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November 25 jQueryPad"jQueryPad is a fast JavaScript and HTML editor. Just start it, enter the HTML you want to work with, bash in your jQuery code, and hit F5 to see the results. Say goodbye to ALT+TAB."
"jQueryPad is xcopy deployable. It's written in WPF and uses the Web Browser Control to embed Internet Explorer for testing the script. When you press F5, the HTML and JavaScript are combined into one file and rendered. The template also references jQuery, so the jQuery functions are available."
See: http://www.paulstovell.com/jquerypad for more information.
Download jQueryPad here: http://get.paulstovell.com/jQueryPad/jQueryPad.zip
Enjoy!
Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy September 24 CRM 4.0 - Change Notes or Activities of an EntityWhen you create an entity with CRM 4.0 you will make a decision to allow Notes or Activities for the given entity as shown below.
Out of the box with CRM 4.0 this section shown above is greyed out once the entity is created, which means it cannot be changed. However, I have a solution which allows you to change this without having to delete the entity and all your hard work in order to change it. Follow the steps below to change the Notes or Activities for your entity (Note: This is NOT supported, so only do this at your own risk):
<HasRelatedNotes>True</HasRelatedNotes> The values inside these two attributes indicate if the entity should have Notes or Activities. Set each one to True if you require them, otherwise False to not allow them for the entity.
Easy! Now that must save you a lot of work. Remember this is NOT supported, so only do this at your own risk. However I have done this in the past will successful results. Greg Olsen September 08 North Shore .NET User Group - VS2010 & TFS2010 - What's New?INAUGURAL NORTH SHORE USERGROUP
Register here: please reply to nsug.net@live.com or sign up to the user group at http://nsug-dotnet.groups.live.com Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 – What’s new? Adam will take you through some of the new features of both these products. Some of the features Adam will look to cover include, branch visualisation, build automation, hierarchical work items, SharePoint dashboards, and others. If you are at all looking at TFS 2010 as a release to adopt, this session is a must to understand the value you'll be getting. SSW Chief Architect, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP (TFS + VSTS), SSW Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and Business Intelligence solutions. At SSW, Adam is also a Team System MVP and Microsoft Regional Director. Yellow Duck Guy Greg Olsen August 07 Windows 7 RTM Released !Its arrived .. Windows 7 RTM - this is the final release of Windows 7.
The last release, build 7100 was known as the Release Candidate i.e. Windows 7 RC. Before this release we were given the beta. This was build 7000. Now the RTM has been signed off by Steven Sinofsky for Release To Manufacturing (RTM). We will see this roll out to the public around October 22nd. All new Windows PC's being sold from October 22nd should be shipped with Windows 7. Well if they aren't, they should be Windows 7 ready.
Windows 7 should be a vast improvement on it's predecessor Windows Vista. Anyone who has used Windows Vista will be happy to see the opportunity of moving off that operating system and move to the more improved Windows 7.
Windows 7 early codename was Blackcomb, which was then renamed to Vienna in early 2006, and again to Windows 7 in 2007. Then in 2008, we heard that Windows 7 would also become the official name of the operating system
Minimum recommended hardware requirements for Windows 7:
Architecture: 32-bit
Processor speed: 1 GHz
Memory (RAM): 1GB Graphics card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics device with 128MB of graphics memory (for Windows Aero) HDD free space: 16 GB of available disk space Optical drive: DVD-R/W drive (gottta install the OS!) Architecture: 64-bit: Processor speed: 1 GHz
Memory (RAM): 2GB Graphics card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics device with 128MB of graphics memory (for Windows Aero) HDD free space: 20 GB of available disk space Optical drive: DVD-R/W drive (gottta to install the OS!)  Enjoy!
Yellow Duck Guy Greg Olsen July 23 When can you get Windows 7 RTM (build 7600)?Developers
Developers with MSDN Subscriptions will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6th and remaining languages by October 1st.
ISV (Independent software vendor) and IHV (Independent hardware vendor) Partners
Able to download Windows 7 RTM from Microsoft Connect or MSDN on August 6th 2009.
IT Professionals
IT Professionals with TechNet Subscriptions will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6th 2009.
