most technology bloggers today, I also will take a stab at a prediction for 2008. The prediction is simple; this will be the year that we engage in discussion around devices and RIA. State of Play Devices are getting smarter, more usable and most important of all – cheap. If you are like me, you may have a lot of devices attached to your name lying around the house or work. I myself have 2x XBOX 360’s, 1x XBOX Original, 1x iPod Touch, 1x Zune, 1x iPod Nano, Samsung BlackJack and well heaps more. I’m what many would call an “Enthusiast” when it comes to device ownership. Yet what does a lot of these have in common? They are essentially connected. The p......

2128 of 2683 | Issues with the “Delay” activity in SharePoint workflows - we need your help! - Hi everyone,   We’ve received quite a bit of feedback about delays not working consistently in SharePoint workflows, so I wanted to touch base with you about our status and ask for your assistance.    As for status, this is a top priority issue for us, and we are actively investigating as we speak!  We currently have a fix that makes things substantially better for the issues that have been reproduced internally, but we don't have enough information on customer reported issues to know if the fix will address all of them.     So here’s where we need your help. J If you have any examples of workflows that have issues related to the “Delay” activity, pl......

2129 of 2683 | Learning WPF through F#, and vice versa, by John Liao - John Liao has an interesting series of F# programming posts, with lots of samples. Many of the WPF topics are taken from Petzold's book Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation. Interactive exploration of .NET XML programing with F# Learning WPF with F# Learning WPF - Working with Brush Basics Learning WPF with F# - Adding Contents Learning WPF with F# - Working with Buttons Programming ASP.NET 2.0 with F# Working with ASP.NET 2.0 ViewState in F# Playing around with Workflow Foundation in F# Learning WPF with F# - The Dock and the Grid Learning WPF with F# - Canvas Learning WPF with F# - The Dock and the Grid and Problems wi......

2130 of 2683 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: SDK Released - Thanks to Menno from California for pointing the download announcement. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) is for developers, system customizers, and report writers. It contains all new information about creating plug-ins, working with custom workflow activities, using the new Web services, using new data management features, and much more. This SDK contains information for developers writing server side code, custom business logic, integration modules, workflow assemblies, and more. It provides an architectural overview of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the entity model, security model, and Web services. Sample code and walkthroughs guide you through the new features. ......

2131 of 2683 | S+S et d&#233;veloppement de lignes d’affaires - Je viens de terminer la lecture du numéro 13 de « The Architecture Journal ». Je vous le recommande fortement! Le thème de cette édition est Software + Services (S+S). Le premier article discute d'une nouvelle réalité que je vois de plus en plus, la démocratisation du développement. Avec la forte adoption de l'internet et de son modèle favorisant l'ubiquité et le libre service, une nouvelle génération d'employés non TI arrive dans les lignes d'affaires des entreprises avec des connaissances rudimentaires en PHP, en VB ou alors en SharePoint. Ces personnes ne sont pas reliées au TI conventionnelles et ne sont donc pas prises en compte par les processus et procédures actuelles des compa......

2132 of 2683 | Tech•Ed U.S. 2008 Call for BizTalk Content - SOA and Web Infrastructure Track - Although TechEd doesn’t happen until June, there is an extensive timeline that requires us to have sessions submitted in January in order to drive demand generation for the event. Thank you in advance for making TechEd, our largest customer event - a priority. This year TechEd will feature two separate back-to-back conferences: Tech·Ed U.S. 2008 Developers, June 3-6, and Tech·Ed U.S. 2008 IT Professionals, June 10-13, in Orlando, FL.   Currently we need more BizTalk session proposals especially for the IT Pro conference.   This year we would like to emphasize the following topics: ·         BizTalk Server 2006 R2 new features in actio......

2133 of 2683 | Validating CRM 4.0 Customizations Files - When you try to upload a customizations file (xml or zipped) into CRM 4.0 RTM and get the message: "Either the file couldn't be uploaded or this is not a valid customizations file" the first thing that you should try is validating the file yourself using a simple xml tool. I recommend you xml notepad.  Once you open your xml file with xml notepad you just have to go to "View>Schemas" and point to the following 3 files (do a quick search under your CRM Web folder): customizations.xsd, isv.config.xsd, and sitemaptype.xsd. Any errors with the schema should be easily identifiable and, in msot cases, very easy to fix manually. For deeper troubleshooting, dev errors and trace files......

