Monthly Archives: January 2007

Windows XP and Windows Vista dual boot

Posted on January 31, 2007 by chanmingman

Windows XP and Windows Vista dual boot I cannot find many articles or cannot actually find any useful article talking about Windows Vista and Windows XP dual boot. To me, I do dual boot is all because the non-Microsoft software … Continue reading →

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The Data Connection Wizard cannot obtain a list of database from the specified data source

Posted on January 27, 2007 by chanmingman

When using Excel 2007 to access Analysis Services in Windows Vista. “The Data Connection Wizard cannot obtain a list of database from the specified data source”. Before you can hit this error you must build an OLAP cube (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174896.aspx). To … Continue reading →

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Microsoft TECHNET & MSDN Briefing 16th January 2007 and 18th January 2007

Posted on January 24, 2007 by chanmingman

Microsoft TECHNET & MSDN Briefing 16th January 2007 and 18th January 2007 Slide download for Real-Time Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Do visit Maria Johansson blog for Exchange Server 2007 Overview  http://blogs.technet.com/mariaj/

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Calling C# web services using C++/CLR

Posted on January 23, 2007 by chanmingman

Calling C# web services using C++/CLR To a group of people who might want to try to call web service that has written in VB.NET or C# this is how the way of doing it. Firstly, I am creating a … Continue reading →

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I need to resume download

Posted on January 21, 2007 by chanmingman

I need to resume download. I am using Windows Vista for since RTM. I still say IE download … good luck. MSDN download using Microsoft File Transfer Manager, good, I just want to resume. The problem is not all downloads … Continue reading →

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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 “Access Deny”

Posted on January 14, 2007 by chanmingman

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 “Access Deny” I have downloaded Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX100503841033.aspx) 2 weeks ago. The file size is around 80MB. When I was happily trying to install in a PIII Windows 2003 Server box the first component … Continue reading →

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Bug in 101 samples for .Net 2003

Posted on January 9, 2007 by chanmingman

I discovered something interesting today. For the developers that like C# will probably remember C# 101 samples for .Net 2003. Under the Data Access category there is a sample called “Data Access – Data Entry Form”. There is a bug … Continue reading →

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.Net Framework 3.0 for Dummies

Posted on January 1, 2007 by chanmingman

They are many developers in the local IT community is asking "Is .Net Framework 3.0 replacing .Net Framework 2.0?"   Let me just extract the parts that I like from the article "Deploying Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.0" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/netfx30.asp).   … Continue reading →

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