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(MsBuild) StyleCop task [(MsBuild) StyleCop task]

erik_ — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:53:53 GMT

I am playing around with building msbuild script and found there is a StyleCop task in the Microsoft.Sdc.Tasks.Tools.

Which as far as google tells me will do for code comments what fxCop does for code.

But I am unable to find a download for this.
Is this an internal tool from Microsoft or is the tool renamed?

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XAML part of word 2007 UI [XAML part of word 2007 UI]

erik_ — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:41:19 GMT

Played around with XamlPad and created a xaml word 2007 UI look a like. No images are used, everything is xaml.

A lot of Icons are still missing :(, because creating them takes ages and this was just a little test for myself to learn a bit more xaml.

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help needed on using SimpleWorkerRequest [help needed on using SimpleWorkerRequest]

erik_ — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:03:15 GMT

Hi I am trying to use SimpleWorkerRequest, but I keep getting errors.

I currently have the following code:

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
SimpleWorkerRequest swr = new SimpleWorkerRequest("/test", @"c:\test\", "/test/Test.aspx", string.Empty, sw);
HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest(swr);
Console.Write(sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString());
Console.Read();

But for some reason I keep getting the following error:

[HttpException (0x80070057): Invalid file name for file monitoring: ''. Common reasons for failure include:

- The filename is not a valid Win32 file name.
- The filename is not an absolute path.
- The filename contains wildcard characters.
- The file specified is a directory.
- Access denied.

at System.Web.FileChangesMonitor.StartMonitoringFile(String alias, FileChangeEventHandler callback)
   System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.SetupChangesMonitor()
   System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.Init()
   System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.EnsureInited()
   System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetApplicationInstance(HttpContext context)
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal (HttpWorkerRequest wr)

I gave both the ASP.NET Machine account and the everyone group full rights to the directory. I can play arround with the paths, but that did nothing more than giving an "Bad request" error. I found a lot of samples on google, but they all don't seem to work (they are the same as my code).

Anyone got a working sample of SimpleWorkerRequest or can point me in the correct direction to solve this issue?

Thanks.

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MiX07 session videos [MiX07 session videos]

erik_ — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:03:12 GMT

Is it me or are the session videos nothing more than audio with 1 still image?

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WPF/E piano sdk sample from Feb 2007 is AMAZING! [WPF/E piano sdk sample from Feb 2007 is AMAZING!]

erik_ — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:15:37 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c744cbb8-d4d9-4bf9-ad5c-eef36e064911&displaylang=en

The GrandPiano sample is AMAZING!

You can play the piano with keyboard key Z to M, and it gives sound and even the reflection changes.

WONDERFULL!

Why isn't this online at "WPF/E" (codename) CTP (February 2007) SDK Samples on the http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187358.aspx page?

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web design firefox 2.0/1.5, which version to check design in? [web design firefox 2.0/1.5, which version to check design in?]

erik_ — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:40:36 GMT

Hi,

While there are people here with web design skills and knowledge of firefox I take my shot here to ask a question.

Is there any difference in rendering between firefox 2.0 and 1.5? Or is there a set of Firefox browsers where you usaly test the layout in? (Like with IE I test the page in IE7, IE6, and IE5.5)

I currently got my page working in IE7, IE6 and Firefox 2.0, but don't know which version of firefox might differ from the rest.

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Channel9 videos from japan with english subs? [Channel9 videos from japan with english subs?]

erik_ — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:22:45 GMT

Is this something that might be possible?
Or maby an english transcript?

Because I just clicked one, while browsing the media/videos and well I can't understand them :(

And I would like to view what they do on that side of the world if possible, but I don't got the time to learn the language they speak.

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Which OOP books would you recommend to read, to better understand the concept? [Which OOP books would you recommend to read, to better understand the concept?]

erik_ — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:52:19 GMT

Hi,

The current problem that I have is that I kinda understand the basics of OOP only I feel am not yet there to correctly implement it.

