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MS BSM 2005 Vs BO XCelsius
I'd a meeting with a couple of MS guys last week and the topic is about business intellience and MS Business Scorecard Manager 2005 (with little MS Office 12 as well). The idea of MS Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) 2005 is talking about how easy to retrieve data from our defined cube and datawarehouse, and then display on a browser by non-tech users in a friendly way (or to a sharepoint server visually).
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Uninstall of Non-Exist Softwares
Although the msiinv.exe and Windows Cleanup Utility don't work for me perfectly, it's worth to blog this post by Matt in my opinion. :)
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Migrate CS 1.0 to 2.0 Beta 2
Just finish upgrading a local IT Pro community (jo-san.IT) from Community Server 1.0 to 2.0 Beta 2 during this X'mas holiday, it (should be) is a pretty strange forward process but it took me more than 6 hours before completion. I tried in my testing machine without problem, but I faced a couple of problems in this migration:
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Close of Forums and Hosting Environment (MSDNConnection/ASPXConnection Programs)
It's a pity that MSDN Connection is going to close the forums and server there... Well, maybe it's a good sign of resources management. :)
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Code Snippets Manager Hidden in VS2005
This is a very good article about Code Snippet Manager in VSTO V2.0 by Kevin. However, the "Code Snippet Manager" is hidden in VS2005 by default (strange?!), so you can't do anything nor increase your productivity even though you'd read this article.So what we have to do is to customize the menu by adding the Code Snippets Manager to the Tools menu "manually".Before:
After:
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Adding Image to Command Bar Button with VSTO 2005
Compared to add an image to the CommandBarButton in VBA, doing the same is much complicated and troublesome in VSTO 2005. (What we have to do is to set the .FaceId property to a number when programming in VBA only).
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Archive of VS2005 and SQL2005 Launch Event
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Input Device in Virtual PC
I used Virtual PC extensively in office and home, the problem of "lost of keyboard and/or mouse" (That is, the mouse and keyboard don't work in the guest machine, but work in the host) happened many times recently. I'm not sure is it a signal to me that I have to (clean) create another image and continue my work there, but I'm afraid of this time-consuming solution... and at least another quick solution still work for me: -
Unofficial SQL Server 2005 Service Manager
Just try this SQL 2005 Service Manager in my .NET Fx 2.0 dev machine, nice. :)
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Unable to Debugging in VS 2005?
I'm developing a VSTO2 application right now, and I press F5 hundreds of times everyday. However, VS 2005 display an error message ONCE today. (No, nothing wrong in my machine and code, but this message flash once today, and I haven't see it again).
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VSTO Security and Useful Post
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Coloring Problem of my eye or VS2005?
I'm a color blind (of specific colors), and that's why I'm so eager to learn all "user friendliness and usability" features in VS2005 and all Apps. I have a Web services with a custom namespace like Something.WebServices, the fully qualified class name like Something.WebServices.WsDefault (right pane). However, the source of that asmx file and VS2005 may dislike my naming convention.. so it complaint and just highlight the first 2 characters only (left pane)Colt Kwong -
Video Interview with Ben Smith - Senior Security Strategist
A new non-official C9 video interview was just published by Nam today. Check it out!
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Mutex could not be created
I blogged about how to solve the cache error in VS.NET 2003 last week, and I saw a "similar" problem again in VS 2005 today.