蒋晟(JIANG,Sheng), a Microsoft MVP @Austin, Texas

Nice run

uninstalling pre-release SP and installing the RTM version…

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Download: http://jiangsheng.net/Documents/IE8AddZone.zip

Prerequisite: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)

This program is designed to temporary circumvent the "An add-on for this web site failed to run. Check the security settings in Internet options for potential conflicts" error after installing IE8. For more details about this problem, visit https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=425510

Update: the VC team's workaround is at http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/03/28/some-vs2005-and-vs2008-wizards-pop-up-script-error.aspx. However, I still suggest copying other settings from a restricted zone before modify the 1207 key.

Clicking the create button will create another Internet Explorer security zone with the id 1000 that will affect all urls not included in other zones. This will allow separate security settings for webbrowser control hosting application such as Visual Studio. If settings are copied from a trusted configuration such as "my computer",a webbrowser control hosting application may not experience the aforementioned error.

Security Remarks: do not visit unsecured web site or use email software on the same computer after creating the new zone as the security impact of the new zone is not yet tested. Applications that host webbrowser control should implement their own security manager if they want to run ActiveX in the browser control.

If you received a fix from the IE team for this problem, please delete the zone created by this problem by clicking the delete button. Visit https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=425510 for the status of this problem.

For more information about adding zones to IE, visit http://www.nthelp.com/50/addazone.htm .

For more information about Internet Explorer security zones, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182569

For more information about Visual C++ wizards, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730846(VS.80).aspx

Suspicious url actions from Regmon logs:

• 2700 URLACTION_INPRIVATE_BLOCKING (Don’t think Visual Studio know what is the private mode)
• 2106 URLACTION_FEATURE_DATA_BINDING (a lot of these in the registry log)
• 1207 URLACTION_ACTIVEX_OVERRIDE_REPURPOSEDETECTION (not sure what this is doing, but it is the only one between URLACTION_ACTIVEX_MIN and URLACTION_ACTIVEX_MAX)
• 160A URLACTION_HTML_INCLUDE_FILE_PATH

I have a web service that runs fine on my Windows XP. However, when I deploy to the production server, the web service returns 415 Unsupported Media Type when calling.

I have seen this error when WSE is not enabled on the client. The problem is, the web service is NOT using WSE. so I did the usual, uninstall ASP.Net, reinstalling, adding asmx extension to IIS, same error.

Now I need to fire a debugger to see what’s going on. Surprisingly, Microsoft.Web.Services3.dll is loaded even when there is no trace of it in my projects. Now I probably know what’s going on. There is another web service in a different virtual directory that uses WSE.

OK, I will isolate my web service to a new application pool. Well, that does not help. In the end I have to add WSE configuration to both my web service and my Windows client.

• New warning message in MFC9:Warning: Creating dialog from within a COleControlModule application is not a supported scenario. Comments: when people takes the time to add a warning, there must be a reason.
• shdoclc.dll missing when trying to customize WebBrowser control context menu Comments: a hack is a hack. It can stop working anytime, even if the hack if from Microsoft.
• 建议微软不验证XP并为XP用户免费提供升级 从而扩大。NET的范围 Comments: people can dream.
• Programatically activating a Deskband under Windows XP Comments: Glad I have Vista!

今年微软最有价值专家的奖品好重，是一个很大的水晶奖杯

后面那个红红的忘记是去年的最有价值专家还是最有影响力开发者的奖杯了，前后脚到的。微软中国也比较浪费，不同项目的奖品也不一起邮寄。

刚刚又收到英文MSDN论坛的通知说我是MSDN Forum Influencer，奖励一个背包，我的2004年MVP奖的那个背包要挂了，正好能用上。

Boris Jabes 和Damien Watkins将会在PDC上演示Visual C++10中的新功能。IDE的新功能包括基于SQL Compact的智能提示、 支持自定义插件的新的项目和编译系统、面向大型应用的优化和改善的调试体验。MFC库增加了对Windows 7 中新增的多点触摸检测功能和高DPI支持，以及Windows Vista中集成的功能，例如高彩图标 、 Windows 搜索和重启管理器。Visual C++程序员们才习惯不用MFC来直接调API。

MFC是很老了，不容易学，也不优雅，但是很稳定，也有很多第三方扩展和示例支持。其他的用户界面库还有很多，但是单单用户界面并不能完成一个程序。在调用操作系统的底层功能的时候，有一个面向对象的接口还是很方便的。

In Visual C# 2005 SP1, I added an object data source to a web page that uses my business class as the select method. The method has one parameter of type Guid. The data source wizard generates code like this

<asp:Parameter DbType="Guid" Name="rowId" />

Although the web server has .Net 2.0 SP1 installed (I checked the registry), it still throws an error

Type 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.Parameter' does not have a public property named 'DbType'

The walk around is easy:

<asp:Parameter Type="Object" Name="rowId" />

To use Microsoft Office Live, your computer must meet one of the following requirements:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7, running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista. You can download Internet Explorer from the Windows Internet Explorer page.
Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.2.x and later. You can download Firefox from the Firefox download page.

Looks like the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence award I got a few years ago...