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Error Screen

I’ve created a forum post but received no good answers. The dude kept asking me to install Silverlight Tools on all the machines. I don’t understand why we have to install silverlight on all machines and which silverlight exactly to install as there’re browser plugin, silverlight tools, silverlight framwork etc. And I cannot install silverlight tools unless the prerequisites, Visual Studio 2010 and Web Developer Express 2010, been installed which I absolutely don’t want to do. Also on the DEV server, there’s not a single instance of Silverlight installation was there and the uploader’s working just fine so I really had a hard time figuring out the issue with STAGING site. The forum responds were so slow, so I created a ticket and the same dude replied as followed:

Can you enable Firebug and check what errors come up in the Net tab when you try to access the Upload section? Also is there a way to provide RDC to your server so I can inspect the settings in more depth?

Ofcos I don’t want to give RDC access but I checked the Firebug and that really helps figure out the problem.
With the help of Firebug, I got 404 file not found for Telerik.Sitefinity.Silverlight.xap file with the error below:

Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application
Code: 2104
Category: InitializeError
Message: 2104 An error has occurred.

Now that’s some good hint, so I checked the path and the file exists on the server so must be the file permission issue; I googled the error message and found out that it’s all to do with missing MIME Types on STAGING server.

I’ve added these 3 types to the server MIME types list and it fixes the problem.

.xap application/x-silverlight-app
.xaml application/xaml+xml
.xbap application/x-ms-xbap
Ref: Configuration IIS for Silverlight Applications

I wasn’t happy with the support but thank god he at least gave me a hint to check with Firebug.

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<sf:JsFileLink id="jsLink" runat="server" ScriptType="jQuery"></sf:JsFileLink>
<sf:JsFileLink id="jsLink" runat="server" ScriptType="prototype"></sf:JsFileLink>
<sf:JsFileLink id="jsLink" runat="server" ScriptType="mooTools"></sf:JsFileLink>

To use it, reference the assembly from the project and add the following code in the master page.

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Cms.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Cms.Web.UI" TagPrefix="sf" %>

It didn’t mention which version of Sitefinity it’s used at but after testing, found out that it’s definitly not for our current 4.1 SP2 version. The “JsFileLink” property is for older version of the sitefinity 3.6 etc which comes from Telerik.Cms.Web.UI assembly.

Did a bit more digging around and got the right referencing for 4.1 version.

1. Add this to master page, immediately after Page tag.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.PublicControls"%>

2. Place the following inside the “form” tag, NOT in the “head” section.

If you have the “JS” folder location as mention in this structure, reference as followed:

<sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl runat="server" ID="jsLink1" ScriptEmbedPosition="Head" Url="~/Sitefinity/WebsiteTemplates/YourSiteTemplates/JS/test.js"></sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl>

If you have the script folder in your website root, use the following:

<sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl runat="server" ID="jsLink2" ScriptEmbedPosition="Head" Url="~/scripts/test.js"></sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl>

For built-in JQuery library, reference as followed:

<sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl runat="server" ID="jQyeryLink" ScriptEmbedPosition="Head" ScriptType="jQuery"></sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl>

3. Must have unique “ID” and specify “ScriptEmbedPosition” fields.

The JavaScriptEmbedControl will register a script in the selected ScriptEmbedPosition (Head, InPlace, BeforeBodyEndTag). This control is also available in the page editor in the Scripts and Styles toolbox section. You can add references to scripts when editing the page through the UI, and even write inline scripts by hand. ref

IMPORTANT
Place all the external JS link or code blocks at the end of the page rather than the “Head”. ie. use “BeforeBodyEndTag” for some reason sitefinity loads it’s own copy of jquery in the middle of the markup and it tends to mess up the rest of the scripts.
eg.

<sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl runat=”server” ID=”jQyeryLink” ScriptEmbedPosition=”BeforeBodyEndTag” Url=”~/scripts/jquery.min.js”></sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl>
<sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl runat=”server” ID=”JavaScriptEmbedControl1″ ScriptEmbedPosition=”BeforeBodyEndTag” Url=”~/scripts/jquery.cycle.all.js”></sf:JavaScriptEmbedControl>

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Below are the screenshot of the article page cloud based on the search criteria I entered and the zoom in view of it.

Anyways, it’s good that we can search all MSDN articles using this thing quite easily so I’m pretty satisfy with it.

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What is Lucene.Net?

[ # ] Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework.

