Collaboris released a new version of their awesome SharePoint deployment tool “A SharePoint Build and Deployment Tool”.

The provides a lot of MSBuild tasks for creating a deployment process for SharePoint (WSS and MOSS).

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This table shows the version and build numbers for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.

The version of the current installation can easily be looked up in the Central Administration: Operations > Topology and Services > Servers in farm.

Latest Version: Service Pack 2 (English, German); CU December 09 (WSS, MOSS)

Ylian Saint-Hilaire from Intel blogged that there is a new version of Intel’s UPnP stack available. I’m goiing to check this out ASAP.

HOMEPAGE

DOWNLOAD:

• SharePoint Server Enterprise 2010 (MOSS): 64b, key (via e-mail)
• SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Enterprise 2010: 64b, key (via e-mail)
• SharePoint Foundation 2010 (WSS): 64b
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 2: KB970315 (download “SQL_Server_2008_SP1_Cumulative_Update_2”)
• WCF Fix for SharePoint: Win2k8/Vista, Win2k8r2/Win7
• Language Packs

Find more details on SharePoint 2010 issues here: http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx

• FAST Search Server for SharePoint: 64b
• SharePoint Designer 2010: 32b, 64b
• Forefront for SharePoint: 64b
• Office 2010 Filter Packs: 64b

• Office Professional Plus 2010: 32b+64b+key
  • Click “Get it now” button, top right
  • The MS Download Manager is being used. If you have trouble, add the newly opened download window URL to trusted sites.

• BCM for Outlook 2010: 32b, 64b
• PowerPivot for Excel 2010: 32b+64b (see “Instructions”!)
• Groove Server 2010: 64b
• Access 2010 Runtime: 32b+64b

• Project Professional 2010: 32b, 64b, key 
• Project Server 2010: 64b

• Vision Premium 2010: 32b, 64b, key 
• Visio Viewer 2010: 32b+64b

Entering the Product Key:

1. Start the program (e.g. Word/Outlook/…, Visio, etc.)
2. Click on “File” > “Help”
3. Click the “Change Product Key” link on the right
4. Enter the product key
5. Click “Install”
6. Close and restart the program
7. The “old” activation dialog now appears
8. Activate the product

Robert Vogel blogged about Microsoft having released the Expression Web SuperPreview which allows viewing and comparing websites in and to IE6 to IE8 plus comparing them to an image.

Finally, no VPC image anymore…

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Q: http://weblog.robert-vogel.eu/2009/09/expression-web-superpreview/

Keyvan Nayyeri wrote a blog post a while ago about how to gather the remote IP from remote WCF connections. I wrote an extension method based on his code:

public static RemoteEndpointMessageProperty GetRemoteEndpoint(this OperationContext oc)
{
    if (oc == null)
        throw new NullReferenceException();

    object v;

    if (!oc.IncomingMessageProperties.TryGetValue(RemoteEndpointMessageProperty.Name, out v))
        return null;

    return v as RemoteEndpointMessageProperty;
}

Unfortunately it does not seem to work with the WCF implementation of Silverlight 3 :( .

Q: http://nayyeri.net/detect-client-ip-in-wcf-3-5

UPDATE: Switched to TryGetValue()

There is going to be a “Basic” Edition of TFS 2010… sweet :) .

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/10/01/tfs-2010-for-sourcesafe-users.aspx

The new version adds experimental support for TR-64. There are some major changes going on which will be part of CTP3.

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Easy and clean:

public static DbConnection GetStoreConnection(this ObjectContext oc)
{
    if (oc == null)
        throw new NullReferenceException("oc is null");

    var conn = (EntityConnection)oc.Connection;

    if (conn.State == ConnectionState.Closed)
        conn.Open();

    return conn.StoreConnection;
}

We came up with the issue that there are one of the following errors regarding the TFS 2008.

Either you are unable to bind a solution at all, showing:

The solution you have opened is under source control but not currently configured for integrated source control in Visual Studio. …

Or the solution is opened without source control, showing:

The solutions appears to be under source control but its binding information cannot be found. …

Output Window: The solution is offline because its associated Team Foundation Server is offline.

The solution is quite simple: Recreate the server entry in Visual Studio 2008:

1) Close the solution

2) Disconnect the TFS

3) Remove the server

4) Re-add the server

5) Open the solution. Everything should be fine now.

Q: http://markitup.com/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=6355ea6f-3af6-4cfc-86b0-b6467de2cd0d
Q: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsversioncontrol/thread/308255ac-2e10-426c-996c-ca62321c8e1f