General Public / Retail
Windows 7 will be in retail stores and shipping on new PCs from October 22nd 2009. Like always, if demand is high you may have to wait longer. News .... "Family Pack" Stay Tuned. Greg Olsen July 20 Change Organisation in Outlook Client for CRM 4.0Below outlines the steps required to change the organisation within the CRM Outlook client. This is valid for Microsoft CRM 4.0.
You can also download the steps including screenshots (Office Word 2007 file): Change Organisation in Outlook Client for CRM 4.0.docx
1. Select option CRM | Change Organisation, from the menu within Microsoft Outlook.
You will be presented with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Configuration Wizard 2. Select Change your configuration. Click Next 3. Select My Company. Click Next 4. Enter the URL of the CRM Server as the Intranet address. Note: do not enter the organisation name in this URL. For example, for the Microsoft CRM 4.0 VPC 2009 this would be (Note: this is not an actual link) http://crm 5. External Web Address will need to be set to the correct URL for external connections over the internet. Or simply check the option Use the same Web address when the system connects over the internet to use the same address as the Intranet address. Click Next.
If the wizard connects successfully to your CRM Server you will be presented with a list of current organisations existing in the CRM database. Note: If you are presented with an error message then it is most likely the URL entered in step 4 is incorrect. Re-check this URL and try again. 6. Select the organisation you wish to connect to from the list. Click Next.
The Verification Descriptions and Results will be displayed. You will need to review the results and fix any error(s) presented. 7. Click Next.
The Configuration Wizard will begin reconfiguring Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook.
Once complete, you will be presented with the Configuration Complete screen. 8. Click Finish.
You’re done! July 16 Create a new CRM 4.0 Organisation (Multi-Tenancy)The following with illustrate how to create a new organisation so you can take advantage of the Multi-Tenancy feature with Microsoft CRM 4.0. I have done these steps on the latest Microsoft CRM 4.0 VPC 2009 released by Microsoft.
You can also download the steps including screenshots (Office Word 2007 file): Create a CRM 4 Organisation.docx
1. Firstly check that the SQL Server Agent is running on the CRM 4.0 SQL Server. Open Start | All Programs | Administration Tools | Services. You will get a list of Services. 2. Locate the service SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER), right-click and select Start (if this service is not started already). This is required to be running to complete the new organisation wizard. 3. Close the Services window. 4. Next, open the deployment manager, Start | All Programs | Microsoft Dynamics CRM | Deployment Manager. 5. With the left menu, select Deployment Manager | Organizations. 6. Right-click on Organizations and select New Organisation. 7. Enter Display Name as Yellow Duck Guy. 8. Enter Name as YellowDuckGuy. Note: This should be filled in automatically for you. 9. Click Browse. Select the Base Currency of your country. Warning: Once this is set and saved you cannot change the Base Currency of your organisation. I will select New Zealand. 10. Select SQL Collation applicable to your country or current SQL Server collation. I will select Latin_General_CI_Al. 11. Click Next.
You will be shown the screen Help Us Improve the Customer Exprience. Here you can select to participate in the experience of your creation of the organisation. For this example, I will not select the option. 12. Click Next. 13. Select the SQL Server you would like the CRM Organisation created. I selected the Microsoft CRM VPC 2009 database of CRM-SRV-01. 14. Click Next.
You will be shown Specify Reporting Services Server screen. You will need to enter the URL of the SQL Reporting Services Server which was setup before you installed CRM 4.0. I will use the local URL for the Microsoft CRM VPC 2009 SQL Reporting Services Server which is http://localhost/ReportServer 15. Click Next.
You should see the results of the verification tasks. This means the organisation has not been created yet. 16. Click Next.
Now you will be displayed with the screen titled, Ready to Create. 17. Review your selections and click Create.
The process will begin to create your new organisation. This will take a few moments. Be patient and wait for the wizard to create your organisation. You can select the link to view the log if you want to see what actions were processed.
You’re done!
18. Click Finish to complete. 19. Type in the URL with your new organisation name. Example (not a valid link from this blog): http://crm/yellowduckguy/loader.aspx
Your Microsoft CRM 4.0 instance now will be accessible.
