Trying out Linkedin Ads

Clicks: 22
Impressions: 165,863
Click Through Rate: 0.013%
Avg. Cost Per Click: $2.98
Total Spent: $65.56

Installed Mac OS X Lion and Xcode 4

Gold Prices Page Updated Every 30 Minutes

Link

How to Increase Message Size Quota

Issue:
The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element.

Solution:
Increase the following properties in web.config
maxBufferSize="20000000"
maxBufferPoolSize="20000000"
maxReceivedMessageSize="20000000"
maxStringContentLength="20000000"
maxArrayLength="20000000"

Second Day of Adwords Campaign

After one day of running Adwords campaign: 1359 impressions, 2 clicks, $.80

XigniteMetalsSoapClient

using RemoteMetals = NopSolutions.NopCommerce.Web.xMetalService;

private xMetalService.XigniteMetalsSoapClient proxy;

proxy = new xMetalService.XigniteMetalsSoapClient("XigniteMetalsSoap");
RemoteMetals.Header header = new RemoteMetals.Header();
header.Username = "xxxxx";
header.Password = "yyyyy";
RemoteMetals.LondonFixing objLondonFixing = proxy.GetLastLondonFixing(header, RemoteMetals.FixingTypes.LondonGold, RemoteMetals.FixingCurrencyTypes.USD);

chart = proxy.GetLondonFixingChart(header, RemoteMetals.FixingTypes.LondonGold, RemoteMetals.PeriodType.Morning, RemoteMetals.FixingCurrencyTypes.USD, "8/15/2010", "8/15/2011", RemoteMetals.StockChartStyles.Line, 600, 400);

if (objLondonFixing == null)
{
/// add error processing here
/// this condition could be caused by an HTTP error (404,500...)
Response.Write("Service is unavailable at this time.");
}
else
{
switch (objLondonFixing.Outcome)
{
case RemoteMetals.OutcomeTypes.Success:
/// add processing for displaying the results, e.g.
/// display the value for Value
/// other values could be consumed in the same manner
Response.Write(objLondonFixing.Value);
Response.Write(chart.Url);
break;
default:
/// add processing for handling request problems, e.g.
/// you could pass back the info message received from the service
Response.Write(objLondonFixing.Message);
break;
}
}

Trying Out Google Adwords

New May Jewelers Homepage

NopEasy Picture Manager

Good application for managing product pictures.

New C# 4.0 Features

Parameters

• Optional


• Named


• Overload Resolution

Co- and Contravariance

• Covariance - same relationships


• Contracovariance - inverted relationships

dynamic

• run-time


• DLR - Dynamic Language Run-time

New Compiler Options

• Embedding COM Interop type information


• Specifying an app.config file to the C# compiler

Ring Design Pages

Ring Design Page



Ring Design Details Page

Diamond Search

jQuery: Slider, QTip
ASP.NET AJAX
Web Services

http://mayjewelers.com/DiamondSearch.aspx

VS 2010's Own Dev Server Path

Instead of "C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv", go here: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer\10.0".

Diamond Search Template

jQuery Product Search Example

http://13dects191.noptemplate.com/RecentlyAddedProducts.aspx

TechGate Conference 2011

Registered for TechGate Conference 2011. Local and free.

http://techgate.cloudapp.net/

Some Good Links on Testing in TFS

patterns & practices: Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
http://tfsguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/6280

Visual Studio UI Automation Testing (includes CodedUI)
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsautotest/threads

How to: Create a Coded UI Test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286681.aspx

How to: Generate a Coded UI Test by Recording the Application Under Test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286608.aspx

How to: Create a Data-Driven Coded UI Test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624082.aspx

Creating and Running Unit Tests for Existing Code
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd293546.aspx

How to: Create a Data-Driven Unit Test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182527.aspx

Walkthrough: Using a Configuration File to Define a Data Source
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms243192.aspx

Let's Build Windows Phone 7 Apps

Link

Client Network Utility

Checking 'Force protocol encryption' option in Client Network Utility allows new instance of SQL Server 2008 to start.

Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=77586864-ab15-40e1-bc38-713a95a56a05&displaylang=en

Free Pluralsight .NET Training - Introduction to WebMatrix

Pluralsight .NET Training - Introduction to WebMatrix
Learn from the experts how to use WebMatrix to build and customize web sites.
Course available at no cost for 48 hours through 6/15/2011.
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/OLT/Course/Toc.aspx?n=webmatrix-introduction

ILDASM.EXE Tool

Run the ildasm.exe tool to determine the framework version of c:\dlls\TOBEREPLACED.dll.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin>ildasm.exe c:\dlls\TOBEREPLACED.dll /meta[=MDHEADER] /text /noil

// Microsoft (R) .NET Framework IL Disassembler. Version 3.5.30729.1

// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

// warning : THIS IS A PARTIAL DISASSEMBLY, NOT SUITABLE FOR RE-ASSEMBLING

// ================================= M E T A I N F O

Testing out Google Music Beta

Killer Combo: MacBook Pro + Virtual Box running Win 7 Ultimate

Now I can do iPhone and .NET development on the same machine. Sweet!

Missing Test DLLs

Added from:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 Team Test Load Agent\LoadTest\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTestFramework.dll
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 Team Test Load Agent\LoadTest\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.WebTestFramework.dll