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September 2007 Blog Posts

Error: CLSID {3FA7DEB3-6438-101B-ACC1-00AA00423326} failed with error 80040154.

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. ...

posted @ Monday, September 17, 2007 9:59 AM | Feedback (18) |

This is a test using Windows Live Writer using the SubText provider

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...

posted @ Monday, September 17, 2007 7:55 AM | Feedback (9) |

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - CTE Example of a simple hierarchy

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...

posted @ Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:30 PM | Feedback (53) |

Silverlight V1.00 has been released

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...

posted @ Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:40 PM | Feedback (7) |

Unable to restore backup from WSS 2003 SP2 to another server

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...

posted @ Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:32 PM | Feedback (21) |

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