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Hi everyone,

I hardly ever use this account and have made the mistake of not updating the password for a looooong time.  which is the only way I can think of nasty hax0rs getting into my account.  So... I think I've sorted it out but if it continues then I will close this account.  

What are we up to??  Lots of work still on the house (in the UK).  madly trying to get things ready before xmas.  If you need any DIY tips then be sure to ask.  By the end of this I will have covered off most things including carpentry, plastering, elec, roofing, painting and decorating.

That's all for now.  (Although if you do need some CD's and mp3's... no just kidding)

All the best, 

The Wakefields.

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Secure Metadata in WCF

I've set up a service to be hosted in IIS using wsHttpBinding and want the mex endpoint to be secure as well. I got the following error:

Security settings for this service require 'Anonymous' Authentication but it is not enabled for the IIS application that hosts this service.

There is no way I can have anonymous access enabled in IIS so what do you do?

Short answer: don't use mexHttpsBinding (or mexHttpBinding for that matter).

I've already got a wsHttpBinding and associated binding configuration, so I've just modified the existing mex endpoint.

From:

<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpsBinding" name="mexHttps"
contract="IMetadataExchange" />

To:

<endpoint address="mex" binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="wsSecureBinding" name="mexHttps" contract="IMetadataExchange" />


This assumes you already have a bindingConfiguration called wsSecureBinding.

Convert VS2005 to VS2005 changes xml namespace of typed dataset

A warning for anyone who is converting a solution from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008 - the conversion wizard may change the xml namespace of your strongly typed datasets. 

I've just had a scenario where an upgraded project failed to perform the typedDS.ReadXml() method. The xml fragment to be loaded had the namespace specified and hence since the ds namespace was changed no longer loaded the xml. This resulted in an empty dataset. After some digging I found that the namespace in the typedDS.Designer.cs file had been changed as part of the conversion.

Cheers.

Payment Required

Living in the UK still provides a few surprises even after being here for 18mths now. I'm used to have to pay for parking... everywhere you go, but I wasn't prepared when I had to pay to pump up the tyres of my car. I went to a different garage since I refused to be charged. There also you had to pay. I asked a taxi driver who had just finished using the pump if there was anywhere that you didn't have to pay. Nope, you pay everywhere. Wow. It was only 20p, but it all adds up.

100km of dirt for charity

A few weeks ago I did a 100K mountain bike ride. It was a great challenge (took me about 7 hours) & I enjoyed it. So much so I've decided to do another one. But this time I'm going to raise some money for charity. My chosen charity is HOPE worldwide. Would you like to sponsor me? Please do. I'll be doing the ride on the 6th July in Wales. It’s a tough course and worth the effort to raise money for a charity. 2800m total climbing (about the same as going up and down Snowdon three times in a day).

HOPE worldwide are an international charity who I've fundraised for before in Australia. Over here in the UK they do work with the homeless and drug addicts. The homeless project is called 2-step. And it's a very simple, basically HOPE finds homeless people who want to get off the streets (believe me, not all do, which does seem a little bizarre to me, but that's what some choose) & then finds them a place to live, puts up the deposit and gets them started with the basics - clothes, linen, food etc, whatever they need. HOPE pays the rent and helps them to claim the benefits they're entitled to. The UK does have a great welfare system, but unfortunately it is dependent on having an address, and so once you're homeless it can be a very difficult cycle to get out of. Once in accommodation, these people can then make the necessary claims, get work etc, and so become self sufficient.

The charity website is at http://hopeworldwide.org.uk/ if you're interested have a look and you'll see some info about the other work that is carried out in the UK.

Please sponsor me, it is a worthwhile cause and I'll be riding very hard!

I have set up a justgiving webpage where you can sponsor me http://www.justgiving.com/scottwakefield

SharePoint 2007 Wiki Features (not)

GrabBag<T>: SharePoint 2007 Wiki - not a fan

The other great news is that iframes are not supported in SharePoint 2007 Wikis. I had the cheek to put an iframe of a TWiki page into a SharePoint wiki page (using the HTML view). It stripped out the iframe tags (and left behind the alt text).