2134 of 2683 | Wireframing in Silverlight 1.0 - If you are a designer working on a Silverlight 1.0 project, or if you are working with designers, check out the video by Arturo Toledo entitled "Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio from the recent "Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter" event in the US. Arturo talks about wireframing in Expression Blend and emphasises the importance of establishing a naming convention as early as possible. Wireframes Interaction designers typically create wireframes for user interfaces to represent the high-level interaction design - before visual design is applied. Typically, these wireframes are static, and created with drawing tools like Illustrator, Visio, OmniGraffle or ......

2135 of 2683 | How to: Adding Custom Workflow Activities to SharePoint Designer 2007 - If you've ever build SharePoint Workflow's with SharePoint Designer, you've probably developed a "Love/Hate" relationship with the product.  One of the best things about the tool is that it allows a non-developer (although having a development background is a plus!) to build SharePoint/MOSS 2007 workflow's without having to use Visual Studio.  The SharePoint Designer team has done a great job in adding a bunch of "Out of the box" or OTB workflow activities and functionality that mimic, more or less, what you might use/build in Visual Studio.  However, these Out of the box activities are limited in quantity and in some cases lack in the functionality that y......

2136 of 2683 | MIME Types - I often know I need a mime-type ( e.g. .deploy or .xaml ).. Extensions are easy, but the types are hard to remember ( application/octet-stream is my favorite guess )..    Now, courtesy of  Chris Knowlton, Windows Media Server PM, I don't have to guess... .323 text/h323 .aaf application/octet-stream .aca application/octet-stream .accdb application/msaccess .accde application/msaccess .accdt application/msaccess .acx application/internet-property-stream .afm application/octet-stream .ai application/postscript .aif audio/x-aiff .aifc audio/aiff .aiff audio/aiff ......

2137 of 2683 | MOSS and SAP Integration - A new white paper was just published, Evaluating Microsoft and SAP Portal Interoperability using WSRP, that describes the use of WSRP (Web Service for Remote Portlets) to facilitate the reusability of portlets across portal platforms. This technology extends SAP Enterprise Portal functionality and data to SharePoint end users without the complexities or the expense of custom solutions. The paper also explains the iView Web Part Toolkit which ships with MOSS 2007 and which also allows you to display iViews running on SAP NetWeaver Portal in MOSS 2007. You can download the pdf document here. </steve>...

2138 of 2683 | On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Eleven Shared Sources - Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29; enabled by Windows Live Writer! On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Eleven Shared Sources, Ten Berkun Chapters, Nine Channel Rocking, Eight Students Portal, Seven IE plus one, Six free e-learning, Five BizTalk VLabs, Four Demystifying Programs, Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences, And the source code to Tafiti. :) If you are like me, you learn by seeing and doing. The way I see, is by reviewing source code. So as we wrap up this eggnog spirit, I'd like to close out the penultimate post with some great projects with source, in no particular order........

2139 of 2683 | Playing Librarian... - Those of you who know me (and my family) from beyond my blog know that among my our many passions, one of the biggest is books.  And we've got a lot of them. A couple of years ago, Valorie got me a Flic barcode scanner and a copy of the program Book Collector.  I've been using it steadily since then adding the books from the biggest of the 4 different libraries in our house (yeah, we've got 4 separate libraries in the house, I did say we read a lot of books - they are: grown up fiction, kids fiction, non fiction and teaching materials). Since I was fortunate enough to take the month of December off this year (one of the benefits of working at Microsoft for as long as I have is tha......

2140 of 2683 | PowerShell Script to dump photos XML from Photo API - I just had a play with Powershell - pretty neat - I wrote a little script with dumps the XML of your spaces photos. Right now the terms of use for the Photo API/Contacts API only allow use from web sites but this is a cool little script for testing / playing around. $DomainAuthenticationToken = "*** COPY AND PASTE THIS FROM http://dev.live.com/livedata/photos/sdk after you delegate permission" "$DomainAuthenticationToken: " + $DomainAuthenticationToken $liveid = "angus@angusloganlive.com" $WebClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient $strRootURI = "https://cumulus.services.live.com/" + $liveid + "/SpacesPhotos/"; “$strRootURI: “ + $strRootURI $WDRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Cr......

2141 of 2683 | Things that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator for... - For the most part Virtual PC is able to happily run when you are using a non-administrative user account and everything will work.  There are - however - a couple of things that will not work correctly unless Virtual PC is run under an Administrative account: Using ping (or other ICMP based tools) over shared networking. In order to create ICMP packets (as opposed to standard TCP/IP packets) that appear to originate from the virtual machine when using shared networking - we need to access Windows APIs that are restricted to only being accessed by administrators. The reason why these APIs are restricted is that there are a number of known ICMP based network atta......