Lucene.Net sticks to the APIs and classes used in the original Java implementation of Lucene. The API names as well as class names are preserved with the intention of giving Lucene.Net the look and feel of the C# language and the .NET Framework. For example, the method Hits.length() in the Java implementation now reads Hits.Length() in the C# port.

In addition to the APIs and classes port to C#, the algorithm of Java Lucene is ported to C# Lucene. This means an index created with Java Lucene is back-and-forth compatible with the C# Lucene; both at reading, writing and updating. In fact a Lucene index can be concurrently searched and updated using Java Lucene and C# Lucene processes.

What happens to Lucene.NET library?

This has no effect on Lucene.NET project incubated at Apache (http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/) as dotlucene.net was an independent site promoting DotLucene/Lucene.NET.

Where do I find more about Lucene.NET?

• Official website: http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/
• Downloads: http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/download/
• API documentation: http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/docs/ (1.4.3, 1.9.1, 2.0, 2.1)
• Apache Lucene – Java code: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/
• Cross-Platform Implementations: http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneImplementation
• Sites that use Lucene/Powered By: http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/PoweredBy

Is dotlucene.net content available?

The devoted dotlucene.net fans can download www.dotlucene.net content as a zip archive: www.dotlucene.net.zip (476 kB). DotLucene API Search demo 1.1 (2.38 MB)

Lucene.Net Architecture [ # ]

The lower layer is the data access layer (Storage). Then, the upper layer is about accessing the index files (data access). This layer is used by the indexing system and the searching system. On top of those we find a layer for searching and a search request parser layer used by the searching part of Lucene.Net. Identically we found a parser layer and a document layer used for the indexation part of Lucene.Net.

[ # ] At the heart of the engine is the index (similar to a database table) with fields (like database columns) that contains documents (like database rows). To search one must write a query and give it to the engine to finding matching documents. The query language for a database is SQL and for Lucene it’s a query object (you can construct complex queries by composing an object graph of query instances).

Search engines are super fast for finding text because documents are stored in an inverted index (where the terms of each field is tokenized, hashed and sorted at index time).

In contrast to database queries, search engines can calculate relevance scores when searching. This is because they use a better querying model called the vector space model instead of the classical boolean model. In the vector model, documents and queries are represented as vectors. The similarity between a query and any document can be calculated with simple vector operations. Documents with a higher similarity will appear higher in the results. Conversely, databases only know if rows meets the where criteria or not and cannot compute a relevance score – this true/false classification is how the boolean model got it’s name.

Resources/Reference links

• Introducing Lucene.Net
• Lucene, an introduction
• DotLucene: Full-Text Search for Your Intranet or Website using 37 Lines of Code
• Working with Lucene.Net
• Lucene.Net – Text Analysis
• Indexing and searching business entities using Lucene.Net Framework, part 1
• Indexing and searching business entities using Lucene.Net Framework, part 2
• Indexing and searching business entities using Lucene.Net Framework, part 3
• C# and Lucene to index and search (used VS 2005 and C#)
• Indexing Database Content with dotLucene
• Indexing and Searching Image files (Using Lucene.NET along with open-source libraries)
• Full Text Search with Hibernate Search
• Luke – Lucene Index Toolbox
• LuSql is a simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from relational databases. It is a command-line Java application for the construction of a Lucene index from an arbitrary SQL query of a JDBC-accessible SQL database.
• Tutorial: implementing lucene.NET search
• cs2project
• Lucene in Action book, First and Second Edition
• Lucene Intro and QueryParser Rules by Erik Hatcher (Java version)
• Introducing Lucene.Net: A plunge intro creating a fast, full text index, with advanced searching capabilities.
• LINQ to Lucene: Providing a custom LINQ solution for the Lucene Information Retrieval System, commonly referred to as a search-engine.
  • LINQ & Lambda, Part 4: Lucene.Net.
• NHibernate.Search using Lucene.NET Full Text Index by Simon Green
  • Part 1: How to use Lucene.NET with NHibernate to provide full-text searching.
  • Part 2: Performing Google-like searches of NHibernate-persisted objects using Lucene.NET search engine.
  • Part 3: Using Lucene.NET to find similar items for ‘posts like this’ or ‘related pages’.
• C# and Lucene to index and search: This sample will show you how to use Lucene from your .NET application to index and search content.
• Fun with Lucene.Net for BlogEngine.Net by Jared

Lucene.Net Cross-Platform Implementations: LuceneImplementations

Lucene implementations in languages other than Java:

