Thursday, July 30, 2009 #

Cannot See Service Reference Proxy Class File in Solution Explorer

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Today I had added a Service Reference to my Web Project and after creation, I did not see the Proxy class file.  This was my first time creating a Service Reference which is the new way to do it in .NET 3.5 vs. the older Web Reference option that uses an .asmx when you right-click your web project.

Anyway, it turned out that duh, I simply needed to simply show all files in Solution Explorer.  I’m not quite sure why it’s hidden in the first place but as soon as I did that I could clearly see the proxy class called Reference.cs:

autogenclasses

Inside this Reference.cs is all the partial classes making up the objects based off the WSDL.  This was based on the PayPal Sandbox WSDL:

https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/wsdl/PayPalSvc.wsdl


posted @ Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:30 PM | Feedback (0)  

Sharing Folders in Vista OS Instance with Sun VirtualBox

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Sun’s VirtualBox virtual application just blows away Microsoft’s Virtual Machine and it’s free also.  And its so packed filled with features, much more than Microsoft’s VM solution.

After you’ve installed Sun VirtualBox and got an OS running on it make sure you install the guest add-ons or else you’ll have to click Ctrl to escape out of your virtual machine when in it.

addons

Then to share a folder you can do it 2 ways.  You can do it via the settings when the VirtualMachine is turned off:

settings

(setting www on my hosts’s C to be shared to this virtual PC)

setshared

Or you can do it when the VirtualMachine instance is turned on through the Shared Folders option in the Devices menu:

shared

(setting software on drive E to be shared to this virtual PC)

setshared2

Either way, you can add a shared folder and share anything from any of your Host’s drives (C, etc.).  But you’d want to use the first method when your Virtual PC is shut down because otherwise your shared folders will not stay each time you stop and restart that virtual machine that you’re sharing to.

To access the shared folder on your VM in Vista specifically, type \\vboxsvr\SharedFolderName in explorer and hit enter, then it should map a drive to it:

mapdrives

there is how you’d share folders in Vista running on a Sun VirtualBox.  It’s a joy to use this Virtual Machine software, especially when it’s free!

Another great thing about it is you can truly set as much ram as you want and really configure your machines to run blazingly fast if you have a ton of ram on your Host.  I have 8 gigs ram so I can easily specify 4 gigs for a Virtual machine:

memory


posted @ Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:10 PM | Feedback (3)