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Annoying Package Load Failure Error by rachitp

I’m using TFS Power Tools ( Oct 2008 release ). The Visual Studio 2008 was working fine until I start getting this very annoying “Package Load Failure” error. I didn’t install/uninstall anything but something somehow magically got changed. Error Description...

How do you read a technical book by rachitp

Given I have a finite reading time, it’s hard for me to read any technical book (300 pages and above) from the first page to the last. Most of the times, first 2-3 chapters give me enough to get going and other remaining chapters just become more like...

Download sucks on Live Meeting by rachitp

Why the heck is Internet Explorer necessary to download a webcast/presentation? You really can't download (so called Microsoft Office Live Meeting High-Fidelity Presentation) using Firefox. Forget about just viewing it using IE. Does it really make sense...
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Learning SQL Server Broker by rachitp

Working on some project, I have started delving a lot with Microsoft SQL Server Broker for 2005. I can see that the initial learning curve is very very steep and it's very easy to give up on SSB initially. But if you are like myself, learning SSB, be...
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For Better Performance of Visual Studio by rachitp

Update: I'm re-posting this as I accidentally deleted the original one. I noticed many times that the performance of the Visual Studio 2005/2008 is very sluggish. Also, the computer meets all the requirements as per MSDN, it still opens files slow and...
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Sonic.exe access denied by rachitp

I've started exploring SubSonic for one of my projects and found this issue. For a class library project, when you want to generate DAL off your sql db, you do the following at the command prompt: D:\Projects\BusinessObjects>" C:\Program Files\SubSonic...
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Great Mistakes in Technical Leadership by rachitp

I somehow ended up here when I was searching some good articles on Technical Leadership. The article is definitely worth reading. There's also a free E-Book available here . These points (mistakes) that I completely agree (and have seen in past) committed...
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