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Ok I'm to stupid for Twitter [Ok I'm to stupid for Twitter]

section31 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:04:59 GMT

I don't know waht I'm missing but I'm unable to send a tweet to @ch9live.

What I do is @ch9live <my message here> but it never comes in the ch9live

Ok folks what is the magic??? :@

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Cancel pattern for webservices [Cancel pattern for webservices]

section31 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:11:19 GMT

Hi folks,

I'm doing a lot of Silverlight + WCF work in the last time and I'm just wondering whether there is specific approach to support cancelation of long running web service calls. In a current scenario I have list of items where the user can select from. With the selection an item, the a webservice get called, which can take a lot of time on the server side to get the results. So what is the best solution to cancel those calls when the user runs quickly through the list or just wants to cancel the call. Currently I'm just blocking the UI, so th user is restricted to wait.

On the client side I thought to pass a request id through the user state and just process the last call when it comes back. Like this:

[code language="csharp"]

private Guid _lastRequestId; private OnItemSelected(int itemId ) { _lastRequestId = Guid.New(); _proxy.DoSomething(itemId, _lastRequest); } private void _proxy_DoSomethingCompleted(object sender, DoSomethingCompletede) { Guid requestId = (Guid)e.UserState; if(_lastRequestId==requestId) { ProcessAndDisplay(e.Result); } }

[/code]

At least I would save the compute time on the client side and prevent the dispaly of wrong data. But than flicking through the item list would be like a DoS attack.

Any ideas how to solve those problems?

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I'm impressed [I'm impressed]

section31 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:03:17 GMT

Last night I did the update from W7 Beta to the RC version on my main working machine and it worked without any problems.

Good job, Microsoft!!!!

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Disappering shapes in VS [Disappering shapes in VS]

section31 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:16:01 GMT

I have really annoying bug in VS. For all the digrams like class diagrams and Linq2Sql models I get invisible shapes as soon as I do a mouse click on it. If the focus goes away from the shape it comes back. Has anybody heard about this bug. Maybe it is video card driver problem but I couldn't find anything on the internet.

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VS2010 all WPF [VS2010 all WPF]

section31 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:18:07 GMT

Here are some screenshots of the new VS GUI http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx

I like the new WPF GUI but fortunately it's still Visual Studio.

What do you think?

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sftp client? [sftp client?]

section31 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:36:16 GMT

I'm looking for a lightweight adware-free sftp client for Vista and I don' wanna try each single crapware from the internet.
Any recommendations?

Thanx

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So what is in Windows 7? [So what is in Windows 7?]

section31 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:45:33 GMT

I'm just wondering what are "real" new features in W7?
What I heard until now are basically UI improvements (Taskbar, Jumplist,...) and that W7 is feature complete now.

So Is there any hidden Wow feature I don't know about?

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Vodafone proves that I'm wrong [Vodafone proves that I'm wrong]

section31 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:59:16 GMT

On my last thread I was wondering why MS prefers Flash over SL in it's own VOD site. But now Vodafone starts a new VOD site in Germany using SL and btw it's much nicer than the MSN site. So I guess it awnser my question and proves that SL is ready for professional usage.

Section31

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Silverlight not ready yet? [Silverlight not ready yet?]

section31 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:43:21 GMT

Or why is Flash still preferd by MS? Today MS started a new viedeo portal in Germany http://movies.msn.de/ and guess what, they using Flash as streaming client. So why don't use the opportunity to bring SL on more machines?
Do I miss something?

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Messenger needs Flash??? [Messenger needs Flash???]

section31 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:25:34 GMT

I tried to set a background theme to a chat window in the Mesenger Beta and it tells me that I need the newest Flash version to send content through Windows Live Messenger.
WTF?
I mean - it's not the best way to compete against Flash if you tell the people you need it.

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Adoogle [Adoogle]

section31 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:50:54 GMT

Since the last use of the Reader we have new company. At least in the IE on my computer.

Any idea how to get rid of this virtual fusion?

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SL as GUI for the Linux desktop [SL as GUI for the Linux desktop]

section31 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:17:13 GMT

To continue the discussion from this thread http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/436194-Cool-SL-outside-of-the-Browser/ I found a new information on this topic in the talk of Miguel at PDC http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC54/ (minute 68).
Moonlight 2.0 will give you access to the full mono framework once it is released. Furthermore he would like to replace the current standard mono GUI library (gtk#) for the linux desktop with (Silver-/Moonlight).
I think it's a really interesting move and big advantage for Windows developers to use their .net / SL skills for a other plattforms.

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Cool SL outside of the Browser [Cool SL outside of the Browser]

section31 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:27:29 GMT

I'm just looking PDC keynote and one of my major wish for SL becoming true.
Silverlight will also run outside of the browser.

Nice :-)

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I am rich! I can show you on my iPhone [I am rich! I can show you on my iPhone]

section31 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:18:08 GMT

Hi folks,

are you rich???
The most expensive software for the iPhone comes from Germany.
The programmer sold the absolute useless software already four times.
So if you want to show that you are rich, then go for it! Or jsut burn your money on the street.

