There might be a time in which you need to strongly name the VimServer.dll that gets created from the WSDL within the SDK. If you need help with that, check out a previous post here I wont re-hash the previous article but will just focus on making the DLL strongly named. The first step is [...]
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“I finally was able to get the VseWSS 1.3 CTP that supports 64bit windows installed. Installation went pretty uneventful. So I fire up VS 2008 and create a new WebPart project. All is going swimmingly so far. Go to deploy the project KerPlunk!!! Get the “The communication object…..” error message. Shown below. I seem to [...]
If you are writing .NET code using the VMWare SDK, you already know that the ESX host its self has the set of web services installed on it that we use in order to interact with the VMWare system. One thing you might not know, is that if you have Virtual Center installed in your [...]
This post is going to be about using simple object collectors to get a list of virtual machines on a given host. Now, there are a couple of ways to do this, namely using traversal objects, but for this post, we are going to keep it simple. We will get to the TraversalSpec object in [...]
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Why doesn’t Apple allow developers easy access to their platform? Well, that is what this post will be about. As Apple releases more hardware it seems as though they are becoming more and more closed when it comes to opening up their API to developers, or at least giving developers some choice in how they [...]
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While writing some VMWare SDK/Web Services howto posts as well as some production code in C# I recently ran into an issue where the vimService object was taking upwards for 3 minutes to instantiate. I figured that I might have messed up on adding the web service reference, so I re-added the web service reference [...]
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