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I've been downloading a couple of things from MS lately (like the WinFX September CTP ), and I am getting really annoyed by having to download setup files that do very little but download the actual install files. I download during the day at the office because I don't have a connection at home at the moment, but I only get to install and play with the stuff after hours. However at home, when I finally get to look at the files I don't actually have them! Am I the only one that is annoyed by this...
Ok, last week was the maddest I can remember in a looong time. With two major deadlines, my machine went totally south on me, bluecreening almost constantly on Mon / Tues. Any machine I put my harddrive into, no matter what config, would bluescreen and reboot. I finally managed to get a dual-boot 98 machine to access it via NTFS drivers from sysinternals , which let me backup important docs, and then ran another neat sysinternals tool - NTFSCheck http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsChk.html...
Wow, am I getting tired of seeing the screens from this little piece of software. WebMarshal is a web filtering tool to block access to unacceptable sites. It and its companion, MailMarshal, are becoming the bane of my existence! Last week the blooming thing blocked all access to dotnet.org.za, and today I notice I can no longer get to slashdot, both apparently fitting the “block p0rn0.gr@phy ” rule. Hmmm. Come on dotnetters, please only post high quality p0rn from now on. Note: note...
Microsoft have released a free ebook on their site called Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers . I remember when .net 1.0 came out I read a great little primer on vb.net for vb6 developers and it covered a lot of the basics in a really simple, concise, clear manner, so I'm hoping this one is similar. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Those who know me know that I am really not a violent person, but I've just gotten access to my blog again (we were blocked by webmarshal, yippee) and I've got a TON of blog spam. One day I will catch one of these scum-of-the-earth, and he will feel some serious pain. In fact, it will be the same day I catch one of our superb taxi drivers... And a telkom exec... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
For anyone who is interested, this is some feedback in the ongoing iBurst Demo saga. The local iBurst resellers acutally had a stand at Canal Walk, and the best they could get with the desktop unit was 17kb. Craig , what are you doing to get such good speeds, even the iBurst guys can't get there? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
We just had someone from CapeTel Wireless Communications (a local iBurst reseller) come and demo the iBurst to us, and I've got to say, I wasn't too impressed. It took a while to connect and the signal was fluctuating quite bit here in Parow. The guy was telling us he gets about 70-80k, but all we got was a steady 13-14kb, and this is in soft launch phase! How are they going to be when they suddenly get 20000 customers? Also, they also offer a 3gb limit and then drop you on to a slow link, but then...
Ok, I'm sure somebody got fried for this one, but has anyone else noticed that 1 of the overloaded constructors for each these objects takes the same arguments (paramname and message) but in the opposite order . I don't know why I never noticed this before, I always thought I'd gotten confused, but I'm happy to report that's not the case (at least not this time). More fun is that this is the kind of problem that can never be fixed because it will break to much existing code. Oh well... Share this...
I'm trying to do some work within a custom web service inside of Sharepoint. Part of it must run under the context of the invoking user and part of it requires more rights and should run under a more admin-like account. However, it appears that Sharepoint won't pick up the context user change. According to BlueDogLimited : “The SharePoint object model, when running under the context of an IIS request, will always validate its actions against the original context of the request. Therefore, reverting...
I kinda like interfaces but apparently the Visual Studio.Net developers don't. Unless I am missing something (which is entirely possibly ;->) you cannot actually add an “interface”, per se, to a project. You have to add a class and then change it into an interface. This is true for VB.Net and C#, and in C# you even have to delete the default constructor. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Ahh, COM objects always reminds me of why I love .net error handling. Add a little bit of obfuscation into the mix, and you have some really workable info, like the exception stack below that Sharepoint threw at me: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Exception occurred. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80020009): Exception occurred. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.OpenWebInternal(String bstrUrl, String& pbstrServerRelativeUrl, UInt32& pnLanguage, UInt32& pnLocale...
Slashdot is reporting that a restaurant in New Zealand is actually being fined for having out-of-date prices and menu on its website, and I definitely agree with this approach. It is apparently a similar offence in some places to put up an invalid menu on your actual storefront for the very same reason. Having done web development on and off for about 8 years I findit really upsetting when companies misunderstand or misuse the web medium. It is NOT a fire-and-forget channel, and the rise in influence...
Just a small gripe today ;-). I've been looking through the Sharepoint admin guide at some of the advanced installation options and it lets you do a lot more customization than the installation gui (like setting the port that the admin website runs on). Now it is definitely useful to have these options but its annoying that so few of them can be done from the gui. MS: Any chance of having them added, like most applications have an “advanced” option for installing? Share this post: email...
I mentioned a little while ago that we was having trouble getting Sharepoint installed at our client. We finally found the solution. What was happening was this: when you install Sharepoint it creates an administration web site with a configuration database. When you then create actual sharepoint sites (1..n) they have separate content databases. However, the first step in rendering the site is to find out what its content database is set to in the config database. When this happened the site would...
Ok, I've got an interesting one here. If anybody has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. When I try an search for an item against the Sharepoint API (WSS, not SPS, by the way), I try something like: Dim oResults As SPSearchResultCollection = oSPWeb.SearchListItems(strSearchTerm) But I get 0 results. When I add a “dummy“ CAML search., like Dim oListSearch As SPList = oSPWeb.Lists(1) Dim oSPQuery As New SPQuery oSPQuery.Query = " Dummy Search " Dim iDummyResults As Integer...