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  • How do I control remote Windows 7 machine? VNC/RDP/?

    - by artfulrobot
    I have a Windows 7 laptop that's going out and about and I'd like to be able to admin' it from my Ubuntu (precise) desktop. While the laptop is in my office I can use Gnome's "Remote Desktop Viewer" (Vinagre) to connect via RDP. However, when it's in the office I don't really need RDP of course! And when it's out of the office I cannot control the routers/firewalls along the way, so I won't know the IP and cannot set up port forwards. I'm looking for a Ubuntu compatible way to achieve this. Nb. I can set up port forwards at the my office end, so a service on the laptop could try a "backwards" connection to my client.

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  • How to setup custom DNS with Azure Websites Preview?

    - by husainnz
    I created a new Azure Website, using Umbraco as the CMS. I got a page up and going, and I already have a .co.nz domain with www.domains4less.com. There's a whole lot of stuff on the internet about pointing URLs to Azure, but that seems to be more of a redirection service than anything (i.e. my URLs still use azurewebsites.net once I land on my site). Has anybody had any luck getting it to go? Here's the error I get when I try adding the DNS entry to Azure (I'm in reserved mode, reemdairy is the name of the website): There was an error processing your request. Please try again in a few moments. Browser: 5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5 User language: undefined Portal Version: 6.0.6002.18488 (rd_auxportal_stable.120609-0259) Subscriptions: 3aabe358-d178-4790-a97b-ffba902b2851 User email address: [email protected] Last 10 Requests message: Failure: Ajax call to: Websites/UpdateConfig. failed with status: error (500) in 2.57 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: 38834edf-c9f3-46bb-a1f7-b2839c692bcf-2012-06-12 22:25:14Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:25:17 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 2.57 url: Websites/UpdateConfig status: 500 textStatus: error clientMsRequestId: 38834edf-c9f3-46bb-a1f7-b2839c692bcf-2012-06-12 22:25:14Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com response: {"message":"Try again. Contact support if the problem persists.","ErrorMessage":"Try again. Contact support if the problem persists.","httpStatusCode":"InternalServerError","operationTrackingId":"","stackTrace":null} message: Complete: Ajax call to: Websites/GetConfig. completed with status: success (200) in 1.021 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: a0cdcced-13d0-44e2-866d-e0b061b9461b-2012-06-12 22:24:43Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:44 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 1.021 url: Websites/GetConfig status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: a0cdcced-13d0-44e2-866d-e0b061b9461b-2012-06-12 22:24:43Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com message: Complete: Ajax call to: https://manage.windowsazure.com/Service/OperationTracking?subscriptionId=3aabe358-d178-4790-a97b-ffba902b2851. completed with status: success (200) in 1.887 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: a7689fe9-b9f9-4d6c-8926-734ec9a0b515-2012-06-12 22:24:40Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:42 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 1.887 url: https://manage.windowsazure.com/Service/OperationTracking?subscriptionId=3aabe358-d178-4790-a97b-ffba902b2851 status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: a7689fe9-b9f9-4d6c-8926-734ec9a0b515-2012-06-12 22:24:40Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com message: Complete: Ajax call to: /Service/GetUserSettings. completed with status: success (200) in 0.941 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: 805e554d-1e2e-4214-afd5-be87c0f255d1-2012-06-12 22:24:40Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:40 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 0.941 url: /Service/GetUserSettings status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: 805e554d-1e2e-4214-afd5-be87c0f255d1-2012-06-12 22:24:40Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com message: Complete: Ajax call to: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/ClusterSuffix. completed with status: success (200) in 0.483 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: 85157ceb-c538-40ca-8c1e-5cc07c57240f-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:40 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 0.483 url: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/ClusterSuffix status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: 85157ceb-c538-40ca-8c1e-5cc07c57240f-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com message: Complete: Ajax call to: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/GetClientIp. completed with status: success (200) in 0.309 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: 2eb194b6-66ca-49e2-9016-e0f89164314c-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:40 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 0.309 url: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/GetClientIp status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: 2eb194b6-66ca-49e2-9016-e0f89164314c-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com message: Complete: Ajax call to: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/DefaultServerLocation. completed with status: success (200) in 0.309 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: 1bc165ef-2081-48f2-baed-16c6edf8ea67-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:40 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 0.309 url: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/DefaultServerLocation status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: 1bc165ef-2081-48f2-baed-16c6edf8ea67-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com message: Complete: Ajax call to: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/ServerLocations. completed with status: success (200) in 0.309 seconds. x-ms-client-request-id was: e1fba7df-6a12-47f8-9434-bf17ca7d93f4-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z dateTime: Wed Jun 13 2012 10:24:40 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) durationSeconds: 0.309 url: Extensions/ApplicationsExtension/SqlAzure/ServerLocations status: 200 textStatus: success clientMsRequestId: e1fba7df-6a12-47f8-9434-bf17ca7d93f4-2012-06-12 22:24:39Z sessionId: 09c72263-6ce7-422b-84d7-4c21acded759 referrer: https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspaces/WebsiteExtension/Website/reemdairy/configure host: manage.windowsazure.com

