I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence my titling this list as "inessential"...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon....
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The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon....
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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Scott asks, "Wouldn't it be great if there were an edition of Windows with all of the stupid features turned off?" Yes, it would and it must happen soon . I've spent the week and with my new Alienware and Vista Ultimate and I am frustrated well beyond words . So, I'll use Scott's words: I just...
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Scott asks, "Wouldn't it be great if there were an edition of Windows with all of the stupid features turned off?" Yes, it would and it must happen soon . I've spent the week and with my new Alienware and Vista Ultimate and I am frustrated well beyond words . So, I'll use Scott's...
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A light day out there for the Holiday weekend. LINQ Bart has another series going with The IQueryable Tales - LINQ to LDAP. Part 1 is Key Concepts and Part 2 is Getting Started with IQueryable . CLR Jason continues Disassembling .NET with Appendix B , a walkthrough of storing byte arrays in the User...
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A light day out there for the Holiday weekend. LINQ Bart has another series going with The IQueryable Tales - LINQ to LDAP. Part 1 is Key Concepts and Part 2 is Getting Started with IQueryable . CLR Jason continues Disassembling .NET with Appendix B , a walkthrough of storing byte arrays in the User...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both of which...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion dollar ad campaign? Why were there no TV ads? Anything...
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So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion dollar ad campaign? Why were there no TV ads? Anything...
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Ok, forget everything I said here . I bought a top of the line HP Pavilion Media Center m7674n TV PC with a Dual Core 2 E6440 and nVidia GeForce7300 LE, which is Windows Vista Premium Ready and what a freaking difference! HP was nice enough to leave a 160GB spare drive and I installed it in 15 minutes...
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The released Windows Vista is available for download on MSDN and TechNet . According to Robert (and may others) it is on Connect for us beta testers and will be given free to beta testers that submitted at least one bug!! but I don't see it there. Do others? Bits coming down for MSDN.......
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents...
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents...
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I've been battling with Vista 5744 for 2 weeks now trying to get Glass on my NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200. I've tried everything including what Robert suggested to no avail. I just found these new 96.85 NVIDIA drivers for RC2 labeled Oct 17, 2006. I did install them and it did the usual thing which is suggest...
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Last time around, I said the performance in RC2 had gotten substantially worse than RC1. It seems that assessment was premature and I am now things seem a lot better. I downloaded Virtual PC 2007 from my beta program and it is running very well under Vista. Right now, Vista is handling the following...
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I tried to "upgrade" Vista 5600 RC1 to 5744 today. It was very rocky. I couldn't get the Upgrade to work because it kept saying that Windows Sharepoint Services was installed and I had to uninstall it. I kept running the Office 2007 installer to take out WSS but it kept appearing. Then I unistalled...
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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows...
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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows...
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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience at Microsoft (Building 20 is my 2nd home...
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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience at Microsoft (Building 20 is my 2nd home...
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I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't install or are not working correctly. As we all...
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I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't install or are not working correctly. As we all know, Scott...
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My friend Shawn says , " Yes, I said upgrading XP! The good news is that is build is very very good. Not perfect, but very good! I am able to use it as my main box " about Pre-RC Build 5536. I agree 1000%. Since my install a few days ago, I have been blown away at both the performance (yes...
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My friend Shawn says , " Yes, I said upgrading XP! The good news is that is build is very very good. Not perfect, but very good! I am able to use it as my main box " about Pre-RC Build 5536. I agree 1000%. Since my install a few days ago, I have been blown away at both the performance (yes...
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I'm posting this from Vista 5472 Ultimate Edition and everything looks good. Again, a trivial install with 2 or 3 questions. Nice job. Of course, the first thing I do when I bring up any machine is to go right to Scott Hanselman's Repave Essentials page and get that all installed. I actually...
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I'm posting this from Vista 5472 Ultimate Edition and everything looks good. Again, a trivial install with 2 or 3 questions. Nice job. Of course, the first thing I do when I bring up any machine is to go right to Scott Hanselman's Repave Essentials page and get that all installed. I actually keep that...
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Vista What's New in Vista - Creating dump files in Vista What's New in Vista - Complete PC Backup Data/OR/M Everyone's been pointing to Ted's long post on OR/M - The Vietnam of Computer Science. I personally find the analogy week, orthogonal and perhaps bordering on troublesome. Ayende...
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Vista What's New in Vista - Creating dump files in Vista What's New in Vista - Complete PC Backup Data/OR/M Everyone's been pointing to Ted's long post on OR/M - The Vietnam of Computer Science. I personally find the analogy week, orthogonal and perhaps bordering on troublesome. Ayende even invokes Goodwin...
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I've bailed on 5456. It is the only version of Vista in 2 years that won't stay up and keeps crashing the hard drive. Hmm, maybe this could have helped....
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I've bailed on 5456. It is the only version of Vista in 2 years that won't stay up and keeps crashing the hard drive. Hmm, maybe this could have helped....
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I cannot get Visual Studio 2005 Retail (Full Edition) to install on Vista 5456 as the documents and web site say I can do with the June .NET Framework 3.0 delieverables? Setup.exe just closes with an unknown error (or crash). I hate to ask this here but I am desperate! Has anyone gotten Visual Studio...
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I cannot get Visual Studio 2005 Retail (Full Edition) to install on Vista 5456 as the documents and web site say I can do with the June .NET Framework 3.0 deliverables? Setup.exe just closes with an unknown error (or crash). I hate to ask this here but I am desperate! Has anyone gotten Visual Studio...
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I might as well combine my last 2 posts. Today's New and Notable is focused on the major beta releases today. Vista and Longhorn Beta 2 are finally available on Connect and MSDN, and NVIDIA and ATI both have released new drivers to coincide with the release of Windows Vista Beta 2. Fetch! Wow! WinFX...
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I might as well combine my last 2 posts. Today's New and Notable is focused on the major beta releases today. Vista and Longhorn Beta 2 are finally available on Connect and MSDN, and NVIDIA and ATI both have released new drivers to coincide with the release of Windows Vista Beta 2. Fetch! Wow! WinFX...
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Windows Vista 5365 is out for testers and Brandon LeBlanc has an excellent review of it. Since this an Interim build for testers I am not sure if I am allowed to talk about it (don't know what Brandon arranged) so I will just note that I installed it as an upgrade over Windows Media Center 2005 easily...
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Andrew has posted a pointer to a succinct answer from a Microsoft employee on the very important impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. Those of us who have dependencies in our products and our beta and ship cycles on WinFX have the right to ask tough questions as this could have...
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Andrew has posted a pointer to a succinct answer from a Microsoft employee on the very important impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. Those of us who have dependencies in our products and our beta and ship cycles on WinFX have the right to ask tough questions as this could have...
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