It feels like I now know some magic card tricks, but the rest is not there yet (distracting the public, etc.). I know some of the 'tricks', but to go from a real life senario to an object diagram is something I have problems with.

Does anyone know any good books about this, which go deeper on this that only a howto do it in language X?

Thanks in advance.

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OneNote 2007 for Windows Mobile devices [OneNote 2007 for Windows Mobile devices]

erik_ — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:58:15 GMT

Anyone know what to do to get this working?

Each time when I try to install it from the options panel in onenote, it start activesync copy's the files and then my pocketpc with windows mobile gives the following error:

The file "\Windows\AppMg\Install\Microsoft Office OneNote Mobile [Beta] .CAB" is not a valid Windows CE Setup file.

In my asset manager I see that the OS version I got is CE 4.20, is this something that will only work with CE 5.0 or aren't there pda's with CE 5.0 and should I just play around a bit to get it working?

While it is not related it is detecting that I have a pda connected and ask if it needs to copy over the notes to onenote 2007 on my pc, so it is kinda is seeing the pda.

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on10.net layout change [on10.net layout change]

erik_ — Thu, 04 May 2006 08:29:58 GMT

I liked the old front page more, this looks like information overflow.

I am unable to focus on what the latest video is, I recognize the screenshot of the video, because I know how it looked. But if there comes a new video I will for some reason end up at the guy with the onsat title dunno why, but my eyes skip the rest.

The only thing I really see and read is the green bar and the the recent blog entries.

Am I the only one with this experience or are there more people that feel this?

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on10 rss feed on PSP [on10 rss feed on PSP]

erik_ — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:55:10 GMT

Anyone able to get the on10 rss feed for PSP to work on a PSP, only thing I get is this. When I press play I get corrupted file, corrupted file, etc. The mp3's from the curry.com are working, but they are audio only.

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WPF/E question [WPF/E question]

erik_ — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:49:11 GMT

Will the WPF/E function as a sort of flash inside a page or as a dhtml like page?

Because, I found an example online which looks like this will work like a flash page works today or a java applet.

<html>
<body>
<object/embed id="wpfehost" size="…">
<param name="source" value="default.wpfe"/>
<param name="startuppage" value="default.xaml"/>
</…>
</body>
</html>

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Windows 2003 standard upgrade [Windows 2003 standard upgrade]

erik_ — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:49:46 GMT

Hi, I am trying to figure out how much a Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Ed. Upgrade version costs, but I am unable to find it online.

Is this package not availible or is it just not listed on sites, the MS website talks about how I must perform the upgrade, but not how much the upgrade costs. It more looks like I need to buy the full retail package and I am then able to do a upgrade, but not get a sort of discount because I already own a copy of a previous version like with the win xp home/pro upgrades.

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Internet Explorer 7 RSS with enclosures [Internet Explorer 7 RSS with enclosures]

erik_ — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:45:25 GMT

Hi, when you add a RSS feed to Internet Explorer 7 beta2, where can you see the status of the downloading of enclosures?

When add the feed for the daily source code, and add download all enclosures I am unable to see which mp3 files are downloaded and also unable to find the place where I can play/view them. There is no status of this file is currently downloading...

Only thing I found was the status in the enclosure tags and the dir where the enclosures get downloaded to, but there must be something more user friendly.

Is the part that displays this well not there yet or am I not looking good enough?

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MSXML XMLHTTP(XMLHttpRequest) works from IE4 or IE5 [MSXML XMLHTTP(XMLHttpRequest) works from IE4 or IE5]

erik_ — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:46:24 GMT

While browsing to find from which version of IE it is possible to use XMLHttpRequest, I came across the wikipedia website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmlhttp).
Where in the history the say that it is availible since version 5.0 of IE.

Which was something new to me, because in my mind this was set to version 4.0 of IE. (Wich I think is wrong and is version 4.01 by now)

To find the correct answer I went to mr. google.

