The agenda for DDD 5 is up (registration is open as well, in case you hadn’t heard!) now, and I find that I’m going to be really busy on the day. Ian and I are doing a double presentation about C# 3 and all the fantastic things you can do with it, and after that I’ll present .NET 3 - the game challenge, which was a blast the first time I did it. I hope to see many of you around, and I like to hear from people who read my blog - so if you’re around and spot me, please do say hi! …
Go here quickly to register, before everybody else does! In case you’ve been living under a rock in the past few years, here’s a link to the DDD web site, where you can find all sorts of information about it.
In case you haven’t heard about it before, the event takes place on May 23rd at Microsoft Thames Valley Park in Reading. Rafal Lukawiecki, who was voted best TechEd speaker for 7 years running, is the headline speaker. He does two sessions, and he’s joined by other interesting speakers like Lorna Brown from Microsoft Research, Mike Taulty and Daniel Moth from Microsoft’s development and platform group, and of course the NxtGenUG guys themselves, with John, Richard an …
I was just trying to connect my AudioTron to a Vista machine that has my music collection on it. The network connection didn’t work, because the Audiotron is using an old version of the relevant network protocols. This is just a “note to self” type post to remind me what I needed to change in the security policy of the Vista machine to make it work:
- LAN Manager authentication level set to Send LM and NTLM responses
- Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change set to Disabled …
I did a presentation recently at the NxtGenUG in Oxford, where I introduced WPF and WCF in a combined session. I created a network enabled implementation of Connect Four to do this. Here’s the download of the demo solution, as requested by some of the attendees:
If you missed my presentation in Oxford, I suggest you keep an eye on the DDD 5 agenda voting page. I submitted the …
Just came across this, and I thought I’d document it for myself and others. I was trying to install SnagIt on a newly installed Vista system and every time the installation just stopped right after the first wizard page, giving me a “Fatal Error Message” with the detail information “Installation ended prematurely because of an error.” I had already installed Camtasia before SnagIt, so I thought this was rather weird - seemed like if the installer worked for one of the products, it should work f …
I was trying to run the default website in a default installation of IIS on Vista, and I got this error message:
What the …? Who comes up with crap like this? Unbelievable… even the error code is useless to search for, as apparently there are hundreds of other error conditions in Windows that bring up the same error result. Does Windows have so many error conditions that the value range of a 4 byte uint is no longer l …
2007-04-03
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Wow, Microsoft learns! It’s taken them awhile, but now they got it (nearly) right: Expression Web is now part of all Premium level subscriptions. In case you hadn’t heard, it came at an extra cost so far, regardless of what you were already paying for your existing subscription, with Microsoft arguing that it wasn’t meant to be a developer tool and so it shouldn’t be part of their developer subscription package.
Apparently Blend will be handled in …