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Visual Studio 2008 - Install Problems and Solutions
Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:19 PM

Ok, maybe this has already been blogged about in various places, but I am going to list my steps that were required for me to get Visual Studio 2008 to install properly under Vista. My previous situation was: Had Installed VS2008 Release Candidate I tried the following when I went to install VS2008 RTM: Uninstalled VS2008 RC Install of RTM failed. Uninstalled... Read More...

by Glav | 55 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Vista, Visual Studio, General, Windows

Outlook 2007 - Just fix it - My Rant
Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:30 PM

Warning: Rant to follow: Ok, I know Outlook 2007 is a complicated piece of software. I know its gone through a whole series of revisions. Could I make a better piece of software? Well I'd like to think so, but the people at Microsoft are smart people so it could be debatable. What I do know? Outlook 2007 is significantly less stable for me than Outlook 2003 ever... Read More...

by Glav | 21 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Vista, readify, General, Windows

RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007 - Part 2. Bye bye Outlook
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:08 PM

The other day, I posted about my issues with Outlook 2007 and its handling of my RSS feeds. I tried a number of things to fix it, the latest effort being to export all my feeds, delete all of them from Outlook, then re-import. Didn't work, dates were still all wrong. I have to say I am very disappointed. I enjoyed the convenience of having my feeds in Outook... Read More...

by Glav | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Vista, Personal, Winforms, General, Windows

WCF Atomic Transactions - GUI Configuration
Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:28 PM

If you play with WCF and would like an easy, graphical way to enable and configure basic options of the the WS-Atomic transaction support of WCF, you can do the following: (Note: I did this recently as I had to rebuild a new laptop so I thought I'd mention it here for the benefit of anyone else). I am running this within Vista, although it should be "similar... Read More...

by Glav | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Vista, WCF, Architecture, Windows, Transactions

Windows Easy Transfer
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:50 PM

I just got me a new Dell XPS M1710 with all the bells and whistles. I thought this would be a good opportunity to try out the Windows Easy Transfer as my old Dell had Windows Vista already installed on it. I must say, it was quite painless and pretty damn easy. Backed up to a USb removable drive, then did some basic setup on my new laptop, such as joining my... Read More...

by Glav | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Vista, readify, General, Community News, Windows