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I heard these guys have great plans on how to secure the universe...

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Pablo wrote a very cool article on the CoDe magazine which should be very useful to most people developing VS packages. With extensive screenshots and wizards, it should make your VS extensibility life MUCH easier.

Give it a shot!

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I have already hinted at this in a previous post, but this time it's a bit different. Sometimes it's useful to switch to a full System.Type when you're doing code-generation or general CodeModel navigation within VS in an addin or VSSDK package.

The trick is to retrieve the ITypeResolutionService from the DynamicType associated with the current project:

private ITypeResolutionService GetResolutionService()
{
    DynamicTypeService typeService = GetService<DynamicTypeService>();
    Debug.Assert(typeService != ...

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VMWare suggests by default that you create SCSI hard drives when you create a new VM based on the Win2003 profile.

Turns out that WHS will not recognize these drives:

You will have to shutdown the VM, remove and optionally delete the original SCSI disk, and create new IDE drive. Remember to make it bigger than 65GB, and now installation should run smoothly.

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