I'm sure that you've been to sites that are using the new AJAX tools, one of them being the auto complete text box with a simulated dropdown list. The tool basically sends the contents of the text box to a search engine to help predict what you...( read more ) Read More...
On Saturday, the site went down during a server upgrade when I accidentally gave the last domain controller on the network the wrong IP address. Around 3am this morning, I finally got everything up and working. I still have 1 physical server and several...( read more ) Read More...
Most of you are probably like me when you first heard about Silverlight and saw the pre-release demo. You asked, "Why would I ever do video editing through a web browser, let alone over the Internet?" And you know what, you were not alone. Microsoft...( read more ) Read More...
Hey All, While perusing the InfoWorld site today and seriously considering whether or not I want to drop my free subscription (most of their writers are complete idiots (layman term that they'll understand)), I came across the writings of Randall...( read more ) Read More...
After reading Breaking Themes in 2008.5 upgrade by Chris Shawn, I had an epiphany when I started to think about how I had setup the CS SDK in my TFS store. You will be able to do this with any of the major commercial source control applications (i.e....( read more ) Read More...
From a user POV, CS2008.5 is just a bunch of bug fixes with the addition of a new application type, Wikis. But, this is a major step for developers. Here is a cursory list of the changes: The SDK has been converted to Visual Studio 2008. The projects...( read more ) Read More...
"Unable to start debugging on the Web server. The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running." This post is mostly for myself so that I don't forget the information, but when setting up a web site on a Windows Server...( read more ) Read More...
After reading Dave Burke's post Everyman Links for July 25, 2008 , I immediately wondered what was actually presented to these people as the information presented was very limited. The major points of interest were: How was the hardware requirements...( read more ) Read More...
It's been a while since I last posted anything, so I now would be a good time give everyone a status update on what it happening with the calendar control as well other other add-ons that I have planned. The last time that I worked on the control...( read more ) Read More...
Service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (all versions), MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server have been released today. If you have an MSDN subscription you can download all of them from the download...( read more ) Read More...
Hey All, I've been running into some rather significant issues with CS2008 since I started the process of updating all the code that I had written for CS2007 and prior, to work with CS2008. A lot of code is either just missing from the code base,...( read more ) Read More...
I've been wanting to enable anonymous comments for some time, but hadn't due to enormous amount of BLOG spam that is being generated. I had considered using a CAPTCHA scheme with images, but it usually turns out to be more of a nusence to users...( read more ) Read More...
Last night I sent Rob Howard an email about some concerns that I had with Community Server, one of them being the .NET Community Program. As for this concern, here is his response: "The “.NET Community Program” absolutely still exists. I’m sorry...( read more ) Read More...
Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom has decided that Bluetooth is not for servers. I ask, what about voice mail systems, developer workstations, and whatever else the user needs it for? Well, the post Installing the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows...( read more ) Read More...
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When I first read about CFS a number of months ago and learned that objects are no longer going to be stored in the database, I thought, "What are these guys thinking." I knew that there going to be problems, and sure enough, there are. The...( read more ) Read More...
AT&T came out and corrected some issues that were not correctly addressed when the lines were first installed. I need to monitor the lines very closely for the next couple of weeks, but it looks like this may be why the connections have been very...( read more ) Read More...
We are currently experiencing connection issues that AT&T is working on. Our connection to the Internet has been down about 95% of the time for the past 24 hours, but should be fully functional late Thursday, June 26, 2008. Take it easy, Bill...( read more ) Read More...
Hey Everyone, It's been quite a while since I've had much news about CS as I've been working on other projects, but that should be changing for at least the next few months, which is part of the good news. I'm going to be working on a...( read more ) Read More...
I believe that this software was first introduced to windows with Windows 2000 and used to default to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only", but this has changed with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Server 2008. It...( read more ) Read More...
Well, it's been well over a year since I last rebuilt my workstation, so I decided to install Windows Server 2008 (WS2008) on it since more than 95% of the development that I do is based on IIS. I had toyed around with Vista Ultimate a few times,...( read more ) Read More...
Anyone who has looked at the SqlDataProvider project in the SDK has probably asked themselves, "What were they smoking when they designed this?" I don't know if Rob Howard is the creator of this technology, but he is one of the major influences...( read more ) Read More...
Community Server 2008 is a major upgrade and change in how Telligent is doing business. The audience for Community Server is changing slightly as it really is no longer a good fit for very small communities, especially if you need features that are not...( read more ) Read More...
Hey All, The final release of Community Server 2008 is slowly aproaching, which means rebuilds / reworks of existing addons. I will be reworking the Calendar Control slightly to make it work better and be a little more flexable. The project that I'm...( read more ) Read More...
I converted the Community Server solution to Visual Studio 2008 a couple weeks, which went without any hitches, but I waited until this weekend to update the application to CS 2007.1 as I knew that that would not be as easy. This was more than a patch...( read more ) Read More...
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