Enable Terminal Services on Longhorn Server Core Beta 3
Monday, April 30, 2007
Longhorn Server Beta 3 finally arrived this week. I’m currently in the process of replacing all of my Longhorn Servers with Beta 3. I started with my Server Core install. The guidance documents that I’ve seen are all based on beta 2, and a lot has changed since beta 2. To enable terminal services on server core follow these steps: Enable Terminal Services with this command: Cscript C:\Windows\System32\SCregEdit.wsf /ar 0 if you need to connect from a non 6.…
.NET Framework 2.0, I hardly knew ya...
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Well I have been really excited about the upcoming WinFX release and I’ve been learning all I can about WPF, WCF, and WF. There’s been some confusion in the marketplace about .NET Framework’s role in WinFX so Microsoft decided to change it’s name. The combination of the .NET Framework 2.0 and WinFX will be known as… .NET Framework 3.0 I guess this finally explains the 3.x version numbers on all of the dll’s in WinFX.…
Moving the Outlook 2003 OST File
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
One of the partners in the firm that I work at asked me how he could move the location of his offline mail store (OST) from the C drive to the D drive. It wasn’t clear, but it looks like you have to first disable the offline caching mode of Exchange and then restart Outlook. Then shut down Outlook and then reapply the offline caching, but go into the advanced properties to set the location of this new ost file.…
Microsoft Update
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Most people, hopefully, know that to update their Windows computer they go to Windows Update. Some people know that to update Microsoft Office they go to Office Update. What if you wanted to update both of them from one location? Go to the new Microsoft Update. This has just been released, and the link can be found right here: Quote Microsoft TechNet: Microsoft Update
WPF/E
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Windows Presentation Foundation has obvious benefits both for creating rich user experiences in Windows and for ease of development, but how do those advantages translate to the web? Most people would give the answer that WPF is just Flash for Windows. Just take the application in Windows and rewrite it in Flash. Now let’s say that we’ve invested a lot of time training you and me on how to write WPF applications, and a customer comes back and says they want the same quality of user experience in a web app.…
Multi-multi Monitor
Thursday, October 26, 2006
People at work ask me, “Could you have more monitors on your desk?” Then they give me more work to do. What do you think? Is this too much?
Hey Michael, What did you do to IntelliSense here?
Friday, May 5, 2006
I inherited a machine here at work that had ReSharper installed on it. I didn’t want to have to pay for it so I removed it. That was in February. Since then I haven’t had any IntelliSense in Visual Studio.NET 2003. Being the piss poor programmer that I am, I rely too heavily on IntelliSense and I’ve been lost since then. However, I finally got frustrated today when I was trying to work with a DataGrid and I decided to do some heavy searching for a solution.…
More Vista RSS Stuff
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Last time I visited this topic I was miffed that the platform SDK that I had access to at the time did not include the RSS API’s. They now exist and are called Web Feeds API. The problem is that they are in native COM only. There isn’t a managed version of them. So I get to use interop by calling the Type Library Importer on the msfeeds.dll. Didn’t they learn their lesson from DirectX that forcing developers to use a shim to the native code is a bad idea?…
Critical Windows Update
Sunday, January 8, 2006
It’s not “Rushed ” and it’s not “early ”, but it is the most important thing you can do today. There is a critical Windows update available on Windows Update . Anyone reading this should immediately go update your computer. I say it’s not rushed because Microsoft did all of their normal testing and it is safe to install. Also it isn’t Early in the same sense. Microsoft has just been holding on to it until “Patch Tuesday”, but because some people have no morals and decided to publish details on how to exploit this vulnerability Microsoft released the patch 5 days before it was to be released.…
Input type=file value
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
I had a bug this morning where the input field for a file upload box was being cleared during a postback to the server. The bug suggested that the server action should not clear the field because we weren’t uploading the file yet. In ASP.NET you cannot change the value of that field. After thinking about this for a while, it makes sense. The vulnerability would be that some rogue web page would set the value to something private like your Quicken data file and you’d unknowingly upload that to the server.…