Developer Ramblings

As technology advances and we, as developers, have so many technologies to choose from when developing a system (SilverLight, Touch based interfaces, MVC, AJAX, SharePoint,etc), enterprises still face an application delivery problem, even with technologies like Citrix or VMWare, users have too many places to go to get their applications! It should be simpler!! It is with that that I put together this article along with some downloadable content so that you can add the web part to your SharePoint environment and use the application provisioning tool for provisioning applications. This will be the first of a few articles talking... [Read More]

IF you have ESX Servers somewhere in your environment you are probably going to want you ESX systems to send out SNMP traps of its state. Well, by default SNMP if turned off in the ESX install, so you will have to do some manual configuration to get it up and running. No worries though, below I have listed to steps to get a simple SNMP service up and running on the ESX box. The first step, is you want to log into you ESX device as root. I use putty but you can  use your favorite tool here. Next,... [Read More]

There might be a time in which you need to strongly name the VimServer.dll that gets created from the WSDL within the SDK. If you need help with that, check out a previous  post here I wont re-hash the previous article but will just focus on making the DLL strongly named. The first step is to create a private/public key pair. You can do this by using the .NET SDK utility sn.exe. This will create a signing file for you, that you can now use for signing. Now, if you are going to use this is production, I would probably... [Read More]

“I finally was able to get the VseWSS 1.3 CTP that supports 64bit windows installed. Installation went pretty uneventful. So I fire up VS 2008 and create a new WebPart project. All is going swimmingly so far. Go to deploy the project KerPlunk!!! Get the “The communication object…..” error message. Shown below. I seem to remember, some time ago that this message was related to WCF not being registered correctly. So after some research i came across running the following command “ServiceModelReg.exe –r” from your .NET installed directory. Mine is on 64 bit so the location was in the following... [Read More]

If you are writing .NET code using the VMWare SDK, you already know that the ESX host its self has the set of web services installed on it that we use in order to interact with the VMWare system. One thing you might not know, is that if you have Virtual Center installed in your environment, that device also has the ESX Web Services installed on it. Now, what is the difference? Well, in fact there are really no differences in the web services themselves, just what actions are available to each system using the web services. For example, if... [Read More]