Developer Ramblings

If you having the dreaded Windows Installer Stopped Working issues like below. I have been fighting with getting the java SDK installed because of this issue :( try the following. start regedit navigate to HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftSQMClientWindowsDisabledSessions rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling   This fix does work for me but i cannot take credit for it. I found it on at the following link. http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/2349-windows-installer-cant-install-any-msi-package-4.html

So this is just an quick post for finding out the VMWare ESX version you are running. First connect to any one of your ESX servers. You can use any SSH utility but I like Putty. You can download it here http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/   Once logged into the ESX box. you can run the command vmware –v This will give you the output like As you can see, we are not doing a good job keeping up….

  Recently I have been using twitter a lot. Not for the “Here I am” type of stuff, but more for information distribution and consumption. Its a great resource and most likely will be the blog replacement of 2009.   Another great twitter app is www.twitterleague.com. If you haven’t checked it out, you should. You can use it to find twitter leagues and the members of those leagues. Here is the sharepoint league that i follow. You can follow me on twitter @ http://twitter.com/johnmcbride Have a good new year and BE SAFE!!

I recently had a requirement to extract some information from a InfoPath XML form stored in a SharePoint library and show it in an external application. The problem here was that we were using infopath forms services. and every time I tried to open up the XML file from code i would get a redirection error. GRRRRR…. Obviously, using the SharePoint OM would be the the quickest way for this, but it this app was not going to be run on the server. The trick to this is to append this “?noredirect=true” without the quotes, to the URL that is... [Read More]

We are converting some of the code on a current project to use LINQ as opposed to straight SQL but being diligent architects we don’t want to break the signatures of the methods returning the information. All of these methods were returning a System.Data.DataTable object for consumption by objects/controls. So the solution to this problem would be to perform the LINQ query inside the method without changing the signature and just return a DataTable. Well, fortunately for us Andres and the LINQ guys made this quiet simple. For this example I am using the Sysobjects table from the master DB... [Read More]