It requires about 10 gig disk space – I only had about 3.5gig. Scott Hanselman recently wrote a blog post on how to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7.

I’m normally quite skeptical on these suggestions. 9 times out of 10 they are common sense.

Long story short, I did the first 4 steps (he has about 10 more) and I got back almost 20 gig back!

Who’d have thought?

As part of a Credit Card Payment Solution we are working on, I was trying to set the Invoice State.

According to the MSDN documentation, all you need to do is set the Status Code = 100001 and the State Code = 2.

Eg:

Guid invoiceID = new Guid("Existing Invoice Guid");
IOrganizationService orgService = OrgServiceFactory.GetInstance();

orgService.BeginRetrieve("invoice", invoiceID, new ColumnSet(new string[] { "invoiceid", "statecode", "statuscode" }), (result) =>
{
    var fetchResp = orgService.EndRetrieve(result);

    var statecodeAttrib = fetchResp.Attributes.Single(a => a.Key == "statecode");
    OptionSetValue statecode = (OptionSetValue)statecodeAttrib.Value;
    statecode.Value = 2; 

    var statuscodeAttrib = fetchResp.Attributes.Single(a => a.Key == "statuscode");
    OptionSetValue statuscode = (OptionSetValue)statuscodeAttrib.Value;
    statuscode.Value = 100001;

    orgService.BeginUpdate(fetchResp, (updateResult) =>
    {
        /* Web Exception thrown here */
        orgService.EndUpdate(updateResult);
        Console.Write("");
    }, orgService);

}, orgService);

When I did this, I was getting a “NotFound” exception.

So I asked this on Stackoverflow.  Turns out in CRM 2011, you need to use the SetState message.

Digging a little further, the SDK has a good example of how to take an Opportunity to a Won Order, to a Sales Order to an Invoice.

Illustration courtesy of Jon Watson. ]]> http://christianpayne.com.au/2011/11/15/entitystate/feed/ 0 http://christianpayne.com.au/2011/10/20/retrieving-the-text-of-an-optionset-in-silverlight/ http://christianpayne.com.au/2011/10/20/retrieving-the-text-of-an-optionset-in-silverlight/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:09:04 +0000 Christian http://christianpayne.com.au/?p=518 I’ve been pulling my hair out over this.

If you look at the Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK, you can see how to get an Entity using FetchXML:

Using FetchXML, you can get to an entity like this:

string fetchXML = "<fetch mapping='logical'>";

fetchXML += "<entity name='account'><all-attributes/>";

fetchXML += "</entity></fetch>";

IOrganizationService orgService = OrgServiceFactory.GetInstance();

orgService.BeginRetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression() { Query = fetchXML }, EntityGet_callback, orgService);

And the callback:

public void EntityGet_callback(IAsyncResult ar)

{

   IOrganizationService orgservice = ar.AsyncState as IOrganizationService;

   var fetchResp = orgservice.EndRetrieveMultiple(ar);

    var entities = fetchResp.Entities;

    foreach (var entity in entities)

    {

        var email = helper.GetValue(entity, "email");

    }

}

Nothing fancy in the helper method:

public static object GetValue(Entity entity, string name)

{

    if (entity.Attributes.ContainsKey(name))

    {

        return entity.GetAttributeValue

    }

    return null;

}

If I wanted to get the Address 1 Type, I would use:

helper.GetValue(entity, "address1_addresstypecode")

Unfortunately this returns the value (0, 1, 2…) Not the string.

The answer is the Entity.FormattedValues.

Eg

entity.GetAttributeValue

With thanks to a post on Sayantan Samanta’s blog.

I first heard of Klout during an interview with their CEO Joe Fernandez, on This Week in Startups.

So what is it? For me, Klout is a method of measuring who is popular in social media and why.

Lets use a few examples:

• Scott Hanselman – Technologist and promoter of Diabetic awareness
• Em Rusciano – Australian television host & blogger
• Cathie McGinn – Australian social media commentator & blogger

Three people I admire, and all with a Klout score of 60 or better.

The “score” is a percentile rank. 60 or above means you are in the top 40%.

Below is a screen shot of Scott’s, Em’s & Cathie’s profiles:

This is very powerful stuff! It allows me to see how I compare to my peers, and provides me with intelligent data on what I can do to improve my social profile.

If I was being honest with myself, I’d say that I am focused, but not very consistent – the images above reflect this.

