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Visual Studio: alway run as administrator

I’m currently developing on a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 that is domain joined, so I log in with my domain account and user access control is enabled. I need to run my Visual Studio as an administrator, because otherwise I get all kind of errors. I...
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Microsoft Virtual labs - getting the lab notes directly

Microsoft has great virtual labs available, but it takes some time to get in there. If you just want the lab notes, type the following in Google: site:download.microsoftvirtuallabs.com filetype:pdf or just follow this link .
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Debugging SharePoint/ASP.NET code? Smart key-codes + disable timeout!

I'm currently running around in the Visual Studio debugger to debug some complex SharePoint code. There are two things really annoy me: all the mouse-clicks needed to attach to the Internet Information Server process and the time-out you get when you...
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LiveWriter finally working again with my weblogs.asp.net blog!

Thanks to Joe Cheng who was so kind to respond to my previous post on the topic I finally have LiveWriter working again against my blog. The metablog handler needs to be: http://weblogs.asp.net/metablog.ashx In the past this was: http://weblogs.asp.net...
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Help: Windows LiveWriter not working anymore against http://weblogs.asp.net?

I almost stopped blogging because Windows Livewriter stopped working against my http://weblogs.asp.net account on three different platforms. I get the following error when trying to post with LiveWriter: The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received...
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PowerShell: Return values from a function through reference parameters

PowerShell has a special [ref] keyword to specify which parameters are used in a fuction to return values. It's usage is not directly clear however. If the type of the variable to update is a value type, use the [ref] keyword in the declaration of the...
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Microsoft Tag, funny idea, will it take off?

Microsoft came up with a simple but funny and possibly really effective idea: Microsoft Tag. You can create a nice visual tag consisting of colorful triangles, and when you scan this tag with the camera of your Internet enabled cell phone you get connected...
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C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies for assemblies to reference in your code

I just stumbles across a "new" concept of Microsoft. In the C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies folder Microsoft installs assemblies for products that can be referenced from your code. Instead of referencing assemblies directly from the GAC...
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SharePoint stsadm.exe and the infamous "Command line error"

The SharePoint command-line utility stsadm.exe was driving me crazy for the last two days. I'm automating all kind of this from PowerShell scripts, but I got the error "Command line error" while I was absolutely sure that what I was doing was correct...
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Visual Studio SDK 4.0, Vista and symbolic links...

When you install Visual Studio SDK on Vista, it doesn't install by default on X:\Program Files, but on X:\Program Files (x86). When I tried to recompile the VSIP Software Factory from Codeplex , it had links to the Visual Studio SDK in c:\program files...
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