http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog Technical issues, problems, errors, findings & resolutions covering Microsoft Dynamics CRM, software development, Microsoft .NET, C#, VB.NET, Commerce Server, Integration, E-Commerce, Scribe, Online shops and more general technology and consultancy posts. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Problem: ------------ A) WCF Address (EndPoint address value): Have you ever wanted to change the WCF service address (endpoint address) in your silverlight application after deployment. Imagine that you built a silverlight application and deployed it on your test server. The application was tested and confirmed issues and bug free. Now you ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2010/01/27/creating-and-using-silverlight-app-settings-webconfig-configuration-applicatioin-settings-to-change-wcf-service-address-after-deployment-servicereferencesclientconfig-servicereferences-clientconfig/ There are 3 main ways to deploy Windows Communication Foundation - WCF services to consume: 1- IIS 2- Windows Activation Service a.k.a WAS 3- Visual Studio .NET for development and dev testing purposes as part of a visual studio solution. For full details about Windows Communciation Foundation deployment scenarios, categories and structure please refer ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2010/01/24/problems-with-deploying-wcf-services-on-iis-70-or-iis-6-iis-and-other-deployment-options-and-scenarios-visual-studio-net-and-windows-activation-services/ In one of my latest projects, I found the client extensively using LLBL Gen Pro which I have never used before. After few hours of playing around with it, I managed to find my way round it just enough to the level that I need to get the basic functionality ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2010/01/18/introduction-to-llblgenpro-all-you-need-to-know-to-get-started-with-llblgen-pro-hello-world-llblgen-pro/ This post is about a problem that I have had recently with visual studio .Net 2008, WCF and Windows 7. I have a working WCF service (add to the solution by another person) which I am trying to run from within my visual studio 2008. Normally, you should go to your ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2010/01/05/problem-running-wcf-on-visual-studio-2008-and-windows-7-could-not-find-host-page-timeout/ This post is an introduction and a collection of some useful information, notes and facts about WCF in genreal, Silverlight and running a silverlight web application that uses a WCF service via asynchronous web service call. - The first fact that you need to know is that: The only option for web ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/11/03/introduction-notes-about-wcf-silverlight-and-creating-a-silverlight-application-that-consumes-invokes-a-wcf-service-via-async-asynchronous-web-service-call/ To get straight to the point. I have been trying to setup Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to allow remote connection and specifically I wanted the SQL server to allow SQL Server Management Studio on a different computer completely outside the network to be able to access this remote SQL Server ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/10/10/setup-configure-microsoft-sql-server-to-allow-remote-connection-remote-sql-management-studio-access/ I was recently doing on some Search Engine Optimisation work for some websites and I have given them an advice that i have personally used before and that have proved to be very effective. I am sharing this Tip with you for free! Please comment on this post with your opinion on ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/09/24/search-engine-optimisatin-seo-top-tip-help-and-advice-on-seo/ I'm sure many people needed to do a bulk delete operation on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. You may have uploaded thousands of records from an imported file or migrated them through Scribe or even used a .NET application to mass create records. Unfortunately, and as far as I can see, there ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/09/23/microsoft-dynamics-crm-bulk-delete-methods-using-scribe-insight-for-bulk-delete-dynamics-crm-records/ One of our "big and important" clients has approached us with an issue with their system. The problem is that reports are not accessible from the .NET application and CRM that we have built for them. If you try to open reports from these, you get the error in Internet ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/09/16/sql-server-reporting-services-error-cannot-decrypt-the-symmetric-encryption-key-website-declined-to-show-this-web-pag/ I was recently researching how to implement post code and address look-up on websites and on Microsoft Dynamic CRM. This feature is widely used in auto filling address details when a customer input their post code and sometimes the house number. This is also used in some desktop applications, plug-ins ... http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/09/02/post-code-and-address-lookup-paf-auto-fill-on-websites/