Greg Olsen WPC - Microsoft: Let's Grow TogetherWorldwide Partner Conference 2009 (WPC09) is delivered from New Orleans. To keep this short, I thought the slide shown below summaries the lastest products from Microsoft really well and should be posted up on this blog. This was presented within the Keynote while Steve Ballmer was talking. You can see the Keynote delivered via Silverlight here: http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/KeynoteVideos
 Greg Olsen Yellow Duck Guy June 21 Yellow Duck Guy - Blog Hits and StatisticsMicrosoft Windows Live tracks the number of hits, page views today and page views this week. Its great to see this blog so active worldwide, mainly as a online 24/7 reference for myself (I think of it as an online technical code library) but also serving up a number of articles and downloadable material for you every month. I try and post something every month.
Statistics wise, Microsoft Windows Live is reporting: Total page views: 23,685 !
Box.net has reported a LARGE number of downloads for the code postings from http://yellowduckguy.spaces.live.com The most download file is http://www.box.net/shared/tmm25or137 - seems Windows 7 launch worldwide is MASSIVE! This is great. I have been using the Release Candidate of Windows 7 since it was release and i'm really really pleased with it. The release of Windows 7 is going to be successful even during the worldwide economic downturn.
Till next time, keep watching this space! p.s. big thanks to you!
Greg Olsen Yellow Duck Guy June 15 Quick Media Converter - Works on Windows 7!I have been wanting a free tool which can convert video with ease from my digital camera to different formats i.e. for the web or my mobile phone.
Couple of weeks ago I came across Quick Media Converter and really really like it. It's simple to use and works a treat. I have also had it working fine on the latest Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) operating system.
Some of the formats supported: Flash, WMV, MOV, DivX, XviD, DVD, VCD, mp4, 3gp, SWF etc. The full list is here: http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=73
Do try it, it's pretty simple to use!
Greg Olsen Yellow Duck Guy FileHelpers - Import/Export Data Files (OpenSource.NET)This is a great handy framework or .NET library when working with data files in .NET. Info about this below (directly from the site http://www.filehelpers.com/)
The FileHelpers are a free and easy to use .NET library to import/export data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams.
The idea is pretty simple:
You can strong type your flat file (fixed or delimited) simply describing a class that maps to each record and later read/write your file as an strong typed .NET array
The Library also has support for import/export data from differents storages like Excel, Access, SqlServer, etc.
The FileHelpers are completely free because they are released under the LPGL Licence that allows the use of the code and binaries in all places, also in commercial applications.
Enjoy! Greg Olsen Yellow Duck Guy May 25 Windows 7 - Create a Network BridgeI have two onboard network adapters on my motherboard and for a long time now I have been able to create a bridge between these adapters. Within Windows 7, especially the latest Release Candidate, this options is a little hidden from the general user. BUT right here you can find that setting with ease.
Dialog is shown - "Please wait while windows bridges the connections". When this is completed a 'Network Bridge' is created. From here you will need to set the ip address settings to be used by both adapters or simply use 'Obtain an ip address automatically' option to get an ip address assigned from your DHCP server or device. I normally set the IP v4 settings. Hope this helps. I have posted it for my future reference because I seem to forget where to find it again after a few months gone by! Greg Olsen May 22 Internet Explorer - IE7 Compatibility TagIE 8 has been released for awhile now. If you create web pages, then you probably should be aware of the IE 7 compatibility meta data tag which can force your pages you have working in IE 7, to be compatible with IE 8. IE 8 attempts to adhere to the CSS web standards and your old (yeah they are old now) IE 7 pages may not render correctly in IE 8.
Below is the meta data tag which you can use to force IE 8 to render the page in IE 7 format.
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ /> Microsoft have more info here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120024
Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy May 17 Windows 7 RC - Access is denied patch KB970789A folder that is created under the root of the system drive is missing entries in its security descriptor, which may cause some application failures on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate
In the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) 32-bit Ultimate, the folder that is created as the root folder of the system drive (%SystemDrive%) is missing entries in its security descriptor. One effect of this problem is that standard users such as non-administrators cannot perform all operations to subfolders that are created directly under the root. Therefore, applications that reference folders under the root may not install successfully or may not uninstall successfully. Additionally, operations or applications that reference these folders may fail.
For example, if a folder is created under the root of the system drive from an elevated command prompt, this folder will not correctly inherit permissions from the root of the drive. Therefore, some specific operations, such as deleting the folder, will fail when they are performed from a non-elevated command prompt. Additionally, the following error message appears when the operation fails - "Access is denied".