• CLucene – Lucene implementation in C++
• Lucene.Net – Lucene implementation in .NET
• Lucene4c – Lucene implementation in C
• LuceneKit – Lucene implementation in Objective-C (Cocoa/GNUstep support)
• Lupy – Lucene implementation in Python (RETIRED)
• NLucene – another Lucene implementation in .NET (out of date)
• Zend Search – Lucene implementation in the Zend Framework for PHP 5
• Plucene – Lucene implementation in Perl
• KinoSearch – a new Lucene implementation in Perl
• PyLucene – GCJ-compiled version of Java Lucene integrated with Python
• MUTIS – Lucene implementation in Delphi
• Ferret – Lucene implementation in Ruby

Other Search/Indexing Services

• Searcharoo 4: C# search engine: refactored to search Word, PDF and more
• Searcharoo.Net: http://www.searcharoo.net/
• CastleProject
• C# Parser

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Previously, to deploy a php application eg. wordpress, on Windows, we have to use something like XAMPP (that’s what I used anyways) and the like, do some configurations, pull hair and throw some fits to be able to deploy successfully.

Now they’ve released this thing called Microsoft Web Application Installer, which is a freeware and suppose to ease those pain while deploying.

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more.

System requirements

• Supported Operating Systems are: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008
• You must have administrator privileges on your computer to run Web Platform Installer Beta
• .NET 2.0 Framework
• Supported Architectures: x86 and 64-bit

Detail feature reading and some Q&As here.

Sounds simple enough. Oh yah, me want, me want, I want WP on my Vista!!!
So lets test it out, download Microsoft Web Application Inataller here and instruction to install wordpress.

Alrite, here I go…………..

Installation Steps
Install Web AI easily:

1. Click on the “install now” button on this page to install and launch the Web Application Installer.
2. After the Web AI installs, you can launch it from the desktop to install any of the available applications. Web AI will install one Application at a time.
3. Support for Web Application Installer Beta can be received by visiting the Web Platform Installer Beta Forum to discuss issues and suggestions.

#1. Downloaded the installer: WebAIInstaller.msi [ 671KB ] – CHECKED
#2. Desktop Icon – CHECKED,
#3. Double click on the icon – CHECKED.
#4. Follow the wizard……………………

Just to make sure, let me follow the Word Press Installation guide as well.

Install Instructions
Installing WordPress is easy with the Web Application Installer.

1. If you haven’t already installed the Web AI, go get it now.
2. Launch the Web AI and agree to terms.
3. Select WordPress from the list of Applications and click Next.
4. Configure your IIS server and click Next.
5. Put in your database settings and application configurations and click Next.
6. Accept any needed prerequisites (Web AI will help you get them) and click Next.
7. Go get a cup of coffee while Web AI installs WordPress.
8. Log in to your WordPress site as admin and start customizing.

Alrite, I can go get a cup of coffee…now…right?…but…but!

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Screen 6 2 errors, after clicking on “Recheck button” 1 more error.

Screen 7downloading for about 1min.

Screen 8

Hmmm…so…aheehee…what’s it called again? Right, MICROSOFT Web Application Installer. Sigh. I think installing xampp would be the best to get wordpress on my Vista. I tried twice but no luck; may be I’ll try this again later, just to satisfy my curiosity. Let me know if you have installed it successfully.

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Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars:

• Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
  Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) crosses many roles within an organization and traditionally not every one of the roles has been an equal player in the process. Visual Studio Team System 2010 continues to build the platform for functional equality and shared commitment across an organization’s ALM process.
• Enabling emerging trends
  Every year the industry develops new technologies and new trends. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft delivers tooling and framework support for the latest innovations in application architecture, development and deployment.
• Inspiring developer delight
  Ever since the first release of Visual Studio, Microsoft has set the bar for developer productivity and flexibility. Visual Studio 2010 continues to deliver on the core developer experience by significantly improving upon it for roles involved with the software development process.
• Riding the next generation platform wave
  Microsoft continues to invest in the market leading operating system, productivity application and server platforms to deliver increased customer value in these offerings. With Visual Studio 2010 customers will have the tooling support needed to create amazing solutions around these technologies.
• Breakthrough Departmental Applications
  Customers continue to build applications that span from department to the enterprise. Visual Studio 2010 will ensure development is supported across this wide spectrum of applications.

