Kit Kai's Tech Blog

Support your Microsoft community for a good cause...

2009-05-18T02:38:00-07:00

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I think Microsoft makes history again, with first beta software with a movie trailer!

2009-05-13T09:11:00-07:00

http://www.office2010themovie.com/...(read more)

Damn impressed with Virtual CD!

2009-05-05T19:33:00-07:00

I'm attending training this week, and I'm using virtualised Windows 2003 R2 given by the training company. I'm also using Windows 7 on my laptop, hence I need to upgrade the integration services. During the upgrade, Windows 2003 R2 dvd is required. I was thinking to myself, oh no! Must download from MSDN over 3G! :( Then I remember I was mounting ISO using Virtual CD over network at home whenever I'm reinstalling my OS. Then I was wondering if I could do the same over internet......(read more)

Vista SP2 as guest on HyperV

2009-05-04T08:36:00-07:00

For those playing with Vista SP2 (why am I doing this??!!) on Hyper-V, and no matter what they do, integration services just don't get installed properly, don't panick... Pop in the SP2 for Windows 2008, wait damn long (30 min to 1 hour) for the update to complete, then install the new integration services, and you are good to go....(read more)

CAS, help to deliver more secure code?

2009-04-05T19:16:00-07:00

Many preach that deployment of assembly to GAC is a potential security breach, as codes are run with full trust. So many advocate deploying your assemblies to the Bin directory and use CAS to give them the necessary rights to run. I've been working on a customisation to improve wiki and forum functionality in SharePoint to better support a technical community. I decided to give CAS a try, and deploy to Bin (my work are mostly POCs, hence I just deploy to GAC). It was difficult at the beginning...(read more)

One of the few reasons I don't believe in Cloud Computing... Yet...

2009-04-02T20:12:00-07:00

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1308&tag=nl.e539 This is already the second time information is leaked from Google. So if you have NDA information, or company secrets inside Google, be warned!...(read more)

7 weeks old Little Caleb say "Hello" to you all!

2009-03-31T19:39:00-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=86101991840...(read more)

Live Mesh, my initial thoughts

2009-03-29T20:13:00-07:00

After reading Andrew Connell's post on Live Mesh, I've decided to give it a try, and see if it can replace Live Sync, which is working very well on my computers, except that it doesn't do mobile sync, or web sync. Basically, I'm looking at Live Mesh to meet two short comings of Live Sync 1. Web Sync of certain folders, so that I can have access to some files outside my own workstations. 2. Ability to sync sub folders to someone else. E.g. I've set up sync for community projects...(read more)

DUH: Checking if the person have certain rights before rendering certain information

2009-03-19T17:45:00-07:00

Pardon my yet another very "expressive" post. Wasted quite a bit of precious time, especially when the work I'm doing is community work, and a new born baby is competing with this precious resource. (More to come!) Again, SDK says if you want to check if the person have approval rights (CAML), then render certain stuff, you use <RightsGroup PermApproveItems="Required" />I use this without really testing it in an existing field, and now there is something wierd going...(read more)

DUH: Defining a user field which you can select multiple people

2009-03-19T17:38:00-07:00

Pardon my very "expressive" post. Wasted quite a bit of precious time, especially when the work I'm doing is community work, and a new born baby is competing with this precious resource. SDK says, to define a field (using caml in field definition) to be a person field, which allows multiple selection, you need to set the type to "UserMulti". The value of this field will be return as SPFieldUserValueCollection. I was able to retrieve the field, but I can't figure out why...(read more)

EU at its !@#$%^&. Can they use their collective brain before they investigate any antitrust complains?

2009-01-19T07:06:00-08:00

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39596616,00.htm How does EU expects home users to download a browser without a IE in windows? Command prompt? How about asking consumers what they want, instead of applying their antitrust muscle on us? I don't want to go download IE everytime I format my machine! Oh, just for your information, Opera, if you are good enough for people to use, (like firefox), people will download you to use, even if I have IE!...(read more)

A tip for those who intend to dual boot between Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2...

2009-01-11T20:33:00-08:00

If you haven't already install Windows 7, install Windows 2008 R2 first, then install Windows 7. I'm not very sure all the technicalities, as I can't find boot.ini which I know exist in Windows XP, which would let the PC know what OS is available to boot to. All i can say is Windows 2008 probably changes the partition it is on to the active boot partition, hence doesn't maintain boot information that shows the existence of a Windows 7 boot partition. Hence if you install Windows 2008...(read more)

Installing Integration Services into Several Virtual Machines Simultaneously...

2008-12-21T19:02:00-08:00

Doesn't work.... ' I'm in the process of setting up a POC environment for a tender I'm working on. It consist of more than 7 virtual machines. Obviously I will use HyperV, instead of VMWare, which is what the client is using, since I have all the OSs sysprep, and it would take much less time for me to get the environment up. So after booting all the virtual machines up, the first thing to do is obviously to install the integration service. Do it all together, you will get an error...(read more)

Mix-It-Up, Touch-It-Up

2008-12-08T08:11:00-08:00

Innovation is touching down in Singapore! See it with your own eyes and hear it directly from Mr Tim Huckaby, a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” as he shares on Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and Microsoft Surface! This session will be heavily demo focused to accentuate how the power of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 2.0 can be used to visualize data. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for building rich Windows smart client...(read more)

Some of the pitfalls of windows 7 M3 build you need to be aware of

2008-11-13T18:37:00-08:00

The two major ones are Losing Sleep (If you load all your daily-used applications and use it like a production OS) Whenever my windows 7 laptop goes into sleep or hibernation, when it tries to wake up, you get BSOD. On a bare minimum Windows 7, you won't get this. Unlocking the hidden features of Windows 7 www.withinwindows.com shares that there are hidden features in the M3 build that is not available to people who are not under Microsoft's payroll. Workaround are given to unlock those features...(read more)