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Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:14 AM

Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:10 PM

Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) Install - Easter Egg?

Exactly one week ago, I was testing something that required me to install the old Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) on a virtual machine. I got part way through the install when a bizarre set of circumstances led to my accidentally sitting on the keyboard....
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:59 AM

January 2008 Recap

I've had a policy against posting on big news that's likely to be common knowledge in the Microsoft development community, since nobody needs another post saying "Big News, Visual Studio 2008 is out today!" But I think I'm going to break that policy once...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:03 AM

Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (Release)

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:22 PM

Why aren't Windows file copies restartable?

Windows has supported restartable file copies for a while. CopyFileEx() has supported COPY_FILE_RESTARTABLE for a long, long time. ROBOCOPY has handled restartable file copies since Windows NT4 - maybe eight years ago? So you might think Windows Explorer...
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Monday, May 21, 2007 12:13 PM

CodePlex is adding support for <strike>Subversion</strike> TortoiseSVN

I just heard that CodePlex is adding support for TortoiseSVN with an estimated release date of June 5 . UPDATE: Newer comments make it look like they are just setting up a bridge from TortoiseSVN to TFS. Not clear... Although the information just says...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:49 AM

MIX07 - WCF adding System.UriTemplate, [WebGet], and [WebInvoke]

System.UriTemplate Build and parse URI's System.UriTemplate (Orcas) - runtime support for URI template syntax UriTemplate.Bind - A safe, smart string.format for URI construction UriTemplate.Match - Extracts URI to dictionary UriTemplateTable - One or...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:15 AM

Why Microsoft can't ship open source code

I've suggested a few times that Microsoft could go beyond just cooperating with the open source community and actually ship open source code. For instance, Paint.NET is a great alternative to MS Paint, so not just bundle it? Tonight I had a very long...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:45 AM

The 9 things Microsoft SHOULD be announcing next week at MIX07 (but won't)

Microsoft has said they'll have some kind of big surprise to announce next week at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas. If you want to hear some good guesses as to what will actually be announced, you've come to the wrong place. If you'd like some good...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:16 AM

Alternative MIX07 Blog Bling

I registered for the MIX07 conference today, and decided I needed to add a MIX07 badge to my blog. I spent a little while looking at the official MIX07 badges and decided that, while they're very slick and exciting, they just don't speak to where...
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