January 2008 Entries

Installing WPF in Visual Studio 2005 with .NET 3.0 sp1

In an effort to stay up to date with the changing technology and languages, I tried to install the WPF extensions for Visual Studio 2005 on my computer only to be rebuffed by Windows Installer. Here is the error message: Setup has detected that a prerequisite is missing. To use Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP you must have the .NET Framework 3.0 runtime installed. Please install the .NET Framework 3.0 runtime and restart setup I saw several recommendations to uninstall .NET 3.0 sp1 and then install the extensions and...

posted @ Monday, January 28, 2008 9:44 PM | Feedback (0)

SOAP Acronym Doesn't Mean Anything

Well, you learn something new every day. I didn't know that the acronym formerly-known as SOAP, aka Simple Object Access Protocol, is no longer an acronym and is just a protocol and means nothing. Note:In previous versions of this specification the SOAP name was an acronym. This is no longer the case. Source: SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1

posted @ Monday, January 21, 2008 2:14 PM | Feedback (0)

SVG Building Map (Part 2)

building.aspx: SVG Part 2 sample BuildingSample02.zip: source (9KB) Note: Eventually all of the Building Map samples will be converted to Silverlight for comparison. In the last installment, I showed a simple example of a building map with static personnel information that worked with both Internet Explorer and FireFox. In this post I will add dynamic building information by generating JavaScript from SQL Server data. Step 1: Define a SQL table I defined a simple SQL table to store the information for the building occupants. The schema will become more sophisticated as the samples progress, so I...

posted @ Friday, January 11, 2008 9:18 PM | Feedback (0)