Microsoft's SoftGrid Video

With Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, you can turn Windows applications into centrally managed, virtual services that are never installed, and can be instantly streamed to any desktop or laptop. In this one-hour video, learn how SoftGrid's virtualization technology can simplify desktop administration by automating processes for deploying, patching, updating, and terminating applications. It is now easier—and requires fewer IT resources—to address complex critical business projects such as OS and application migrations, security refreshes, and disaster recovery plans.

As an ISV I am trying to think how I could leverage this to ease my deployments.

This old code is now back up and running on thisoldcode.microfisch.com its old home where 99% of the perma links exist.  It turns out I had tried redirecting with a CName and this caused an issue with the forwarding.  If the Godaddy tech that I waited on for 5 hours bothered to look at the site settings rather then telling me to wait 48 hours I would have been up faster.  Why offer support if you just brush people off.  You only anger your customers that know it doesn't really take 48 hours to update DNS and if you ping the site and it resolves something is not right.  What ever happened to customer service?  I will be calling support from now on.

How nice Donny@nilsabbas DotCom sent me malware

To view your eCard, choose from the options below.

Click on the following link.

http://www.americangreetingsDoTcom/ecards/view.pd?i=439899392&m=2157&rr=y&source=ag999 <http://americangreetingscDoTnet/en/viewcard.html>

Or copy and paste the above link into your web browser's "address" window.

If you have any comments or questions, please visit

http://www.americangreetingsDoTcom/help/index.pd?source=ag999 <http://americangreetingscDoTnet/en/viewcard.html>

Thanks for using AmericanGreetings

So sweet.

Even though a call to tech support should take 5 minutes of wait time i chose email with a 5 hour wait time.

My Question: 

Over the weekend I removed my subdomain and created a new one for forwarding so thisoldcode.microfisch.com would forward to thisoldcode.net
If i ping thisolcode.microfisch.com it resolves to thisoldcode.net however if I try to browse the site in the webbrowser I receive Bad Request (Invalid Hostname). I am not sure if the DNS still needs time to propagate through your servers or, I have an incorrect setting

Godaddy Reply:

Dear Aaron Fischer,
Thank you for contacting Online Support. Changes to the settings of a domain take up to 48 hours to become effective because of the number of networks involved, and because these networks are controlled by several different agencies. This delay applies to all domains with any Registrar, not just Go Daddy. Please allow for this delay when planning web sites or configuring a domain to work with your services.
If, after 48 hours has passed, you still receive the same issue please contact us so that we can further investigate. I apologize for any inconvenience.

This is my blog the most outward facing site I have, its partially(Perma links are dead for all intents and purposes) down for any one that uses the old link so I am a little nervous about down time.  Would it have been to much for the tech to look at my settings and reassure me its just a mater of time for the DNS to resolve properly?

Check out the TechNet Webcast

TechNet Webcast: The Next Release of Microsoft SQL Server: Overview

O'Reilly announced they are now selling one chapter of a book very similar to the buying songs online

(Buy O'Reilly Books by the Chapter) I am not sure how usefully this is typically songs stand quite nicely by them selves but a single chapter in a book?  For 3.99 a chapter it only takes about 3-4 chapters to justify buying the whole book.  I will admit I do have a few books where a few chapters were a waste of my time, sadly you have to read said chapter before you make that evaluation.  In music you hear the song on MTV, Radio, or Sirius.  How do I preview the chapter before I buy? 

SunbeltBlog posted on one of the vicious IRS phishing sites and Earthlinks incompetent handling of the situation.

A dangerous, live IRS phish -- and the abuse desks are closed

Scott posted a nice article Tip/Trick: Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005  for deploying your Visual Studio 2005 project.  While Scott's article is focused on deploying to a customer I have found those scenarios to be beyond what VS offers and requires Install shield.  I do this this post is a handy trick for moving your project from dev to QA to staging maybe even production.

If your moving MFC or C++ extensions to dot net 2.0 here are a few items you might find useful

• Dudelabs offers RC converter which will take MFC resource files and convert them into Winform ( I have played with the demo it looks like it will help this conversion process).
• Microsoft offers VC++ 2003 Managed Extensions to VC++2005 C++/CLI Conversion Tool, a tool that was never finished but allows help for converting managed extensions to C++/CLI.  You can down load it here
• Microsoft has a C++/CLI Migration Primer that is worth a read.
• Microsoft also has Managed Extensions for C++ Syntax Upgrade Checklist article.
• Another Microsoft article Translation Guide: Moving Your Programs from Managed Extensions for C++ to C++/CLI
• Codeproject has dot net Document Management Toolkit Library adds the idea of document/view
• Codeproject also has C# SDI/MDI Application wizards
• Codeguru has a article on Converting dialog resources to C# forms Dialog Resource to C# Form Converter