Cool. The WSUS Wiki just saved my day - I got the error SelfUpdate Tree is not working, which quite unsurprisingly cropped up thanks to a rather looked down setup of IIS...

The following dates and locations have been announced for my TechTalk Tools zur erfolgreichen Softwareentwicklung mit .NET:

06.06. Karlsruhe
07.06. Stuttgart
08.06. München
09.06. Nürnberg
14.06. Dresden
15.06. Hannover
16.06. Berlin
20.06. Frankfurt a.M.
21.06. Düsseldorf
22.06. Bremen 

See you!

Two more important downloads in addition to all the other B2 craze:

• SQL Server 2005 Express April CTP
• SQL Server 2005 Express Manager April CTP

The # of VPC images starts skyrocketing (now that's a stupid word combination) on my dev machine...

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/golive/license/default.aspx

If you want to deploy applications on Beta 2 for live internal usage or by third parties, you need to accept the Go-Live license.

As everyone is blogging about the obvious, I will stick to the more interesting bits (in my opinion, of course). For example, the updated Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Installation Guide.

From the "shameless self-promotion departement": we just pushed 1.1PR out the door. You can read the detailed announcement here. It has a bunch of cool new features, now we enter the stablization and polishing phase. Shouldn't take too long to follow it up with a Beta.

Just seen on NTBugtraq, quote from the Web site: SQLRecon performs both active and passive scans of your network in order to identify all of the SQL Server/MSDE installations in your enterprise. Due to the proliferation of personal firewalls, inconsistent network library configurations, and multiple-instance support, SQL Server installations are becoming increasingly difficult to discover, assess, and maintain.

SQLRecon is designed to remedy this problem by combining all known means of SQL Server/MSDE discovery into a single tool which can be used to ferret-out servers you never knew existed on your network so you can properly secure them.

Didn't yet have time to try SQLRecon myself, but sure will.

From the Windows Media home page, you can download the Windows Media Encoder 9 Series. This nice little encoder application isn't only limited to post-processing (very nice indeed in this area), but can also do live-broadcasting as well as screen recording.

Narrated screen recordings are sometimes simply more useful than written step-by-step instructions (even if "littered" with screenshots). That's why I recorded a quick (non-scripted, you will be able to tell) how to set up Windows Media Encoder for screen recording.

HowToScreenRecording.wmv (1.88 MB)

The post commit hook for Subversion now has reached a stage where I consider it feature complete. Newly added for this release:

• log4net for logging important information (ie exceptions) necessary for debugging a hook that is supposed to run automatically. Note that it uses v1.2.9 of log4net, which is a Beta release. The log file name is post-commit.log (you can change this in post-commit.exe.config)
• Nicely formatted commit mail. The change log line items are parsed, the A, U & D information is used to build Added, Modified & Deleted sections in the message.

Here is an example of the message format (from the #develop commit mailing list):

Author: mattward
Date: 2005-04-10 20:06:25 +0200 (So, 10 Apr 2005)
New Revision: 1840
Log Message:
Added basic .manifest schema.  Schema annotation displayed alongside 
auto-completion list. Mixed namespaces and simple content types 
now supported.  Added attribute value auto-completion.
 
Added:
trunk/SharpDevelop/data/schemas/manifest.xsd
....
trunk/SharpDevelop/src/AddIns/.../SimpleContentWithAttributeTestFixture.cs

Modified:
trunk/SharpDevelop/data/resources/StringResources.dk.resources
...
trunk/SharpDevelopResources/LanguageResources/LocalizeDb.mdb

Deleted:
trunk/SharpDevelop/src/AddIns/.../ActiveElementPathTestFixture.cs

 -- SvnPostCommitHook 1.2.0.50410 -- 

Installation Take all three files from \Hook and place them in your repository's hooks directory. Open post-commit.exe.config and modify the entries in the appSettings section to match your installation and needs.

Test it Run post-commit.exe once interactively from the command line to see if your installation is ok. Potential errors are only logged to post-commit.log, not to the Console. So be sure to check it!

Finally, the download:

SvnPostCommitHook1.3.0.50411.zip (105.82 KB)

I updated the post commit hook application, however, installation advice from the original blog entry Post Commit Hook for Subversion, the .NET way still applies. What's new? The revision info is parsed and more nicely presented in the commit mail message. Because of info parsing, one call to svnlook could be saved.

SvnPostCommitHook1.1.0.50410.zip (14.08 KB)