Richard Wysocki

The hardest Part of working on your own is actually coming up with what to work on. Since I wanted to actually code tonight or review code, I copied my CampusMessenger Application and I'm building out the RTS Verification Service tonight. I got it done enough to Compile. Most of it is just gutting the CampusMessenger application down to the lines where it is doing the Calls to the RTS . Should be 2 more days of work at night. Maybe I'll finally win that QTRly award. Seems like the deployment team owns that. If I have time, Tomorrow, I'll starting Posting my new Development Ideas online so I can quickly pull them up. Also need to get some more personal stuff on my site. Don't want it to go too long before I start back on that. Especially with the Sharepoint 2007 class coming up soon. Darn, need to get the baby sitters going on that one. See you soon.

Finally got the SharePoint 2007 VMware virtual Done. It sure isn't hard if you follow the instuctions , but yes it takes a long time. VMware again is king. Sorry Microsoft. I should charge about $200.00 to build these out. Hourly costs, it wouldn't pay for it but again, its not that hard, just takes time. I so have all of the patches installed and my Defrag is basically ALL green. This HD should fly now. Just took the snap shot so I can get back to this base image as soon as I want to again. http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28 Now I'll have to list out some small task to do. First thing should be a simple Web part in the site. Next some Changes to the Master pages, etc.. Then looking at the Web services built into Sharepoint . Then its probably back to re-looking at how to put CampusDish into Sharepoint . I want a Clean evnironment , even if we can't upgrade CampusDish ( CMS 2002) to Sharepoint (2007). I'd

Well, its been a few days. Way to busy when the wife works nights. I don't mind it but after putting the 2 girls to bed, its tough. I probably should be playing more than working on the computer. We did walk down to Genuardi's . That was fun with the Double stroller and then running back most of the way because Ashley was starting to cry. Today was spent fighting with my Work Labtop . I'd like to shoot that thing. Tonight was reading up on setting up a Sharepoint Virtual. I'm not even at the point of Installing Sharepoint . I'm using VMware which is great compared to Virtual PC 2004. I did a Clone(hope that was a Branch) and installed the SMTP and IIS settings. Already have SQL 2005 and VS.net 2005 installed on that PC. Go figure, but MSDN.microsoft.com is down. I can't log in to get Office 2007. Its like Step 3 or 4 in the process. So I just installed the Deamon ISO tool in the VMware . Always can use that for installs. Nothing else exciting. Just so much

Had a Great day on Tuesday, Oct 2 nd with Microsoft. They sure have some great new products coming out. Sharepoint 2007, Silverlight 1.1, Biztalk , SQL Server Analysis with Proclarity . The Analysis build into SQL Server is nice. Finance would be loving it. I'll have to do a demo of that soon. Biztalk for our Commerce Server implementation would be nice. Its just so expensive. 1 Server is bad enough but for a load balanced solution, forget it. Tonight, I'll have to try converting a Virtual PC to a VMWare virtual. Sorry Microsoft, I just hear VMware is so much better and my Virtual PC's are so slow, even with a Core 2 Duo, 2 GM Ram. Yes, I should look at Firewire next time. Concerning the www.RichardWysocki.com website. I put up some SQL Reporting Services tips last night. They were from studying/reading the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services book by Brian Larson. I just loved that book. Oh, I put up my resume too. Enjoy. Yes, a resume is boring,

The site sure isn't perfect and its taking me a lot longer to type up, but last evening, I uploaded 2 additional examples. One is a shell C# Windows Service which just writes out to a text file. I'll continue to upgrade this as I want to include some additional comments on how to install/ un -install the service as well as changes to the Service name when you do install it. The second example is a fully functional SQL 2005 Database script to encrypt data. I can't tell you how much I always hate having to compile a separate DLL to encrypt/decrypt sensitive data. Now SQL can do it for you. Shell Windows Service http://www.richardwysocki.com/Csharp/WindowsService.aspx SQL Server 2005 Database Encryption http://www.richardwysocki.com/SQLServer2005/DataEncryption.aspx

Read up online on how to create this and I'll post an examples very soon. http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/022107-1.aspx