Project 31-A

I am copying some of the functionality from this dialog in the S3 Organizer.  I don’t think I will copy these instructions:     {6230289B-5BEE-409e-932A-2F01FA407A92}

I did a Service Reference in my .NET C# assembly and got the infrastructure for a fully enabled WCF proxy.  I also got a app.config file added to my project that I didn’t want.  I need to run configuration free since I am running in both COM+ and managed mode (i.e. some public classes are COMVisible and some are Managed), plus my COMVisible classes are hosted in COM+.  So I need to get ride of the app.config which looks like this:   <? xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> < configuration > < system.serviceModel > < bindings > < basicHttpBinding > < binding name = "AmazonS3SoapBinding" closeTimeout = "00:01:00" openTimeout = "00:01:00" receiveTimeout = "00:10:00" sendTimeout = "00:01:00" allowCookies = "false" bypassProxyOnLocal = "false" hostNameComparisonMode = "StrongWildcard...

0x80070002 is the error code returned when a FileNotFoundException (HRESULT COR_E_FILENOTFOUND) is thrown in managed code.  Basically, there is a missing file that your managed code expects.   In my case I was getting this when I tried to install a component in COM+ (Component Services) where the COM object was written in C#.  However, I didn’t have a method defined as with a [ComRegisterFunctionAttribute], so how could my code throw a file not found exception?  The issue was that my assembly relied on other assemblies that where not present.  Which lead to a binding problem when install the component in COM+, so it was the CLR that was throwing the exception not my code.   To make matter’s worse, I was trying to install the component during an MSI installation.  The .log file from msi just showed an 0x80070002 error.  To find the issue I used the Assembly Bind Log Viewer (FUSLOGVW.exe) found in the Windows SDK.  While the MSI install...

When managed code with a COM interface throws a SecurityException the return value (HRESULT) is 0x80131501.  This can happen on a regsvr32.exe (or regasm.exe) or on any method call to the COM interface.   {6230289B-5BEE-409e-932A-2F01FA407A92}

I run a travel and tourist site for San Juan Island Kulshan.com .  A long time ago we wrote up reviews for all the islands, the major towns, and the high tourism attractions.  The site is structured this way:       We also create a Google Site map giving the home page has the highest priority, the islands the next highest, the cities a lower priority and the individual write-ups the lowest priority.  All pretty standard.  However, when we started to look at the reports from Google Webmaster Tools we saw something very disturbing:     We were telling Google about 220 pages, however only 93 had been indexed.  Why was this?  We presumed it was because there where no external links to the leaf pages (the individual reviews of restaurants, parks, beaches, and trails).  Google crawler was doing exactly what we asked, traverse the high priority pages in the site map and leave the low priority pages.  The leaf pag...

The size of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) on Amazon EC2 is charge by the size of the formatted drive, not the size of data on the drive.  In the case of the Windows-Server2008-i386-Base-v101 this is a 30 Gigabytes (the primary hard drive).  Which you pay for regardless if you are using all of it or not.    This is different the the dynamically expanding .vhds that are used in Windows Virtual Server.    EBS storage is allocated all at once to avoid disk fragmentation and poor storage.   {6230289B-5BEE-409e-932A-2F01FA407A92}

What is Elastic Block Storage (EBS)? When the Amazon web site describes EBS there is a lot of references about mounting and raw block storage -- Linux terms. However, with the new boot from EBS for Windows this is a confusing. So from a Windows perspective I am going to try to explain EBS and touch on why boot from EBS is the only way to go for Windows. Windows doesn't really have a concept of mounting hard drives, and the operating system likes all physical drives to be in place before it boots. Which means that when Amazon EC2 boots your Windows instance it needs to know what storage (drives) are attached.  Keep this in mind as you read on. In Microsoft Virtual server we think about this as a .vhd drive. All the virtual hard drives are attached when the Virtual instance is started. Back to Amazon EC2, there are two types of storage (drives) available. ESB drives and Amazon Machine Images (AMI). Amazon Machine Images are stored on the Amazon S3 cloud, and mo...