Windows Vista?!?!? What the hell were they thinking in Redmond? Apple gives us sexy, cool sounding names like Tiger and Panther and then Microsoft chimes in with something that sounds like GM’s latest failure. [Confessions of a G33k]
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This has confused me for a while and I just realized the solution. A few weeks ago I tried to download the Sharepoint help documentation which si a CHM file. I could never read it. The contents were there (on the left) but the actual documentation would not appear.
The problem, I just realized when I downloaded another CHM a few minutes ago, is that the content is blocked because it was downloaded from the internet. If you look at the properties of the file, you will see that you can unblock the file very easily! I just never thought to look at that before now. Duh. 🙂
Just unblock it and you will be good to go!
I am still on the ancient Beta2 with WSE 3.0 June CTP, but there are new bits out. The July CTP of VS2005 came out on MSDN (for suscribers only at this point) and soon after a new release of WSE3.0 came out to go with that (i.e. this requires the July CTP of VS2005). Note that there was a small problem with the WSE3 CTP that Matt Powell explains how to work around.
I got a good chuckle reading Mike Gunderloy’s pointer to the latest CTP: “Just in case your edge isn’t bleeding enough yet.“
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1) MSDN Web Services Developer Center is repositioned as “Web Services and Other Distributed Techonlogies“
2) Guidance on when to use which technologies to use when in building distributed apps with todays tools from Rich Turner. Steve Swartz gave an excellent session on this advice at TechEd.
3) related: WS-Security gets it’s own PAG group. (“Web Services Security Patterns“) This is excellent news. Not just how to use the stuff but WHEN, WHY and what approaches work best under which scenarios. I am really happy to see this happening.
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oy vey – here comes another good storm and lighting. To me that means shutting down ALL of my computers and unplugging everything – computers, phone lines etc.
I learned the hardway about 8 years ago when I lost $7,000 worth of equipment in a lightning storm. Everyitn was powered down and plugged in to UPS’s but that didn’t help!
One zap came through the phone line, ripped through the computer, out the parellel port and into my printer. Yikes!
Follow up: Holy Canoli. Lightning struck the house! I was on the phone with Don Smith and he could hear how close the lightning was getting – said it sounded like I was talking from a war zone. I was in the loft underneath the skylight when a HUGE bang and a HUGE spark INSIDE the house (coming from the metal on the skylight) about 4 feet from my head. Needless to say the phone line died immediately. But that seems to be the only damage. It reminded me of reading about Fritz Onion’s recent lightning strike in Maine. Luckily Rich is home so he knew to check the water pump and a few other things. Well, back to work, I guess!Big thanks to Scott Forsyth and the webteam at ORCSWeb who set me up with a custom solution because I was in a major time crunch. I needed online Sharepoint hosting and I needed it fast, but I needed to be able to deploy a custom Sharepoint solution, which requires a dedicated server (read: my own box on their network). When I started this process over a week ago with my other host, there was a communication disconnect and I ended up signing up for a standard Sharepoint site – which is not customizable. By the time I finally realized this, it was too late to start the process of setting up and moving to a dedicated server.
Scott came up with the great idea of setting me up on a Virtual Machine hosting plan and he personally installed Sharepoint WSS on it for me. So I am now able to get in via Remote Desktop and set up my entire custom solution. We started talking about this yesterday and I am already working on it now. Big save and my client is really happy!
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Thanks to Scott Hanselman for hunting down and fixing what he referred to as a “latent and **HORRIBLE** bug” 🙂 that surfaced in the latest version of dasBlog. It was mucking up the RSS feeds when you were filtering on a category. For example, my VTdotNETFeed RSS was randomly selecting a handful of posts from the past, with nothing newer than April showing.
So that code ahs been fixed. It will be in the versoin 1.8 which has not yet been released. If you want the fix now, you can go to the SourceForge dasBlog workspace, into the CVS Repository (bottom of the page), and then drill into the source folder, then newtelligence.dasBlog.Web.Services folder. The fix is to the SyndicationServiceBase.cs file.
To fix this now, it requires downloading the entire current dasBlog source, updating the contents of that one file, and rebuilding and redeploying the newtelligence.dasBlog.Web.Services project.
Thanks again, Scott!
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Bear Code develops internet based applications that rely on robust backend relational databases. Typical applications include scientific imaging and news analysis tracking. Bear Code has successfully executed projects for multi-national companies with 150,000 people as well as individual entrepreneurs-but our real passion is developing unique custom applications.
We’re looking for a Project Manager with a strong foundation in Internet applications and protocols. Canididate must know Java and SQL. Would be wonderful if candidate was familiar with Content Management systems, writing specification documents, Linux and MS Project.
Bear Code has offices in Barre, Vermont and Moscow (Russia, not the little town of Moscow, Vermont). The project management is done from Vermont.
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Dave deploys a beta of a .NET 2.0 Smart Client app and then goes on vacation. Lucky guy!
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