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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 2 comment(s)
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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...
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...
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 39 comment(s)
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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 4 comment(s)
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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 1 comment(s)
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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 4 comment(s)
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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 11 comment(s)
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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.
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 no comments
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