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  • Accessing through VPN, which internet connection would be used

    - by Sriram
    I've a data card which has a limit of 2 GB up/download traffic per month. I've an office internet line which has an unlimited up/download. I've successfully connected to VPN using my data card and by changing certain configurations like DNS etc., have also been able to use my office line for internet (verified by doing a IP check - returns the static IP of our office). Now to my question - is it just a NAT which is happening or am I actually using my office line for all communication. Which one would reflect the usage/trace. The data card usage log at this moment does not reflect any usage (which is confusing since the VPN is over the data card connection). Further more (theoretically), would the net be any faster if my office line is let us say 8Mbps and the data card is 512kbps by doing this as against directly connecting the internet using the data card.

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  • Error Loading Simple XML

    - by Rooneyl
    I have an xml document (generated from msword 2010), which I am trying to process using simple xml. Sample of xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <w:document xmlns:wpc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:wp14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:w14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml" xmlns:wpg="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup" xmlns:wpi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk" xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml" xmlns:wps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape" mc:Ignorable="w14 wp14"> <w:body> <w:p w:rsidR="005B1098" w:rsidRDefault="005B1098"/> <w:p w:rsidR="00F254A4" w:rsidRDefault="00F254A4"/> <w:p w:rsidR="00F254A4" w:rsidRPr="008475A1" w:rsidRDefault="00C15492" w:rsidP="008475A1"> <w:pPr> <w:jc w:val="center"/> <w:rPr> <w:b/> <w:sz w:val="44"/> <w:szCs w:val="44"/> </w:rPr> </w:pPr> <w:r w:rsidRPr="008475A1"> <w:rPr> <w:b/> <w:sz w:val="44"/> <w:szCs w:val="44"/> </w:rPr> <w:t>Test file</w:t> </w:r> </w:p> <w:p w:rsidR="00C15492" w:rsidRPr="008475A1" w:rsidRDefault="00C15492" w:rsidP="008475A1"> <w:pPr> <w:jc w:val="center"/> <w:rPr> <w:sz w:val="20"/> <w:szCs w:val="20"/> </w:rPr> </w:pPr> <w:r w:rsidRPr="008475A1"> <w:rPr> <w:sz w:val="20"/> <w:szCs w:val="20"/> </w:rPr> <w:t>another paragraph</w:t> </w:r> </w:p> </w:body> </w:document> I am trying to open it using: if(!$simple_xml = simplexml_load_file($content)){ trigger_error('Error reading XML file',E_USER_ERROR); } else { echo 'loaded'; } And get the error: Message: simplexml_load_file(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity " Test file another paragraph " Any ideas?

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  • How can I restrict SSH access when the source IP is dynamic

    - by Supratik
    Hi I want to protect SSH access to our live web server from all IP's except our office static IP. There are some employees who connects to this live server from their dynamic IP's. So, it is not always possible for me to change in the iptables rule in live server whenever the dynamic IP of the employee changes. I tried to put them in office VPN and allowed only SSH access from office IP but the office connection is slow in compared to our employee's private internet connection, moreover it adds an extra overhead to our office network. Is there any way I can solve this problem ?

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  • Preview result of update/insert query whithout comitting changes to database in MySQL?

