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• Blown away by Vista UI

  We're still waiting to be blown away, aren't we? Is it beta 2? Seems I haven't heard much about this lately.. Posted Nov 19 2005, 08:25 PM by jeffreykey with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Platform

• Required reading

  You'll probably have a few extra minutes on your hands while waiting for VS Express to download . Do yourself another favor and check out the breaking changes in .NET Framework 2.0 [ BradA ]. The list is pretty small, considering the breadth of the framework... Posted Nov 14 2005, 10:17 PM by jeffreykey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Platform

• Yes, it does mean everything

  While doing my first ASP.NET 2.0 "publish" tonight I was presented with the following dialog box: Assuming that apps delete as few items as possible, I assumed that "existing files" meant files that matched those that were being copied. I was wrong. It... Posted Nov 14 2005, 12:08 AM by jeffreykey with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Beef, Development, Platform

• Installing Windows on a SATA drive without the bloody F6 floppy

  ..or "How to do a Slipstream Install of Windows" Today I bought a tiny Shuttle server to get myself up to speed on VSTS. The mainboard supported SATA, so I picked up a 200 GB SATA Maxtor to go with it ($99 after rebate!). But no floppy. I refuse. If Vista... Posted Aug 28 2005, 10:38 PM by jeffreykey with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: Platform

• System Monitor

  (I'm a bit behind, so please forgive my tardiness. This is old news by now.) The first article in my " Cool Applications " section of MSDN's new Coding4Fun site covers System Monitor , a little monitoring application that hightlights a number of new features... Posted May 16 2005, 09:48 PM by jeffreykey with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Platform

• 250 * x64 = 25

  From Thurrott's WinHEC blog : The MSN Messenger server farm handles over 70 million concurrent sessions every single day. Until recently, they were using 250 32-bit servers to manage that load. When they switched to Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition running... Posted Apr 27 2005, 06:24 PM by jeffreykey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Platform, x64

• 32-bit registry access from WSH script running in x64 Windows

  We use a hybrid approach for pulling the latest "good" binaries to our machines every day. A VBS bootstrapper starts the process, and one of the things it does is check the registry. Sounds reasonable, right? It was for the past few years, but now there... Posted Apr 26 2005, 09:23 PM by jeffreykey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Platform, x64

• Remotely enabling Remote Desktop

  I don't know how many times I've installed Windows, unhooked the monitor and keyboard, then tried to Remote Desktop in...and nothing, because I hadn't turned on Remote Desktop. I did it again today and quickly found a great answer: a single registry value... Posted Apr 19 2005, 06:58 PM by jeffreykey with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Platform

• Favorite Visual Studio 2005 (documentation) feature of the day

  I spend a lot of time in the MSDN docs, and something that's always frustrated me is that you/re always returned to the top of a page when you press the back arrow. No more! This is great news. Posted Jan 25 2005, 06:06 PM by jeffreykey with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Development, FFotD, Platform

• Windows Compute Cluster Edition supports x64 only

  The past few months have been very interesting for 64-bit Windows. First, Microsoft decides that XP Pro 64 will only support x64, and now Windows Compute Cluster Edition will RTM with only x64 support . The former was a surprise, but not entirely unexpected... Posted Jan 24 2005, 06:27 PM by jeffreykey with | with no comments Filed under: Platform