I am doing some work at present where I need to debug into webparts hosted in a MOSS 2007 server. Never an easy set of debugging to get right. To try to ease the process I wrote a WinForm test application that just calls the webpart method with test parameters so I don’t have to go through all the pages I normally would to get to the feature I need, or manually have to attach the debugger to the Sharepoint web process every time....
The proposed session list for SQLBits (to be held on the 6th Oct at Microsoft TVP) has been published. If you don’t know, SQLBits is a free community conference in the style of DDD, but on just SQL related topics. Just like DDD all the speakers are volunteers and the attendees get to vote on the sessions they would like to see. So if you have any interested in SQL, or as Anders Hejlsberg said at a LINQ session I saw ‘if you are a developer who uses data’, why not register and vote for what you would like to see....
I tried to install Visual Studio Beta 2 from an ISO today using the Virtual CD Rom tool. This mounted the ISO fine as drive Z: but when I ran the setup.exe I got an error that it could not load the SITSetup.dll, even though this was in the ISO. I copied the contents of the ISO to my physical disk and reran the setup and all was OK, so the tip is mounted ISO don’t always work as you expect....
I tried to create a new TFS team project today and got an error that the TFS server could not access the SQL Reporting Services server. I then checked I could access http://myserver/reports and this also failed. On looking in the event log I saw a number of EventID 107 ‘cannot connect to the report server database’ Now I was unsure what could have caused this, it was working last time I created a project!...
If you are reading Robert’s blog you will know he is in Korea as the mentor of The Seedings, the UK entry for the Microsoft Imagine Cup. I have just seen that the is some video coverage on Microsoft’s Channel8 (which seems to be a Channel9/10 spin off for the Imaging Cup students). Enjoy….. Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup