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Call to IIS-Hosted WCF Service Hangs IIS (well, not exactly)
I ran into this problem a couple of days ago. I’m working on an n-tier application that uses WCF services hosted in IIS under Vista & Windows 2008. We’ve got unit tests to test each tier and they were mostly passing. We unit test our service code both directly by reference (unhosted) and then unit…
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Convert a column data type on the fly with LINQ To SQL
I got an email yesterday from a reader with this LINQ To SQL problem. He was working with an existing database and some of the columns in his database weren’t the same type as what he wanted to use in his C# classes. The database column is a string but in the LINQ To SQL…
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Fix: Team Foundation Server Reports broken after upgrade from TFS 2008 Beta 2 to TFS 2008 RTM
I did an upgrade today from TFS beta2 to RTM. Everything worked fine except for the reports. All the reports gave the following error: “Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E)” After a few minutes, the error message has changed over to: “Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) The referenced…
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Beantown .NET Meeting in Waltham on 1/31 with David Chappell
Beantown .NET is doing a special joint meeting with Boston .NET, Boston .NET Architecture, and New England Visual Basic Professionals user groups at Microsoft in Waltham on Thursday, January 31. (Thanks to Chris Bowen for organizing this.) For this meeting we have David Chappell presenting “Understanding Software + Services”. As always, our meeting is open…
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Quoted in an article on multicore development
Newsflash– I got quoted last week in an article about Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions for .NET 3.5 by Jack Vaughn. (Thanks, Jack!) -Ben
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Could not connect to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 admin web site on Win2003 x64
This problem had been plaguing me all week. Every time that I’d try to connect to the admin site for my Virtual Server 2005 box, I’d get an http 500 error and Virtual Server would hang. If I tried to shut down the Virtual Server service through the Services applet or via “net stop” it…
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The Windows Process Activation Service service terminated with the following error: The system cannot find the file specified."
I’m not sure if this is related to the Vista Service Pack 1 Beta but I installed the SP1 beta recently and then within the next week or so I couldn’t start IIS (W3SVC). When I’d try to start W3SVC I’d get an error saying “The dependency service or group failed to start.” A little…
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VSLive Austin 2007 Slides & Code
Last week I was speaking at VSLive Austin 2007. Here are some links to download my slides and sample code. Serious ASP.NET WebPart Customization (slides) / (code) Serious Team Foundation Server Customization (slides) / (code) Serious Team Foundation Server Source Control (slides) / (code) Worshipping LINQ to SQL(Joint session with Richard Hale Shaw) (slides) Workshop…
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Updated Continuous Integration Service for TFS 2005 / Team Build 2005
You’re probably familiar with the Khushboo Continuous Integration Service for Team Foundation Server 2005 & Team Build 2005. I’ve been using it for a long while now but recently ran up against a limitation: you can’t specify a build per source control sub-directory — you can only specify continuous integration builds at the Team Project…
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Beantown .NET Meeting 11/1/2007: Michael Stiefel
Beantown .NET is meeting on November 1. For our November meeting we have Michael Stiefel presenting “Yet Another Application Paradigm: Software as a Service”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please send me an RSVP using the contact form — http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx — by…
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