Friday, November 17, 2006 - Posts

• Vista RTM Installed

  I just upgraded my main machine from RC2 to RTM. The upgrade took over 3 hours in compute setup time! So far, I'm seriously underwhelmed but that could because I have used RC2 every day for weeks and maybe I'm missing something but: NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 driver not installed by default, installs stupid generic VGA driver Using Windows Update to update driver to a 10/29 driver for the above fails with some cryptic error code Installing NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 driver manually gives no Aero or Glass Installing WDDM driver manually for above did successfully give me Aero Glass Aero looks the same as RC2; I don't see any of the rumored UI extras that were supposedly held back until RTM I used the Administrator account on RC2. I get that I am dumped into the Sam account but unlike RC2, the main User Accounts page does NOT have a setting to turn on the Administrator account. WTF am I supposed to do with all my existing settings, programs, music, etc there??? In fact, I fail to find a single apparent change from RC2 so I went to the candy store and they were closed-) Anyone see things I'm missing? I'll go watch movies with the kids as I feel disapointed.... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 8:14 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista

• [Release] WSCF 0.7 - with support for XSD-based code generation

  WSCF 0.7 was just released. Enjoy! New Features in v0.7 Generate data transfer object/data contract code from schema descriptions in XSD or WSDL files - via the VS 2005 add-in and the command line tool. This build also includes several important fixes, e.g.: SOAP validation extension crashed when applied as an attribute. Could not remove multiple items at once from the operations list in step three of WSDL wizard. Byte arrays were not properly serialized when the code is generated with “ Change casing ” option. Code generation crashed when the configuration file contains the XML namespace information in the <configuration> element. Edit WSDL wizard crashed when the WSDL contains relative paths referring to a location outside the current directory (e.g. ../contracts/restaurantdata.xsd ). When " Data binding " code generation was enabled the PropertyChanged event raising statements were not added to the property setters of types that inherit a parent type who implements the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Importing multiple schemas with the same target namespace is now allowed. Visual Studio hogged the CPU when WSCF was installed together with certain other add-ins, like GhostDoc or the Windows Workflow Foundation Extensions. As always: any feedback is highly appreciated via the WSCF forums . Thanks. Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 3:27 PM from Christian Weyer: Smells like service spirit | 0 Comments

• Demo application from TechEd Developers 2006

  First of all, thanks a lot for attending my session at TechEd Developers 2006 in Barcelona. Although I should not have done it (I was sick at that day and got on stage just with a load of... well, drugs), I promised you to provide you with the demo application I showed in my Demo Extravaganza session. The app is not yet polished and I will officially publish it when it is done, inclusing aome basic code comments. But if you want to get an early and preliminary build of it, please get in touch with me via the Contact form. Also feel free to have a look at the slides . Thanks! Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 1:22 PM from Christian Weyer: Smells like service spirit | 0 Comments

• Hanselminutes on WS-*

  This is one show I am really looking forward to! WS-* is one of my favorite topics as I benefit from it's real world use in WCF (simple to configure) as applied to real-world Bank Services (there WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security and the like are huge) as well as often reminiding detractors that there is a word called COMPOSABLE when applied to them. Composable means that the WS-* specs are, in themselves, besides the base, are able to be put together in many different combinations and not used at all if they don't apply. Also see my comments on my co-worker Steve's REST post . Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 8:41 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: WCF/Indigo, SOA

• Windows Vista RTM Available on MSDN and TechNet

  The released Windows Vista is available for download on MSDN and TechNet . According to Robert (and may others) it is on Connect for us beta testers and will be given free to beta testers that submitted at least one bug!! but I don't see it there. Do others? Bits coming down for MSDN.... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 8:09 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista