GaryDev - Comments

Comment From Gary

Gary — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:21:34 AM -0700

Sid, Looks like your service is not a web service - due to the parameters in the URL string. You can still call it from ASP.net using the HTTP class. No WSDL or SOAP just parsing the parameter string your self. Maybe you can find another application calling this service and see how they do it.

Comment From RickChuang

RickChuang — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:16:38 PM -0700

The shared attachment feature in Office 2003 + Exchange 2003 + SharePoint 2003 will not send the attachment file to receiver. Do you know why we send the attachment file to receiver in Office System 2007 ??

Comment From Sid

Sid — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:55:38 PM -0700

Hi Gary,
I am an ASP.NET developer..
I have a notes service in the following format which retrives documents from notes server.
{ Link }

How can I call this from an ASP.NET page.
Basically, I am not able to figure out..
- How to create a proxy file/wsdl file for this service if I don't have access to the server.
- Is there a way to call the service without the wsdl files.
Your inputs are much appreciated..

Comment From Gary

Gary — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 04:19:33 PM -0700

the product people say you can create an Outlook "rule" that deletes the attachment when there is a link.

Seems like an option for handling attachments would be nicer.

Comment From RickChuang

RickChuang — Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:54:18 PM -0700

Is possible to send the link only without attachment file if I use shared attachments ?? Thanks~

Comment From Gary Devendorf

Gary Devendorf — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:03:53 AM -0700

Tracey, the code posted does save the XML file to my hard drive " XDocument.SaveAs "c:\" & strFormName " you could save it to a server by changing the path.

Comment From Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 03:46:02 PM -0700

One more thing, I'm using InfoPath 2007 and it's a web enabled form.

Thanks again.

Comment From Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 03:43:34 PM -0700

Hi Gary,
Thanks for your posting. I just need to save the XML file to server (C:\somewhere). I don't need to send it via Notes or anything. Can you provide the code to make this event happen based on a button or checkbox? I'd appreciate your help, I've been everywhere looking for the answer.
~ Tracey

Comment From AdminNotes

AdminNotes — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 07:34:48 AM -0700

Hi Garry,

Do you know where I could find a notes mail template (6/7 or 8) with OCS2007 integration ?

Thank's for your help

JB

Comment From Vinni

Vinni — Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:12:21 AM -0700

Where can i get it?

Comment From Mehul Bhuva

Mehul Bhuva — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:24:38 AM -0700

hi Stephen,Ya, i got it..I spoke to your tech support and they helped me out, i need to create a Category List manually, where the Category field would then act as a look-up field for Discussion board list in sharepoint. Earlier i thought that u would have had automated the process of creating categories...but thks for taking out time and replying back...

Comment From Stephen Walch

Stephen Walch — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:44:48 PM -0700

I am surprised to hear your comment as I know that Quest's Notes Migrator for SharePoint (my product) can extract any custom fields, including Categories fields, and writes them to any List, Library or even InfoPath form library. This is one of the many areas in which Application Transporter and NMSP differ. One possibility is that you are just not seeing the results of your migration. You can adjust the Message content type and/or the Discussion views to show the additional columns you migrated. For more information about this product, please see my blog at { Link }

Comment From Mehul Bhuva

Mehul Bhuva — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:24:34 AM -0700

I am working on migrating Lotus applications to Sharepoint 2007.
I have used Microsoft Transporter suite and Quest both, anyways i am facing some problems with these tools. For eg: When i migrate a discussion board from Notes to Sharepoint using Microsoft Transporter suite, the "Categories" field in Notes which is a look-up column in the Discussion board list in Sharepoint do not get migrated at all, hence loosing data integrity, the same is true for Quest...

Comment From Kevin Doolin

Kevin Doolin — Fri, 2 May 2008 07:32:45 PM -0700

I drive a diesel F250 truck, how about $4.05 per gallon. $80 - $90 to fill up.... Oh well, it does do a good job of pulling the horse trailer.

Hey Bill, whats the cost of diesel over there?

Comment From Bill Buchan

Bill Buchan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:46:49 AM -0700

Heey. Quit bitching. Here in sunny Scotland, fuel is now hittin �1.20 a litre. About $2.40 American dollars. Or four of those suckers - $9.20 - for a US imperial gallon.

It cost me $80 the other day to fill up the tank. On my Mini!

(And it cost over $20 to put 15 liters into my motorbike...!)

---* Bill

Comment From Stephan Sellmann

Stephan Sellmann — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:06:25 AM -0700

Hi Gray,

we have also the same issue.

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e

We use a Domino Server and IIS6 on the same windows 2003 sp1 maschine.
Have you any solution for us ???
We do this:
regsvr32 -u nlsxbe.dll
regsvr32 C:\path\nlsxbe.dll
and check this in the registry.
Unfortunately it did not work.

Please help
Thanks a lot
Stephan

Comment From Pablo Herman

Pablo Herman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:51:31 AM -0700

I think IBM is stupid for getting rid of you. I've been to lotusphere a few times and enjoyed the sessions you put out. You were always a good resource for doing crazy stuff with Lotus Script. I was impressed with the PC inventory app you wrote and have kept your name in the back of my mind ever since. I was searching for some useful insite on doing xml parsing because Notes 6.5 is still stuck in jdk1.3 and thought you might of had something posted. I then found out you got the can and thought what a bummer. Oh well IBM's loss and Microsoft's gain. Anyway thanks for you support over the years and best of luck in your new adventure.

Comment From Gary Devendorf

Gary Devendorf — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 01:09:00 AM -0700

Markus, Rewriting this with JavaScript is pretty easy. but why do you need to do it?

Comment From Gary Devendorf

Gary Devendorf — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 01:00:36 AM -0700

ReadingNLearning,
You are right. The copy in the mail is linked to the server version so you can edit and sync. Seems it would be a good idea if you could use a link like Quickr. Let me check with the product people.:-

Comment From Gary

Gary — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:28:44 PM -0700

Greg, for web access to Notes apps, you are using a browser. OCS has a Java Script method of access presences (simular to Sametime Links). It would work for your Notes web apps. Just add some Java Script

Comment From ReadingNLearning

ReadingNLearning — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 02:16:38 AM -0700

Nice -- but when I tried this it still includes the attachment in the email. Would like to send emails with only the link to the sharepoint workspace -- save on Exchange mailbox space.

Paul

Comment From Markus

Markus — Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:33:47 PM -0700

...and is it also possible to send the complete form as an attachement?

Comment From Markus

Markus — Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:29:34 PM -0700

hi gary,
i've got the same problem and i'm happy to find this site. I'm absolutely no programmer. How can i translate this VBScript into JScript?
kind regards

Comment From Joachim Farla

Joachim Farla — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:54:10 PM -0700

I really like this. Thanks !

Comment From Greg Walrath

Greg Walrath — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:31:08 AM -0700

Gary - will this help in integrating OCS 2007 with a web-based Domino server? We have no Notes clients, we're an Exchange (2003) shop using Lotus Domino 7 as a web server for our intranet. Will I be able to adapt this code to web users?

Comment From Gary Devendorf

Gary Devendorf — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:09:53 PM -0700

Thanks Julian. When I'm showing code demos, it easier to show a document as a list of parameters. Also, some applications don't handel complext data type when call web services.

However, you are right, don't use a long parameter list if you don't have to.

Comment From Julian Robichaux

Julian Robichaux — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:29:45 PM -0700

Gary -

You can use arrays as method parameters or return values by using the corresponding Array_Holder class (probably StringArray_Holder for your situation). Or you could just have the array as a part of a complex data type. There are examples here:

{ Link }
{ Link }

Personally, I think I'd use a complex data type in both cases if I was trying to pass around Notes Document data. I can't think of a situation where I would EVER write a function/method that had even close to 31 parameters.

- Julian

Comment From Dheeraj Gupta

Dheeraj Gupta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:11:02 AM -0700

Dear ... I have converted all my *.aspx webpages to send email via Lotus Notes email. I have Lotus Notes client installed on the server running on Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. I have web application that update Access database and then trigger an email to recipients. I've tried in development my programs work fine. When migrate the program to production, and trigger an email to recipient I have received the following error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e. please see this is code what i am writing private bool SendMailToCircle(string[] tomail,string[] ccmail,string subject,string mailbody) { Domino.NotesSession ns = null; ; Domino.NotesDatabase db = null; Domino.NotesDocument doc = null; object oItemValue = null; bool status = false; // string[] ccdata = new string[2]; //ccdata[0] = "Saurabh.Sharma@relianceada.com"; //ccdata[1] = "Amar.Mali@relianceada.com"; try { ns = new Domino.NotesSession(); ns.Initialize("ri028146"); //ns.Initialize("123456"); db = ns.GetDatabase("", "names.nsf", false); if (!db.IsOpen) { db.Open(); } doc = db.CreateDocument(); doc.ReplaceItemValue("Form", "Memo"); doc.ReplaceItemValue("SendTo", tomail); doc.ReplaceItemValue("CopyTo", ccmail); doc.ReplaceItemValue("Subject", subject); doc.SaveMessageOnSend = true; NotesRichTextItem rt = doc.CreateRichTextItem("body"); rt.AppendText(mailbody); oItemValue = doc.GetItemValue("SendTo"); doc.Send(false, ref oItemValue); status = true; db = null; ns = null; doc = null; oItemValue = null; } catch (Exception ex) { throw ex; } return status; }

