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Sunday, January 18, 2009 9:58 PM

Windows 7 Betta

I’ve been running Windows 7 Beta 1 for a week now and really like it. But I’d been looking at desktop for a few days before someone pointed out the little “desktop Easter egg”. Here’s the desktop: See it? Kirstin Juhl pointed it out on Twitter : OK.....
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:31 AM

MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet

a.bookmarklet { border: 1px black dashed; text-decoration: none; padding: 2px; background: #fff9d8; } There’s a semi-hidden feature in the MSDN Library website : Low Bandwidth view. We’ll talk about how to use it, why I like it, and some tips for switching...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 1:45 AM

Upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 / .NET 3.5 SP1

Have your Visual Studio Installation Media Handy I was prompted for the original installation media both when uninstalling the SP1 Beta and when installing the SP1 RTM. The file it’s looking for is vs_setup.msi in most cases, but they’re not all created...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:08 PM

Jon's News Wrapup - June 25, 2008 Edition

Development Tools Here's the grab bag of tools, development toolkits, etc. url live.sysinternals.com Run Sysinternals utilities directly off the internet without having to install them. You can browse to them at http://live.sysinternals.com or open them...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:50 PM

TechEd 2008 Keynote Summary

Here are the highlights from the TechEd 2008 Keynote (as seen from afar by watching the TechEd 2008 Keynote and reading posts and press): Via Microsoft PressPass , here are the key announcements (with my notes): Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 will be available...
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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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