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Using Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 Together
So I broke down and installed Windows 8 Preview on a machine... Not the experience I was expecting. I hope that this is nothing like the final version because Windows 8 Preview looks horrible and it is even harder to navigate.
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Installing latest Windows 7 updates could cause unbootable system
Be careful when installing the latest updates that just came out from Microsoft yesterday. I have only tried them on one machine but after installing the latest updates from Windows Update, my machine rebooted and Windows 7 will no longer start.
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Activating Windows 7 on different hardware
With Vista, if you replaced hardware on your machine or put your hard drive in a new computer, Windows would prompt you to activate online. You were typically given 5 or so activations before your key would no longer work. -
How to get your Quick Launch Toolbar back in Windows 7
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How to find missing drivers for Windows 7
I installed Windows 7 on machine that was a couple of years old. When it booted up, the max display resolution was 640x480 because of the old vga video driver that shipped with Windows 7. I tried to find an updated driver from several places but ended up being saved by DriverMax. -
How to (Successfully) Install Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7
If you do not follow these instructions when installing the Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7, you will probably end up in an endless blue screen / reboot cycle! -
Live Mesh update for Windows 7 Beta is now online
Microsoft has posted a new update for Live Mesh that is compatible with Windows 7 Beta. The info has been posted on the Live Mesh Blog. -
R.I.P. .NET Reflector
Yes. It is true, Lutz Roeder has decided to end development of .NET Reflector… This free tool has been the greatest addition to .NET development since, well, forever. Development will be passed on to Red Gate Software and it is unclear whether it will eventually move to a retail product. So sad.
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Extension Methods with Enum Description
Since Enum names in .NET do not support certain characters like spaces, often developers will use the DescriptionAttribute to add detailed text to an Enum.
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.NET Framework 3.0 RC is out
NETFX 3.0 just went live on the web today, you can download it here. NETFX 3.0 contains Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow, and Windows Cardspace.
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Frans Bouma article about why a cache in an O/R mapper doesn't make it fetch data faster.
Preface
One of the biggest myths in O/R mapper land is about 'caching'. It's often believed that using a cache inside an O/R mapper makes queries much faster and thus makes the O/R mapper more efficient. With that conclusion in hand, every O/R mapper which doesn't use a cache is therefore less efficient than the ones who do, right?
Well... not exactly. In this article I hope to explain that caching in O/R mappers is not there for making queries more efficient, but is there for uniquing. But more on that later on. I hope that at the end of the article, I have convinced the reader that the myth Caching == more efficiency is indeed a myth. Beware, it's perhaps a bit complicated here and there, I'll try to explain it in as much layman's terms as possible. -
How to detect old versions when deploying the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX)
I received an interesting question from a customer this weekend. They are working on a setup package that will include the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly the WinFX runtime components) as a prerequisite, and they wanted to automatically run the vs_uninst_winfx.exe cleanup tool to make sure that there were not any previous beta versions on the system that would cause setup to fail. This cleanup tool does not have any silent switches, and it is only designed as an end user tool and not a redistributable setup component, so I advised the customer against including this.
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DSL Tools V1 to ship with Visual Studio SDK V3 in first part of September
Having just returned from vacation, I thought I'd update folks about the V1 release of DSL Tools. This will be shipped as part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 3 in the first part of September.
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WCF and WCF Security Guidance Packages Released.
You can go to the download page here. On the download page you will also find an excel spreadsheet which has features that are planned for the December CTP release of Service Factory.
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Interesting interview question
Ayende has posted an interesting code snippet useful to measure how much a candidate to a job knows about the compiler he/she claims to work on.
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Clearing Enum Flags
Somebody just pointed out to me that the enum guidelines don’t provide any information on how to clear a flag in a flags enum variable.
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Heralding PLINQ into the LINQ party
eWEEK reports today, the announcement of PLinq. I'll quite directly from the article, as Andreas Hejlsberg captures the concept succinctly:
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Setting up links to external documentation in Sandcastle
Sandcastle supports 4 different link type options. The link type options are defined in sandcastle.config file under ResolveReferenceLinks component. The 4 different type options under this component are the following:
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PCG - Performance Counter Grapher
I have an initial version of Performance Counter Grapher up and running.
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TeamCI: Continuous Integration for Team Foundation Build
Notion Solutions announced the release of TeamCI, which is a solution to provide continuous integration for Team Foundation Build. You can download TeamCI from Team System Rocks. For more information, see Dave McKinstry's blog (Continuous Integration for Team Build).
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