Picture this situation: It’s now 3am, start of business is deadline day for development of your project, and you’ve been working for the last 7 hours on a web service client bug; where dynamic invocation of the service, via SOAP 1.2, causes the server to return an HTTP 500 Internal Server error. The air conditioning kicked off [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Invocation of SOAP Web Service gives 500 Internal Server Error
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged ASP.NET on June 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Adding to SharePoint List from a Web Service
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been racking my brain for the last couple of days trying to figure out how to add a list item to a WSS 3/MOSS 2007 list via the object model from an anonymous web service. At first I ran into access permissions, as one might expect, which led me down a path of setting [...]
Vista Slow File Copy – Fix
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Windows Vista on June 22, 2007 | 28 Comments »
Are you tired of waiting around for Vista to copy your files, did XP seem so much faster at performing the same job? You’re not alone in thinking there is a problem with the current RTM version of Vista.
MS claim that they’ll fix the problem in Vista SP1 (whenever that is) but for now [...]
CDRW/DVDROM Driver or Corrupt under Vista/XP
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista on June 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
For a few weeks now I have been puzzling over why my CDRW/DVD ROM driver refuses to load under Windows Vista. I naively assumed that I needed to find a replacement driver from the manufacturer (IBM in my case), or perhaps my drive was bad.
After replacing my laptop docking station and the drive unit , [...]
MS Surface – Big A** Table
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Microsoft Surface on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you who don’t read Engadget may have missed this excellent parody (video below)…
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ASP.NET Web Services, HTTP GET and POST
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged ASP.NET on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Since the beginnings of ASP.NET 1.1, Microsoft disabled HTTP GET and POST actions on .NET Framework based web services (for security reasons). If you want to enable these protocols, add the following XML to the the system.web node in the web.config file:
<webServices> <protocols> <add name=”HttpGet”/> [...]
Deploying a WebPart in SharePoint 2007
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged ASP.NET, Microsoft SharePoint on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is one of those topics, which I frequently look up, and so what better place to put the information than this blog? Scot Hillier has explicit instructions in his book (Microsoft SharePoint – Building Office 2007 Solutions in C#) on page 404 to deploy a webpart using a solution package. The following instructions are [...]
SharePoint Conference 2008 – March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wooho, a whole conference dedicated to SharePoint!!! I hope to be there and with any luck speaking, watch this space.
Go to http://www.mssharepointconference.com and submit your e-mail address, so you can be notified with important updates like when the conference website goes live on MOSS 2007.
Business Quotes from Life Hacker
Posted in Business Advice, Everything, tagged Management on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These are really on the money….
http://lifehacker.com/software/let.s-touch-base/the-cubicle-warriors-guide-to-office-jargon-265894.php
How many of these have you used or heard used on you? [;)]
