Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in July 2006

ATLAS Control ToolKit ReorderList problems
July 30, 2006 @ 1:35 am

I've been mucking around with the ATLAS ReorderList and not having a lot of luck getting it to work without DataSource control updates.

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Syncing up external WSDL Schemas with a stock .ASMX Web Service?
July 27, 2006 @ 7:45 pm

I'm working on an application that uses Asynchronous Web Services that call back onto our own Web Service and I've run into some SOAP compatibility problems where the host Web Service sends objects formatted somewhat differently than what the .NET ASMX service expects. I've worked around the issue by using a raw HTTP Handler to intercept the message, but I'm looking for some thoughts on how to make a ASMX or WCF service work instead.

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Passing Arrays between FoxPro and .NET with COM Interop
July 27, 2006 @ 1:14 am

FoxPro doesn't do very well when dealing with arrays that originate in environments other than FoxPro. VFP's COM handling of arrays provides access to arrays, but makes it very difficult to update the array count by adding or removing items. Here's one way to work around this problem with a generic routine that adds and remove items from a .NET array via COM Interop.

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Handling ASP.NET custom Control PostData in OnInit or IPostBackDataHandler
July 26, 2006 @ 1:23 am

I'm in the middle of building a control that has a very simple POST interface made of a single hidden variable that is set on the client and sent back to the server. Traditionally you're supposed to implement IPostBackDataHandler for this but it seems like this is overkill for a single internal variable...

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Visual Studio ASP.NET Designer Crashes
July 25, 2006 @ 7:11 pm

I've run into a problem where apparently one of my custom ASP.NET controls is crashing ASP.NET - hard. But I can't figure out what could possibly be doing this and I'm trying to backtrack to find the offending control.

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Fighting ATLAS UpdatePanels
July 25, 2006 @ 12:41 am

Whilst putting together some demos for CodeCamp last weekend I tried to use a live application to add some ATLAS functionality to a rather complex form. As it turns out there were lots of problems that in the end made this impossible. Here's why...

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Web Service Proxy Objects and COM Interop Problems
July 24, 2006 @ 12:53 am

I've been struggling with some issues related to pulling data from a Web Service back into a Fox application using a .NET intermediary. As it turns out the .NET end is easy enough, but unfortunately, due to the complex nature of the .NET objects returned COM Interop is falling flat on its face to pass the data back.

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Portland Code Camp 2.0 Samples and Slides
July 23, 2006 @ 1:20 am

I've posted my samples and slides from Portland Code Camp on the Web site today...

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Windows Update on my Web Server bonks
July 19, 2006 @ 2:52 am

I ran into some problems with the latest Windows updates on my Web Server. AS it turns out the .NET 2.0 Framework update requires shutting down IIS before running the update or else the update is rolled back.

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Fix for SnagIt COM object problem under Windows Vista Beta 2
July 18, 2006 @ 4:57 pm

The SnagIt COM object doesn't want to work right under Windows Vista Beta 2 bombing with a CreateObject() failure right on launch. Here's a fix for the problem. This applies if your SnagIt Addins aren't working or if you are automating the SnagIt COM object.

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NotePad Replacement on Windows Vista?
July 16, 2006 @ 4:38 pm

I'm looking to replace NotePad with NotePad2 on Windows Vista, but can't figure out how to get the EXE swapped as the mechanism used on XP no longer works...

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Taking an ASP.NET application offline
July 12, 2006 @ 4:31 pm

Sometimes I need to take a live ASP.NET app offline for database maintenance and there are a number of ways to accomplish this task including one application level mechanism that is more dynamic than the stock choices.

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Dragging and dropping an Image Url from Internet Explorer?
July 12, 2006 @ 3:05 am

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Bugged by Mod10
July 11, 2006 @ 2:08 pm

Ran into a funky problem in my Web Store today after a Mod10 validation passed through an invalid card. Mod10 doesn't guarantee valid cards of course but it did end up causing a funky code path through my code to cause some problems.

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Windows Vista and Installing Custom Applications - can you feel the pain?
July 10, 2006 @ 10:40 pm

Oh man, I’m going to REALLY hate Vista from an application installation and configuration perspective for custom applications. To make a long story short, pretty much none of my Windows applications run or in some cases don't install under the default Vista security configuration.

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External USB -> SATA Interface
July 10, 2006 @ 9:40 pm

With all the drive swapping I've been doing I finally got around to getting an external drive adapter that lets me externally hook up a second drive to my USB port making it much easier to get data from an existing drive instead swapping laptop drives internally.

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Running ASP.NET in Medium Trust
July 10, 2006 @ 3:20 am

I’ve been spending a bit of time testing my ASP.NET Web Store application in medium trust, and it’s been a hit or miss situation finding little things here and there that don’t work. I’m big on framework code, so I have lots of generic code in my base framework and some of this code has been choking on some of the limited permissions that are available. Fortunately most of these are relatively easy to work. But there are a few that are problematic and not quite so easily worked around. Here's wh

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CodeRush on Vista
July 10, 2006 @ 1:35 am

CodeRush and Refactor! 2.x seem to have a problem installing properly on Vista Beta 2. Here are steps - courtesy of Matt Peters - to get it going...

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Mixed up on Internet Explorer
July 05, 2006 @ 8:17 pm

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Wicked Weather
July 05, 2006 @ 3:47 pm

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Portland Code Camp is back July 22nd
July 05, 2006 @ 3:21 pm

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Disabling System Debug Dialog?
July 05, 2006 @ 2:43 pm

I've been having a few problems with my server crashing over the last couple of months and one of the problems I'm running into is that the system pops up Debugger request dialogs that are hanging some automated recovery processes. I can't figure out how to change this behavior to its default...

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Problems ASPX Page IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2005
July 04, 2006 @ 1:45 am

Visual Studio 2005 seems to have lost its ability to show control definitions in ASPX pages for me since I installed VS on Vista Beta 2. Otherwise this environment seems to work well, but this is quite an annoying kink.

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