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Leviton, Microsoft's Z-Wave/Windows Solutions

William — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT

How to be really annoying with Pocket Outlook

William — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT

If you've been following my coding tonight, you can probably tell what I'm up to. If you call me regularly, you probably are already familiar with this little project, aka the CuckooBot. He's up to Version 4.0 and about to be released into the wild. Yes, this one is more functional and useful than the last but also a lot snarkier and more annoying. In fact, he's also a lot smarter. He has a lot better AI and text parsing for one thing, so he can make better decisions about whether or not I can be disturbed and if you are on the 'cool' list, he'll actually do some of your bidding. When I release the final version, I'll provide everyone with the list of commands he'll respond to. But enough about that for now. Part two of this project involves email. You can shoot the CuckooBot an email with a request, like "Please send ClevelandSteamer.jpg" and if you are authorized, he'll send it. The authorization piece is causing me some grief but it's not like I have anything better to be doing in the middle of the night right?

Ok, so the way to send Email messages is to first create an OutlookSession object. Instantiate it and scope it as necessary. Next, specify an EmailAccount for it. Next create an EmailMessage and at the end, just Send() it.

Now, I've mentioned many times that things like BCC, CC, Importance and Sensitivity should be outlawed and considered as tantamount to war crimes for they are pure evil. But too many people like those features so I'll have to keep my little quixotic jihad against them going in other ways.

const String Primary = "Cuckoo1";

private

{

OutlookSession MainSession = new OutlookSession()

EmailAccount

EmailAccount MainAccount = MainSession.EmailAccounts[Primary];

EmailMessage MyMessage = new EmailMessage();

//One dorks set this to High.

MyMessage.Importance = Importance.Normal;

//Again, see above.

MyMessage.Sensitivity = Sensitivity.Normal;

MyMessage.Subject = "Cleveland Steamers vs. Pink Socks on Fox - 8:00 PM EDT";

MyMessage.To = new Recipient("Knights of the Cleveland Steamers", "911@clevelandsteamers.org");

MyMessage.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(@"\eviction1.jpg"));

MyMessage.BodyText = "Cleveland Steamers aren't appropriate for community sites. However I predict they'll win tonight - 9-2");

MainAccount.Send(MyMessage);

}

Password Protection != Encryption on SqlCe

William — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT

I know this probably seems pretty obvious, but believe it or not, it's a very common area of confusion. Take a look at the following declaration:

String ConnectionString = String.Format(@"Data Source=\BlueCuckoo.sdf;password={0}", "SomeValue");

SqlCeEngine

engine.CreateDatabase();

If I asked, "Will this database be encrypted?" you should hopefully answer "No" b/c I gave away the answer in the title. However on more than a few occassions, i've seen people assume that it was. If you don't explicitly add Encrypt = True - it isn't going to be encrypted. And just in case you're wondering "Well, what if I want to encrypt the database but not password protect it?" , well, you wouldn't seriously ask me something like that right?

SMS Messages with Windows Mobile 5.0

William — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT

A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application . Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution lists. I learned a lot that night.

So you've always been able to send SMS messages with Smartphone, but it's a lot easier now. Sending them isn't a big deal though. The cool thing is intercepting them. To that end, the Message Interceptor class makes it quite easy:

Create a module level variable (or whatever scope you need it).

private MessageInterceptor Interceptor;

Instantiate it in the constructor

Interceptor = new MessageInterceptor(InterceptionAction.NotifyAndDelete, false);

Specify a InterceptionAction property. (Notify or NotifyAndDelete) - those should be self explanatory [See above]
Specify if you want it to use the Form's thread (a must if you want to update the UI) [see above]
Wire up a handler.

Interceptor.MessageReceived +=new MessageInterceptorEventHandler(Interceptor_MessageReceived);

Cast the e.Message object in the handler as a SmsMessage and use accordingly

void Interceptor_MessageReceived(object sender, MessageInterceptorEventArgs e)

{

SmsMessage IncomingMessage = (e.Message as SmsMessage);

String[] ImportantStuff = new String[]{"Dog pooping",

"Vista Launch",

"Would you care to explain THIS?",

"Vicodin ES",

"Camel Toe",

"Kim",

"Mom",

"EDC"};

foreach(String s in ImportantStuff){

if(IncomingMessage.Body.IndexOf(s)> -1){

SmsMessage OutgoingMessage = new SmsMessage(e.Message.From.Address, "This is the Cuckoobot, I'm handling Bill's messages, he'll be in touch shortly");

OutgoingMessage.Send();//Yes, I know this isn't optimal - it's demo code.

}

else{

SmsMessage OutgoingMessage = new SmsMessage(e.Message.From.Address, "This is the Cuckoobot. Your message isn't important and will have to wait.");

OutgoingMessage.Send();
}
}
}

http://www.everythingado.net

William — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:00:00 GMT

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince me your not a dork, or if you're a dork and can convince me you have some technical content - drop me a line or if you're a regular contributor to a newsgroup that begins with microsoft.public.dotnet.framework - if it ends with compactframework or adonet then you're automatically invited. I'm also going to have a Uncensored portion or which is going to be cool - Bridgette Kerkove, Jenna Jameson, Janine & TS type of cool. I'm debating about how to host the “Unrelated Cool“ content - probably make it restricted access. And on the off chance you're wondering - no, I'm not moving my blog over there. I really dig it here. But I want to do a few things. Sahil already found a good place but it seems DNJ is going to crap these days - I see more Exception messages than I do content since 2005 began. I also want to host a few web services that are public, a few private ones that I can dish out the tokens to if people are interested... etc etc.Part of the reason I want to host my own Text stuff is b/c I want to mod it out - and I can't create skinz and stuff without being an pain in the a33 to the wonderful patron of this site. basically I just want a playground - ADO.NET and Compact Framework oriented - where I and other people that don't write me STUPID hate mail all the time can use.

But the real rub is that it looks like they are going to let me install the 2.0 framework to run some ASP.NET 2.0 and Yukon samples on. Still gotta check with MS and make sure this is ok but I think it will be. If it is, then there's Lot's o Potential. Can't get too into the details now - but using Yukon - there's potentially a much cooler way to send out notifications that articles have been posted, blogs updated, or Bridgette has another movie available. Also, Sonny & EDC the Coding Cuckooz are going to be active in development - and you know what sort of stuff they are interested in. Suffering at the moment from More ideas than ability to stay awake...............

Setting up .Text is a total pain in the a33 - at least so far it has been. It's mainly the web interface and all the f**** sql scripts that I have to run - ONE AT A TIME. Anyway, I'm screwing around with .NET Nuke and one of the starter kits. can't figure out which one I prefer. Feedback is welcome.

I'm also working w/ one of the starter kits but I'm leaning more toward .NET Nuke. Not sure if the hype is real but I hear it is - so sometime tomorrow hopefully I'll have made up my mind. I won't be doing anything other than sitting in my apartment wondering why this whole f~ck1ng city is shut down b/c of 1/2 an inch of snow - so I should get something done.