    - by Camsoft
    I am writing a script to import CSV files into existing tables within my database. I decided to do the insert/update operations myself using PHP and INSERT/UPDATE statements, and not use MySQL's LOAD INFILE command, I have good reasons for this. What I would like to do is emulate the insert/update operations and display the results to the user, and then give them the option of confirming that this is OK, and then committing the changes to the database. I'm using InnoDB database engine with support for transactions. Not sure if this helps but was thinking down the line of insert/update, query data, display to user, then either commit or rollback transaction? Any advise would be appreciated.

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  • Radiation from a UPS

    - by Erel Segal
    In our office, there are frequent eletric shortages that harm my desktop computer, so I wanted to install a UPS. However, my office-mates pointed me to papers talking about hazardous radiation from the UPS. The UPS manufacturers themselves recommend to put the UPS several meters away from humans, which is not possible because our office is small (the power is about 0.5 meters from us). As an alternative to UPS, my office-mates recommended that I switch to a laptop, which has a battery so it's immune to shortages. I have several questions: Is it true that the radiation from a laptop battery is lower than the radiation from a UPS? They do just the same thing - supply power using a battery! If the answer to 1 is yes - is there an alternative way to attach a battery, similar to a laptop battery, to a desktop computer? If the answer to 1 is no - how can I prove this to my office-mates, so that they let me use UPS?

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  • Trying to pass the input value in the query string but failing why?

    - by Ahmad Fouad
    Hello, I have this code in the page. <input type="text" value="Enter your video URL here..." size="30" class="video_url" /> <input type="button" value="Preview" class="preview_button" /> <div id="preview"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function($) { $(".preview_button").click(function(){ var url = $('.video_url').val(); $("#preview").load('<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/templates/preview.php?url=' + url); }); }) (jQuery); </script> However on preview.php I can never see the url value. What I am doing wrong?

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  • What You Said: Staying Productive While Working from home

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    Earlier this week we asked you to share your telecommuting/work-from-home productivity tips. Now we’re back with a tips and tricks roundup; read on to see how your fellow readers stay focused at home. By far and away the most common technique deployed as carefully isolating work from home life. Carol writes: I love working from home and have done so for 6 years now. I have a routine just as if I was going to an office, except my commute is 12 steps. I get ready for work, grab my purse and smart phone and go to up the steps to my office. I maintain a separate phone line and voice mail for work that I cannot answer from anywhere but my work desk. I use call forwarding when I travel so only my office phone number is published. I have VOIP phone service so I can forward calls from the internet if I forget, or need to change where the phone is forwarded. I do have a wired and wireless head set so I can go get a cold drink if on one of those long boring conference calls. I plan my ‘get off from work’ time and try to stick to it, as with any job some days I am late getting off, but it all works out. I make sure my office is for work only, any other computer play time is in a different part of the house on different computer. My office has laptop, dock, couple of monitors, multipurpose printer, fax, scanner, file cabinets – just like the office at a company. I just also happen to have a couple of golden retrievers that come to work with me and usually lay quietly until 5, and yes they know it is 5pm sometimes before I do. For me, one of the biggest concerns when working from home is not being unproductive, but the danger of never stopping work. You could keep going and going because let’s face it – the company will let you do it, so I set myself up to prevent that and maintain a separateness. HTG Explains: Does Your Android Phone Need an Antivirus? How To Use USB Drives With the Nexus 7 and Other Android Devices Why Does 64-Bit Windows Need a Separate “Program Files (x86)” Folder?

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  • Advice for migrating email server

    - by Chris Adams
    Hi there, I'm planning to migrate a Zimbra server with about 200gb of data from a server hosted in an office into a datacentre, to increase uptime (we've had a couple of outages when our network here started flaking out, and we have people in other countries relying on this server too). However, I'm not sure how best to migrate the data into the data centre without rendering the connection unusable during office hours, because there's far too much to send in over night over the two meg upstream connection we have here. I'm familiar with using tools like nice to stop a long running process degrading machine performance - is there a simple way to throttle a connection between office hours, so the long running transfer doesn't block the pipe, but then opens up outside of office hours to make the most of the bandwidth? I'm aware the alternative here is to simply mail a hard drive to the data centre, but I'd like to avoid doing that if I could. We're using Centos Linux for our servers, in the office and the datacentre, so extra points for an open source linux answer.

