April 2008 Entries
I ran into this issue today. When I logged into our Project Web Server website I received this error: The controls for Project Web Access cannot be downloaded correctly. To download the controls: Verify your security settings in Internet Explorer are set to allow ActiveX controls to be downloaded. Check to see if Internet Explorer has stopped the installation of the ActiveX controls. To install the controls, on the Information Bar, click Install ActiveX Control. You need to use a 32-bit version of your browser to download and run the ActiveX controls. Contact your systems...
A few months ago we started development on a new system. From the ground up we redesigned everything from our business processes to how we store data. Part of the redesign was deciding on using SOA technology in our middle tier. This will allow us to separate our UI from our middle tier even further. Due to the disconnected way our objects were going to work we decided to use guid or unique identifiers for our primary keys in our data model and assign guids in the middle tier. Of course, our DBAs weren't too keen on the idea and...
Recently, I started to use Google Calendar to share my schedule with my wife. To do this I'm using Google's Outlook Calendar Sync utility. The first version that I used (0.9.3.0) worked fine but it didn't get all of my appointments and it loaded my Deleted folder with thousands of blank appointments after each sync. A few weeks ago they released an update (0.9.3.2) that appeared to fix the blank appointment issue but I started to get this error: Some of your Outlook appointments could not be loaded. Sync is interrupted in order to prevent actual data loss. I...
Microsoft is offering free SQL Server 2008 online courses. The offered titles are: What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Enterprise Data Platform What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Business Intelligence What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Database Development We've been keeping our ear pretty close to the ground on SQL Server 2008 so this may come in handy. But according to my boy Jason SQL Server 2008 is a minor release. The course is free nonetheless. Via Tim Mitchell.
Since installing Visual Studio 2008 when I debug web projects VS opened the project in my default browser (currently Maxthon) and not Internet Explorer. Of course this isn't what I wanted. So I opened up trusty Google and found an answer on stevenharman.net. As it turns out setting this is quite simple. Open a WebForm file in VS (anything ending in .aspx will do) Select the "Browse With..." option from the File menu Select your preferred browser from the list and click the "Set as Default" button Now opening, browsing, or debugging a WebForm from...