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May 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 6:04 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Personalization and Membership under Windows Vista

If you are have issues getting Asp.net 2.0 membership and personalization running under Vista then you are not alone: there seems to be security issues dynamically creating the database. Luckily the workaround is pretty straight forward, all you have
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:36 PM

Hosting a WPF control in a Windows Form Application

In case you are trying to Host a WPF control in a Windows Form Application the sample in the SDK isn't rendering due to the fact it attempting to put the control in a panel. The sample has also changed the default control from a page to Grid - this is
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:07 AM

Running Web or Load tests from a Network Drive

When attempting to run a web test or load test from a network drive; web and load tests will fail with the error: VSP1394 "VSPerf logger does not support logging to nework drives" (Note: Dyanamic code analysis will also fail...but gives you the option
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Monday, May 29, 2006 9:41 AM

Rod Placement and Color Selection (Offshore Fishing)

I mentioned yesterday I typically have 4 rods out, which begs the question of how do you run this many lines without getting tangled and which lures and colors do you put where. First of all setting the lures, as common sense would suggest. You put out
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 6:32 PM

Offshore Fishing by yourself on the Gold Coast

My blog posts are typically very work focused so if that is what you are expecting my apologies as I decided to forego my Sunday to get some work done and wanted a break from playing with the Expression tools …. For those of you that don’t know me personally
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:38 AM

Beta2 of WinFX is available!

Microsoft Pre-Release Software WinFX Runtime Components - Beta2 Windows Presentation Foundation", "Windows Communication Foundation", and "Windows Workflow Foundation" are the names for three strategic developer technologies that Microsoft plans to ship
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:51 AM

2007 Office System Beta 2 now available

Already had questions "Where do you get Office Beta2 to use VSTO"? Well you can evaluate the next release of Microsoft Office products for testing and planning purposes with 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2. Make sure and check out Powerpoint's "Smart
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:36 AM

Microsoft Pre-Release Software Visual Studio Tools For Office "V3" - June Community Technology Preview (CTP)

Microsoft Pre-Release Software Visual Studio Tools For Office "V3" - June Community Technology Preview (CTP) The June 2006 Community Technology Preview of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office "V3" is now available. The primary goal of this CTP is
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Monday, May 22, 2006 11:40 PM

Who's Ready for Windows Presenation Foundation?

I just read Paul’s challenge that my team should give him 10 reasons why ISV’s should start using WPF over Windows Forms due to the lack of two controls like the DataGrid or date time picker…. My answer to Paul is the same as my reply to developers writing
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:54 PM

Vista Training in June

I know i have blogged about this before but we now have a registration site, a fixed agenda and places you can Innovation 2006 Day is a full day dedicated training covering Windows Vista and Office 2007. With Seperate Tracks for both IT Pros and Developers
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:20 PM

Installing Visual Studio 2005 on Vista

I have had a couple people ask how I am getting Visual Study 2005 to install on Windows Vista has their Setup is failing immediately after launching it...What i am doing is actually launching the Visual Studio Setup program under the \setup directory.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:02 PM

Vista Hardware Review

Good friend, Louise Dean, from Intel was helping me pull together the case studies for the Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 launch and when she saw our team lugging around some clunky (and fragile) AMD powered shuttles for our launch demo’s and she asked
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 5 Comments
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:28 AM

Microsoft Expression Web Designer Community Technology Preview 1 - Available

While i have not had a chance to look at it yet we have just posted the first preview of the Microsoft Expression Web Designer! You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/wd_free_trial.aspx (Sorry about the
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:49 PM

Creating your own Office 12 Ribbon controls - or VSTO v3 =WOW!!

As you can see i have started playing with Office 12 and obviously one of the first things I would want to do is write some code to take advantage of the new Office interfaces. To start off with i downloaded VSTO v3 -and figured it would be pretty much
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:09 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Design for Operations Integration Kit

Visual Studio Team System Design for Operations Integration Kit is now available! This integration kit is a key component of our Dynamic Systems Initiative that connects operations and development teams using Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Visual
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