Search results matching tags 'Windows Vista' and 'Indigo'

Main Blog moved to CodeBetter.com

sgentile — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:43:00 GMT

Ok, the confusion is over back on my old .TEXT blog. I tried WordPress. I liked it. However, I recieved a gracious invitation from Scott Belleware and Brendan Tompkins via email to join the CodeBetter community. Based on messages from their/our community, they felt my proper home was there on CodeBetter so this is my new blog and this is my new FeedBurner feed. I agree. I have written extensively about the Agile movement, Software Architecture, and the changes that need to happen in the .NET community to move this community upward and forward into an respected Enterprise Development technology community. I feel that CodeBetter is a large part of making that happen. So I am real honored to be here. I'm sorry for all the confusion on my other blogs but please join me on CodeBetter.

SOLVED! Indigo Problem with Vista/IIS 7 and Dec WinFX

sgentile — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:44:00 GMT

I have an advanced scenario that is producing an exception that I suspect is a simple configuration setting but I don't know what it is. I am posting this on my Longhorn Blog so please comment there. I have an Indigo service (actually one of a whole bunch) that has been working with IIS6/Windows XP and Nov CTP. Our dev team moved to the Dec CTP and we have verified that there are zero changes in our code or config andit works on XP/IIS 6.0. Meanwhile bonehead Sam has overwritten his "work" system with Dec Vista and IIS 7. Everything like VS2005 and WinFX is working but I am getting this exception from Indigo on running:

System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException

{"The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8)."}

Do I need to change some setting in IIS 7.0 to get it work? It seems like a mismatch between text/html and application/soap+xml both using charset=utf-8. IIS7 is set to “utf-8“ for “Requests“, Response Headers and Responses under Globalization. We are using wsHttpBinding.

Solution So Far: The first aspect of getting things correct, as somone emailed me is making sure that the .svc file extension was configured as a file type. That got me to the point where I could browse to the .svc file on my local machine and it is not finding the built assembly even though it is indeed BUILT and in the virtual directory's bin directory. Running it still produces the same error however.

Solution Part 2: That just won't stand with me so I tore open the offending DLL with Reflector and sure enough the type is there inside the right DLL and namespace and public. There has to be something about how IIS7 is dealing with this.

The Real Solution: Thanks to Wilco Bauwer for the solution in email. The Virtual Directory I created for the service was not an Application. In IIS7, the UI of the Management Console is quite different and they are created distinctly. Of course, being a (former) CLR Guy I should have known this following part - DOH!!!, “When a VD is not created as an application, the runtime will (by default) not probe any of the VD’s bin directories, and instead just look in the GAC/bin of the website.”

I now have Indigo Services running on IIS7 and Vista. How cool is that?

Feedback Time Please

sgentile — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:41:00 GMT

[Topic from Main Blog]

This blog has been going since March 2002 when it was only me, Peter Drayton and Simon Fell as .NET bloggers. Its come a long way since then. I know I have a lot of loyal readers and a lot of people that recomend me on their blogs. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am truly blessed. I would like to take stock at this point and ask you for a little feedback. Since that blog can't do comments (tech reasons, that could be part of your feedback), I am going to direct you to this same topic on Longhorn Blog (as this one can). If you have only have a minute tell me what is the single best reason you read and single worst aspect of the blog. If you have a few then:

What do you like?
What don't you like?
What do you want to see more of?
Less of?
What would make you read/comment more?

What's Installed and Working on 5270

sgentile — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:41:00 GMT

So now that things are working, at least without Glass, I have kept going. The following is what I have tried installing:

Installed Software

Product	Status
Microsoft Office Professsional 2003 with SP2	Success but Outlook 2003 doesn't seem to retreive mail
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect	Success
XML Spy Home Edition	Success
WinFX Dec CTP Runtime Components	Success but see Posts
Vista DEC Windows SDK	Success but See Posts
WinFX Dec CTP Integration with VS2005	Success
WinFX Dec CTP Windows Workflow	Success
Daemon Tools 4.0	Success but not operating properly
SQL Server 2005 Engine	Success on server parts from file system
SQL Server Management Studio and Tools	Success!!!
CheckPoint Secure Client VPN	Blue Screen
Notepad2	Success
Hilight Code Converter	Success
WinMerge	Success
Paint.NET 2.6 Alpha 2	Success
Visual Source Safe 2005	Success
Infragistics NetAdvantage 2005 Volume 2 or 3	Refuses to install because can't access \inetpub\wwwroot!!!
NUnit 2.2.5	Success
SysInternals Tools	All

WinFX Dec CTP Released along with Public Release of Vista

sgentile — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:45:00 GMT

Normally I am really excited about new releases of WinFX/Indigo but our team members just looked up after reading Windows Vista Get the Beta Web page to see a description of what's included, read the release notes and download the goods!” It is actually very exciting even though we have to upgrade because as Mike Swanson notes that the Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" CTP WinFX Development Tools are included!