Here is a full overview of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 and some more reading on vSTS 2010 (code-name “Rosario”): What’s new in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Read some more detail announcement on Somasegar’s (senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft) post: What’s next for Visual Studio and .NET FX?

Ok, that’s about it for now.

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You see, we have this disc stakka where we stored all our department softwares. It’s attached to a spare box sitting on my desk and I kind of become an unofficial librarian. Whoever ask to borrow software from me, I’ll just eject the discs from the stakka and hand it to them. There is no record of how many discs we have and who borrowed them. The stakka itself is installed for everyone hence anybody can login to the box and eject any disc as they like. The result is we lost a few important discs over the months. I have no idea who took them but discs are obviously keep missing from the disc stakka. We sent a few notification emails to everyone in the office asking about the missing discs but nobody responded.

I kind of feel responsible about it since it was sitting on my desk and I am the one who is giving out the discs most of the time (unless ofcos they login to the box and eject the discs themselves when I’m away). The problem with me is that whenever I am into something or concentrating on a task at hand, I seriously don’t care about things happening around. I don’t see or hear anything unless someone pokes at me or waves in front of face. Even so, I don’t hear half of the thing they are saying. So when someone asks a disc from me while I am busy, I just remove the disc and give it to them without looking at their faces or noting their names. That must be one of the reasons people take advantage of my ignorance to snatch some discs from me.

Anyways, last week we had a very loud and noisy discussing about how to maintain our softwares. Most of my colleagues say not to borrow software to anybody outside our department. Our HR manager disagrees and wants everyone to share the software the company owns. (Ok, I wasn’t in the discussion/arguments as it was happening at one of our colleagues’ desk and I just over heard bits and pieces.) Finally we agree to properly keep track of the disc movement in some way. Boss made up a software borrowing register spreadsheet and mail it to everyone saying, unless and otherwise people fill in the register prior to picking up a disc, we are not to give it to them. But the spreadsheet was editable by everyone which is not a good idea so I created a form out of it and pass around the form. After checking the form, one of our colleagues argues that the form is very easy to fill and we like to make thing difficult for whoever comes to borrow our discs. So he suggested a few adjustments to the form.

Here are some of his suggestions:

Way too easy, we need some pain here. Can we add some more fields :
Put this under “Borrower Details“

• Weight (kg)
• Height (cm)
• Eye colour (offer Green, Blue, Grey, Brown)
• Blood Type (offer A, B, AB, O) (suggestion to add negative, positive as well)
• Hair Colour (offer Black, Grey, Brown, Red, Blond)
• Random Question from http://www.survey-machine.com/take_survey/627331 that we’ll change every week or so, we’ll start with no. 1 “Have you ever peed your pants after age 8?”

Make all fields required.

There is a few more input from other colleagues as well such as “Do you have any recent health problem say in last 6 months?”, “Provide the medical certificate to prove your blood type”, etc…

How about that!? Is the form painful enough yet? Haha, I’m not sure how many borrowers will be able to fill in that form and surely throw some serious curses at us.

Anyways, I felt sorry for whoever have to fill in the form, and I did not implement those “Borrower Details” but left the simple form as below and see how things turn out. We had a few beta tests with our gang and now it is released to suva_everyone. One serious flaw we try to ignore is that anyone can login to the machine and remove the disc while I’m away from my desk. But for the time being, it’s doing quite well without complaint, a few minute ago, someone filled in the form and took 3 discs from me. I wonder how long this system will last though.

So how do you keep track of the softwares in your organization? Do share with us some of the cool systems you use in your company. And ofcos’ you are most welcome to make suggestion to our system above as well.

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It’s a wiki sort of world street map where anyone can login to add/edit the streets in your region.

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

To edit, you need to sign in first. Anyone can open an account there easily. You can also export the chosen map area into a few formats, (png, jpeg, svg, pdf, postscript) and can play around with the size, scale etc under “Export” tab.
You can also write some diaries on it or do some GPS tracing.

Ofcos’ if you are confused with how to do the tracing, you can always check out their wiki help page. In the Beginners’ Guide, there is an very well explained introductory video for you to get started with. I’m also checking out the video and briefly reading through the steps.

I did ask my bro, who actually done editing on the map, to write a post about it since it’s quite interesting to play around but as usual the lazy slime just passed me the video and ignored my request. So here I am dropping a note to whoever out there love playing with maps to check this site out.

Ciao!

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I LOVE Summize and Twitterfeed; I use them the most. I find this two, Tweetwheel and Twitter Charts, pretty interesting especially the Tweetwheel.