2142 of 2683 | Getting Started with WCF - A number of customers have been asking about using WCF so I"ve been doing some tutorials.  If you're new to WCF and want to jump in, there are some great Web casts done by Michele that can be found here.  Each is an hour in length and will definitely get you jumpstarted.  Michele has also written an excellent book titled Learning WCF: A Hands-On Guide,....., probably the best intro book out there. </steve>...

2143 of 2683 | How to get started with WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)? - Michele did an outstanding series of WCF webcasts for MSDN. Each webcast is 1 hour in length, touching on the fundamentals and practical approaches for your WCF development efforts. Overview (Level 100) Contracts (Level 200) Contract Versioning (Level 200) Exceptions and Faults (Level 200) Bindings (Level 200) Hosting (Level 200) Messaging Patterns (Level 200) Instancing Modes (Level 200) Concurrency, Throughput, and Throttling (Level 200) Security Fundamentals (Level 200) Federated Security (Level 200) Reliable Messaging (Level 200) Transactions (Level 200) Message Queuing (Level 200) Extensibility (Level 200) Additional information can be fo......

2144 of 2683 | Latest on EPM 2007 - Single reference point for some of the latest stuff on EPM 2007 and other useful stuff for EPM 2007 admin & developer community 1.      Check Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007. 2.      Check System Center Operations Manager 2007 WSS 3.0 and MOSS Monitoring Packs 3.      Still not on SP1 for EPM 2007 - read: o    Read SP1 resource center o    Read - Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1 o    Read - Description of the Micr......

2145 of 2683 | Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Hotmail: Outlook Connector - For those that want to manage their Hotmail account (now known as Windows Live Hotmail) from Outlook 2003 or 2007, you can download the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector free of charge.  You can also view your Windows Live Hotmail contacts in Outlook with the connector.  So go check out all the benefits.  I just installed it and it works great. For those that already knew about the connector, shame on you for not telling me.........duh, why didn't I know?  Well, some of us are just slow to adopt... </steve>...

2146 of 2683 | Testing BlogML - I've been looking for an easy way to port and backup my blogs. I am currently testing BlogML as I may port my personal blog from wordpress to spaces. Its been written by a .net architect Simone Chiaretta in New Zealand   BlogML is an XML format for storing the entire content of a blog. You can use BlogML as a way to archive the contents of blogs or to act as a standard format for transferring content from one blog to another - this could include migrating a blog from one blogging engine to another   ... and the verdict is (no documentation and few options = too early in the piece)...

2147 of 2683 | WCF Resources - Not sure how long you have been messing with WCF but make sure to check out Michele Bustamante's coolness. http://www.thatindigogirl.com/ for those that don't know she is the author of:...(read more)...

2148 of 2683 | ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit - Basic Sample For DynamicPopulate Control - How to dynamically populate the content of a control based on Web Service call triggered by another control? DynamicPopulate extender to the rescue: DynamicPopulate is a simple extender that replaces the contents of a control with the result of a web service or page method call. The method call returns a string of HTML that is inserted as the children of the target element. This post to summarize basic steps of using AJAX Control Toolkit's DynamicPopulate extender. Plus customer's case study of how it was implemented with ASP.NET Masterpage for performance and UX improvement. Summary of steps Step 1 - Create ASP.NET Web Application Step 2 - Add server side code Step 3 - A......

2149 of 2683 | Musings for 2008 Resolutions - It seems to be the thing to note a few things one will try to do better in the new year.  What follows are my resolutions that are related to things at work. Work with Outlook shut off - let me focus on the task at hand Work with minimal internet induced interruption - see note above :-) Find interesting WF content to blog about until I can talk more about the work going on for Oslo Ask a lot more questions of you, what your experience is with the WF designer, and what we can do to make that better Learn F# - I enjoyed the brief excursion into Lisp while an undergrad, I would like to get back into thinking in a functional way Work to improve my speaking skills - I'v......

2150 of 2683 | On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Seven IE plus one - Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29; enabled by Windows Live Writer! On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Seven IE plus one, Six free e-learning, Five BizTalk VLabs, Four Demystifying Programs, Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences, And the source code to Tafiti. :) It's called poetic license ;P The IE team is starting to tease us with IE8 sightings. First the mystery behind the IE8 name and what we can expect to see from them: I’d like you to know that we’re building IE8 for many different customers (consumers, web service providers, independent softwar......