DinnerNow is a cool sample application that is complex and huge enough to showcase all the latest Microsoft Windows Application Platform technologies. It is also a good example on how to put Software plus Service vision to work here. You can download the latest v2.5 version from Codeplex website.
Not I want to do selling here but the technologies includes
- .Net Framework 3.5
- Windows Presentation Foundation
- Windows Workflow Foundation
- Windows Communication Foundation
- Cardspace
- Windows Mobile 6
- MMC 3.0 shell addin developed using .NET
- Poweshell
- IIS 7.0
- Integration with Windows Live services such as Virtual Earth
Because of IIS 7.0, you will need to install DinnerNow on top of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. However since trying this for the past few months, I got no luck of getting it running. There has been quite a few posts on the Codeplex forum with people complaining the same time.
Then checking back all the event logs in the OS, I realize there are a lot of authentication error in the IIS log. This leads me to a creation the self signed SSL cert causes this problem. This is because when you setup the WCF service website of DinnerNow it will installs its own SSL cert as well. So for a change I created a clean Win Server 2008 VPC and during the IIS installation process, I refused to create or install any SSL cert. Just select Choose a certificate for SSL encryption later in the Choose a certificate for SSL encryption screen (as pic below)
Well, do check out whether this work for you or not which I believe there are other environment issues which might pops up for larger application like DinnerNow.
P/S: So to get DinnerNow working on my VPC, I installed the following software
- Windows Server 2008
- IIS 7.0
- Visual Studio 2008 Pro with SQL Server 2005 Express
- Powershell enabled
- Desktop Experience enabled for WMDC
- Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC)
- Windows Mobile 6 SDK
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