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I just released the 14-day trial version of MSMQ Studio BETA now. With this version I will be able to deliver updates more frequently and you will be able to purchase a license that will remove all time limits from the product. MSMQ Studio is still in BETA, so until I release a final version there will be a 30% discount on the licenses.
For more information see http://www.archonaut.se.
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I just read Joel Spolsky’s article A Little Less Conversation, which is a good article. Although there is another problem which can arise from having a manager who is co-ordination the conversations and that is when he is stopping all conversations until he decides that they are needed!
In my current assignment I have been brought into a project to make a revision of the current software architecture. This project is about migrating a legacy application to .NET, but in the 9 years the project has been going on this has not yet been finalized. The guy who is now managing the project has been in it almost all the time, but he shows us over and over that he has no understanding about software development at all.
The biggest mistake he does at the moment is that he has taken total control over who should discuss what and with who! When we finally get to meet the key stakeholders, he has spent a large amount of time on inventing solutions for the topics that we are discussing and quite early in the meeting we all dismiss them because they are totally wrong! He spends so much time controlling the project and the work that we do, most of it he hasn’t got a clue about what it is, so that we feel like we have got our hands tied behind our backs. And when something goes bad, he blames us for it!
This and a lot more issues we are having with this project manager is very frustrating and it does not make you perform your best! If there is another assignment coming up I will not hesitate to move on!
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I have played around a little with Silverlight 4 the last couple of days and I was consuming a REST service but when I wanted to use XLinq for querying the response I couldn’t find it in the References dialog.
And when I searched on the internet for a solution to this I found out that many others had the same experience. But they solved it by copying the System.Xml.Linq.dll assembly from the Silverlight SDK to the Reference Assemblies folder.
The reason for the absence of System.Xml.Linq.dll in Silverlight 4 is actually that the Silverlight team wanted to keep the Silverlight 4 runtime as small as possible (~4 Mb) even though they added more functionality that in Silverlight 3. What they did then was that they removed assemblies that can be seen as “luxury” to have in the runtime and put them into the SDK instead so that if you want use XLinq have to distribute it within your own .XAP-file.
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I just discovered today that you cannot add private queues to the local computer using the context menu when you right click on “Private Queues”. So this is a minor release just to fix this issue.
You can download the new version here.
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Now you can download MSMQ Studio 0.9.0 from http://www.archonaut.se!! This version has big improvements in working with remote computers. You can now see subqueues on remote computers and also move messages between queues and subqueues and all the other usual operations.
This is probably the last beta of MSMQ Studio and I have extended the timebomb in it to 2010-02-01 so it will not stop working during the holidays.
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I just discovered that there are some issues with http://www.archonaut.se that makes it impossible to download a new version of MSMQ Studio at the moment. I also have some issues with an e-commerce site that I am responsible for. These issues are most probably related to that the hosting service updated PHP from 5.2 to 5.3 today and for some reason this made the menu system on the site to fail. I will dig into this problem this evening when I get home from my day job and the kids are put to sleep.
These issues was very unfortunate as I should have released a new version of MSMQ Studio today and the previous version will stop to work today as well. Unfortunately I will not be able to release the new version until tomorrow and I am very sorry if this will cause you any problems.
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Version 0.8.6
Added:
- Support for browsing private queues on remote computers.
- Display more message properties.
Fixed:
- Improved Active Directory integration.
Known issues:
- Cannot delete messages from remote private queues.
- Cannot browse remote private queues when the queue has subqueues
- Cannot remove remote computers from list.
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Version 0.8.5
Fixed:
- Send messages to private queues when in AD-mode.
- Deleting messages will now delete the correct messages.
Changed:
- Send messages using path syntax instead of direct format syntax.
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I got the question on how I put the username and password from the service account dialog (see part 1) back into the ServiceInstall element. The way I did it was to create two properties to hold default values (at the moment I do not remember if it was necessary).
1: <Property Id="ACCOUNT" Value="<DOMAIN\username>"/>
2: <Property Id="PASSWORD" Value="<password>"/>
And then I set up the ServiceInstall element to use these properties.
1: <ServiceInstall Id="MyServiceInstall" Name="MyService" Type="ownProcess" Account="[ACCOUNT]" Password="[PASSWORD]" Start="auto" ErrorControl="ignore" DisplayName="MyService" />
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