dstelow notes…

…In addition what Scott has in its extensive article on SP1, lemme show you some more data on what is new and supported for WCF in SP1 of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 – this list is not authoritative, it is my list and not Microsoft's official one.

…This new recipe (hereforth referred to as "the new recipe") allows you to create the service interface, data contracts, and a stub of the service implementation from an existing WSDL document. Yeah, pretty cool, huh? Of course you can do the same thing in svcutil if you have the .NET 3.0 SDK installed, but you have to leave Visual Studio and head off to the command prompt – and it won't separate the parts into multiple files and place them in the appropriate projects.

…Anyone who have tried to do contract/schema first design of data contracts or tried to generate proxies using SVCUTIL.EXE in an interop scenario with e.g. Spring-WS, will have run into how WCF magically decides to use the old XmlSerializer rather than the new DataContractsSerializer (DCS). And deducing which parts of a schema that cause this is not easy with real-life contracts.

…If you're serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!

…unzip the VS2008 Icon package and poked around and was surprised to see a lot of beautiful new images. There is even a huge set of Common Elements png files that each have multiple images with the intent that we will snip the images for our own use.

…Extends home networks by using existing electrical wires

Excellent approach…The WCF design guidelines recommends using the exception shielding pattern to sanitize unsafe exceptions and expose only a controlled set of exceptions using fault contracts. Thus, for every operation that you implement in your service adapter (facade), your method must have a try-catch block, code to create a fault contract object containing relevant exception information, and finally code to create and throw a System.ServiceModel.FaultException.

Time for this step.
…A basic principle of a CI system is that the word build needs to be redefined. Formerly, you might have thought of a build as simply a compilation. When it comes to CI, you must understand that the definition of build now includes the all-important steps of verification and testing. CI depends on the presence of tests. Without tests, all you have is continuous compilation.

List of all articles…MSDN Magazine: Windows Communication Foundation

Align Elements Left and Right…Like absolute elements, floats can also be placed to the sides of a container, but the coding and methods are very different, as are the effects

Need this for 2005 to 2008 upgrade to work…The Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable Package includes Windows Forms and ASP.NET Web server controls for viewing reports designed using Microsoft reporting technology.

This is related to the previous reporting bug link…Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms,…some time ago I had this problem too. The solution is realy simple:
- simply install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008.
- make sure all references to Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms are Version=9.0.0.0, not Version 8.0.0.0.

I ran into this same issue…There are apparently issues when upgrading a Visual Studio 2005 project with a report viewer control to a Visual Studio 2008 project. You must hack your .SLN or .CSPROJ files to fix the annoying bug.

…The last piece of this eleven part series on fault messages covers advice for channel authors that need to define their own set of faults. Everything here assumes that you're writing a protocol channel, that you have interesting failure cases that need to be acted on programmatically, and that your protocol does not overlap an existing protocol, such as security, reliable messaging, or transactions. By now, you should either be familiar with all of the classes involved with faults or going back to read the previous articles in the series.

…Although most people think of web servers when they hear HTTP, it's entirely possible to self-host WCF services over HTTP. You do need to perform some configuration magic to make this happen, especially if you want to peacefully coexist with an existing server like IIS. You also need to deal with the stronger security for services on Vista. This article explains how.

The sample client code in this msdn help entry shows how to make a service calls with good exception handling…Mark an operation with the FaultContractAttribute attribute to declare one or more specific exception conditions that are added to the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) description of the service operation as explicit SOAP fault messages returned by the operation.

…In general, it is recommended that detail types be custom serializable types appropriate to the fault and not a System..::.String.

Useful tidbits…In Visual Studio it is possible to let the debugger break on unhandled exception. Normally something you want to happen, but in this case it is not a good idea. The debugger thinks that the exception thrown in the service is unhandled, so it breaks saying it found an 'FaultException was unhandled by user code' but in fact the exception is handled by the client.

Interesting-looking object serialization tool…NetReflector is a library which can be used to help implement the conversion of an object or set of objects to and from an XML representation. This type of operation is particularly useful when developing applications with plug-in components, since the underlying executable does not need to know in advance which type(s) of object it will be supplied. (Typically, it will know that the object(s) in question will implement a specific interface, but even that is not essential).

Some positive news…A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of Americans had voiced support for religious institutions speaking out on such issues.

He's having the same problem I am!…At any rate I still can’t quite come up with a general rule on how to best determine whether a data parameter would work or not, in my trials they don’t seem to work with data definition statements…As per my function (setDefaultTableSpace), I had to rewrite it by hard coding the SQL statement.

Great biking…Between Laramie and Cheyenne, just north of I-80, lies some great mountain biking in the Medicine Bow National Forest. The trails change seasonally, and are popular with cross-country skiers in the winter. All areas can be accessed via the Happy Jack and Vedauwoo exits (323 and 329 respectively). Look for the Lincoln state at the Happy Jack exit. The Pole Mountain trails at exit 323 connect with the Vedauwoo trails, so for strong riders that want to put in some miles, it's one riding area, for those looking for sub-20 mile rides, you can consider them two distinct areas.

Great biking…Southeastern Wyoming seems to be little more than a vast sweep of high plains. But look closer and you’ll discover sprawling national forests that nurture mile after mile after mile of mountain bike trails that will thrill any level of cyclist. So toss your bike shoes in with your cowboy boots and be prepared to ride when you enter the Cowboy State.