German post:
http://www.pcwelt.de/start/mobility_handy_pda/pda_smartphone/news/174478/die_teuerste_software_fuers_iphone_kommt_aus_deutschland/index.html

Englisdh post:
http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/05/apple-wake-up-or-grow-up-a-99999-iphone-app-that-does-nothing-launches/

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Problems after SP1 Release [Problems after SP1 Release]

section31 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:20:18 GMT

Hi folks,

after the release of the .Net 3.5 SP1 I just thought it's good idea to move away from the beta bits.
So just installed the RTM and i recognized it was a bad idea. At least in my particular situation.
I developed an application with SL2B2 and Astoria for the last few weeks. But the SL2B2 is not able
to talk to the Astoria service anymore. So just go back to the Beta, but no way. All the beta installer
are unable to install because the beta bits are not longer available for download.
The whole story here : http://forums.microsoft.com/forums/showpost.aspx?postid=3752296&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0
So the reason why I bother you with my tale of woe, is that I need a standalone installer of the .net 3.5 SP1 Beta x64.
It would be nice if you could check your download folder and let me know if somebody of you has the installer.

Thanx

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section31.Adress.Replace("Potsdam", "Victoria"); [section31.Adress.Replace("Potsdam", "Victoria");]

section31 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:43:10 GMT

Yesterday, I received a official offer for a position at University of Victoria (BC Canada) for a big genome project and I will accept. I'm really happy about this job and looking forward to gain new experience in overseas (and of course to improve my english).

So now I'm wondering how many C9'er live on Vancouver Island. Maybe we can drink a beer together. :D

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Greets from the Launch Event [Greets from the Launch Event]

section31 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:48:00 GMT

Hi folks,

I'm on the first Microsoft Launch Event worldwide here in Frankfurt/M

It's very cool here and it's the most biggest event I ever participated. About 7000 people here and we have a lot of fun. The talks are pretty good and in the last talk about Silverlight we got an interesting hint about a some new topsecret features which will be announced at the 5th of march. The speaker was very exited about that "thing" when SottGu presented it to this inner circle. So just have look at ScottGu's blog.

Many greets form Fankfurt/M

PS: I already got my software pack. :P

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RSS feed down since 2 days [edit] [RSS feed down since 2 days [edit]]

section31 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:13:35 GMT

Thee RSS feed of C9 is down since 2 days. :(
The usual parsing error:
"Data at the root level is invalid...".

When will it be fixed???

section31

[edit]
Thanx, it works again

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The danger of Google [The danger of Google]

section31 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:22:16 GMT

There is a very interesting paper about the danger of Google and search engine in general from the University Graz.
Read here http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/iicm_papers/dangers_google.pdf

Citation:
"Google can use its almost universal knowledge of what is happening in the world to play the stock market without risk: in certain areas Google KNOWS what will happen, and does not have to rely on educated guesses as other players in stock market have to. This is endangering trading on markets: by game theory, trading is based on the fact that nobody has complete information (i.e. will win sometimes, but also loose sometimes). Any entity that never looses rattles the basic foundations of stock exchanges! "

Since Heisenberg came up with the "Uncertainty principle" we thought nobody can predict the future, but now we have Google. ;)

What do you think? Is the threat real?

section31

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No XML Schema Designer for VS 2008 yet [No XML Schema Designer for VS 2008 yet]

section31 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:03:40 GMT

After the

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Bad luck with VS 2008 [Bad luck with VS 2008]

section31 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:42:25 GMT

Hi folks,

I installed VS 2008 TS today and I have no luck with the system.

o   First I deinstalled all VS 2005 stuff.
o   Installed 2008 and setup was succesful
o   Starting VS 2008 and a error message about C++ resource bla bla appears and asked me to skip this package and if yes then I can reenable with /resetskippkgs - click yes
o Tried to create a XML schema - ok source code visible but where is the designer ????
o Ok just try a simple WinForm app - create a new one and open the designer - bang error: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IselectionContainer already exists in service containe bla bla wtf wtf
o Ok try a reinstall - same error
o Google google... - ok is a reported bug in Beta 2 but was closed because of no reproducibility
o Tried to call devenv.exe /setup - throws an error I can't do it arrgh wtf
o Ok found a hint on a msdn forum about some patches included in the dvd but not in the setup dvddrive:\wcu\dotnetframework\dotnetmsp\x86

I will give yo a report when I have applied these 4 patches

section31

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A new internet videoplayer [A new internet videoplayer]

section31 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:08:19 GMT

Hi folks,

there is new internet videoplayer called Miro. It' very cool and it can consume RSS-feeds as channels. Read here (Yes I have also a blog now :D )
Here is a screenshot:

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iPhone hack helps to deploy .net 2.0 [iPhone hack helps to deploy .net 2.0]

section31 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:49:37 GMT

Because the hack of Jon Lech Johansen needs a installed .net framework 2.0 http://nanocr.eu/2007/07/03/iphone-without-att/

Thanx John, so in the future we will find more computers with an already installed framework and our end user don't have to download our installer with a redistributable inside. :D

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ClickOnce and file extensions [ClickOnce and file extensions]

section31 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:55:45 GMT

ClickOnce doesn't support the registration of file extensions. Now I think about how to handle the lack of this feature for my app. The only possibility I see is that the app checks on each start whether it is assigned to a specific extension or not. If not then it should self register to this extension. Now my question is, if there a API-call for registration of file extensions or need I to set it manually in the registry?

section31

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Inconsistent behavior of the LisView control [Inconsistent behavior of the LisView control]

section31 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:46:31 GMT

I just wondering why the ListView has a different behavior on Vista against XP. If you use the Group feature of the ListView control then you can select all items of a group by clicking on the group header. That's the behavior on Vista but on XP nothing happens if you click on the group. Why this difference??? :s It's Winforms! Should be the same on any platform or not ??

section31

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