New and Notable 79

sgentile — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:06:00 GMT

I was in the middle of a beautifull New and Notable, 2nd day in a row no less when Windows Vista Beta 1 froze. No blue screen, just totally froze. No response to Task Manager or Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I guess you are not supposed to play a Windows Media Player file at the same time as doing anything else or maybe Vista hates Since I've Been Loving You from Led Zeppelin.

Windows Vista 5219 was released to us testers on Microsoft Connect (finally!!). I don't know if I have to wipe out Beta 1 or it will install over it, but knowing Microsoft I'm sure I have to repave my machine...
When I get that installed, then I can attempt to install the PDC CTP of WinFX
Mary Joe says “The newest Windows 'pillar' was not expected to debut until Longhorn Server. But now it seems WWF is on track to ship with Windows Vista and to be back-ported to older Windows variants.“ Boy, that free StarBucks in Redmond sure does wonders.
The main man, Rico Mariani, the CLR Performance God, had a great session yesterday or so they tell me. In his post, he discusses various CLR tools all of which I personally use on a daily basis except for his LogDump tool from his blog here. You need to read this post!
Marco Russo on new Vista Kernel Features
Raj Das::A Little More on InfoCard & WWF & Vista RSS
Congrats to John Bristowe for taking the pill. Microsoft is getting a true superstar here that knows his stuff.

posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 12:06 PM

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New and Notable 78

sgentile — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:03:00 GMT

Yet another big gap (August 3rd) [:D]. As you can tell from all the latest posts, I am playing a lot with Vista, WinFX (Indigo AND Avalon) and half a dozen incompatible versions of SQL Server/VSTS as well as diving into ADO.NET 2.0 in my day job. I am also writing some great new code and material for my Occasionally-Connected Smart Client session in Orlando. If you have seen this talk before at DevTeach and Code Camp, I apologize [:$]; it's been kind of lame but this one is really cool with an Outlook style app and Whidbey's Click Once as well as OCC and syncing with SQL Mobile and the like. So what do I have to share? More left-over stuff from the PDC that I haven't posted yet. I am also writing a book proposal together with someone from That Small Software Company in the Pacific Northwest. Take 3 guesses on subject? It sure ain't Visual C++.NET like the last one!

Benjamin Mitchell has an excellent write-up on Jeff Richter's pre-PDC session which he terms “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0.“ I love this quote from Jeff, “Indigo loves using attributes. They use attributes so much that you no longer have to write code." Great stuff.
ScottGu on Atlas Unleashed. Ok, see it? That's my one and only Atlas post on this blog
Lots of people have commented on how cool the new Office 12 UI is. I agree and also think it's the best change in many years. I link to one of my favorite sites here; Neowin and their report
The Agile Management blog points to “This well balanced piece of journalism looks at the new trend in agile management tools including Team System and its MSF process guidance. The piece manages to cover both MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement as well as looking at rival products that support Scrum and Extreme Programming.“ This is a great blog. BTW, my pal Rob probably wanted me to comment on the recent posts about MSF-CMM and Agile. Just because you can now throw the word “Agile“ at everything doesn't make it so.
ScottGu on the Quartz Web Designer. This product, and the other Expression products, really rock. It wasn't apparent from the quick look I took but hopefully these products will spare me from the hell that is XAML and Angle Brackets and let me do Avalon work in much better way
Jon Udell captures an interview with Bill Gates and a podcast. Look at the list of questions - these are the questions I am interested in
Barry, who is doing some excellent blogging this week, talks about my friend Eric Sink and his latest smart move: TeamPrise which allows you to access Team Foundation Server/VSTS from Unix, Mac and Eclipse
Joel Jeffrey blogs the Windows Communication Foundation Best Practices PDC session
Dustin Miller covers the Sharepoint V3.0 Features
Paul Wilson thinks “Linq is Really Cool -- But DLinq is a Big Mess.“ He raises some good points.
Joel Ross notices that the release notes are posted for CruiseControl.NET for RC2 so the release must be right around the corner
Scott Swigart interviews the key VB9 players and its now on-line at Dr. Dobbs.
Brian blogs Steve Schwartz's WCF (Indigo) - Under the Hood of the Service Layer PDC Session
I guess another one of my sacred beta programs is now public: Longhorn Server
According to Neowin, In total, 8 new games come with Windows Vista including Chess, Shanghai, a new Minesweeper, a new Freecell, a new game called "Purple Place", and a couple other card games.
According to many blogs and the Microsoft OEM site, Microsoft is due to release Windows Media Center Edition Update (codenamed Emerald) soon. [via Neowin]
A new pretty Windows Vista Homepage
Q&A: Microsoft's Jim Allchin touts Vista, new developer technologies
Jim Johnson::“What should I think about when using transactions with the file system?“
Jorgen::Xbox 360 Launch Dates Announced
Jorgen::WS-Management submitted to DMTF

posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:18 PM

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