The result wheel is just amazing and you can hover over to see all those links in your connections.

Beautiful isn’t it? Well, if you have time, try play around with those. I bet you’ll love a few.

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Keep all your files in sync
Use FolderShare to create a mirrored image of your most important folders – like your Favorites, Pictures, and Documents – so they’re the same on all your computers.

Sharing files is easier than ever
Sharing with friends, co-workers, and family is easy when you add and update files in a shared library. Large files? Not a problem – FolderShare can sync files up to 2 GBs in size. And it works on both Mac and PC.

Get to your files instantly when you’re away from home
Install FolderShare on all your computers, and you can access all your files from any computer on the Internet.

It’s 3 steps installation,
# it will ask you whether you are an invited user or a new user,
# Name your computer,
# if you are new user, this step create an account for you,
Then you are done.

If you’re interested, download and test it out here: FolderShare and visit the site.

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Error:
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2869.

So I dig around the forum and found this solution from Otis.

• Create a new .bat file in the same folder as the one the LLBLGenPro20.msi file is in.
• Add the following text ‘msiexec /i LLBLGenPro20.msi’ and save the file.
• Right click the .bat file and select ‘Run as Administrator’.

I tried doing as mentioned in the steps but I got the following message and couldn’t able to install it.

So I changed the Otis’s command to ‘msiexec /a LLBLGenPro20.msi‘ and run it directly from command line instead of right-click – run as administrator on the .bat file and it works!

If it still doesn’t work for you after following the above steps, I guess you better do these, disable UAC and enable XP compatibility mode as mentioned here.

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DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology – or just get a head start on your career.

Starting today (or soon in some areas), students worldwide will be able to download our professional development and design tools for free! It’s called DreamSpark and it is upon us.

At the moment it’s available for 10 countries – United States, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium but they will make it available for more countries through out the year so keep checking this page for updates. Australia and Oceania regions are not in the list yet but we are eagerly looking forward to it.

And here are the list of all the available MS products that the students can download: Product for Download

Pretty cool isn’t it? This is the best news I’ve ever come across from Microsoft these days.

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The worst thing about this installation is that, it takes ages to install till the end, then shows up the error message box.

Program Versions:

# SQL Server 2005 – Developer Edition
# Windows Vista Ultimate
# Visual Studio Team Suite 2008

Make sure you cross check Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005 before installation.

The first error/warning I tried to fixed was about IIS requirement. I’m sure I have IIS7 enabled on my Vista and also enabled IIS6 compatiblity mode but that is not enough and have to enable some more features.

System Configuration Check: IIS Feature Requirement
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled. IIS is required by some SQL Server features. Without IIS, some SQL Server features will not be available for installation. To install all SQL Server features, install IIS from Add or Remove programs in Control Panel or enable the IIS server through the Control Panel if it is already installed, and then run SQL Server Setup again. For a list of features that depend on IIS, see Features Supported by Editions of SQL Server in Books Online.

I think it is to do with Installing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Service on Vista, untill or unless you enable all those features the Reporting services cannot be installed.

Solution:
The main features to turn on are as mentioned here but I turned on almost everything just to make sure.

More info links:
# How to install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a Windows Vista-based computer
# Installation of SQL Server 2005 in Windows Vista – warning message on IIS feature requirement during System Configuration Check
# Tip for Installing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Service on Vista

Ok, this one is the weirdest error and solution I got. Don’t even ask why in the world do I need to install Office 2003 Web Component add-in while I have Office 2007 installed on my machine. I have no clue, but that’s the only solution I found which works for me. It solves the “OWC11 Setup failed error and the following error message.

ERROR 1706 Setup cannot find the required files. Check your connection to the network, or CD ROM! For other potential solutions to this problem, see c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\1033\Setup.chm

Solution
You have to download and install “Office 2003 web components” first and install SQL Server 2005 again; which then in my case cleared the error and installed successfully.
# Download: Office 2003 Add-in: Office Web Components – owc11.exe [ 17.6MB ]

After everything is done, remember to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. Pheewww! That’s it!

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Program Version:

# Infragistics NetAdvantage 2005 Volume2 + hotfixes
# Windows Vista Ultimate

Problem:

The installer runs almost to the end then throws up some compatibility issues errors and didn’t get install properly. The dll library files get loaded in the GAC but cannot load the form design views and also there is no infragistics folder in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client.

Solution:
Need to follow these 4 steps properly.

