July 2008 Entries
I've just started working through the Cardspace samples to learn some more about online identity layers (download them here if you're interested). The first example demonstrates a web service running on http://localhost:4123 requesting a certificate from a client. However, as a non-admin, I get the following error from Visual Studio when running the sample. AddressAccessDeniedException was unhandledHTTP could not register URL http://+:4123/HelloService/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace Coincidentally, the error is totally analogous to a similar problem I've had while trying out the CR_Documentor plug-in that Travis Illig has created and it's Travis and...
Note to self, there are some good tutorials and 101s out there which should help a lot in a few areas. Make time to get through Eric White's Functional Programming tutorial. Back it up with the Project Euler series. Rob Conery's MVC Storefront series Chris Mills' Web Standards Curriculum because foundations are important Mike Taulty's Silverlight 2 series I'm looking for a good one on Ruby and on Javascript as well. Anyone got anything good? The new Wrox First wiki on Javascript frameworks looks good, but it does cost.
One of the interesting aspects of backfilling documentation is uncovering methods few seem to have discovered. Case in point, the Assert.AreValueEqual method in MbUnit v2. Rather than the straightforward AreEqual methods to compare the values of a property in an object or the AreSame methods to compare whether two objects are actually the identical object or of the same type, AreValueEqual verifies that two objects, expected and actual, both have a property described a PropertyInfo object, that the property is not null, and that the value of the property in both objects is equal. It's a...
(Or rather "How a fixed bug and a rubbish COMException error dialog ended up making me take four months to learn that Web Application Projects running on IIS rather than Cassini can only be edited in VS when running with Administrative privileges" but that seems slightly long for a blog title post) I've been happily running VS2008 as a standard user since it came out. And with TestDriven.NET and VisualSVN, I'm motoring along quite well. Yesterday, I decided to upgrade VisualSVN to the latest version v1.5.1. And then bang!! I loaded up my current work and got this dialog. ...