Visual Studio Maintenance Mode
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
I started working my way through the hands on labs in the SharePoint 2010 Developer Evaluation Guide and found that I was missing the Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt in my installation.
Gabriel’s post explained why. I typically don’t install VC++ on my dev boxes and apparently this is a known bug in VS 2010 where [...]
Tags: command prompt, setup, visual studio 2010
Windows 7: WiFi slow to connect or Limited Connectivity
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
I’ve been having this frustrating issue for the last month where the laptop would take about 10 minutes before it was able to connect to the internet. This happened even when the machine came back from sleep/suspend mode.
The Wifi connection would be detected immediate but I would not get an IP from the DHCP server. [...]
Tags: windows 7; wifi; limited connectivity; slow to connect
Google Wave Invites
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
UPDATE: No more invites. Sorry guys I’ve given away all my invites on a first-come first-serve basis. Cheers!
I’ve given away most of my invites over Twitter but there are a few remaining though. So if you’d like a wave invite drop me a mail or leave a comment with your email address.
One tip I’ve found [...]
Fixing the Silverlight caching issue
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
Fell into this trap today. I deployed an update of my silverlight project to the Sharepoint site but on some machines the browser continously kept loading the older version.
I racked my brain trying to figure out how to add ETags to a xap file and yet keep the deployment simple. The answer though is unbelievably [...]
Tags: silverlight
Changing the default schema in Oracle
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
The application I was working on assumed that the user would always be in the default schema. I ran into a snag when I had to connect to the staging environment where the read only user that I was provided with didn’t have all the objects in his schema.
The solution was to make a call [...]
Date Ranges in Log Parser for EventLogs
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
If you need to trawl through your production server event logs. Here’s a quick tip for extracting just the entries for a given date range using LogParser. BTW Visual LogParser is a must have, it even downloads and automatically installs the latest version of LogParer from MS.
SELECT TimeGenerated, SourceName, ComputerName, Message FROM C:\Downloads\May09-ErrorLog\AppLog\*.evt [...]
Tags: date, logparser, range, timestamp
Making your portable hard disk work with the XBox 360
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
I like using my XBox as a media center. But when I plugged in a portable HDD to the 360 but it didn’t show up as a disc. Didn’t work on the Samsung home theatre as well. A quick google and I figured out the disc was formatted as NTFS (right-click Properties on your drive [...]
Tags: format, hard disc, portable, xbox 360
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 breaks Microsoft CCF (Customer Care Framework)
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
So your seeing this exception in your WCF client application after installing SP1 on .NET Framework 3.5
System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityException occurred Message="The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme ‘Negotiate’. The authentication header received from the server was ‘Negotiate
As described in this bug report Microsoft classifies this as a known issue, with the bug being [...]
Tags: ccf, service pack, wcf
Another Dell XPS M1330 tip: External Display Flicker
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
Although five of us have exact same setup, I am the only one at work to experience the external display flickering. I tried everything from downloading all the latest updates from the dell site, mucking around with all the display options to no avail. I even plugged in my XPS to a couple of my [...]
Windows 7: New Keyboard Shortcuts
Posted by merill | Filed under Tips
There are quite a few new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 and some of them are a godsend when working on a multi-monitor setup. I can finally retire UltraMon just to get a keyboard shortcut for switching windows between monitors.
There are new shortcuts for maximizing, restoring and minimizing windows as well. I will now be [...]