Comment From Dheeraj Gupta

Dheeraj Gupta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:11:01 AM -0700

Dear ...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have converted all my *.aspx webpages to send email via Lotus Notes email. I have Lotus Notes client installed on the server running on Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. I have web application that update Access database and then trigger an email to recipients. I've tried in development my programs work fine. When migrate the program to production, and trigger an email to recipient I have received the following error: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e. &lt;br&gt;Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;please see this is code what i am writing&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;private bool SendMailToCircle(string[] tomail,string[] ccmail,string subject,string mailbody)&lt;br&gt; {&lt;br&gt; Domino.NotesSession ns = null; ;&lt;br&gt; Domino.NotesDatabase db = null;&lt;br&gt; Domino.NotesDocument doc = null;&lt;br&gt; object oItemValue = null;&lt;br&gt; bool status = false;&lt;br&gt; // string[] ccdata = new string[2];&lt;br&gt; //ccdata[0] = "Saurabh.Sharma@relianceada.com";&lt;br&gt; //ccdata[1] = "Amar.Mali@relianceada.com";&lt;br&gt; try&lt;br&gt; {&lt;br&gt; ns = new Domino.NotesSession();&lt;br&gt; ns.Initialize("ri028146");&lt;br&gt; //ns.Initialize("123456");&lt;br&gt; db = ns.GetDatabase("", "names.nsf", false);&lt;br&gt; if (!db.IsOpen)&lt;br&gt; {&lt;br&gt; db.Open();&lt;br&gt; }&lt;br&gt; doc = db.CreateDocument();&lt;br&gt; doc.ReplaceItemValue("Form", "Memo");&lt;br&gt; doc.ReplaceItemValue("SendTo", tomail);&lt;br&gt; doc.ReplaceItemValue("CopyTo", ccmail);&lt;br&gt; doc.ReplaceItemValue("Subject", subject);&lt;br&gt; doc.SaveMessageOnSend = true;&lt;br&gt; NotesRichTextItem rt = doc.CreateRichTextItem("body");&lt;br&gt; rt.AppendText(mailbody);&lt;br&gt; oItemValue = doc.GetItemValue("SendTo");&lt;br&gt; doc.Send(false, ref oItemValue);&lt;br&gt; status = true;&lt;br&gt; db = null;&lt;br&gt; ns = null;&lt;br&gt; doc = null;&lt;br&gt; oItemValue = null;&lt;br&gt; }&lt;br&gt; catch (Exception ex)&lt;br&gt; {&lt;br&gt; throw ex;&lt;br&gt; }&lt;br&gt; return status;&lt;br&gt; }

Comment From Dheeraj Gupta

Dheeraj Gupta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:11:01 AM -0700

Dear ...

I have converted all my *.aspx webpages to send email via Lotus Notes email. I have Lotus Notes client installed on the server running on Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. I have web application that update Access database and then trigger an email to recipients. I've tried in development my programs work fine. When migrate the program to production, and trigger an email to recipient I have received the following error:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {29131539-2EED-1069-BF5D-00DD011186B7} failed due to the following error: 8007000e.

please see this is code what i am writing

private bool SendMailToCircle(string[] tomail,string[] ccmail,string subject,string mailbody)
{
Domino.NotesSession ns = null; ;
Domino.NotesDatabase db = null;
Domino.NotesDocument doc = null;
object oItemValue = null;
bool status = false;
// string[] ccdata = new string[2];
//ccdata[0] = "Saurabh.Sharma@relianceada.com";
//ccdata[1] = "Amar.Mali@relianceada.com";
try
{
ns = new Domino.NotesSession();
ns.Initialize("ri028146");
//ns.Initialize("123456");
db = ns.GetDatabase("", "names.nsf", false);
if (!db.IsOpen)
{
db.Open();
}
doc = db.CreateDocument();
doc.ReplaceItemValue("Form", "Memo");
doc.ReplaceItemValue("SendTo", tomail);
doc.ReplaceItemValue("CopyTo", ccmail);
doc.ReplaceItemValue("Subject", subject);
doc.SaveMessageOnSend = true;
NotesRichTextItem rt = doc.CreateRichTextItem("body");
rt.AppendText(mailbody);
oItemValue = doc.GetItemValue("SendTo");
doc.Send(false, ref oItemValue);
status = true;
db = null;
ns = null;
doc = null;
oItemValue = null;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
return status;
}

Comment From Dheeraj Gupta

Dheeraj Gupta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:11:01 AM -0700

Comment From Dheeraj Gupta

Dheeraj Gupta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:05:50 AM -0700

Comment From JFloyd

JFloyd — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:23:13 AM -0700

Gary - any chance this is something I can order? We have lots of Notes customers that would benefit from this in the Michigan/Ohio area!

Comment From Turtle

Turtle — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:32:45 PM -0700

Gary, no matter how bad your insomnia may get, avoid Ambien. Warm milk is a good thing. Or maybe, watching reruns of "Overhaulin'."

Comment From Gary Devendorf

Gary Devendorf — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 01:11:28 PM -0700

Ed, My skewed point of view points to IBM failing technical people. I could be completely wrong….completely mislead by my interaction with my IBM friends. Basically I'm smarting over the latest IBM layoffs. It’s very likely I don’t hear about non-technical folks being laid off so I think they are better off. Ed, we were in the similar roles in the mid 90’s. You went the sales/marketing side and I went technical. You did very well while I achieved a band 8 after 7 years (barely above entry level). It could just be that I was a shit head.

Working as a Notes PM is a bit like being a skydiving instructor – excitement, joy, massive responsibility and great people. Last year I made $601 teaching skydiving. So I don’t do it for the money.
I’m just wishing my IBM friend could love it again…at least those who are left.

Maybe we are getting older and it’s up to the new, younger, folks to love it.

Comment From Ed Brill

Ed Brill — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:35:36 AM -0700

Gary, four years after you've left, there's really not much sense in dragging your own IBM experience into this.

There are many more opportunities for technical people than marketeers at IBM -- this is IBM we are talking about, right? -- all the way up to IBM Fellows, Distinguished Engineers, Senior Technical Staff. Even in sales we have IT specialists, IT architects, technology advocates, and pilot/proof-of-concept people.

Bob and Rock are both moving out into senior leadership positions in the community. It reflects both of their work styles that they have chosen this path, not something endemic about IBM. Others of us are gaining responsibility and moving up in the organization, having come from the same product manager job that you were in.

I think a big company has a path for anyone...just look at the environment in Microsoft and you can see that.

Comment From Gary

Gary — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:37:09 AM -0700

The blog site has be down for a week or so. Now it's up but as of right now, I don't have access to create new posts. Hopefully this will change and I'll write about Lotusphere

Comment From Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:38:36 AM -0700

Nice flight

Comment From Gary

Gary — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:26:22 PM -0700

It's true I wasn't thinking about jumping out. even after the 9 hour flight, I still wasn't ready to leave.

And the Lotusphere computer bag is what I use every day on campus. Sometime it causes folks to ask me if I know Ray Ozzie. This one is 2 years old. I'm hope they have good ones this year.

Comment From Neil Agate

Neil Agate — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:55:46 PM -0700

Gary,

Looks like one of the few planes you didn't want to jump out of !! Like Bill I'm very jealous. BTW - nice touch with the LS backpack - boy your colleagues must love that !!!

See you in Florida.

Neil.

Comment From Wild Bill

Wild Bill — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:45:28 PM -0700

Now I'm a Mac fan, you and I will never agree about the guys who pay your rent. But I thought it impossible that I could hate you.

God, this is close. I'm very very jealous.. Nice one, mate. Beers on me...

--* Bill

Comment From Gary

Gary — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:06:13 PM -0700

OK, so there is a bug in this version (October 31). It's a small bug and it runs. See if you can find and fix it.

Comment From Kevin Doolin

Kevin Doolin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:10:53 PM -0700

Way cool Gary. I've been waiting to see these templates. Still trying to get a Sharepoint server setup at BJ. Will let you know when I and also when I have Domino intergrated within Sharepoint. I am getting an error message when i try to sign-in to the site ({ Link }

Any idea what I'm doing wrong. I am using my Windows Live ID.

Thanks

Comment From Gary

Gary — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:49:44 AM -0700

Henning, I need to get some training. Not give training. But I like your idea.

Comment From Gary

Gary — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:31:24 AM -0700

Well I have a great deal of Motorcycle time and a tatto is not my style. So I need to think of something else....

Comment From Thomas Adrian

Thomas Adrian — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:20:18 AM -0700

Gary,
Choose Gmail and Gmail Firefox extensions and you get notified in your browser when new mail arrives, Gmail supports external POP3 accounts as well.

Google got a new faster way of working with mail. it also let's you integrate Google Reader and Google Calendar. and if you use iGoogle you can see your new mail (or any other google services) in your mashup.

Even though I am a Lotus Notes fan I find gmail to be the best webbased emailsystem around. and it's free and without commercials.

Thomas
{ Link }
{ Link }

Comment From Denis

Denis — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:13:00 AM -0700

How about a course in Integration Microsoft Office with Lotus Notes?

At the end of the course, you will be able to tell all customers who use MsOffice, that they don't have to switch to Symphony to have great integration.

Although we provide courses online, you might also choose to travel to the Mediterranean for real indepth training. (Besides diving and snorkling, sky-diving IS known to be an option here..)

Integra4notes - Lotus Notes MsOffice integration.

Comment From Glen

Glen — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:52:16 PM -0700

Garry - I totally disconnected when I read the story - I am SO Sorry! I remember the first time I lost a close pilot friend and trying ot put it in perspective with #10 is nearly impossible.

My thought are with their families and friends and you are definitely among them.

Comment From Jack Forman

Jack Forman — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:46:28 PM -0700

Words are just not enough, when you lose friends or family. There are no words that can help or you really feel good. So just know that my thoughts are with you and the families and friends of the lost.

Comment From Kerr

Kerr — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:37:01 AM -0700

Hi Gary, It's been a couple of years since I've been jumping, but I'm always looking up as that big blue sky, longing to return. I will dust of my old Sabre one of these days. As always my thought are with the families and friends of those lost.

Blue Skys
Kerr

Comment From Gary

Gary — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:32:40 AM -0700

Finally read the list of victims and as feared I knew them all. Several I trained to become licensed skydivers and the rest I worked with or jump with. At the Drop Zone, they think of me as the old timer with lots of stories and experience. My job is to give them skills and confidence. In return I get friendship and more stories.

If only they had enough warning, they could have used their skills to get out of a failing plane. As I always say "I've never seen a perfectly good airplane." So I have a new story...one that I don't want to tell for quite a while.

Comment From Craig Schumann

Craig Schumann — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:42:35 AM -0700

You were the first thing I thought of when reading the news.... very glad to hear you're OK!

Comment From Tamara Conder

Tamara Conder — Tue, 9 Oct 2007 06:56:01 PM -0700

Gary--I couldn't help but think of you when I read about the crash--I was so relieved to read your blog today and see that you are here.

Still, it's very sad that 10 people didn't make it. My prayers are with their families, and I know that the rest of you will reach out to them as best as you can.

Comment From Andrew Pollack

Andrew Pollack — Tue, 9 Oct 2007 05:35:12 PM -0700

I think I can understand that bond, Gary.

Best wish to all during this difficult time. The rest of you stay safe.

Comment From Michael Letchford

Michael Letchford — Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:39:31 AM -0700

Yes, you're right.

Sorry, I was looking at this in respect of calling a .NET web service (using SOAP Header authentication) from Domino 8 consumer, and read this article in too much of a hurry (thinking it was COM). Doh!!!

Never did find a solution using the new Domino 8 consumer classes, so reverted to java classes instead.

Comment From gary

gary — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:14:19 AM -0700

AJ, are you using a Notes client or a Domino server on the same machine as the ASP page? Give me a call 425 722 1776

Comment From Michael Letchford

Michael Letchford — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:56:29 AM -0700

That would be perfect if we were running Domino on windows.

Yep, you guessed it, we're not!

