October 2006 Entries
Windows Mobile Device Center is part of Windows Vista but for some reason isn't ActiveSync there out of the box. Not in the build I'm running anyway, which is a post RC2 build. So if you want to run Active Sync on your Vista RC2 box you have to go download it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c23c8e6a-a72d-4aef-9663-31ce2fefbada&DisplayLang=en
When I cranked up my Outlook Web Access this morning I was met the new Exchange 2007 GUI. Haven't had time to play around with it yet but the frirst thing that caught my eye whas this:
The so much longed for serach box! Love it, I think I'm going to pass the day by searching throgh e-mails...
Just read this post by Eric Gunnerson, besides agreeing with him I really love the word Scrumtbut, as in "we do scrum, but...". Love it! :)
Just sometihing I had to do yesterday, getting and setting properties using System.Reflection in .Net, tought I share. Get propertyAssembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(assemblyPath);
/* ... */
object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
PropertyInfo propertyInfo = t.GetProperty("CustomProp");
object val = propertyInfo.GetValue(o, null);
Set PropertyAssembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(assemblyPath);
/* ... */
object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
PropertyInfo propertyInfo = t.GetProperty("propertyName");
propertyInfo.SetValue(o, "propertyValue", null);
Practices of an Agile Developer is a book written by Andy Hunt and Venkat Subramaniam published on The Pragmatic Programmer. What first turned me on to the book was the fact that it was published by The Pragmatic Programmers and that Andy Hunt was one of the authors. Andy Hunt was of course one of the authors behind The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master which I really liked.
This book has some similarities in the way that it lists practices that fit well in a pragmatic programmer toolbox. But it has a some what different approach. The book...
Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available and includes support for Windows Vista.
Want it? Sign up for it here: https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=874.
I've been writing a lot of XML files for creating SharePoint 2007 features. Every element is identified with a GUID. That's a lot of GUID's to be generated. In the beginning I used the Guidgen tool that ships with Visual Studio. But that wasn't very effective. So I wrote a little console app to help me out.class Program
{
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Guid g = Guid.NewGuid();
Clipboard.SetDataObject(g.ToString("B"), true);
...
I'm reading up a little on SQL Server 2005 and found a couple of deprecated features worth noting.
TIMESTAMP - use rowversion instead for theese operations
SET ROWCOUNT - wich I often used to compensate for the lameness of TOP. No more, TOP has been doing steroids between versions and is now more able.
T-SQL joins - No more "WHERE Customers.CustomerID *= Orders.CustomerID" in future versions of SQL Server only the ANSI syntax will be supported (LEFT OUTER JOIN Orders ON Customer.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID). I've always used ANSI syntax but I've...
I've been messing around a lot with the feature called feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). When encountering problems and not finding my answer in the SDK I've been hitting www.live.com to search for solutions (yeah, ok. sometimes I google to, but live is getting quite good in my opinion).
Anyway, when ever I search I seem to hit Ton Stegman's blog. Which I found to be really good when it comes to working with moss.
A couple of months back I went on a little rampage trying to find the ultimate feed reader for my needs. I tried a couple. Google Reader, Rss Bandit, Newsgator for Outlook. When push came to shove I Omea Reader won my hart. I liked it a lot, only big draw back was that it was bound to a computer I could not use it both on my laptop and on my home computer and be in sync. So two months back I tried FeedDeamon and after the trail period I bought it. I can have rich clients on both my...