Best of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) Belgium: Videos online
On his TechNet blog, Alrindo Alves announced the download of the Belgian Best of MMS sessions.
This event's sessions were all about the new System Center products.
For me Data Protection Manager 2010 contains the most interesting innovations in the System Center suite.
Enjoy
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Expression Blend and Silverlight 5 day OnRamp training course downloads
Today Microsoft published the downloads (Visual Studio projects, Assets, ...) for the Expression Blend and Silverlight 5 day OnRamp training course.
The following downloads are available:
If anyone would know where to download the videos for the OnRamp training please leave a comment...
TeamCity 5.1 Upgrade: The requested class "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver" not found.
When upgrading TeamCity to version 5.1 (with .NET 4.0 support!), I encountered the following issue:
The requested class "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver" not found.
You'll get this issue when you use a MSSQL databases. But I guess it will be the same for Oracle, MySQL, Sybase...
The reason for this issue is a breaking change in the directory structure. The database drivers should be located in an other directory.
Documentation: Since TeamCity 5.1, put the driver jar(s) into <TeamCity Data Directory>/lib/jdbc directory (create it if necessary).
Required steps to solve the issue:
- Run TeamCity and it should crash (but it will write the current data directory to the log file)
- Find your current data directory: Go to your TeamCity directory and open teamcity-server.log under logs.
- You should get something like this (this is your data directory):
[2010-05-25 12:50:25,682] INFO - dServer.serverSide.ServerPaths - TeamCity data directory: D:/Continuous Integration/TeamCity Configuration/
- Browse to that path and create a directory named lib and under lib you should create the directory jdbc
- Download the jtds package
- Extract it and copy jtds-1.2.5.jar to your jdbc directory.
- Restart the TeamCity Web Service
This should have solved your upgrade issue.
Enjoy
DevExpress 10.1 and the new WinForms skins
I already wrote a post on using skins in version 9.2, but there is the updated version.
The skins
Available skins in DevExpress.BonusSkins.v10.1:
- Coffee
- Liquid Sky
- London Liquid Sky
- Glass Oceans
- Stardust
- Xmas 2008 Blue
- Valentine
- McSkin
- Summer 2008
- Pumpkin
- Dark Side
- Springtime
- Darkroom
- Foggy
- High Contrast
- Seven
- Seven Classic
- Sharp
- Sharp Plus
Available skins in DevExpress.OfficeSkins.v10.1:
- Office 2007 Blue
- Office 2007 Black
- Office 2007 Silver
- Office 2007 Green
- Office 2007 Pink
- Office 2010 Blue
- Office 2010 Black
- Office 2010 Silver
These are the exact names you can use in your code.
And have you noticed the new Office 2010 skins? They're really great!
Using the skins
Before using the skins make sure you have a DefaultLookAndFeel component on your form/control (you can find it under DX.10.1: Components).
After that you register the skins:
DevExpress.UserSkins.BonusSkins.Register();
DevExpress.UserSkins.OfficeSkins.Register();
And after that you can just use the skin you want:
defaultLookAndFeel1.LookAndFeel.SetSkinStyle("Office 2010 Silver");
A trial version of the latest DXperience is available for download here: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/
Enjoy!
New StockTrader application for .NET 4.0
Microsoft just released the new StockTrader application for .NET 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0eeff42-1f8b-4c2e-a593-54b54402c3db
To quote:
This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on Windows Communication Foundation and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications. It is designed as a benchmark kit to illustrate alternative technologies within .NET and their relative performance.
The application offers full interoperability with J2EE and IBM WebSphere's Trade 6.1 sample application. As such, the application offers an excellent opportunity for developers to learn about .NET and building interoperable, service-oriented applications.
The new download includes the automated setup for the .NET StockTrader 4.0 and the Configuration Service 4.0, with associated technical documents that explain how to run and reconfigure the .NET StockTrader service-oriented application. Additional documentation in the download provides the steps necessary to implement the Configuration Service 4.0 in your own applications and services for central configuration management; distributed caching; load-balancing and failover across clustered service nodes. The new sample includes:
· .NET StockTrader 4.0 composite Web application and middle tier services.
· New modes for Advanced Web Service (WS-*) message-level security and interoperability with a variety of non-Microsoft platforms via the SOA architecture.
· Configuration Service 4.0 with technical guides and samples.
· Capacity planning tool for running multi-agent benchmarks against the .NET StockTrader services.
· WSTest 1.5 Web services benchmark.
In short this 100 MB download will show you how to use the newest .NET technologies for an enterprise application.