Chris

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St. Louis Day of .NET 2011!

July 19, 2011 - 7:57 pm

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The annual St. Louis Day of .NET conference is almost here!  Hard to believe it’s already been a year since our last conference (and since I last posted anything here…) and we’ve been working to bring another great event to the .NET community.
For the third consecutive year I will be presenting the WCF JumpStart.  Join [...]

Presenting on OData and WCF 4 at St Louis Day of .NET

August 16, 2010 - 5:45 am

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If you haven’t registered, you should join the 600+ people who have registered for the 2010 St Louis Day of .NET, making this our biggest year yet!
I will have two presentations that are scheduled for both days of the conference.  Kicking off the morning with the JumpStart series, I will be delivering the WCF 4 [...]

The Protocol ‘Net.Pipe’ is not supported–WCF/IIS7/WAS

August 15, 2010 - 5:19 pm

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Want to host a WCF service using the NetNamedPipeBinding?  I did too.  Except IIS told me I couldn’t.  After some frustrated Bing’ing and Googl’ing I found my answer.
This article on MSDN outlines how to enable Net.Pipe in IIS7.  First you must enable the binding for the IIS site you are hosting the service in using [...]

2010 St. Louis Day of .NET August 20-21

June 17, 2010 - 4:01 pm

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Registration for the 2010 St Louis Day of .NET conference is now open.  The cost of the conference is $200; if you register by July 10th the cost is $125 (So register now!!).
This years conference will feature a keynote from Brian Goldfarb, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms at Microsoft.  You can read more [...]

Speaking at the June STL .NET User Group

June 17, 2010 - 1:48 pm

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This month I will be presenting "OData – Make a Feed for That" at the St. Louis .NET User Group.
From the website:
You might have heard of ADO.NET Data Services and are wondering why it’s now WCF Data Services (Or maybe you haven’t heard of either which is another reason to attend this month’s user group!). [...]

Exceptions Poster

May 6, 2010 - 12:29 pm

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Much credit to the owner of this photo – "Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions"

Iowa Code Camp – Slides & Links

May 1, 2010 - 9:45 am

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Thanks to all who attended the OData session at Iowa Code Camp!  Here are the slides & links to more info about OData.
Links:

OData.org (Protocol Info, SDKs, & more)
Astoria Team Blog
Scott Hanselman’s OData + Stackoverflow Challenge
LinqPad – LinqPad 4 has built in support for Data Service Queries!
PowerPivot Beta for Office 2010 includes built [...]

MOSS 2007 – PagesListCPEventReceiver “Access Denied” (Event 6875)

April 15, 2010 - 1:59 pm

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While in SharePoint today I was getting this error when creating new pages:

The event log contained these details:
Error loading and running event receiver Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PagesListCPVEventReceiver in Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c. Additional information is below.
: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

“The trial period for this product has expired” and “Access Denied” do not ring [...]

MSDN Subscribers: Activate Your VS 2010 Trial With Conversion Key

April 14, 2010 - 6:51 am

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MSDN has added a trial activation key for subscribers with access to VS 2010 bits.  Log into your MSDN account, go to downloads, find your edition of VS 2010 and look for the key!
 
This saved me waiting a few hours to download the full version which would automatically update the key.  Enjoy!

Pretty URIs in WCF Data Services – Lose the .svc File

April 6, 2010 - 2:45 pm

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I’m still testing this, but, it looks like in .NET 4 you will be able to use the new URL Routing to lose the .svc file in your WCF Data Services.
Step-by-step
Follow the standard steps for creating a WCF Data Service.

Create a new, “Empty ASP.NET Web Application”
Add an Entity Data Model

Once you have your [...]