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Get your tech events featured on MSDN UK and TechNet UK!
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This announcement is well overdue, but better late than never!
After much hard work by the DPE team at Microsoft in the UK - thanks in particular go out to Clare - we've now integrated the Developer Fusion events feed with the Microsoft UK community pages. This means that anyone who submits a Microsoft technology-related event to Developer Fusion will also automatically appear on the MSDN and TechNet community pages too - talk about some great free exposure!
Any events on Developer Fusion also get automatically posted to Upcoming.
I'm also working with the larger user groups in the UK to ensure we can automatically pull in their events through the same feed format. If anyone would like more info on this, just get in touch.
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Gotcha: "The specified metadata path is not valid." with ADO.NET Entities on Vista x64
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For those of you foolhardy enough to be running Vista x64 (myself included!), VS 2008, and the latest build of the ADO.NET Entities framework... you may well hit the following error message:
The specified metadata path is not valid. A valid path must be either an existing directory, an existing file with extension '.csdl', '.ssdl', or '.msl', or a URI that identifies an embedded resource.
The catch is that apparently the designers are not supported on 64-bit machines. The workaround is to copy two files from %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5 to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5:
then restart Visual Studio and rebuild your solution.
Thanks to Tommy Williams @ MSFT (found on the forums)