Any idea how you'd add a soap header in Domino for those of us running Domino on Linux?

thanks

Comment From aj

aj — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:29:04 AM -0700

i am getting the same problem as that in post 18. did try increasing the virtual memory, nogo, tried a lot things like editing the notes.ini, putting the ID file where ever necessary, giving path directly, initializing with and without password, tried using "Session.InitalizeUsingNotesUserName" as well nogo, still getting the same error : could not open the ID file. GARY need help......plssssssssss

Comment From Andrew Pollack

Andrew Pollack — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:21:38 PM -0700

You're welcome to "Gary Devendorf/thenorth" if you like. I have a server up on server beach that is readily available. Currently 7.02 but should be 8.0x soon enough.

Comment From Henning Heinz

Henning Heinz — Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:20:47 AM -0700

Your web design skills would fit for an update

Comment From Gary

Gary — Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:43:27 PM -0700

Bill, good one. I guess I'm still cheap. Years of training

Comment From Wild Bill

Wild Bill — Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:14:48 AM -0700

Ditto, and I'm sure various other hosters would also do this...

Sorry to poke fun, but in your recent post werent you saying that your salary and stock options were far better at MS than Westford ?

---* Bill

Comment From Lance Spellman

Lance Spellman — Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:07:38 PM -0700

Happy to set you up for free Gary. Just give me a ping, we've got servers all over the place that we manage. Do you need a full on environment, just a domain, or just an email accoun?

Comment From Jeff Abel

Jeff Abel — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:18:17 AM -0700

I whole heartedly agree with you Gary about how great it was at Lotus then. I loved it. However, I only received an Associates though , as I was only there for just over 2 years before having to relocate to Seattle in 2001.

No, I didn't leave Lotus to go to Microsoft.

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:56:02 PM -0700

I'm very intersted in Silverlight and what it holds for the future, I can't see myself using tafiti however. All that fading and scrolling is basically inserting an additional wait between my request and the results. I bet the Mac crowd loves it!

Despite posts other places to the contrary, I was pleased to see that Silverlight does work in firefox.

Comment From Steve Tsuida

Steve Tsuida — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:46:21 AM -0700

Yes. Yes it is a new website. What are your thoughts on it?

News.com says it's "tasty". { Link }
The Guardian says it redefines Search. { Link }
Techmeme says it's just experimental. { Link }

Personally I think this new Silverlight-delivered search engine is pretty enough, but I find having to get up, borrow a PC to work on, do my search and then email the results back to my workstation a bit cumbersome. I'm sure most Windows users felt the same way about early iPods.

Comment From ThaBart

ThaBart — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:02:51 AM -0700

:-
It could be easier....
:-

Comment From Andrew Pollack

Andrew Pollack — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:41:29 PM -0700

Easy. VoIP. You've seen Microsoft's play in that field and it looks pretty good. Now go to an open source conference or bring out someone who knows about Asterisk and can give you the real information about what is and can be done out there in the wild.

Nothing will change I.T. more in the next 5 years than software voip.

Comment From Gary

Gary — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:23:58 PM -0700

Dwight, the meeting space feature is cool because when everyone has Vista, it becomes very easy to start a peer to peer meeting among laptops. So if a projector dies, I can just switch to a Meeing Space. You are right that it's not the reason to upgrade the OS. But there are plenty of cool features of Vista that I don't hear about even at Microsoft.

Comment From Andy Higgins

Andy Higgins — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:10:31 AM -0700

Hi Gary,
What possibilities are there for integrating OCS with Domino Web Access? Can we leverage the OCS/LCS web client in any way?

I am also interested in using LCS/OCS as backend presence and with a Domino Web Engine in general... how should I approach this?

Also, I have been using the OCS2007 beta and I didn't see any web access included - I am assuming that is because it's just not ready but will be released when the actual product is released in Q32007?

Thanks,
Andy

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:13:01 AM -0700

From what I was able to find on "Windows Meeting Space" it looks like its easy access to to ad-hoc networking. This sounds like good stuff, and definiatly needed. But, hardly demands an OS upgrade. Most wifi card manufacturers bundle there own drivers with wifi cards and offer to disable the XP connectivity. I suspect that 3rd party hardware providers will step up for the XP users.

I don't admire your position, Vista looks a lot like ME. I rushed out to buy Windows ME, and was disapointed. When I recently needed to replace my laptop, I chose repair instead of a new one with Vista. I'm going to sit this one out for a while.

