Scott Hanselman

Well, that's a heck of a thing and the FIRST TIME it's ever happened to me.  I always thought I was just being a trooper to send in all my blue screens.  However, they solved one of them.  It was a bad IBM Wireless Driver. 

Note my highly descriptive comments as well.  I'm sure they helped the analysts. :)

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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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I just realized that my TabletPC Web Search Power Toy is even MORE useful when combined with Google Desktop Search! 

Now I can search my entire Harddrive with Ink! Slick.

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It's freaking brilliant.  Everyone will blog about it, and will tell you this and that.  So, instead of filling your RSS Reader with the same nonsense, I'll just offer my first impressions about what I found so clever.

• It sets a Cookie (appears to do it in FireFox as well) that makes DESKTOP appear as a choice when you visit Google.com. 
• The link to desktop is like: http://127.0.0.1:4664/&s=1444031046.  Notice that it's running a local Web Server on my box at port 4664.  Clever.
• In installs a few things to C:\program files\google\Google Desktop Search including:
• GoogleDesktopOffice.dll - To index .DOC, .XLS, etc.
• GoogleDesktopIE.dll - To index visited sites form your IE cache.  I don't see FireFox being indexed, but it's clear they are using a plugin arch and I suspect we'll see other plugins coming.
• As most "alpha/beta" Google stuff, it's very polished.  They've really raised the bar on what it means to pre-release software.
• They've installed an Outlook AddIn, no doubt to get to bypass MAPI and go straight to the Outlook Object Model.  They also appear to directly index Outlook Express files on disk.
• Your desktop results are INCLUDE with standard Google results.  They appear at the top of the page: "306 results stored on your computer."  It gets an image from your local Google Web Server which is interesting:
     GET /onebox.gif HTTP/1.0
     Accept: */*
     Referer: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hanselman
     Accept-Language: en-us,es-mx;q=0.7,en-gb;q=0.3
     User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR     2.0.40607)
     Host: 127.0.0.1:4664
     Connection: Keep-Alive
     Pragma: no-cache
• OY! Google's hooked WinInet.dll I think.  This works in Opera, in FireFox, in anything.  They are grabbing all traffic that goes to Google and injecting their own stuff in the results.   When I launched Opera, I noticed that Google's two networking DLLs loaded in-proc.

It's going to change the world.  Certainly more than Segway. ;) 

Now, I hope they don't try to include Desktop AdSense.

"Looks like you're searching your hard drive for Porn! Try our sponsored links!"

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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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I spoke at South Colorado.NET a little bit ago and had a blast.  It was a great crowd, very active and outspoken.  David Yack is the group organizer and did a fabulous job of hosting me.  Today I was told he posted an Open Letter to INETA on Scott Hanselman on his blog.  Wow, that's VERY kind, apparently the talk was well thought of.

Here's a few choice tidbits that helped make my day:

I honestly think that if more people knew how good the session would have been I could have doubled attendance!

After Scott’s presentation, I can’t tell you the number of members that expressed their feeling that he did an excellent job presenting and keeping the group engaged.

While all of our speakers from INETA were great, Scott just stood out a little more and I felt he should get recognition for that.

I also want to continue to express our thanks for INETA providing the speakers to our group – this is by far in my opinion is the biggest impact that INETA provides to our user group.

I agree that Kudos go to INETA and everyone in the Speaker's Bureau. I do about 4 to 6 of these a year, and I always have a blast.  It's cool to be a part of such excitement around .NET. Thanks to Dave and to INETA for providing such a great service.

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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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UPDATE: Simon Fell caught me in the midst of evil, as he rightfully points out that when one bypasses a SOAP Stack and "does their own thing" as I have here, I must perform the SOAP Processing Rules.  I've update the code below, changes in RED. 

NOTE: In the interest of correctness, I've included namespace qualification in the NEW code.

A fellow emailed me wanting to get a PDF file out of a SOAP Envelope and write it directly out to the browser using Classic ASP.  Here's the code I used:

<%
Set m_Doc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0")
m_Doc.async = false
m_Doc.ValidateOnParse = false
'This could come from whereever, ADO, a file, another Web Service.
m_Doc.Load Server.MapPath(".") + "\\soapresponse.txt" 
m_Doc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:def='http://localhost/'"

'There's nothing that I DO understand, so if there's anything I must, I'm screwed.
Set oHeader = m_Doc.selectNodes("//soap:Envelope/soap:Header/*[@soap:mustUnderstand = '1']")
If (Not oHeader Is Nothing) Then
   If (oHeader.Length > 0) Then
      Response.Write("Crap! I can't continue! What to do?")
      Response.End
   End If
End If

'Yes, it's a // XPath, but that's the LEAST of our problems before we get into microperf
Set oNode = m_Doc.selectSingleNode("//def:GetImageAsBase64Result")
'This is the Magic that makes it possible.  Otherwise you'll get a string.
oNode.dataType = "bin.base64"
Response.ContentType="application/pdf"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "filename=whatever.pdf"
Response.BinaryWrite oNode.nodeTypedValue
%>

This is given a SOAP Response like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetImageAsBase64Response xmlns="http://localhost/">
<GetImageAsBase64Result>JVBERi0xLjI SNIP....etc...

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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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