HttpWebRequest and the Expect: 100-continue Header Problem Today I had an irritating problem when using the HttpWebRequest to POST form data over Proxy-Auth using HTTP 1.1. When sending this request over SSL every thing was fine, but when I used POST I got this error - X-Squid-Error: ERR_INVALID_REQ 0 from the server. After sniffing each request and drill down to understand the problem I found that not all web servers handle HTTP header "Expect: 100-Continue" correctly. Who Add this Header...

How To Debug MSBuild Projects And Tasks Almost everyone customize their MsBuild scripts for the company needs. But some times because those customization you spend a lot of time try to make this script works as you want. There is no easy way to debug those MSBuild script / Tasks and here is a list of links to help you accomplish this:   published by - Buck Hodges - Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3 Powerful MSBuild projects debugger with extended functionality: step through mode, visual...

This is Why Load Testing Is Important Not Just Before Release After a short conversation with one of my customers he told me that a month ago he invited a “Load Expert”  to perform load testing just before the company release the product. After the “Load Expert” exam the system he said every thing will be all right, 30 people is nothing I’m 99% sure nothing will happen. the customer asked him to perform the load test any way just to be sure… and the test passed just fine! Then I got a call from...

Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts I saw that lots of people are downloading Wit-It! and I get lots of feedbacks. Also I got a place on MSDN forums. It’s time for the next version of Wit-It! I fixed couple of performance problems, change the Design to some thing more friendly. Add couple new features to Wit-It! Download Wit-It! Today Here is the list: New Work Item Convert Email message to Work Item     ...

Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts After a small talk with Guy Burstein he comes up with a Great Idea : use outlook form region to show Work Item from Team System. Then I remembered that working with Event Email in Team System are so  irritating. You can customize Event Emails to work with Team System Web Access but then you can’t open the work item in XML (sometimes you may need it) But then I noticed that not everyone have TSWA and even this sometimes can be irritating(slow...

Problem: If SqlServer 2005 Setup fails and roll back with the following error message: "An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'sqlncli.msi'." Reason: It’s probably due to the fact that you have installed .NET Framework 3.5 BEFORE you have installed SqlServer 2005 ;) Solution: To work around this problem, uninstall SQL Native Client by using Add or Remove Programs...

Report Viewer for Visual Web Developer Express The Visual Web Developer Express is one of my favorites , both the previous 2005 & 2008 versions as well as the new and shining all around fully functional – Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 Express Edition ( which has support for ClassLibrary & Silverlight 2.0 projects as part of the Solution – Single Environment ! ) It seems that only a few days a go the Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express has been released Microsoft...

Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 – October 2008 Great news ! Enterprise Library 4.1 is now available. This is a twin release of Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2 . What’s New in Enterprise Library v4.1? This release of Enterprise Library is a service release that includes the following: Unity interception mechanism and integration of the Policy Injection Application Block with the Unity Application Block. Performance improvements. Usability improvements to the configuration tool. Visual...

Microsoft Modeling Platform (code named "Oslo") "M" Sounds almost like “Bond, James Bond” ( the M part ), But not exactly. Microsoft Oslo , which is Microsoft’s “Microsoft Modeling Platform (code named "Oslo")” has already updated in the MSDN and has two sub-sections: Models and Metadata SDK Microsoft Oslo Technical Articles As well as it’s own “webSite” : Oslo Developer Center , a downloadable Oslo SDK … and much more. for more information look at: The "Oslo"...

Azure : Start Cloud Application Development As expected the knowledge about Azure can to me from the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog - PDC 2008: Announcing Azure Services Platform and Microsoft SharePoint Services Looked at a few videos , and this seems like Microsoft is starting to think like a ISV, but with a twist , which means - you “can” use Live.com services from your cloud Application. Not saying that this is bad, but my feeling is “put your application on our servers, FOR FREE, and we’ll help...