Russ Nemhauser

A few days ago I decided to create a new Parallels machine and install Vista build 5744. It installed fine and the OS works well, but unfortunately (as expected, since Parallels' support for Vista is "experimental" in their current RC build) the performance and feature set were far from where they could be. I deleted the whole virual machine immediately.

I have several clients, all of whom share a couple of class libraries that I created with a framework of functionality. I am attempting to add these clients to TFS source control, but I'm getting binding errors.

For example, suppose my first shared library is Romax.RealEstate and I have corporate intranets for Client 1 and Client 2. Both clients will also have their own class libraries with custom classes as well as classes that inherit from ones that exist in Romax.RealEstate.

What I've done is structure Client 1 the following way in my file system:

MainFolder
    Romax.RealEstate
    Client1
       ClientLibrary
       Website
       Client1.sln
    Client2
       ClientLibrary
       Website
       Client2.sln

So basically, both solution files reference the shared class library which exists outside of their own folder.

Can anyone recommend a way that I can implement something like this without having Visual Studio complain about binding roots and the like?

I have just returned from speaking at VSLive! in New York City. The conference was far smaller than I expected. I would have thought there would be about twice as many attendees, but it was a very smooth-running, low-key conference. Although the conference hotel was in Brooklyn, it was only a ten-minute commute to get to lower Manhattan. 

For the past six months or so I have been making a "back-burner" effort to move my 350+ contacts from my Outlook over to my Address Book on my Mac. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't appear to support the vCard standard like many others (even in the latest beta of Office 2007, which is utterly shocking to me) when it comes to exporting. My only guess is that they don't want to make it easy for people to export all of their contacts to another application and stop using Outlook. It was painful until I very recently installed Thunderbird on an old Windows machine I was retiring. Thunderbird allows the easy import (and subsequent export) of your contacts to standard vCard format, which allowed me to easily import them into the Address Book application. While I never plan to use Thunderbird, I commend them on their cooperative skills.

I read a blog post today that said Internet Explorer RC1 was released and is available for download.

I have a firewall appliance that has a built-in DHCP server. All of my internal boxes have internal (i.e. 10.0.0.x) IP addresses, some of which are static and some are DHCP'd.

I'm happy to be giving two sessions at VSLive! New York City in September this year. Please click here for details.

I was reading a blog entry today that mentioned an installation of Parallels in order to run a virtualized instance of Windows on an Intel-based Mac. I had heard of Parallels but was hesitant to give it a try based on my terrible experience with Microsoft Virtual PC 7 for Mac.