Recently I have wanted to be able to send SMS messages to my contacts without having to pick up my phone and mess around with the mini keyboard (I wanted to do it directly from PC, but have the message still send by the phone… There are solutions around that allow you to send [...]
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Redirector HttpModule
December 19th, 2007
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Originally I had my website set up to default to my blog (so dasBlog was installed at the website root level instead of in a /blog subfolder). Recently I have been writing some Web Applications and wanted to restructure my website so that there is a subfolder for each app / main area (blog, projects, [...]
Insert Geo Microformat Plugin for Windows Live Writer
September 15th, 2007
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I have just completed a new Windows Live Writer plugin. This extension allows ease insertion of geo microformat information. It allows the user to easily choose the location they want to insert (in microformat) from a Virtual Earth map and also configure how it is displayed (if at all on the post. Recently I (with [...]
GeoRss for dasBlog
September 8th, 2007
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I have completed stage one of GeoRss enabling dasBlog. In the config page I added some options for enabling GeoRss, specifying a default lat/long and enabling ‘integration’ with Google maps. There is also an option to use the default lat/long for any non geocoded posts. If GeoRss is enabled then the edit entry screen [...]
MSCRM Importing Does Not Honor Create Dates
August 20th, 2007
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Some of the code I have for importing data (from ACT! 2000) to MS CRM creates new ‘PhoneCall’ activities / objects. The problem is, that it seems MSCRM does not allow you to programmatically modify the ‘create date’. Here is the code I use… phonecall pc CrmDateTime start = new CrmDateTime(); [...]
dasBlog 2.0 Released
August 16th, 2007
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So dasBlog 2.0 (running under AS.NET 2.0 and medium trust) is now released. Scott has a great write up on it. I have been running this web site on it for a few weeks now and it’s been fine. We sneaked in a couple of last minute features (one of mine was a new macro [...]
Activity RSS for dasBlog
July 20th, 2007
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A few months ago I added a ‘Daily Report Email’ feature to dasBlog, so I could have the activity reports (referrers, searches etc) delivered to my mailbox at the end of every day.I wanted to take this one step further and deliver it via RSS (and dasBlog is a RSS engine after all). There were [...]
MSCRM Migrating Accounts
July 3rd, 2007
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So after some poor experiences with the MSCRM Data Migration framework I decided to get pragmatic and write a C# app to do the migration. The CDF is poorly documented at best, it seems they (Microsoft) give you a bunch of database tables, an Excel spreadsheet outlining the schema and a ‘Good Luck’. There is [...]
C# class to update DynDNS
June 19th, 2007
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I’m in Western Mass (Westboro, MA) again this week and while that normally means 16 hour days (there is nothing much else to do but sit around a hotel room so why not…), this week I decided to work on a personal project for a bit. Part of it was some code to check a machines public [...]
Migrating to MSCRM using CDF
June 1st, 2007
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Just didn’t work for me. I had it all set up as per the docs, imported the data into the CDF database, tried to ‘Migrate’ and it completed but migrated no records (even though I had 8000+ in the CDF tables). I tried both the snippets I gleaned from googling : Make user the user does [...]
