Windows Home Server and Squeezebox

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

So having got my home server up and running I finally got around to getting music streaming off it into my living room with a Logitech Squeezebox Duet. First off this is not an appliance, it's a science project, albeit a really good one. I spent a happy hour fiddling ...

Building a Green Windows Home Server: Conclusions

Monday, September 8th, 2008

It works! So the build is complete and I have a working server. Interesting this weekend the system disk in the machine I have downstairs chose to start failing CHKDSK. WHS actually picked up on this and warned me while it was trying to backup. Restoring the disk from ...

Gotchas: SN.EXE problem on Vista fixed in VS 2008!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Back in September I ran into some issues using SN.EXE on Vista. SN would look like it had added a strong name verification skipping entry when really it hadn't. Doing the SN -Vr *,######### with the SN.EXE tool that ships with Visual Studio 2008 gives a much better behavior.   ...

Delay Signing VSTO Add-In Projects

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

As promised, another post on actually writing code as I've been busy trying the help the p&p DocTools project out the door. One of the final hurdles was getting the VSTO Word Document Add-In use delay signing. I was missing a key step in this process... Build ...

Gotchas: Fusion Log Viewer, your best friend for assembly load errors

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Fusion is Microsoft's name for the technology that resolves and loads assemblies requested by your application. It turns out that the .NET framework comes with a little application that allows you to see what caused each assembly in your application to get loaded, how it was loaded (context) and where ...