Thursday, July 10, 2003

Two .NET Centric Articles on Test-Driven Development Google Search It Test-Driven Development In .NET Unit Testing and Test-First Development 11:14:33 PM   []    comment []

How to Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003 - Not! Google Search It In order to begin posting my weblog to a Windows 2003 box I needed to install and configure an FTP server.  Unfortunately, getting this to actually work has been way more difficult than the instructions here indicate.  Here is what I did: Ran the through the How to Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003 instructions Added another FTP site On the Restrict FTP users to their own FTP home directory dialog I selected Isolate users (Users must be assigned an FTP home directory within the root of this FTP site.) Home directory path was set to c:Inetpubftproot Permissions for both read and write were granted. Added a directory for the user I was logging in under Tried to log in as user and got the following error: "530 User Test cannot log in, home directory inaccessible. Login failed." Tried a number of things including logging in as anonymous but still I am unable to log in. Arrrgghhhhh!!!!! 5:39:14 PM   []    comment []

Microsoft Unveils Collaborative Development Environment Google Search It OK, so this is cool but... This is a great example of what I described in my post Microsoft Innovation: Reinventing What Already Exists  Here Microsoft has created a community website on GotDotNet that I fail to see has anything that is not already available with SourceForge.  Am I missing something? Now as I said before, it makes sense for Microsoft to do this type of thing to gain market share and such but, at least from what I can see, there doesn't seem to be much revenue generated from GotDotNet.  So, if Microsoft is going to spend money on building or creating something then how about focusing on stuff that isn't already out there and available and even pretty functional? Anyway, I have a few projects and I will try placing at least one of them on GotDotNet as a comparison. 3:08:27 PM   []    comment []

Compact Framework Limitations Google Search It In the Developing Pocket PC applications using the Smart Device Extensions for Visual Studio .NET MSDN webcast Woody Hewitt lists limitations with the Compact Framework (CF) as follows: Reflection emit (simply reflection is available) Remoting (Ughhh!) Serialization* (see Pickle) Codedom Printing* COM Interoperatility* Server side functionality (3rd party products are available but not supported by CF) XPath and XSLT * There is 3rd party support for this functionality 6:17:49 AM   []    comment []

MSDN Webcast: Next Generation Pocket PC and Smartphone Development Platform Google Search It I took the time to listen to this broadcast this morning.  It was excellent.  It covers such topics as Rapiconfig for automatically restoring the configuration of a device Writing shell extensions more easily (including autocomplete in text boxes) SMS Messaging interception and processing along with a virtual SMS radio for testing. WAP over SMS (including application wakeup via WAP) Native BlueTooth APIs Activesync over Internet Drivemapping over to the emulator PocketPC 2003 SDK overview If you are doing PocketPC development this is a great introduction to what is possible on PocketPC 2003. 5:25:41 AM   []    comment []

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