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  • Bind9 forwarding zone not working

    - by JMW
    i've setup a forwarding zone on a RHEL6 Bind server like this: zone "office.local" IN { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.0.2; 192.168.0.3; }; }; when i try to query using dig @127.0.0.1 monitorsms.office.local i see the following message in the syslog: client 127.0.0.1#39376: query: monitorsms.office.local IN A + (127.0.0.1) validating @0x7ff7640357d0: monitorsms.office.local A: bad cache hit (monitorsms.office.local/DS) google tells me, that there is an issue with DNSSEC, but both servers do not have DNSSEC configured and thus do not send any DNSSEC records. What's wrong with my configuration?

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  • using curl command to download file in parts from different interfaces and to run the commands simultaneously from a script

    - by jsjain007
    i wanted to download a file using curl command simultaneously in different parts using ip aliasing(virtual Ethernet ports) so what i did was pasted the commands in a text file and run but the problem as obvious since it is in a file the commands will be executed one by one so is there a way to run all those commands simultaneously. here is the command curl --interface eth0:0 --range 0,38010880 http://wdl.cache.ijinshan.com/wps/download/Linux/unstable/kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb -o kinsoft-office.part1 curl --interface eth0:1 --range 38010880 ,- http://wdl.cache.ijinshan.com/wps/download/Linux/unstable/kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb -o kinsoft-office.part2 cat kinsoft-office.part*>kinsoft-office can anyone help me to run these above 2 commands simultaneously from the script so as to increase download speed

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  • Just how slow should my VPN be?

    - by David Heggie
    I have a VPN setup between a remote office with 2 ADSL connections (8Mb downstream, 512Kb upstream) and a main office with a 10Mb EFM connection (10Mb both up and down). The VPN is an IPSec connection using a DrayTek 2930 router for the ADSL and a DrayTek 3200 router at the EFM end. However, I'm unable to get speeds over this connection (tested with iperf) of anything over 600Kb or so down from the main office (traffic will pretty much always be from the main office to the remote office) Whilst I realise that there is an overhead and I'm never going to get the "full" bandwidth available over this VPN, I'd like to think that there's something I should be looking at that may help improve it. I've tried using the DrayTek's built-in "VPN Trunking" features which are supposed to load-balance connections, but this doesn't seem to improve matters much. I guess my question is - is this the kind of performance I should expect from this kind of setup and I'll just have to live with it, or should I be able to squeeze something more out of it through some VPN magic?

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  • Hopping a VPN Tunnel

    - by lellouch
    My central office and remote offices are connected to each other over site to site ipsec vpn. We use Fortigate firewalls and everything is working fine. On the other hand, only central office is also connected to another company's network over ipsec vpn as well. In this situation, everything is also fine and employees at the central office is able to reach the other company's resources without problem. Now i want the employees working on our remote office can reach the other company's network over central office without creating new vpn tunnels. http://imgur.com/ozrXfGv How can i do that? Thanks for your answers in advance.

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  • Preview result of update/insert query without comitting changes to database in MySQL?

    - by Camsoft
    I am writing a script to import CSV files into existing tables within my database. I decided to do the insert/update operations myself using PHP and INSERT/UPDATE statements, and not use MySQL's LOAD INFILE command, I have good reasons for this. What I would like to do is emulate the insert/update operations and display the results to the user, and then give them the option of confirming that this is OK, and then committing the changes to the database. I'm using InnoDB database engine with support for transactions. Not sure if this helps but was thinking down the line of insert/update, query data, display to user, then either commit or rollback transaction? Any advise would be appreciated.

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  • Small Business Software: OpenOffice.org vs. Google Docs

    <b>Small Business Computing:</b> "Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don't need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for Office replacements are OpenOffice.org and Google Docs, but which one is right for your business?"

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  • Hotkey to preview in browser in second monitor while still keeping focus in editor?

    - by Tony_Henrich
    I use two monitors. The second one has a browser open. I use Visual studio in the first monitor and making edits to the web page. Would love to press a key and instantly see the change in the browser. Basically doing a refresh in the browser behind the scene and still keep window focus in the editor. Instead of keep switching to the browser, refresh, switch back to VS. Any better ideas than using a keyboard recorder like AutoPilot?

