Because I want to do more with my site than blogging alone, I decide top switch from BlogEngine to mojoPortal. MojoPortal has many possibilities. So I think mojoPortal will be fine for me.

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is an interesting technology. On Channel 9 you can find webcasts about MEF here. 

On Channel 9 you can find the videofeeds for DevDay 2010 Netherlands.

Wondering what is new in .Net 4.0? Look here and find out.

Many people have installed the beta or release candidate releases of Windows 7. Now that Windows 7 RTM is out they want to upgrade these installations. They will found out that it is not possible. The installer will complain that you have in stalled a version of Windows 7 that cannot be upgraded. It that it? Must you do a clean install and loose all the stuff from the other installs? No, see the steps underneath to upgrade the per-RTM Windows 7 installations.

How to Upgrade Windows 7 RC/Beta to Windows 7 RTM

1. Mount Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 ISO and Extract content to any folder or USB drive.
2. Now go to Sources folder of Windows 7 and open “cversion.ini” file in notepad.
3. Modify the “MinClient” build number to a value lower than your installed Windows 7 Build. For example, change 7233 to 7000 if you have Windows 7 Beta Build installed.

[HostBuild]
MinClient=7000.0
MinServer=7100.0

4. Save the updated file to the same location and then run setup.exe to start Windows 7 RC upgrade process.

That’s it, Now follow on Screen instructions and choose Upgrade option.

Visual Studio 2010 version 10.0.20409.1 Beta 1 cannot open the Workflow designer for xamlx files. This bug is solved in this beta.

I want to write some blogpost about RhinoMocks. I made a TestProject in Visual Studio.Net 2008 to make some examples. The first thing I did was to add a reference to the RhinoMocks assembly. I made a test and it would not excute. This is all I got at first:

I did not understand why. I looked up more information about the testrun. This is what I found: The location of the file or directory ‘c:\users\<<user>>\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\rhinomocksdemos\rhinomocksdemos\bin\debug\Rhino.Mocks.dll’ is not trusted. Not trusted?! Its my computer. I downloaded it. I trust it. Windows is being stubborn (again). How can I solve this? Why does this happen?

As it turns out Windows (XP SP2 and above) is just being carefull. It adds a marker to a file downloaded from internet indicating that it may not be safe to execute it. Normally Windows will show a ‘Are you sure?’ dialog when you try to use the file. In my case it showed nothing obvious and left me in the dark. It would have been nice if Windows showed this error and the solution. It is a missed chance but then again I would not have anything to do if the world was perfect. The solution is simple: go to the properties of the file and click the unblock button on the General tab. Look at the screenshot below. Next click on the Apply button and then on the Ok button. The problem is solved. Testing and mocking can start.

 References:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vststest/thread/0d8d89d1-e373-4a29-9325-febf748a771c/ 

Ever have this error when you were building a master-detail view with the ASP.Net DetailsView and the GridView?

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

Object must implement IConvertible.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: Object must implement IConvertible.

I had. You know why? I will explain. It occurs when you use ObjectDataSources to create the master-detail view<< Er moet tussen dat de objectdatasource een methode als selectmethode gebruikt die een string verwacht en daardoor een IConvertible verwcaht>>. When you make the master-detail view the GridView DataKeyNames array contains the primary key fields of the table it displays. The DataKeyNames array is used the fill the SelectedValue property with the primary key value belonging to the row that is selected. The SelectedValue property is used as a parameter of the selectquery of the DetailsView’s ObjectDataSource. This way the GridView and the DetailsView are synchronized. The SelectedValue’s datatype must implement the IConvertible interface. I was using a Guid as the primary key field. A Guid does not implement the IConvertible interface. So the application blows up.

How can we use a Guid field as a primary key? 

Solution 1: use a guid as a parameter.

Solution 2: use the string but convert the guid to a string. 

It is almost impossible to find the form to add a website to Microsoft´s search engine. So I thought that it would be a good idea to write it down. Here it is. Go to the following website: http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=SUNO.

What is T4? Has it something to do with C4?

Visual Studio.Net has a little known code generation feature called T4 templates since version 2005. It was introduced to facilitate Domain Specific Languages (DSL’s). With it you can make code generation templates like the ones CodeSmith has but without the GUI. A free GUI can be downloaded here.

You can find more information about T4 here and here.