Scott Hanselman

There's a rumor going around that Comcast will start broadcasting CBS in HDTV in Portland on October 4th. We shall see, but Cold Case in HDTV may find me watching CBS again.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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After hearing good things about FeedBurner, I set up a syndication account through them. If you're not syndicating ComputerZen, or you're not familiar with RSS and you'd like to have my nonsense delivered to you rather than you coming to me, subscribe to my FeedBurner feed. Personally, I use and highly recommend FeedDemon as a desktop RSS Reader. You can use feed:// links with most desktop aggregators. That means you can click here to subscribe instantly! FeedBurner offers me a number of useful options for managing my content and it will also include content that my regular feed will not, including daily summaries of my del.icio.us bookmarks.

So, I modified DasBlog to support FeedBurner as an optional feed. If you tell DasBlog your FeedBurner username it will automatically do a number of things:

• Makes all HTML instances of your RSS or Atom Feed point to FeedBurner instead.
• Updates HTML source  <link rel="alternate" href="http://whatever" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" > AutoDiscovery links to point to FeedBurner.
• Automatically returns an HTTP 301 when the original DasBlog "SyndicationService.asmx" is requested by a User-Agent that is not FeedBurner. This will automatically update your current feed.
• This works around the hack that ScottOnWriting had to use with a hidden FeedBurner-specific feed.

• Category-specific feeds remain untouched and will still be served locally.

In a nutshell, the point is that this requires NO ACTION ON YOUR PART as the subscriber. And that's why it's cool.

However, if you haven't subscribed, this is a great opportunity. Here's the feed:

If you want to subscribe online, you can try one of these:

You can also visit the feed here http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman for more details and ideas on how to subscribe.

If you're a DasBlog user, this experimental feature is currently checked into the CVS HEAD on the DasBlog Project at SourceForge. It may be released in a DasBlog 1.8.1 patch along with post 1.8 bug fixes.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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When doing this with the Aug CTP:

Response.Write("Page created: " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString())
Dim connStr As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("AppConnectionString1").ConnectionString
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDependency.Start(connStr) ‘BOOM
Dim connection As New SqlConnection(connStr)
Dim command As New SqlCommand("Select * FROM Customers", connection)
Dim sqlDependency As New SqlCacheDependency(command)
connection.Open()
GridView1.DataSource = command.ExecuteReader()
GridView1.DataBind()
Connection.Close()
Response.AddCacheDependency(sqlDependency)

I got this:

Message="The conversation handle "206A971D-6F25-DA11-B22F-0003FF6FCCCA" is not found.
Invalid object name 'SqlQueryNotificationService - 41136655-4314-4536-a477-37156eb628db'."

And fixed it with this "alter database Northwind set trustworthy on". Thanks Steve Smith!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Man, the latest version of Autoruns (from July) kicks the llama's ass. OMG a lot of things are running in my startup. Anyway, for the last three weeks on my home system, explorer.exe started disappearing. Not crashing in that spectacular way. Not crashing in that Dr. Watson way, no, no. You've seen this...when Explorer is there...then it's not. Poof. And it was happening every 10 minutes or so. All. Day. Long.

Needless to say it was driving me nuts. So, I started up Autoruns and removed EVERYTHING from the Internet Explorer tab as something in my gut was telling me it was inproc to IE and not a shell extension for Explorer. Anyway, it's surprising how stable Explorer is when there's no craplets running in its memory space. :)

Sigh. You know, I'm just not that interested in trying to figure out which of them it was yet. One day. For now, I'm craplet-less.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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So everyone is stoked about Microsoft Max as a good example of WinFX and Avalon on Windows XP. However, here's what Max had to say to me.

Here's another. Note that these are REAL error messages.

Is this where Avalon is taking us? Conversational Error Messages? CEMs?

UPDATE: I got Max working by shutting down all my 99 processes that I could (via End Task) and got down to 25 processes. Re-ran setup.exe and I'm in. (Weird Note: You must log into Max using Passport, but then you have to have an email sent to you to really convince Max that you're you. Hm.)

So, now that I have it working, someone send me some pictures using the sharing features of Max! (to my personal email address that you can guess is my "firstname@lastname.com")

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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