For a while now I have been working on some code that will allow anyone to add comments to my bolg entry's. So you all can now start telling me how full of s#*% I am. At this time all the comments get approved for viewing but I have code built so that I could start having to approve comments as they are made that would suck but if I get inappropriate comments I will have to turn that on.

Anyway have fun!

Will I have been a busy guy I did another webcast for Microsoft today and I promised to post some info so here it is!

If you are using COM interop and you want to release or reduce the ref count to the COM object you need to use the ReleaseComObject method of the Marshal class in the System.Runtime.InteropServices name space.

I will have the slides and code up here tomorrow.

I found a link on www.windowsforms.net to a good article about using BITS from .NET I will look in to this more soon but it looks like the way to do any large file copying.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun02282003.asp

The URL to the information I promised to be posed at my companies web site is http://www.interknowlogy.com/IKCorporate/AboutUs/Knowledge/Presentations/ the files are not there yet but will be soon.

Well I am back from TechEd and just turned on the computer again and though someone might want to see what I did there. The first thing you can do is go to the web site that I supported at www.mymsevents.com net check out the www.techedbloggers.net for other peoples take on the show. Then see these photos (taken with the Hitachi's G1000 Pocket PC Phone Edition that I used at the event)

This is the CommNet area that we did the software support of.

The CommNet help desk that we manned.

This event went well except we did not get to deploy the Pocket PC applications as we had hoped to but they will be back at the next event we do, I think that will be PDC.

I of the guys I work with pointed out that on www.gotdotnet.com there was a newly released set of PowerToys for Visual Studio .NET 2003 this is a cool set of tools that any one will want. Take a look!

Well for the last few days I have been using Avant Browser add-on to IE that makes IE a fully MID application. It as been invaluable this week with me supporting a local web site and a production site. I could manage my different browser windows much easier then just IE it is way to cool to try to describe just go check it out. www.avantbrowser.com

For a number of reasons we are not going to bring any Pocket PC applications on line. This bums me out to no end me and the group that worked on this busted A@@ to get the app done and deployed but it's just to late. We should have the apps up and running at PDC and I am sure we will be back next year with some cool apps.

I hate to point out how much of a geek I am but last night sitting in the hotel bar with no network connection I discovered that to do any PPC emulator debugging or communication that you need a network connection. So I needed the Microsoft Loopback adapter in order to be able to work off line. See the MSDN article Using the Emulator in Smart Device Projects for more information.

We created a set of PPC apps to use here at TechEd but we delayed rolling them out until we had some issues with the SQL Server dealt with. So tonight and tomorrow I will be helping anyone who wants to run the PPC apps that were demo'd at the first keynote. Lets hope all goes well, the only issue I think we will have is the load on our local SQL box it's just not a powerful box. Come back to see or come to the CommNet help desk and ask for Woody and we will get you setup.

Hi all I am working this week at TechEd in Dallas helping to setup and run CommNet the MyMsEvents.com website. That is the web site that lets attendees setup a calendar and lets the managers of the event do session management we also do the on site server setup and maintenance and kiosk software installation. This is an incredible thing we basically setup a large corporate intranet and rip it down in a two week period.

I have had some good lessens learned:

For SQL Server replication... Make sure the two SQL Serves are at the same sp level

Test for curricular references in triggers

Get more sleep!