After searching for some time I found the following points:

MSXML version 2.0 is the first version which includes the XMLHttpRequest function (See link1 : MSXML API History).

MSXML v2.0 shipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, so every IE5.0 user has at least MSXML version 2.0 (see link2)

To use XMLHTTP you need to use the Javascript function ActiveXobject, which is supported from version 3.0 of Jscript. Jscript 3.0 itself is supported from version 4.0 of Internet Explorer. (see link3)

Which brings it to release dates, because Internet explorer 4 can support it, but it is possible that the MSXML v2.0 release date is the same as the release date of Internet Explorer 5.0, which could be possible because there are shipped together.

On the page of MSXML 3.0 SP1 .cab file redistribution package (link4) at table 2(xml versions shipped with Microsoft Products) I see something supprising. Version 4.01 and 4.01 with SP1 or IE5 are shipped with version 2.0 of MSXML.

Which could mean that MSXML v2.0 was there before version 5.0 of IE and it was already possible to use XMLHTTP from version 4.01 and up.

So now, I am at the point where Internet Explorer 4.0 did not support it, but Internet Explorer 4.01 did support.

So (me happy mode) I finally found it, until I found a blog post of Dave Massy (link5) which says that XMLHTTP is possible since the release of IE5.0 in 1998.

So finaly, my question:

Who knows where to find those release or market dates of products or can tell which information is wrong?

link1: MSDN MSXML API History http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/9e353ac7-ab8b-44aa-9fbc-12ca715ab1e7.asp

link2: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0900/xml/

link3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/440f4924-f7a9-48e0-873e-bd599a93b437.asp

link4: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmsxml/html/msxmlcabfilesp1.asp

link 5: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2005/03/20/399412.aspx

EDIT: recieved mail from dave massy: "the XMLhttp ActiveX object which was only available directly with IE5.0" problem solved IE5.0 it is =)

Thanks

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Office 12 inside the docx file [Office 12 inside the docx file]

erik_ — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:51:41 GMT

Why is there a normal looking .doc file of the document you created inside a docx file? Is this just for beta testing at the moment or does this mean all the new docx files will be bigger for backwards compatability?

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LOL, internet explorer 8 [LOL, internet explorer 8]

erik_ — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:58:42 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/28/486491.aspx

"In the picture below, the IE Team members at the India Development Center are all showing their commitment to IE's seventh heaven with T-shirts and hand signs -- all except the girl in the bottom left, who seems to be telling us she's already working on IE8! " from http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=5&issue=15&format=html

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Microsoft Vista TabletPC [Microsoft Vista TabletPC]

erik_ — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:32:37 GMT

http://news.com.com/Microsofts+Vista+looks+to+get+tablets+on+write+track/2100-1016_3-5867694.html

If this article is correct, then I dislike a part Vista for tabletPC already.

This article describes some handwriting learning tool, just like one that is availible today on a PDA.

Couldn't they just make something that learns while I am writing and correcting my daily stuff?

My tabletPC should learn how I write, but I am not a teacher. I simply don't got time to give this machine samples of my handwriting, I got stuff to do and other problems to solve. This stuff should just work and isn't my problem, a coffee machine should just make coffee if I give it coffeebeans and water. It's not like I must first show the machine how to make coffee before it is able to produce a cup of coffee.

But I don't mind, when I am busy with my daily stuff to correct the handwriting recognition, as long as I don't need to correct it over and over for the same mistake. And as far as my knowledge goes, you can mostly archive a way better result by analysing 100 A's then 5.

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Re: Top 10 Reasons Operation Re-Org Doesnt Matter [Re: Top 10 Reasons Operation Re-Org Doesnt Matter]

erik_ — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:59:51 GMT

Cool, which version of office is it that you have? because I would love to do 8 updates a week.....

1. anyone whos ever spent more than 15 minutes with Bill G knows what the real problem is.

Poker, more poker ....

1. anyone whos ever spent more than 15 minutes with Steve B knows what the real problem is.