The above information is sourced directly from the link below and only affects the 32bit (x86) English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate.
Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy May 14 CRM 4.0 2009 VPC - Time Expiry DateWell I have finally got around to running up the latest time bombed CRM 4.0 2009 VPC and turned it into a Hyper-V image. The date of exipry for the downloadable VPC is August 12th 2010. So if you are using this just remember this date as the software within the VPC will stop executing. However, you will be able to access a "limited" amount of data within the VPC.
One thing I had to do to get CRM running within a Hyper-V Virtual Machine was to create an entry in the hosts file of 127.0.0.1 and point it to crm, which is the host header inside IIS. This may not be required, but for my version it was the quick fix to get the Virtual Machine image running CRM within Internet Explorer. The entry details enter were: 127.0.0.1 crm
I also noticed that SharePoint was writing automatically to the hosts file as well.
The hosts file is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -> just open it with Notepad and add the entry above and save.
Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy April 28 Windows 7 – Release Candidate 1 - Due 30th AprilThe Windows 7 blog has informed us that Windows 7, Release Candidate 1 will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30th 2009 and to the public from 5th May 2009. This is great news! Look forward to downloading the RC1 from MSDN when it lands. Greg Olsen April 07 Debug ASP Pages with Visual Studio 2005I was given the task recently to redesign some old classic ASP pages which needed to consume a .NET Web Service. However, I wanted to debug the objects floating around in my ASP code. If you need to do this as well and want to find out how, then keep reading on.
Below you will find a document download which outlines the steps required to successfully debug ASP pages within Visual Studio 2005. Make sure you have debugging enabled within IIS as well.
Summary of the steps required to debug your ASP Page:
1. View your ASP page within Visual Studio 2005. Open and existing file or view your file within Solution Explorer. 2. Set a breakpoint on the ASP code line where you wish the debugger to hit. 3. View the ASP page in the web browser (without debugging). 4. Download the file listdlls.exe from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896656.aspx 5. Run listdlls.exe with the command of listdlls -d asp.dll from command line and find which dllhost.exe loaded the asp.dll. 6. Within Visual Studio, from the toolbar menu select Debug | Attach to Process a. Locate the process by its process ID and attach to this process. 7. Refresh the page (or F5) in the web browser. You should see the breakpoint get hit. 8. Use QuickWatch within Visual Studio to explore the objects. Here is the detailed steps document download (Microsoft Word 2003 document):
Enjoy!
Greg Olsen Yellow Duck Guy March 26 Windows 7 – Decoder ErrorGot this error when attempting to record and play videos with Windows Media Center on Windows 7 Beta of "The video decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed. Restart Windows Media Center or the computer”.
After some initial investigation it seems by simply putting my clock back in time and re-loading Windows Media Center fixed the problem. It’s possible a component, possibly the decoder shipped with the beta of Windows 7 has expired. Correct me if im wrong. Thanks! Not! So if you get this error, first try putting your clock back. Also, I have added a new category of Windows Media Center and filed this in here. Greg Olsen March 20 Internet Explorer 8 – RTM ReleasedWell it’s been a long time coming with improvements to Internet Explorer 8 to hit the computing web browser platform arena this week. I won’t bother stating all the new stuff with the latest browser from Microsoft, you can simply jump over to the website of http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/ to view all about it. I must say, during the Release Candidate 1 I wasn’t impressed with the stability of the browser. Let’s hope it has been rectified with the RTM release. Statistics state the following: Another pain point for Windows 7 Beta users is that they will not be able to install the RTM on the Operating System (well as far as I am aware). This is a pain for people wanting to upgrade today. Looks like we will have to wait for the Release Candidate of Windows 7 which is currently been prepared. Microsoft has released this statement to Windows 7 Beta users: Time will tell how well Internet Explorer 8 will shape up in the Web Browser market. Greg. March 10 CRM 4.0 - SDK 4.0.8 - New Version AvailableNew version of the SDK for CRM 4.0 has been released. The new version is 4.0.8 and now available for download. Quite a bit updated so I guess you download it and start having a look around. Microsoft Download: Greg Olsen |
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