February 2008
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So I’m doing a little work connecting to a Currency Exchange rate web service, simple enough. Normal steps are to right click your solution->Add Web Reference, punch in the WSDL location and bang, web service goodness is at hand.
But with VS 2008 the option I have is "Add Service Reference". So I run thru these steps and things are smooth again. But now all the documentation the vendor provided seems way off in terms of naming and such. Long story short is you need to click the advanced tab
And then go the compatibility section to add it the .NET 2.0 way.
Written by Tim on February 27th, 2008 with 53 comments.
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So I’m trying to practice for the MCTS Exam 70-536 exam using the practice test that comes with the self paced training kit book, but keep getting this error every time I run it. I’m on Vista SP1. Doesn’t look like I’m the only one either. I sent in a request to the MS people so we’ll see.
http://blog.havagan.com/?p=544
Microsoft Community Discussion Group
Written by Tim on February 26th, 2008 with 10 comments.
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Since upgrading to Vista SP1 RTM my IE 7 is broke, more to come on this…
User Agent String Utility 2.0 - Opens a IE 7 window but identifies itself to the web as IE 6.
Building a LinkedIn Style Address Book with ListView & LINQ
Javascript Function Tips & Tricks
Google Talk chatback - Going to try this out on my blog soon, oh wait already did, chat me up.
Written by Tim on February 26th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Windows Live SkyDrive goes live - Now with 5gb of free online storage. MS beat Google to this one for a change. Also, Google should take notice that products can come out of beta, Gmail has been beta for almost 4 years now. Did I mention how much I love SkyDrive?
Xbox 360 drops HD DVD.
SQL 2005 Driver for PHP CTP
Visual Studio Power Tools for Office - Much easier to create Ribbon applications for Office 2007 with these power tools.
2 Tools For Mac Developers - I’m not one yet but might be sooner then later.
Written by Tim on February 25th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Building Sleek, Soft DataGrids
lang.net talk online - I wish more conferences posted presentations after the fact. via Tim Heuer
View code that is covered up by IntelliSense - Hit the ctrl key, nice.
Free Wordpress Themes - In case you don’t have enough choice.
AnyClient - Nice FTP/FTPS/SFTP/WebDAV client
10 Best Practices for releasing ASP.NET applications
Written by Tim on February 22nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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GraffitiCMS ships - A .NET CMS that proclaims it’s simple.
YUI 2.5.0 Released - What will happen to these guy when MS takes over? They do really good JS & performance work at Yahoo!
Opera CTO still upset over IE 8 - I’m done using Opera Mini on my BB b/c of Opera’s crap. The EU & Opera need to move on. MS only owns 2 markets at this point, Operating Systems & Office, everything else they have to compete like hell to stay up with.
Job Opening - Wanna develop IronRuby or IronPython? That would be to cool, right?
Stored Procedures Performance various between ADO.NET & Management Studio
.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap - I seriously had to think what is a "client product" for a minute. You mean people are developing things not on the web still ?
Written by Tim on February 21st, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Visual WebGui - While I’ve been drilling thru MS AJAX I didn’t even notice this tool.
The Underlying Connection was Closed - How to Fix
Vista SP1 Terminal Server Changes
Students get Microsoft Software for free. Another reason MS isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, they get the young hooked early.
Google bans Datapoohbah - This is funny. Hope I don’t get Google’s wrath for linking to him.
Written by Tim on February 20th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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ALM Quality Ready Assessment - See how your development process scores
QuickSlide: Create slides from your web browser address bar. - This is a neat concept.
SharedView Beta 2 - Better then VNC but limited to windows
ReSharper 4.0 Released - This is goodness for your VS developers
Written by Tim on February 18th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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Background Image on Remote Desktop Connections
ShareThis - Willy is digging this, an all in one blog sharing tool, does look nice. I’ll probably add when I redesign this blog.
FF 3.0 beta 3 released. I might give this a shot, replacing the FF 2.0.11 I run now, which is a memory whale.
20 Famous Software Disasters - Gotta love this:
10. Ariane Rocket Goes Boom (1996)
Cost: $500 million
Disaster: Ariane 5, Europe’s newest unmanned rocket, was intentionally destroyed seconds after launch on its maiden flight. Also destroyed was its cargo of four scientific satellites to study how the Earth’s magnetic field interacts with solar winds.
Cause: Shutdown occurred when the guidance computer tried to convert the sideways rocket velocity from 64-bits to a 16-bit format. The number was too big, and an overflow error resulted. When the guidance system shut down, control passed to an identical redundant unit, which also failed because it was running the same algorithm.
Written by Tim on February 13th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Berry Locator - For you crackberry addicts,. this looks really nice. Send a specific email to your bb and it wakes it up no matter if it’s in silent mode and even sends back a map of where your blackberry is. Very cool.
Getting JS & ASP.NET Talking
The Silverlight Strategy - Gotta love the quote "Why Microsoft will win, and dominate the web". Sorry, but MS is content to play second fiddle in a ton of areas.
Written by Tim on February 12th, 2008 with 5 comments.
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