Comment From Arnold Villeneuve

Arnold Villeneuve — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:45:21 PM -0700

We are looking for a Lotus Notes Partner to commercialize and market our Lotus Notes Client Knowledge Interface. Please refer to the Lotus Notes screen cast in the email below.

Lotus Notes Integration of Cirilab’s Knowledge Generation Engine

{ Link }

Arnold Villeneuve

Vice President

www.cirilab.com

{ Link }

613-833-0984

Comment From Gary

Gary — Fri, 1 Jun 2007 01:59:04 PM -0700

Simon, it was fun coming to Wellington and working with the small group. I'm just getting over the jet lag now. I hope you get to try some of the things we learned.

Comment From Simon in Wellinton New Zealand

Simon in Wellinton New Zealand — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:03:31 AM -0700

Hi Gary,
I just wanted to thank you for a very informative workshop, it was finally good to meet a microsoft representative who wasn't trying to 'KILL Lotus Notes"
I hope your wife likes the gift you got her here in NZ.

Take care

Comment From Gary

Gary — Sat, 19 May 2007 11:26:07 PM -0700

ananth, Try it now, we had changed the HTTP password for Joe User while testing. It's now set back to "wordpass".
Let me know if you have any luck.

Comment From ananth

ananth — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:59:16 AM -0700

Hi Gary,
I tried your web service and the asp code. I copied the web service to my database in my server.I added the web reference with url of my server location({ Link } rel="nofollow" target ="blank">Link }

When i run my code in visual studio.The authentication part of the user name and password is not working it is just allowing to access the database How can i check authentication and then allow to access the database.

Please help me regarding this?

Thanks in Advance

Comment From Saikat

Saikat — Tue, 8 May 2007 10:43:13 PM -0700

Finally I think I got an answer for 8007000e. The HRESULT 8007000e means "out of memory". So I went ahead and changed the virtual memory settings. This worked in my case

Comment From Denis - Integra4Notes

Denis - Integra4Notes — Tue, 8 May 2007 05:45:47 AM -0700

Hi Gary,
As you know, integrating Domino with MsOffice is our game. I put together some great demos (1-2 minutes each) that show the depths and yet the ease of it all.
Look forward to your comments!

Denis - { Link }

Comment From Gary

Gary — Mon, 7 May 2007 01:33:09 PM -0700

George, I put Notes 7.02 on Vista. The only issue so far is the first time you run the Notes client, you want to "run as Administrator" (right click on the Notes Icon) so that your .ini settings can be saved. I would think 6.5 would be the same.

As for Outlook, I'm running in cached mode so I don't see anything slow.

Comment From George Gray

George Gray — Mon, 7 May 2007 11:57:31 AM -0700

Vista and Office 2007 is terrific. I was never much of a fan of Office, but Office 2007 is 'da bomb'. My only complaint with Office 2007 is that Outlook does not have the whole ribbon interface and is DOG SLOW. Even with the latest patch, Outlook is really slow.

Gary, did you use Notes 6.5 with Vista? If so, how well does it work? Did you have any issues getting it to install?

Comment From Ben Abler

Ben Abler — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:10:13 PM -0700

Had a great time, would be a perfect place to live if it didn't rain so much!

Comment From Ben Abler

Ben Abler — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:08:55 PM -0700

Gary,

I had a great time and learned much. Thanks so much for hosting and organizing this event. There is a huge opportunity for Microsoft to jump into this space.

Thanks

Comment From Alex Chavira

Alex Chavira — Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:50:23 AM -0700

Thanks Gary, I've managed to "McGuyver" some code using your example and some others that I found on the net. I do get the following error and was wondering if you might know something?

Database open failed (%1)
File:script.vbs
Line:78

Which has to do with this line of code:
Set domNotesDatabaseMailFile = dbdir.OpenMailDatabase

Thanks!!!!!!

Comment From Steven Rieger

Steven Rieger — Tue, 3 Apr 2007 05:37:49 PM -0700

I had the exact same problem writing a code generator to take a notes form and create a simple CRUD app web service.

I spent days trying to work around this and eventually ported the generated code to Java instead LOL.

Thanks for the tip. I may have to retro that code for LScript in the future.

