October 2008 - Posts

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Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider by jdanforth

According to this blog post on the Windows Live Dev blog : Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP...
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Direct Links by jdanforth

Want to download and play with the VS 2010 bits? You can read about and download it from MSDN Downloads , or install a pretty good Download Manager (open source, GNU GPL, quite good IMHO) and cut/paste the direct links below. http://download.microsoft...
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WCF Client Calling ASMX Service with Soap Headers by jdanforth

Need to send soap headers from WCF (Service Reference) clients to older ASMX services? The ASMX service not handling the header properly? It may have to do with namespaces being set in the soap header XML in a way differently from what the ASMX service...
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WPF Learnings - Animated Screen Glint Effect by jdanforth

To learn some WPF I wrote this full screen editor called Writespace , which is now open source on Codeplex. I wanted to add some bling to the editor when it was loaded up, so I created a simple animated "screen glint" effect which is totally...
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LINQ to XML in VB.NET and Using the Right Language for the Job by jdanforth

I'm almost always using C# in my .NET projects, unless I'm doing Office automation where the VB-way of dealing with optional parameters helps out making the code a bit cleaner. The last week we've been upgrading ASMX-clients to become WCF-clients for...
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Windows Home Server Learnings - Don't Install the HP Add-Ons by jdanforth

This is a general warning to Windows Home Server owners in general and HP Media Smart Server owners in particular. The "Power Pack 1" update to WHS comes with 2 add-ons: McAfee’s Total Protection Service (anti-virus/anti-malware) PacketVideo’s...
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Writespace - Fullscreen Writing Environment Add-in for Word by jdanforth

I just published this open source project on Codeplex, and this information is available on the Writespace Codeplex home page as well. Writespace is a fullscreen writing environment , developed with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) as a ClickOnce...
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Expiring Temp ClickOnce Certificates - Create Your Own With Long Expiration by jdanforth

I'm looking at ClickOnce and ran into several blog posts where people were worried about expiring certificates when using a temporary PFX file created by VisualStudio. Appearently the certs issued by VS expire after a year and you will probably start...
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A Decent Search Replace In Multiple Files Tool by jdanforth

Just wanted to share this tool with you. I needed to search/replace text strings in some 600 files, and I've been downloading a bunch of crappy utilties that doesn't deliver. TextCrawler does this one thing and it does it good. A few features listed from...
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