Author Archives: Gaston
SCSF – giving a smartpart a title using attributes
When creating a [SmartPart] in SCSF, and adding it in a Tabbed Workspace, its title is empty by default. This results in a tab without a label in the workspace, not a pretty view. The standard way to solve this … Continue reading
Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008
When trying to choose items to add to the toolbox in VS 2008 the following happened: * Wait for a couple of minutes * VS 2008 shuts down, no error message, just gone. After the crash, the following events … Continue reading
How to close the current SmartPart in a CAB application
I have this SCSF (CAB) application in which I want to close the current tab (TabbedWorkspace) programmatically when the user closes it. So I took these steps: 1. In the Shellform add a context menu with one element: "Close" … Continue reading
Font ‘Arial’ does not support style ‘Regular’
I had this error regularly in Visual Studio (2005) when I tried to add some controls to a form. And then I started having it in other applications as well so I started to look around what it could be. … Continue reading
WCF – get identity of calling user
To get the identity of the calling user of your web method, you can use something like this: string name = OperationContext.Current.ServiceSecurityContext.WindowsIdentity.Name; Constraint: your service contract must have a session. In WSSF you can change this in the … Continue reading
Debugging a webservice created by WSSF
To debug the webservice rightclick on the solution name and get the Startup Projects. Select the client app that you’re going to use for your debugging, and put its action on start or start without debugging. Do the same for … Continue reading
WSSF
Today I’ve been investigating the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition. I have gone over the tutorial and created my first web service with it. It’s a great tool to model your web services first, and then implement them. The … Continue reading
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