The lesson learnt here is that I need to create and I need to do this more often.

Back to Cathies’ tweet, it makes sense that she feels her most influential topics aren’t relevant to her – Klout describes Cathie as a Broadcaster – “She broadcasts great content that spreads like wildfire. An essential information source in her industry.”

Great!  From that I can conclude that I should be connecting with people like Cathie more often.  If what I write resonates with her, then there is a good chance she will tell her network.

Another extreme would Australian Comedian, Wil Anderson:

Klout thinks’ Wil is most influential on kurt cobain, the royal wedding & miley cyrus.  If you have listened to Wil’s podcast TOFOP, then you will have some idea of why the royal wedding was popular but also his material is very broad.

What can we learn from all this? 3 take home points:

1. Don’t take the score too seriously!  (Klout thinks I am influential on Unicorns…)  It is a great tool to see what makes up a person with a score of 20, 30 or 40.  It’s less clear on how you go from a 61 to a 67.
2. It is a good way to see who is doing what in social media – what’s working and what isn’t
3. Lastly, it is the only tool I’ve seen that allows you to compare yourself across a wide range of people

I’ve signed up for the #Trust30. This is described as:

To celebrate Emerson’s 208th birthday, The Domino Project is republishing a work of art that’s especially relevant today. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson urges readers to trust their intuition rather than conforming to the will of the majority.

Sign up, and you get a daily warm fuzzy inspirational message. Funnily enough, today’s message really made me stop and think:

If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays
By Liz Bobulate:

I often notice that I beat myself up. I kick myself when I find myself off track (what track that might be at the moment…).

But on reflection, if the best (insert noun – ship, space craft, person) takes a path that is never straight, why would I be any different?

Thanks Liz!

Rock on,
Christian

A good example is a post I wrote a couple of years ago.

What’s funny is that Rob even commented on the post. But unfortunately he missed the point. Rob is a classic “Ready, Fire, AIM!” type of person.

Case in point, I recently purchased a 12 month Tekpub subscription. (Tekpub is an online technical education resource).

Now a 12 month subscription for a little under $300 is good value. It’s competitors are either Youtube videos or companies like Plural Sight.

Last week, Rob posted this tweet:
.

Awesome! So why did I pay full price?

But that’s ok, Rob’s a good bloke! So I pinged him, asked if I could get a 29% extension, sent my Order Number (twice), followed him up…

And then? Well not much!

I don’t know what to make of it. Maybe he has updated my subscription? Maybe he hasn’t. Funny thing is that Tekpub doesn’t show when your subscription ends, just when you signed up.

I’ll keep you posted…

Standard case + power supply. I also added a 2TB hard drive + a Blueray writer.

Total damage: $800

Originally I installed Windows 7 Home Premium but had a few driver problems.

So I started again with Windows 7 Home Premium N and no problems.

How does it rate next to Jeffs’?
Jeff managed a 5.1 – but I agree, take out the Aero desktop support and you have a 5.8 machine!

Interesting, Jeff got me all inspired when he started to talk about power consumption. He has been writing about this for sometime now. When I tested this machine, it was just under 40 watts.

I have no idea how Jeff pulled off 22 watts, but he did say that he recycled old parts from a previous build.

I’m not too worried since a) this machine will be either in stand-by or turned off when not in use and b) a low power consumption device is going to increase the cost significantly.

For well under $AUD1,000 I’m only annoyed I didn’t do this sooner!

I came across this little gem. It’s a talk by Mike Rowe, from the Dirty Jobs show.

I won’t steal his thunder, just watch:

Simon Sinek discusses how great leaders inspire action:

I’ve been trying different version control systems for sometime now and I just couldn’t get git on Windows to work.

I was constantly getting:
$ git fetch “https://some.website.com”
error: error setting certificate verify locations:
CAfile: /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
while accessing https://some.website.com/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

I found the solution here.

1. Open Notepad with Administrator privileges
2. Open the file gitconfig. For me, this was in the folder:  C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc
3. The line “sslCAinfo = /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt” is using relative references.  Change this to “sslCAinfo = C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt”

Too easy!

In the past few months I’ve been looking at trading foreign currencies. I’ll save some of the details of the mechanics (why, how etc) for another day.

For myself, one of the most successful entry indicators is an Inside Bar + Pin Bar.

