Archive for February, 2005

MCE Controller

Posted on the February 27th, 2005 under Media Center by Marco Trova

MCE Controller allows the Media Center application of Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) to be integrated into an advanced control system by enabling programmatic control of the user interface via a TCP/IP connection.
http://www.kindel.com/Default.aspx?tabid=25

Which one of the following best describes your role as a developer?

Posted on the February 26th, 2005 under .NET by Marco Trova

  • Architect: An individual who spends at least half of their time at work designing, specifying or architecting applications.
  • VAR Developer/Consultant: An individual who works as a developer for a company that creates solutions including custom software applications and/or resells hardware or software and/or is a computer or Web consultant.
  • ISV Developer: An individual who works as a developer for a company that develops software for broad commercial distribution.
  • MIS Developer: An individual who works in the IT/MIS or equivalent department of a company that is NOT in the computer industry and creates software applications, builds complex macros, writes computer code or develops Web sites for others’ use at work.
  • Student Developer: An individual who is a part-time or full-time student, creates software applications, builds complex macros, writes computer code or develops Web sites for school purposes.
  • End-User Developer: An individual who creates software applications, builds complex macros, writes computer code or develops Web sites for work purposes.
  • Hobbyist Developer: An individual who creates software applications, builds complex macros, writes computer code or develops Web sites for non-work purposes.
  • I am not a developer 

Queste sono le categorie di sviluppatori secondo Microsoft (lette durante la registrazione per il download della Enterprise Library)

E se rientrassimo nella maggior parte delle definizioni?

Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office 2003

Posted on the February 26th, 2005 under Tools by Marco Trova

Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated, web-based OLAP solution that enables employees in an organization to create and share OLAP/Relational/XML based views, using SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Office Web components.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3D11925E-1ED6-43B0-BB94-FE69170CCF82&displaylang=en

Media Center 2005 updates

Posted on the February 26th, 2005 under Media Center by Marco Trova

Update 1 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
(873369) – Discusses the issues that are resolved by Update 1 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;873369
 
USB devices stop working in Windows XP Media Center Edition
(890546) – Fixes a problem where USB devices such as the remote external USB hard disk, a keyboard, or a mouse device stops working. Workaround is also provided.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;890546
 
Description of the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 update that was released on November 23, 2004
(888316) – Describes the issues that are fixed in the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 update that was released on November 23, 2004.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;888316
 
Update for Conflict Management in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
The Update for Conflict Management in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 enables improved conflict management for users who schedule TV recordings through Media Center partner applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9b2d0cd3-24bd-4396-afcf-1590f18987a7&displaylang=en

Sharing Session State between ASP and ASP.NET

Posted on the February 17th, 2005 under .NET by Marco Trova

Sharing Session State between ASP and ASP.NET
by Sidney Forcier
http://www.asp101.com/articles/sidney/sharingsessionstate/default.asp
The source intermediate page then passes the GUID to the destination intermediate page through a Querystring variable. The destination intermediate page retrieves the session information from the database, cleans up after itself, and then redirects to the destination page. It’s similar to the first workaround, but supports transferring state in both directions.

Sharing Session State
http://www.3internet.co.uk/resources/Technical/sharingsessionstate.aspx

Sharing session state between ASP and ASP.NET
http://www.lazycoder.com/article.php?story=20030220131108979&mode=print

StateStitch – Seamless Migration To ASP.NET
http://www.consonica.com/solutions/statestitch/

Sharing ASP State ebook by David Gerding

ASPBridge
http://www.iprisma.com/aspbridge/index.htm
Commercial tool

How to Share Session/Application State Across Different ASP.NET Web Applications
by Jayram Tallamraju
http://www.asp101.com/articles/jayram/sharestate/default.asp

Session sharing between ASP and ASP.NET by Bertrand Le Roy
http://blogs.msdn.com/bleroy/archive/2004/10/21/245826.aspx

ScaleOut StateServer: A Breakthrough in Workload-Data Storage
ScaleOut StateServer takes mission-critical, workload-data storage out of the database server and moves it directly onto the server farm. Using StoreSafe™, our patent-pending breakthrough technology derived from the world’s fastest supercomputers, it provides fast, highly available, memory-based storage for workload-data objects. Server applications can retrieve and update data objects from any server in the farm.
http://www.scaleoutsoftware.com/products/stateServer/index.html

BlogMap

Posted on the February 6th, 2005 under Tools by Marco Trova

my blogmap