Good read, at reasonable level of detail…This article describes the essential concepts and building blocks of WCF and its architecture, enabling you to build simple services. Future articles in this series will address specific aspects, such as transaction management and security.

Try this…a short series demonstrating how to simulate fireworks in Silverlight using a very basic physics engine.

…I still feel that varable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer?
We are getting soft…As for me, give me a fixed gear!

Potential pannier… carry these two locks, which are very secure but also heavy, in some Wald rear folding baskets.(Wald 582 Rear Folding Basket 12.75 x 7.25 x 8.5 Black)

…before you can actually run Kawa, you need to set CLASSPATH so it includes the Kawa archive.

Funny…Someone once described life aboard a sailboat as being like standing in a cold shower tearing up hundred-dollar bills.

More info…The Flying Scot is a 19-foot day sailer that is sailed throughout North America. The large, deep cockpit is ideal for family sailing, providing safe, comfortable sailing for up to eight people. If your interest is racing, a crew of two or three will find the Scot a great boat for competition at all levels. The Flying Scot is easily trailered and rigged; and can be launched in as little as 12" of water.

This looks like a nice boat in a good price range (~16k new)…The late Gordon Douglass is an internationally known racing champion, so he designed the Scot for speed. The Scot is a low-displacement design (she sits shallow in water) and she has a flat, tapered shape in the stern which allows her to plane. This means she will come out of the water and is not limited to her waterline hull-speed. With over 200 square feet of sail area, she has the "engine" to move well in any wind speed. Get her on a beam-reach with 15 knots of wind, and experience the thrill of a planing hull!

This looks like a pretty neat boat…The Cape Cod Catboat won popular acclaim in the late 1800's.

This is really interesting. We have the 'pitcher' plant variety in great numbers at our place in the U.P….Carnivorous plants usually grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings. Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.

…South Dakota Supreme Court
LOWE V. SCHWARTZ, 2007 SD 85
Opinion Filed On Wednesday, August 08, 2007

…Recent sampling of patent applications for Dean Stelow listed and published in the public domain by the USPTO (USPTO Patent Application #,Title):
20040162844 – Driver management system and method

…copy and paste… so i just discovered this out… lets say you have some text in your note pad… that you would like to copy and then paste into a txt message…. while the text is up in the notepad after u have finished typing it.. dont click done yet… click the menu option and select "copy text" a note will pop up saying "press down and drag on the text you wish to copy" so where the cursor is drag ur finger over wat u want copied and then select copy

now thats copied… you want to paste it into a new txt.. make a new txt mssg. click on the area to type…. select the menu option down at the bottom and then select paste…

…You can send like MP3s to your phone by email and set them as ringtones. Make an email to YOURNUMBER@vzwpix.com and attach an MP3. When you get the text message select options and click save as a ringtone. There ya go! You can also email photos to your phone at the same number and save them.

…I found that you can download videos from Youtube and put them on your phone via USB or MicroSD. If you find a video you really like, copy and paste the URL to www.file2hd.com and select 'Movies' and click 'Get Files'. It will give you two file options. Right click the 'Save Target As' on the bottom link which is the high quality MP4 and save it to the 'My_Flix' folder on your MicroSD. You can access these vidoes from the 'My Videos' section of your phone. Works on my Dare with no problem

…turning voice command off

How to use app.config in test projects…So here's the deal:
In each test project, create an App.config file with your AppSettings you'd normally put in Web.config or your main executable's config file.
In your test project's properties pane, select Build Event and add this line to your post-build command line: copy /Y $(ProjectDir)app.config $(TargetPath).config
Run your tests (F5).
See the pretty status list and the red and green result indicators. Yay!

This is an add-in for Reflector http://www.aisto.com/Roeder/DotNet/ – it generates code and resource files for a selected assembly, module, namespace, or type. It also creates a VS project file to see the generated files in Visual Studio.
Note that this project does NOT contain Reflector.exe. You have to download that assembly and reference it in the project to compile it. You also need to reference the ExceptionViews assembly – the code for that project is here: http://www.codeplex.com/ExceptionViews

Resourcer is an editor for .resources binaries and .resX XML file formats used with the .NET platform. Resourcer allows editing of name/string pairs, import of bitmaps/icons and and merging of resources from different sources.

Interesting. It looks like one of these three works the best: #ff7000, #ff8000, #ff9000…One of the unfortunate things about RGB colour is the fact that orange colours are very poorly represented. It is quite impossible to get a strong bright orange in RGB coordinates — on a standard RGB monitor anyway. Your best bet is to try something between #ffa000 and #ffc000. In the middle of this range is #ffb000. The best choice of RGB coordinates for orange depends on the background colour and the nearby colours, and of course it depends enormously on your monitor. It also depends on your own eyes and your psychological and physiological state.

…System.Data.SQLite is the original SQLite database engine and a complete ADO.NET 2.0 provider all rolled into a single mixed mode assembly. It is a complete drop-in replacement for the original sqlite3.dll (you can even rename it to sqlite3.dll). Unlike normal mixed assemblies, it has no linker dependency on the .NET runtime so it can be distributed independently of .NET.