Chairs, chairs, chairs.

Go post you crap on some anti-MS fansite, they might like it. If you want to post such a topic here then at least prove:
- that IE still has the old borrowed source code;
- the system specs of vista are that high;
- etc.

I am not that dumb to believe everything a random users says.

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Windows Vista Sidebar only with LDDM drivers or? [Windows Vista Sidebar only with LDDM drivers or?]

erik_ — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:37:17 GMT

Hi,
Does anyone know if the sidebar is only availible if you use LDDM drivers or if you need to turn it on?

Installed vista build 5219 on my laptop but the sidebar is not on by default, that will either mean I need to turn it on somewhere and I am unable to find the place to turn it on or I need to have LDDM or something else..

Thanks in Advance

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MSF question [MSF question]

erik_ — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:02:48 GMT

Hi,

At the moment I am working on creating an WBS and gantt chart for my school project. Since I looked around a bit and found the MSF Agile method which looks interesting to use. So I desided I should use that one, but I am now walking against a problem and I hope there might be someone here that can give me a quick hint or advice.

My problem is the following: I need to deliver the PID this week, and I am starting to get the feeling that I have too less time to get enough knowledge on time. I understand that it walks true the envisioning-planning-developing-stabilizing-deploying multiple times, but how do I plan that?

I can just add the 2 or 3 of those circle phases(versions if I am correct) to my gantt chart, but I don't got a clue yet if that is making any sense at all. And if i can realize that, because if I don't I am in trouble =(

So my question is basicly how do you at the MSF model to your planning(GANTT chart) ?

I found Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development, Beta (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9fd355e-98c2-4b51-86ab-4d4a6b34aafc&displaylang=en MSFAgileBeta2ProcessTemplate.zip) but that one contains like realy empty Project 2003 files.

Thanks in advance,

Erik

(edit: fixed non working returns)

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IE7 Favorites [IE7 Favorites]

erik_ — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:25:58 GMT

What do I need to do to view favorites that are not in the current menu?

I have a lot of non-sorted favorites. But atm I am seeing this 4 bars of favorites listing but not the ones I added as last. I am unable to reach them true the menu, before this was possible by scrolling a long time.

This might be a problem with my matrox driver or something like that, because the favorites menu item is also covering both my screens instead of only the active screen.

Is anyone else having the same problems or am I the only one that is just messy with his favorites?

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Microsoft Education Pack for Tablet PC [Microsoft Education Pack for Tablet PC]

erik_ — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:05:23 GMT

Microsoft Education Pack for TabletPC

Might be handly if you are a student. It even includes a game for when you are bored in class.

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TabletPC eraser cursor icon, question: where is it?? [TabletPC eraser cursor icon, question: where is it??]

erik_ — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:39:14 GMT

Hi,

I am playing around with the TabletPC SDK InkBlog sample only I am unable to find the cursor icon which is used for erasing. The erase cursor icon you get on channel9 inktpost when you press the eraser button.

Tested most of the cursors in :

System.Windows.Forms.Cursors

But it looks like it isn't located there and I don't got a clue where to look in Microsoft.Ink

Anyone got a idea?

Thanks in advance,

Erik

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Microsoft Windows 2003 webserver [Microsoft Windows 2003 webserver]

erik_ — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:55:37 GMT

Hi, I am wondering if anyone here knows some good books or links that discuss a secure setup of a Microsoft Windows 2003 Webserver.

Let's say you want to colocate a server instead of using MS 2003 webserver as intranet server, where do you need to look at?

Most information I find on google is about closing ports with IPSEC. But they never expain anything about management from an other location, and I want to be able to access it from outside instead of going to the Internet centre each time I need to do a Windows Update.

Maby this is a nice topic for a Channel9 video, where someone from the webserver team explains a howto secure it? Or is this already covered by a Webcast, then please give me a link to that webcast, because I am unable to find it.

Thanks in Advance

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