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Saturday, November 07, 2009
I want to send out a big thank you to the team who put together the Iowa Code Camp. You people did an awesome job!!! I had a great time giving my talks and really enjoyed hanging out with the crowd in Iowa. For those of you who attended my talks, or just want to see the materials, I’ve posted things. WCF Diagnostics Talk and Materials WinDBG Talk and Materials See you next year…
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WCF
Windows
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Sunday, August 09, 2009
Edit: This post is no longer valuable. The updated software on AT&T's site now supports Windows 7 just fine without these workarounds. I recently upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 x64 RTM bits. I also tether my BlackJack II (aka Samsung SGH-i617) to the laptop so I can get work done pretty much anywhere. To help others who will be going through the same thing, here is how to make this work until AT&T or Samsung come out with a proper setup for Windows 7. I suspect that these instructions also work for x86 (32-bit) Windows 7, but I haven’t tried it out and no one has confirmed yet. Step 1: Download and install the Communicaton Manager Software for XP/Vista. They only have a 32-bit version. Step 2: The newly created desktop icon for the at&t Communincation Manager has now appeared. Right click on the icon and select ...
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Miscellaneous
Windows
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
I'm cheap, watch a lot of network programming, and all my favorite cable shows are on hulu or elsewhere on the web. To save a few bucks, I spent the week between Christmas 2008 and New Years 2009 upgrading my house to digital TV and canceling cable for all but my Internet connection. My home's primary TV is attached to a Windows Vista based Media Center. Something that I've hated since switching was the craptacular viewing guide. I had a hard time believing that Microsoft hadn't put out an update to Media Center where they could handle the new channel format. While looking for solutions today, I found out about something called TV Pack 2008 (yeah-- I'm a Media Center user, not a fanatic. I'm late to this party...). The more I read, the more aggravated I got that my Windows Vista installation didn't get this upgrade. You see, the ...
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Miscellaneous
Windows
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Friday, January 16, 2009
To allow a few of you out there to avoid the same time waster I experienced, let me state this one quickly: if you want to develop applications for Azure, you cannot run the DevFabric on Windows 7 Beta. The bug has been confirmed by Microsoft and has no known workarounds. I hit the issue exactly 5 minutes after I had finished a system rebuild to get Win 7 + VS 2008 up and running. Thankfully, I also run Windows Home Server elsewhere in the house and was able to get back to a happy place within an hour. I know a few of you may have seen Microsoft folks running this scenario; Ron Jacobs did it at the MSDN DevCon in Chicago on Tuesday, Jan 13. Guess what: FOLKS LIKE RON AREN'T RUNNING THE BETA. They have access to internal builds that, apparently, allow one to debug Azure locally. ...
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Azure
Windows
.NET
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Today, I had to debug a strange problem. We have a web application that does some fancy printing. The main application server is a Unix machine, the print component lives on Windows. The network between these two has all sorts of fun firewall rules that HTTP type requests can navigate so long as the proxy on the machine is setup correctly. Unfortunately, the Windows test box didn't have the proxy setup correctly and I didn't have easy access to the one account that runs the service. To make the proxy set for all users, I had to ask my good friend, Google, how to do this. Google answered "Change the default connection policy for all users." Google didn't explain how to do this very nicely (what a jerk!). I then thought that maybe Google didn't have the whole answer in one place. (not a jerk!) So, I asked Google "How ...
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Windows
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Scott Hanselman put up a post showing some nifty LINQ code. I've been dabbling with it a little here and there, trying to see what it gave me. I like the new way of declaring member variables: int _age; public int Age { get { return _age; } set { _age = value; } } is fairly verbose, and it doesn't add any real value for readability. So, I'm a huge fan of this: public int Age { get; set; } which is identical in the eyes of the compiler, but way better for doing a code review. I also like the vanishing need to add properties and appropriate constructors. I like being able to write new Person(){Age = 11, Gender=Gender.Male, Name="Vince"} without needing to write something like this: public Person(int age, Gender gender, string name) ...
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Microsoft
Windows
.NET