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I had a request from someone today for Ubuntu Linux in addition to Windows Vista on a new PC I am supplying. My suggestion was to run it as a virtual machine using Virtual PC 2007. I thought I’d better just check that it worked before I made the recommendation and, to my surprise, it didn’t. It seems...
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I received this classic phishing attack email today and it managed to slip through my anti-spam system. It’s an ill wind that blows no-one no good, so I thought I’d showcase it here in the hope of helping you recognise and avoid such attacks. Click on any of the images to see them full size. The innocuous...
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Here’s a handy hard drive cleanup tip for you that is applicable only if you have installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 update. On my system, I used WinDirStat to see where all my hard drive space was going and discovered that my %SystemRoot%\WinSxS folder was over 15 Gb. In this screen shot taken from...
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If you’ve installed a 64-bit version of Windows Vista then loaded up Office 2007, you might have noticed that the Mail control panel applet is missing. That makes it kind of difficult to create multiple Outlook profiles and manage your data files, especially if you’re having some issues with Outlook...
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Silverlight 2.0 is going to change the web so much. I've just completed an experimental blog theme for Community Server that uses a Silverlight masthead. You can view the finished result over at Grace's blog . The Silverlight masthead was created using Expression Design, Expression Blend 2.5...
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If, like me, you're trying to get up to speed on Silverlight 2.0 beta 2, you should know about Jesse Liberty's webcast series. Jesse has a new approach to coding webcasts where instead of watching the presenter write code live (which takes time) he records himself doing the coding in advance...
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I've just solved a problem today that was driving me crazy. I use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and have been trying to set it up as an Internet Facing Deployment so I can use it from my hot-desking office. Everything worked as expected from inside my LAN and I could also access CRM using the web client...
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Are you making the most of Windows Search? This was one of the most important new features introduced with Windows Vista that can save you a good deal of time. Instead of clicking through layers of folder hierarchy, simply type the filename or a phrase that occurs in your document and Windows will find...
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For Outlook users who are always exceeding their mailbox quota: I wrote this for you .
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Exchange mailboxes are never large enough. The upward pressure of the ever-increasing volume of email we deal with is set against the downward pressure from system administrators, as they battle to manage the servers and keep up with storage requirements. The end result is that our mailbox is usually...
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When installing SQL Management Studio Express on Windows Vista x64 (and, perhaps, x86 too) you may well get an error code 29506, the installation will fail and roll-back. This appears to be a security issue with Windows Vista. I've seen this happen a few times on products where the installation does...
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In part 1 , part 2 and part 3 of this series, we built an ASP.NET 3.5 web application to accept a telephone number as a query string within the URL, look up that number in a Dynamics CRM database and return the matching contact name and company as the result. In this final part 4, we'll see how to...
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In part 1 we set the scene and created our web application project. In part 2 we began creating the HTTP Generic Handler, retrieved the CLID string from the URL's query string and knocked it into the correct canonical format ready for looking in the CRM database. In part 3, we are going to use LINQ...
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Filed under: Software Engineering, HowTo, Telephony, Microsoft CRM, TiGra Networks, CRM, .NET, VOIP, C#, Visual Studio, Asterisk, TrixBox
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In part 1 , we set the scene and created a new project in Visual Studio and set up a few things in preparation. Now for the good bit, let's write some code! Diagnostics Throughout the code, you're going to see diagnostic trace routines. This diagnostic code is just lifted from another project...
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Following on from my last post where I discussed using LINQ to dip into a Microsoft Dynamics CRM database, here is a real-world application using similar techniques. This sample is an integration between TrixBox, an open-source IP Telephony system and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It uses LINQ to SQL to look...
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05-18-2008
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Filed under: Software Engineering, HowTo, Telephony, Microsoft CRM, TiGra Networks, CRM, .NET, VOIP, C#, Asterisk, TrixBox