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Documents.Open returns null, running Word automation under ASP.NET on x64

When building an ASPapplication that generates Word documents, it was working fine on the local machine. A windows XP installation with Office 2007. When we deployed it to windows 2008 (64 bit) and Word 2007 we saw that Documents.Open returned null. Other...

Posted to Rick van den Bosch - Blog by Rick van den Bosch on Thu, Feb 2 2012

Filed under: .Net, HowTo, Error, Development, automation

Tech to try in 2012

February is already here and I've been meaning to write this for quite a while. This year I want to have tried some new tech by the end of the year, it's very common for me to want to try different technologies but a little less common that I...

Posted to Mischa Kroon by Mischa Kroon on Wed, Feb 1 2012

Filed under: Things to try

nServiceBus synchronously

When you read a title like this, everything that makes you a developer should start worrying. Because nServiceBus is build on top of the concept of asynchronous messaging. Normally, it does not support the request/reply communication pattern as you would...

Posted to Dennis van der Stelt by Dennis van der Stelt on Tue, Jan 31 2012

Filed under: Architecture and Design, nServiceBus

Unhandled exception installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP machine

When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP development machine that has been around for quite some time, I got an error stating an unhandled exception occured in the application (see image). The error showed up directly upon startup and read:...

Posted to Rick van den Bosch - Blog by Rick van den Bosch on Fri, Jan 27 2012

Filed under: .Net, Work, Error, Development, SQL

Introducing Simple.Data OData provider

Mark Rendle’s Simple.Data has quickly become a popular choice to retrieve data from various data sources. The number of Simple.Data providers includes today SQL Server, Oracle, Mysql, MongoDB and others. When I saw Simple.Data in action, I became enthusiastic...

Posted to Vagif Abilov's blog on .NET by Vagif Abilov on Thu, Dec 29 2011

Filed under: dynamic, C#, OData, Simple.Data

BizTalk in the Cloud, One Step Closer Part 2

In my previous post I discussed a part of the recently released CTP of Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI. I went over installation and the steps to take to create schemas and mappings (in this post I use different schemas and mapping, because of Visual...

Posted to Jean-Paul Smit by Jean-Paul Smit on Fri, Dec 23 2011

BizTalk in the Cloud, One Step Closer

We all know Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of effort in their cloud initiative called Azure. It started with compute and storage but in the mean time it has grown and more and more products are released in a cloud version before the on-premise...

Posted to Jean-Paul Smit by Jean-Paul Smit on Sat, Dec 17 2011

Filed under: BizTalk, Visual Studio

Kendo UI: Managing data changes on the client and sending it back to ASP.NET MVC

My few regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of Telerik and their products. Their product range is comprehensive, the support top-notch and their evangelism and engagement is second to none. Whilst usually involved in the .NET space from ASP.NET...

Posted to Nathan J Pledger by Nathan Pledger on Wed, Dec 14 2011

Running Weltmeister in IIS 7

The Impact Javascript Game Engine comes with level editor: Weltmeister . This is primarily built with javascript but does include some php scripting. This post will hopefully save some windows developers some time getting started. There is...

Posted to Jeffrey Chilberto by chilberto on Wed, Dec 14 2011

I'm in the MXP for Architects!

"the what for Architects?!", you might ask yourself? MXP stands for Microsoft eXcellence Program, and is a unique collaboration between my employer (Achmea) and Microsoft, with the aim to train people, who will operate as (technical) leaders...

Posted to BBB - Bas Blogging 'Bout SharePoint by Bas on Thu, Nov 17 2011

Filed under: Microsoft, training, MXP

Fast Search for SharePoint caveat: Apply a sortformula with managed properties of type decimals

Fast Search for SharePoint provides four great possibilities to influence the sort order of your resultset that was returned: Sort by Managed property Sort by Rank Sort by Formula Sort in Random order When I was working on my presentaion and demo for...

Posted to BBB - Bas Blogging 'Bout SharePoint by Bas on Sat, Nov 5 2011

Filed under: Search, SharePoint 2010, Fast

Yet Another Logging Framework

This blogpost is a brain dump on a new logging framework I’m planning to write. If you have any additions or suggestions please leave them as comments. So why do we need, yet another Logging Framework. Well, because I cannot find in others what I think...

Posted to Obiwan Jacobi by Marc Jacobi on Fri, Oct 21 2011

Windows Azure has best performance of cloud service providers

http://www.businesscloudnews.com/applications/592-top-25-cloud-service-providers-revealed.html

Posted to System.Web.Services.Protocols.BrainException by Mark Willems on Fri, Oct 14 2011

Want to speed up your website use a CDN for commonly used files

Introduction Serving files from a website is easy just link to them and you're done. Serving files from your website in the most optimal way isn't that easy, first you have to think about things like making sure that the caching is right and if...

Posted to Mischa Kroon by Mischa Kroon on Fri, Sep 30 2011

Filed under: web development, CDN

Version Control by Example: Review and how to get it for free.

I just read: Version Control by Example It's a free printed book which can be shipped to your home for free by filling out a page full of questions. If you want the details on how to get it shipped to your home or have any questions about it find...

Posted to Mischa Kroon by Mischa Kroon on Fri, Sep 30 2011

Filed under: SVN, Source Control, Git, Version Control

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