April 2007 Entries
I just bumped into these pictures on Flickr of the MVP Summit. Looks like Jeffrey Palermo and Noah Coad had a ton of them to put on this Flickr group! If we want to see the blast we all had, go check them out!
I'm fortunate enough to co-moderate this session along with Chris Pels, Chris Wallace, Greg Low and Bob Coppedge! The "how-to start|run|keep-going" user group topic was submitted by all of us as a potential BOF session so we all decided to team up and get a bigger crowd going. Also, seems like Jeffrey Palermo and James Kovacs have theirs selected as well! I had the pleasure of hanging out with these guys during the MVP Summit and all had a blast! Oh yeah, from the sounds of it, there will be another Party With Palermo TechEd 2007 in the works. If...
Denny Boynton, our regional Architect Evangelist, has just blogged information on how you can get free MS eLearning passes valued at $159. If you have the time, and don't want to miss out on this opportunity, go check out his post.
As an architect/developer/software professional I strive to produce the best product I can create within my environment. In particular, I see myself as having two customers to please: the person who will use the product and the one that will maintain it. The person that will use the product day-in and day-out (should) cares about: The product meets her/his expectations Usability (is it easy to use?) Has little (or no) flaws/errors during operation It is delivered to them within the expected time Are involved with feature priorization & negotation As for the person that will maintain the product (should) cares...
Wow, it appears that "WPF/E" has a better RTM name than the other W*F parts. That's right, "WPF/E" is now called Silverlight (via Soma's blog). Also, don't let the name confuse you, if you have already the "WPF/E" Feb CTP, you already have Silverlight installed. They've just renamed the install packages.
That's right, we're at it again! We're signed up to answer your ASP.NET related questions for two hours on April 19th at 11:30 PST (1:30 CST).
The chat format is as follows: You post your questions and the panel of experts answers them. We're using the Microsoft Chat Software (MVP’s only, sorry!) to grab questions and answer them. The first chat did not have this software working well and was kind of chaotic (MSN Messenger & Conference Call). The software is now working, so it should be a very smooth flow of questions and answers. We're still doing the conference call so that when...
That's right! ScottGu has blogged about a new hot fix (Microsoft KB #934839). I've ran into this problem in the past (and blogged about it here). Scott posted a quick fix you can use without installing the patch: <configuration> <system.web> <compilation debug="false" batch="false"></compilation> </system.web></configuration> I'm glad to see an official fix being released after a year since the issue emerged.
I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but for some reason I keep forgetting (sorry, I've been busy at work). If you're wondering on how WCF compares performance wise to existing distributed communication technologies (ASMX, WSE, Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting) you should definitely check out this white paper on MSDN: A Performance Comparison of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies
While downloading a Novell client for one of our servers (don't ask), I bumped into this "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC..." like commercial campaing from Novell. What's their product? Linux. I must say that their spoof of these commercials are pretty hilarious. If you have the time you should check them out.
We have this document generation app that uses WCF for connecting to our middle-tier server. In order for users to run the application, they need .NET Framework 3.0 installed on their machines. To accomplish this task, I decided to use ClickOnce since it will download the pre-requisites during the installation process. However, when I tried publishing the application, to our intranet, I ran into this issue with the process: No 'PublicKey' or 'Hash' attribute specified for file 'NETFX30\Dotnetfx3.exe' in item '.NET Framework 3.0'. No 'PublicKey' or 'Hash' attribute specified for file 'NETFX30\Dotnetfx3_x64.exe' in item '.NET Framework 3.0'. Yeah,...
That's right, if you're interested in learning about becoming a more effective architect, you should check out the ArcReady event that will at the Embassy Suites on May 18th (5/18/2007). The theme for this ArcReady is entitled "Architecting for the User Experience", how does the role of user experience take part in architectural designs? More specifically, how you can use WPF, WPF/e, XAML and the Expression suite to enhance your applications. If you have the time, you should check it out. I'll see you there!
<sarcasm> Another lesser known of the *DD approaches for design and development. Essentially, the design of your application is driven by the ineptitude of the people developing it (aka, your employees). It's a sad realization when you (as the employer) realize that you could've gotten the same product if you would have applied the Infinite Monkey Theorem with a time constraint. </sarcasm>
First I would like to personally thank Evan Hennis for having the courage to step to the podium and present WPF to the IADNUG. Also, for those of you that attended, I will like to apologize for the technical difficulties we had with the projector and demos. I'm very glad that at least we could get one laptop to work (although, it was hard to read at times). Also, if any of you out there are interested in presenting to the UG on any topic, please let me know! I would like to start a community serving community series for the...
Well, I've finally had it with my current install of .Text (.9.4.something) that I decided to upgrade to SubText. The SubText engine has a lot more features (and available code base) that I can definitely use going forward. Unfortunatelly, I was not able to use the .Text Import feature of SubText to pull my data in. I kept getting an error during the import process. So instead, I just whipped up some T-SQL scripts to pull the data over. I still need to fix the referral data, but that's for another day. What do you guys think about the new...
This is just a test post...please ignore.
Thanks!
- Javier
Today, I spent the better part of my morning trying to troubleshoot a problem with COM interop within a WCF service. Here's the situation... We currently have a legacy COM (VB6) component that creates a CSV file containing data needed to generate a PDF. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to re-write this component to .NET, so we have to make due for now. I first tried the component within a standard WinForm, and I was able to create/invoke it with no problems. With this success, I proceeded to use said component within a WCF service so it could be exposed within our intranet (netTcpBinding). ...
Nick already posted about Google's April Fool's joke. However, while looking around and clicking on the URLs, I found they have a couple more out there.
Thanks to the MVP Award Team and my lead Steve Dybing for recognizing me for another as a ASP/ASP.NET MVP. I'm thinking of a lot of good content to present/create this up-coming MVP year. Once again, thanks!