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Creating Unattended installs of VS 2005 Beta 2
Performing unattended or "silent" installs in VS 2005 Beta 2 was surprisingly easy. Last night I downloaded the team suite iso from MSDN Subscriber downloads and then extracted the iso to a folder on my computer. In the root of the image there are 4 folders, one of which is the VS folder. Inside VS we find lots and lots of cabinet files, several folders and a setup.exe and vs_setup.msi folder. These launch a guided installer which includes MSDN but in my case I just wanted to automate the settings for my VS installs.
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Now you see it, now you dont...
Beta 2 bits were on MSDN Subscriber downloads this morning and now they seem to have disappeated. What is the story, why the pull?
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Peter Blum breaks out version 3
Almost anyone who uses my web application notices the slick client side validation as well as other various goodies. Most of this stuff comes from an excellent set of validation and input control developeed by Peter Blum.
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Fox’s 24 and Microsoft
If you don’t watch 24 on Fox you don’t know what you are missing. In a world of predictable shows and boring writing it just stands out above the rest; I think Microsoft should sponsor some elements of the show 24, here is what I am thinking…