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  • using alias parameters in window command prompt

    - by freshWoWer
    Source:http://jpsoft.com/help/index.htm?alias.htm Aliases can use command line parameters or parameters like those in batch files. The command line parameters are numbered from %0 to %511. (%0 contains the alias name.) For example, the following alias will change directories, perform a command, and return to the original directory: alias in pushd %1 & %2$ & popd when i run the above, my command prompt gives error saying %1 * Unable to read value of alias * '%2' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'popd`' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. if you use double quote instead, alias in "pushd %1 & dir & popd" it doesn't interprets the %1 when you execute the alias C:\abc\defalias Dumping all defined aliases for CMD.EXE. in =pushd %1 & dir & popd alias def wont work ---------EDIT------------ let me try some sample output with a simple echo alias D:\abc\defalias /? Usage: ALIAS [-v] [-p programName] [-f filespec] [ ] [-v] means verbose output. [-d] means delete aliases. [-p programName] specifies which image file name these alias definitions are for. Default is CMD.EXE [-f filespec] specifies a file which contains the alises. C:\Office\dev15alias out 'echo %1' %1' * Unable to read value of alias * C:\Office\dev15alias out backtick echo %1 backtick %1` * Unable to read value of alias * C:\Office\dev15alias out "echo %1" C:\Office\dev15alias Dumping all defined aliases for CMD.EXE. out =echo %1 C:\Office\dev15out abc %1 C:\Office\dev15alias out echo %1 %1 * Unable to read value of alias * C:\Office\dev15out abc ECHO is on. Problem is, both single quote and back tick produces error, while double quote wont treat %1 as variable parameter

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  • How do I create and send appointments to Microsoft Outlook calender?

    - by Shyju
    I am trying to create an appointment in the Microsoft Outlook (2003) calender of another person using the below code.While running this program, The Appointment is getting saved in my calender.But not being sent to the recipient. try { Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = null; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem appt = null; app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application(); appt = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem)app .CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem); appt.Subject = "Meeting "; appt.Body = "Test Appointment body"; appt.Location = "TBD"; appt.Start = Convert.ToDateTime("12/23/2009 05:00:00 PM"); appt.Recipients.Add("[email protected]"); appt.End = Convert.ToDateTime("12/23/2009 6:00:00 PM"); appt.ReminderSet = true; appt.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15; appt.Importance = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlImportance.olImportanceHigh; appt.BusyStatus = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBusyStatus.olBusy; appt.Save(); appt.Send(); } catch (COMException ex) { Response.Write(ex.ToString()); } Am i missing anything? Can any one help me out to solve this issue?

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  • The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2

