I’m off to Europe next week to do a bunch of technical presentations.  I’m presenting for 5-6 hours in a bunch of different cities, and will be doing talks that cover: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Silverlight 4. Below are details on the different cities I’m visiting, and how to register to attend the talks: Oslo, Norway - December 1st Stockholm, Sweden – December 2nd Copenhagen, Denmark – December 3rd Brussels, Belgium – December 4th I’ll also be attending the BizSpark Camp in Paris on December 8th and will be doing a presentation there as well: Paris, France – December 8th Hope to see some of you at once of these events in person! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share...

Recently I ran into the following issue when I tried to deploy a SharePoint 2010 Project in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In the output window the following message was displayed and the deployment failed: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Retract Solution’: The local SharePoint server is not accessible. Check that the server is running and connected to the SharePoint farm. It turned out (thank you Event Viewer!) that the account that triggers the Deploy action in Visual Studio 2010 (typically the account you used to login in Windows) needs to have permissions in both the Configuration database and the Content database. Read More...

I wrote an article in 2007 how to setup ODBC Logging on IIS 7.0. There was a post recently in the newsgroups someone wanted to setup and couldn't get it working. My article uses sql server 2005, IIS 7.0. I was able to reproduce an issue on my test server (Windows Server 2008 R2, x64). Here are some items I ran into. Can't run the application pool can't run in 32 bit. This error came up HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred. Detailed Error Information Module CustomLoggingModule Notification LogRequest Handler StaticFile Error Code 0x8007001f Requested URL http://localhost:8080/iisstart.htm Physical Path c:\inetpub\wwwroot\iisstart.htm Logon Method Anonymous...

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com/ Pascal Laurin: Spécifications exécutables Nous discutons avec Pascal Laurin de spécification exécutable. Une spécification exécutable est un ensemble de tests qui décrit de manière formelle et exhaustive le produit informatique à réaliser. Puisqu'on peut exécuter l'ensemble des tests pour valider la spécification, on dit que celle-ci est exécutable. Entre autres, Pascal nous raconte son expérience des trois dernières années à utiliser des spécifications exécutables. Pascal Laurin est architecte de tests chez FinlogiK depuis maintenant 5 ans et travaille avec .Net depuis la version beta de 1.0. Ses intérêts sont l'architecture logicielle, les concepts de développement, les techniques d'automation...

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 has been released. Download it here. http://ow.ly/FW7t Get quickly upto speed on Visual Studio 2010 with this free training kit from Microsoft. http://ow.ly/FWDU Read More...

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is Templates (DisplayFor/EditorFor), Brad Wilson did a series of post which explains how the templates works, Please read it before you continue this post. Although he did an excellent job explaining the inner-details, but one thing you will notice that the object model in those examples are traversed from top to bottom or parent to child which is good for explaining the internal, but in our real application we need a bit more support. Lets take a trivial example, you are creating a create/edit screen for your Product, where each product has a associated Category and you want to show this category in a DropDownList, say we have a Product class like the following: public class Product { public int Id Read...

One of my favorite tools that I highly recommend next to breathing is WSPBuilder . With this tool in your arsenal, no longer do you have to worry about hand crafting manifest files or running cryptic makecab.exe command line tools. Building solution packages for SharePoint can be a super big problem, and for super big problems we turn to WSPBuilder to save the day! WSPBuilder comes in the form of a command line tool that you can run against a specific directory structure on your hard drive where your solution files live. It scans the folder and out pops a WSP file you can easily install onto SharePoint (make your life even easier by using the SharePoint Solution Installer so you can automatically deploy and activate your features!). While the...

I heard from good sources that the Accordion Guy , also known in an alternate life as Joey deVilla, is practicing hard to sing a French song at the Microsoft TechDays Montreal event.  He even selected a classic “québécois” song: Bye Bye mon Cowboy by Mitsou . My spies have snapped this picture just before one of Joey’ rehearsals.  Notice the hat.  Yep, that’s your proof! If your attending TechDays Montreal and see Joey wandering in the conference center corridors, just ask him to sing Bye Bye mon Cowboy for you. var addthis_pub="guybarrette"; Read More...

1.12.2009. u 9:00 sati Hotel Sarajevo Džemala Bijedića 169A Sarajevo Registrujte se za prisustvo objavi naših novih proizvoda za šansu da osvojite Windows 7.* Registracija! Kako informacije učiniti dostupnim bez obzira da li ste u uredu ili na putu, i bez obzira kojim uređajem im pristupate? Tokom predstavljanje novih proizvoda, nazvane Nova Efikasnost (The New Efficiency), imaćete priliku vidjeti kako korisnici širom svijeta koriste inovacije u Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 R2 i Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 kako bi odgovorili na izazove novih uslova poslovanja sa što većom efikasnošću. Pogledajte detalje agende i opise tehničkih predavanja. Microsoftovi eksperti će vam biti na raspolaganju za vaša najteža pitanja. Isprobajte nove proizvode...

So I’ve had a blog here on http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/ for many years now, though my posting here has faded as of late I do occasionally blog a time or two here. In the past I’ve done a number of DotNetNuke Daily Tips , but that faded as well. I’m reviving the daily tips, but not here on weblogs.asp.net, I’ve setup a new domain running DotNetNuke and the Engage: Publish module for my DNN blogging, you can check it out at http://www. dnndaily.com / My goal is to get a post up nearly every business...( read more ) Read More...