I discovered this work around when I could not install Windows Live Writer.  The company I did work for does not allow the use of Windows Update.  This article allows you to do the work around.  Something about this does not make much sense in terms of security.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387285.aspx

I am reaching out the BlogEngine.Net community.

I am writing a book for the BlogEngine.Net version 1.4! 

I am covering the whole gambit with BE.N.  I am taking an approach that I hope many of you will like.  I plan on the basics for newcomers, a lot more depth for the developers and I am going to include a section for creating themes.  If you are a beginning developer, just getting into C#, or just a hobbyist you will like this book.  I am going to demonstrate many of the C# Design Patterns that are used in BE.N and you can use them in your own code.  Together we will create extensions, themes, widgets, and perhaps a custom XML multi-blog provider. 

The book is going to be an e-book initially because I believe in being green as possible.  I have a local publisher working with me on distribution and press print. 

If anyone is wanting to preorder let me know.  I will begin posting more information about the book as it becomes available.

If you have any questions or comments please please give them to me.  I want to address as much as possible in the first release.

Here is a list of ping services that I use with BlogEngine.  I know some are redundant but I like back ups.

You can download the pingservices.zip file here.  There is only the pingservices.xml file that you need, or you can use the list below.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php?url=http://www.yourblog.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://www.imblogs.net/ping
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://www.godesigngroup.com
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed/
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

For some strange reason I had not run into this issue before.  It looks something like this....

Security Exception

I spent too much time looking for the solution.  I understood what needed to be accomplished but did not know how to get there.  I did not know that CSLA required Full Trust.  I just did not think about it.  What's weird is that there was nothing significant on the web to tell you how to fix it with CSLA.  Lots of options but no CLEAR example.  So if you are running a web site and need to allow for Full Trust then here you are.

In the web.config file between the <system.web></system.web> nodes add this....

<trust level="Full" originUrl="yourURL" processRequestInApplicationTrust = "True" />

This makes it quick and dirty.  I am sure you could make it even tighter but I just needed to get it up and running.  You can find more this setting here at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tkscy493.aspx.  I now make it a practice to add this setting to all of my applications.

The fix so far is to use this

 Change to this to your web.config

Give it a try.

MADS has done it again.  He wrote an extension that takes what is dubbed "autolinks".  This page is a demonstration of how it works.  Here are some of my autolinks

lmc;

kjs;

BE;

HAACKED;

sz

There are some things to consider when using the autolinks.  It is in testing.  If you are interested here is the code.

AutoLink.zip (1.28 kb)

If you ever get stuck burning an ISO image to DVD here is the trick.

"I found however that the dvdburn.exe utility that is included with the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools did the trick.

I installed the resource kit tools under Vista, and then just had to open a cmd prompt and type:

 dvdburn d: {imagefilename} /erase

where {imagefilename} was the fully qualified path to the iso image I wanted to burn."

Courtesy of ....

One Man Shouting - How To Burn an ISO DVD Image under Windows Vista (5308)

Having problems with finding time servers? 

A friend asked me about this and here where two answers.  We used the first one listed first time around.  You should see the differences between the solutions.

• Attaching a Single-File Database

The stored procedure is under the Master database. -RDC

A single-file database is a database that have only one data file. When a database comprises only one data file, the database can be attached to an instance of SQL Server 2000 without using the transaction log file. When the data file will be attached, SQL Server will create a new transaction log file automatically.

To attach a single-file database, you can use the sp_attach_single_file_db system stored procedure. The syntax for sp_attach_single_file_db system stored procedure is as follows:

sp_attach_single_file_db [ @dbname = ] 'dbname' , [ @physname = ] 'physical_name'

• [@dbname =] 'dbname' is the database name. 'dbname' is nvarchar(128), a default value is NULL.
• [@physname =] 'phsyical_name' is the database file name. 'phsyical_name' is nvarchar(260), a default value is NULL.
  
  

This is the example to attach only one data file of the pubs database from the C:\MSSQL\Data directory:



EXEC sp_attach_single_file_db @dbname = 'pubs', @physname = 'C:\MSSQL\Data\pubs.mdf'

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I am following up on my blog about ctfmon.  I did a performance analysis and my visual studio worked and responded better without ctfmon running.  Features like hitting F4 then typing the text for a control would not work with ctfmon running.  So, I kicked the ctfmon and got going faster and better without it.  You need ctfmon if you are going to use handwriting and language to text, etc.  How many people are using these features?  None that I am aware.  Follow this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326526.  I used only removing from the Office Installation.  The other steps were not necessary for me.