    - by Stephen Walther
    Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released this week and one of the first things that I hope you notice is that it no longer contains the latest version of ASP.NET AJAX. What happened? Where did AJAX go? Just like Sting and The Police, just like Phil Collins and Genesis, just like Greg Page and the Wiggles, AJAX has gone out of band! We are starting a solo career. A Name Change First things first. In previous releases, our Ajax framework was named ASP.NET AJAX. We now have changed the name of the framework to the Microsoft Ajax Library. There are two reasons behind this name change. First, the members of the Ajax team got tired of explaining to everyone that our Ajax framework is not tied to the server-side ASP.NET framework. You can use the Microsoft Ajax Library with ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Ruby on RAILS, and even pure HTML applications. Our framework can be used as a client-only framework and having the word ASP.NET in our name was confusing people. Second, it was time to start spelling the word Ajax like everyone else. Notice that the name is the Microsoft Ajax Library and not the Microsoft AJAX library. Originally, Microsoft used upper case AJAX because AJAX originally was an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. And, according to Strunk and Wagnell, acronyms should be all uppercase. However, Ajax is one of those words that have migrated from acronym status to “just a word” status. So whenever you hear one of your co-workers talk about ASP.NET AJAX, gently correct your co-worker and say “It is now called the Microsoft Ajax Library.” Why OOB? But why move out-of-band (OOB)? The short answer is that we have had approximately 6 preview releases of the Microsoft Ajax Library over the last year. That’s a lot. We pride ourselves on being agile. Client-side technology evolves quickly. We want to be able to get a preview version of the Microsoft Ajax Library out to our customers, get feedback, and make changes to the library quickly. Shipping the Microsoft Ajax Library out-of-band keeps us agile and enables us to continue to ship new versions of the library even after ASP.NET 4 ships. Showing Love for JavaScript Developers One area in which we have received a lot of feedback is around making the Microsoft Ajax Library easier to use for developers who are comfortable with JavaScript. We also wanted to make it easy for jQuery developers to take advantage of the innovative features of the Microsoft Ajax Library. To achieve these goals, we’ve added the following features to the Microsoft Ajax Library (these features are included in the latest preview release that you can download right now): A simplified imperative syntax – We wanted to make it brain-dead simple to create client-side Ajax controls when writing JavaScript. A client script loader – We wanted the Microsoft Ajax Library to load all of the scripts required by a component or control automatically. jQuery integration – We love the jQuery selector syntax. We wanted to make it easy for jQuery developers to use the Microsoft Ajax Library without changing their programming style. If you are interested in learning about these new features of the Microsoft Ajax Library, I recommend that you read the following blog post by Scott Guthrie: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/15/announcing-microsoft-ajax-library-preview-6-and-the-microsoft-ajax-minifier.aspx Downloading the Latest Version of the Microsoft Ajax Library Currently, the best place to download the latest version of the Microsoft Ajax Library is directly from the ASP.NET CodePlex project: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/ As I write this, the current version is Preview 6. The next version is coming out at the PDC. Summary I’m really excited about the future of the Microsoft Ajax Library. Moving outside of the ASP.NET framework provides us the flexibility to remain agile and continue to innovate aggressively. The latest preview release of the Microsoft Ajax Library includes several major new features including a client script loader, jQuery integration, and a simplified client control creation syntax.

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  • I spy a Live Framework portal

    - by jamiet
    Those that have followed my blogs for a while may know that I have a slightly banal interest in Windows Live and, more specifically, the Live Services developer platform'; if that doesn’t sound interesting to you then stop reading now. My interest mainly stems from the Live Mesh technology that was announced a couple of years ago and the data synchronisation platform API that underpins it; that platform is called the Live Framework or LiveFX for short. At the Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) 2008 Microsoft made LiveFX available to the public as a Tech Preview and I spent some time learning to use it and also built a few test apps on it too. In August 2009 an announcement came that that tech preview was getting shut down: "At the Professional Developer Conference 2008, we gave the developer community access to the technical preview of the Live Framework. The Live Framework is core to our vision of providing you with a consistent programming interface. Now we are working to integrate existing services, controls and the Live Framework into the next release of Windows Live. Your feedback continues to help us build the best possible offerings for Windows Live users, for you and for your customers. " Since then news on LiveFX has disappeared save for a throwaway session at PDC09 and I was hoping that news was going to appear at this week’s MIX conference but nothing was forthcoming. Instead though today I stumbled upon an unannounced portal for future LiveFX applications on Microsoft’s Azure portal at http://live.azure.com. Check it out: I consider this to be very good news. This Azure portal was built after the LiveFX tech preview was decommissioned so seeing Live Services existing so prominently alongside Microsoft’s other cloud efforts like Windows Azure and SQL Azure vindicates my early investment in the platform and gives me hope that we’re going to see something get released very very soon. I believe that the potential uses for this platform are extremely compelling and I’m looking forward to trying some out in the near future. I am also expecting LiveFX to have a heavy dependency on the OData protocol that I talked about yesterday in my post OData.org updated - gives clues about future sql azure enhancements so you can tell where my interest in that stems from. In case you’re wondering the projects that you see listed above (Basic List Sample, JT-proj etc…) are projects that I built on the old Tech Preview platform so clearly that stuff has not gone for good which is also good news; not just because it means I’ll have access to the code I wrote before but I also assume it means that LiveFX won’t have changed much since its tech preview incarnation. I know there are other LiveFX buffs out there and hopefully this news reaches some of them. If you are one of them the please put a comment below and let me know your thoughts! @Jamiet Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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