Leaving Blogger

I won't be posting to Blogger anymore. I moved to Wordpress and I hope to take advantage of this change to, first, start blogging more, and to start posting more original articles and less links to other people's solutions. The link to my new blog is http://benoit808.wordpress.com/

Error Adding WebReference in VS2005

Today I was trying to add a Web Reference to an existing project in Visual Studio 2005 and got the following error message:

The web services enumeration components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to add web references to your application.

I tried several solutions found online (except the one suggesting to uninstall and reinstall Visual Studio) but what finally did the trick was a simple command line:
Open the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt and type the following command:

devenv /resetskippkgs

New content not getting indexed in MOSS 2007

I have been struggling with an indexing problem in MOSS 2007. We are using an incremental index schedule to index all our content in MOSS and for some reason, which we haven't figured out yet, the indexing service stopped indexing new content. The solution that worked great for us was to Reset the Index. Sharepoint started reindexing the entire site including all my new content.