While traveling I could not get Outlook on my laptop to send/receive any emails. The Outlook status bar would say Disconnected and checking the Outlook Send/Receive Progress Errors would show “Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x80040115) : ‘The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete […]
I’d been meaning to try some Windows Phone 7 development for a while but could not get the tools installed into Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Server 2008 (the main OS that I run). In vain I setup a Windows 7 Virtual Machine which allows for the Windows Phone Developer Tools to be installed but […]
WCF makes heavy use of reflection. In order to support object inheritance one needs to help WCF by decorating DataContract with [KnownType(typeof(aType))] so the service reference will include the proper information. Below is a quick example: The below data contract for an Animal also includes the known types of Cat and Dog: [DataContract] [KnownType(typeof(Cat))] [KnownType(typeof(Dog))] […]