1. Disable User Account Control (UAC)
2. Restart your machine
3. Edit the System Registry for Internet Information Services (IIS)
4. Enable IIS 6.0 Compatibility

Reference Links:

# FAQ:Installing NetAdvantage for .NET on Windows Vista
# Tip/Trick: Using IIS7 on Vista with VS 2005

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This whole week, I got to work on time. Oh yes, ON TIME!. Our normal office hours is 8:00 – 5:00; Normally I get to work around 8:30 – 9:30 in the morning and knock out around 5:30 – 6:00 in the evening. It’s amazing that I’m on-time this week and proud for myself. You go gal!

Come to think of it, I never wake up myself in the mornings. Every morning at 6:30, Dad bangs at my door and tries to wake me up. I never move an inch from those bangings. Around 7:00, my mb alarm shrills in my ears; what a tedious job to switch it off and go back to sleep. Around 8:00, my bro comes in and yell at my ear. He would ask whether I’ll go with Dad transport or take a taxi later. His yelling is the worst and I can’t shut him off. If I don’t budge by a few yells, he would kick me and pull me down from bed. Most dreadful thing he does is jump on my bed with his slippers on. What an arsehole! There go my peaceful sleep, I would wake up in flash and kick him off. I for once, hate the idea of wrinkling the bed sheet. I hardly let anyone sit on my bed and when I sleep, I try not to move a lot so I can keep my bed sheet free of wrinkles. For that reason, him and I are the worst enemies unless he gets rid of his annoying habit. Anyways, this week my being on time is cos’ I wake up at the alarm time and come by Dad’s transport.

Ok enough about my sleeping habits, now back to the point. After catching up feeds on Google Reader and done a few blog hopping, some thoughts come into head.

I see many blogs use gravatar enabled comment system. I like looking at posts with variety of gravaters in their comments. It’s very eye inspiring and brings more motivation to read the post. But unfortunately some regular bloggers/commenters don’t bother to make a good use of the gravatar feature. It’s very easy to get a gravatar for your email and doesn’t take much of your time setting up. I made mine years ago when I started using the gravatar plugin for my blog and never changed since. It doesn’t need any maintenance or regular logins to keep up the password expirations or worry about photo hosting. I’m surprised at those who choose to ignore the existence of this wonderful and convenient service. Give it a try when you have time, you won’t regret it. Get a Gravatar account.

Another thought that hits me is about centralizing blog feeds. Some of you (including myself) have multiple blogs which from time to time you need to change blog domain, the host or even the blog platform. In such cases, it’s best to use a good service like Feedburner to centralize your feed. It’s very convenient and helps both blogger and subscribers in terms of less work, more acturate blog subscription tracking and easy to maintain/manage feeds. I got two feedburner links which I published on my old theme and haven’t add in this new theme yet. I’ll do that later.

By having a centralized feed, the blogger does not need to worry about notifying his readers with the new feed changes. He only needs to update the new feed link in the Feedburner control panel and it will process it accordingly. For example, my blog mayvelous.blogspot.com has .atom.xml feed previously. With the new blogger.com, it was changed to RSS feed with different link format. Both the old and the new feeds work fine, which is excellent, the readers can choose any of the two to subscribe. But having such multiple feeds make it very hard to track the total number of subscriber on your blog.

Another bad thing about individual-unburn feed is – when you change your blog domain, all the feed url also get updated hence might cut the original feed subscribers from your blog. There is a possibility of your old feed still functioning if you are only redirecting a domain but in case of changing an entire blog platform, there is no way your old feed can work as before. If that happens, it’s very hard for a blogger to request the readers to update their subscription. Probably the blog will lose half of the readers due to people (myself as one) plain old laziness in updating things.

Hence centralizing your feed is essential a good thing to consider and the feedburner is known to be a very useful service for many bloggers. So organize your feed by burning your feeds in a feedburner account. You can also use this site to combine multiple feeds before burning one in Feedburner.

Alrite, the post getting too long and I’m getting bored with typing so I’ll continue my other Friday thoughts later.

Kinda of feel odd, trying to translate back from my Myanmar post to English. Or should I express things in English first then translate to Myanmar? Nah, the feeling is just wrong. I think I shouldn’t translate but just write whatever comes in mind as long as the post gives the same message. I wonder how Mady done it cos’ both of her Myanmar and English posts are very well sync. Anyhow, I’ll try again later and see how it go.

Enjoy your Friday and have a good weekend!

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