I’m using FXDD, which is based on the Meta Trader platform. One of the benefits is that you can create your own indicators.

So, I created an Inside bar & Pin bar. Here’s the steps:

1. Download the file Inside Bar.txt. You will need to rename it from .txt to .mq4. Save it in experts\indicators folder. If you have installed FXDD in the default location, this will be C:\Program Files\FXDD – MTXtreme 4\experts\indicators
3. Click on Tools / MetaQuotes Language Editor
4. On the Navigator window, expand the Indicator folder and double click ‘Inside Bar.mq4′. If you can’t see the Navigator window, from the menu, select View / Navigator
   
5. Click Compile. In the results window (down the bottom) you should see 0 errors, 0 warnings. If not, then it is likely something you have changed.
6. Click Tools / Trading Terminal, to switch back to your chart
7. Select the chart you want to see the indicator on. Click Insert / Indicators / Custom / Inside Bar
8. 
9. Repeat steps above with PinBar.txt

You can see in the examples above, an inside bar has a tick above the bar and the pin bar is a ^ below.

I’ve just spent 2 hours tracking this down.

My wife is running Windows 7 Home on a Compaq Presario and her wireless networking stopped.

When I ran the diagnostic, the only meaningful message I could get was:

windows cannot automatically bind the ip protocol to the ip stack

Not very helpful!

Googling provided many similar articles.

This didn’t help, but I did notice that “Kaspersky Anti-Virus” seemed to be the cause.

This was odd (the laptop has AVG). But I did notice something… AVG was constantly giving me a reminder that it had been updated and needed a reboot. After the 3rd reboot, I thought this was it.

So I tried to uninstall AVG, but got the message “AVG Error Code 0xC0070643″.

Some more googling suggested I restart in Safe Mode and manually delete the c:\program files\avg folders.

This seemed a little drastic, but I had nothing else to go by so I deleted the folders.

After a reboot, still no networking!

At this point, I think that AVG is the cause and that during the automatic upgrade, it didn’t uninstall the previous version. Not much help and still no networking. I also must add that the ethernet port didn’t work either.

Again this got me thinking that AVG might have some sort of intercept to networking level? A quick check under Control Panel / Network and Intenet / Network Connections, select the wireless network card, right click on Properties and what did I see?

Ugg! 2nd from the top, AVG network filter driver.

Disabled this and I was good to go!

I downloaded AVG and installed. AVG thought it was already installed, so I selected Repair and good to go.

Again it was odd, but AVG seemed to hang. It has been running for the last 20 minutes “repairing”. The progress bar is changing (so it hasn’t stopped). It just seems to be going very very slowly.

I hope this helps!

Rock on,
Christian

On Windows Server 2008 things are a little different.  I found this post on Scott Forsyth’s blog:

This doesn’t work in Windows Server 2008 anymore.  The change is ever so slight.  In Windows Server 2003 the tool was tsadmin.exe, so typing ‘tsadmin’ was all that was required to start the tool.  Now, in Windows Server 2008, this has been moved to a MMC snap-in and is called tsadmin.msc (plus tsadmin.dll is used silently).

So to fix this, click Start / Run / type tsadmin.msc [enter] and you’re good to go!

What do you think of Facebook in school?

I thought this was a great question that should be teased out.

In her post, she says that her school has banned access to Facebook, Youtube, Flickr etc. Yet these sites have kids excited about learning & excited about technology.

What I thought was interesting, is that Jaqui included a link to two youtube videos on what Social Media / Networking is.  But more on that in a moment.

My first reaction was to identify what would be banned in a school and should be banned.  There is no doubt that even soft porn has no place in school.  Even sites like Break (which has scantly dressed women and guys being kicked in the nuts) should be removed.

So what is the purpose of banning sites?  I can understand the argument that Facebook and Twitter offer limited (if any) educational value.  They are “fun”, but do they offer anything more meaningful?

But have a look at the two youtube video’s Jacqui linked to.  CommonCraft describe themselves as a creator of three-minute videos to help educators and influencers
introduce complex subjects.  (RSA have also done something similar).

To say the study of a businesses (and industry) that  just did not exist 5 years ago has no value in our schools is just crazy.  I think that if you are involved in media studies, art or even an english teacher and you are not using this medium, then you are doing your students a disservice.

Then again, there always will be someone willing to get kicked in the nuts!