September 2007 Blog Posts
I was dealing with a MAPI application in C# and when I tried to call the following code I got a nasty error message: MAPI.Session session = new MAPI.Session(); The actual error message I received was Error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {3FA7DEB3-6438-101B-ACC1-00AA00423326} failed due to the following error: 80040154. My development environment is: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 I found that my application Platform Target was set to Any CPU, changing this to X86 resolved the error. ...
Hi, this is just a test of using the Windows Live Writer editor using the SubText provider which was automatically detected during the configuration of my blog within Windows Live Writer. So far I am liking this a lot - it is a lot nicer to use than the standard web editor. This tool includes nice features such as a spelling checker and it is very easy to insert images as you can see from below. Note: This is not a picture that I took! I like this a lot - why did it...
I have a simple table here which shows a list of devices and each device can have a parent device except for the top item which has a <NULL> value for the ParentID column.
Using SQL 2005 CTE (Common Table Expression) to render this full hierarchy we could use a simple query such as this:
What this CTE is doing is allowing us to run a hierarchical query.
We first off find the root of our tree, which in this case is referenced by a NULL value in the ParentID column.
SELECT ParentID, ID,0, [DeviceType], cast(DeviceType as nvarchar(1024))
FROM DeviceType
WHERE ParentID IS null
This technically returns the...
Today Microsoft shipped the Silverlight 1.0 release for Mac and Windows. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser. Some of its features include:
Built-in codec support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and MP3 and WMA audio within a browser. The VC-1 codec is a big step forward for incorporating media within a web experience - since it supports very efficiently playing high-quality, high definition video in the browser. It is a standards-based media format that is implemented in all HD-DVD and Blueray DVD players, and is supported by hundreds of millions of mobile...
We are currently still running WSS 2003 SP2 at work and have not yet migrated. I have had a backup system in place for quite a while now and it was time for me to test the restoring of the backup to another box to make sure I can do it.
I had a test box called CCROWE-TEST that I was going to use to restore my data from the live system which was called NZC-AP-WSS-02
This server was running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition with SP2 .
I downloaded the Windows SharePoint Services 2003 With SP2 Install from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B922B28D-806A-427B-A4C5-AB0F1AA0F7F9&displaylang=en
I then planned to...