Comment From Gary

Gary — Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:45:02 AM -0700

Geo, when running on a server, you may need to specify the User Name and Password in the Initicialize method. Also the Id file for that user needs to be on the server. look at "Session.InitalizeUsingNotesUserName"

Comment From Kevin Doolin

Kevin Doolin — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:30:50 PM -0700

Thanks Gary and Microsoft. Gary, you exceeded all of my expectations. You should charge for this workshop and take it on the road. Anyone who has no interest is loosing out on a fantastic opportunity to learn how to make Notes Domino integrate with Microsoft rather than the very costly migration path. Thank you very much for you devotion to this concept. Please Please do this again soon and take it to the world. And let me know how I can help...

Microsoft Excel guys. I must tell you. I've been pissed every since I was forced to use Excel rather than Lotus 123 (this pissed off goes back to the mid 90's) After seeing Excel Web Access and Excel Web Services, all is forgiven. You will never hear this from me again.. I'm still excited about this, you must get in the face of Petroleum engineers and Geologist. You MUST take this to SPE events. Most 'IT' guys will not know how to sell this. VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!

Thanks again, kev

Comment From Mike Knuth

Mike Knuth — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:18:56 PM -0700

I echo the sentiments expressed above. It can be a difficult and time-consuming task to keep on top of all the interesting things Microsoft has been doing in this space lately. The sheer variety of the sessions was very helpful and spawned several ideas of ways we could use the tools in our business. Thanks Gary (and the rest of the Microsoft folks who presented) for all of your work in pulling this together. Between the conference materials and your Interoptips site, you do a great job of providing us the information we need to put this technology to good use!

Comment From Mike Weibel (Blockbuster)

Mike Weibel (Blockbuster) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:28:11 AM -0700

Ditto George's comments. Great event, definitely a shot of adrenalin to the learning curve for integrating Microsoft technology with my Notes development. Still picking up things I missed by reviewing the DVD's and slideshows.

Thanks, Gary!

Comment From geo

geo — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:25:34 AM -0700

have you resolve the Linda problem? Because I 've the same one.
I can't initialize a notes session with "session.initialize(password)" with my asp.net page but with a Windows form project it's good.
My error is : "could not open th ID file".

Comment From George Gray

George Gray — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:47:15 PM -0700

A big thank you to both Gary and Microsoft for putting on this event. The knowledge I gained from this experience is invaluable. I have already come up with several projects that will benefit from the knowledge I gained.

Thanks again.

Comment From Carolyn Weissberg

Carolyn Weissberg — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:17:32 PM -0700

Just wanted to thank you for posting all this stuff. There is nothing like getting a problem partly solved due to the generosity of a kind AND brilliant programmer who is willing to share!

Comment From Gary

Gary — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:04:06 PM -0700

you can find the labs here { Link }

Comment From Ram

Ram — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:35:04 AM -0700

Hi Garry
Can you share with me your Lotus Notes .Net Integration labs?

Comment From Seok Bee

Seok Bee — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:09:16 AM -0700

Hi,

Does anyone has got a solution for the problem above?

Comment From Jim Bernardo

Jim Bernardo — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:44:11 PM -0700

Where's the CAB file?

Comment From Gary

Gary — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:15:31 PM -0700

Alex, this code saves the infopath document to the file system. I'm guessing you need addmin rights to run this.

Comment From Hendrik Juelich

Hendrik Juelich — Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:38:51 AM -0700

thanks gary for posting about my Gadget and also thanks for helping me with the WebServices part!

Alan thanks for your comment! A article @ DeveloperWorks would be great may gary and i can write such a article

It's easy html , css , javascript, xml and WebServices Technology.
Nothing special but real powerfull .. handel your Domino DB over your Sidebar , see a status , update information or just kick off a process!

hendrik
microsoft germany

hendrikj [at] microsoft .com

Comment From Alex Chavira

Alex Chavira — Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:25:42 AM -0700

I'm absolutely not a programmer but I needed to find something send forms via Lotus Notes.

I run it and I get the following error.....

The following error occurred:

Permission denied: 'XDocument.SaveAs'
File:script.vbs
Line:60

How do I fix this???

Comment From Alan Lepofsky

Alan Lepofsky — Tue, 6 Mar 2007 07:23:58 PM -0700

That is great. Very cool to see a Vista Gadget for Vista. Maybe Hendrik can write an article for developerWorks?

Comment From Gary

Gary — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:41:06 AM -0700

Declan, you were right. Thanks. Did you ever think about working for Microsoft? If I were king, I'd have a team of Notes experts. Well just wishful thinking. Thanks again.