Installing and Configuring PowerPivot has been painful for me – Partly because I managed to dive in and not read the readme.txt and release notes ;-) The three things I did wrong and have learned are: - “Standalone” SharePoint option is not supported...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team responsible for testing Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) v1.0. Current version of WACA v1.0 CTP analyzes application configuration for security best practices related...

Såg att SL har lagt till en fiffig IE8-webslice till sin hemsida som gör att du direkt kan få uppdateringar om lokaltrafikläget i Stockholm: Du kan testa den själv på www.sl.se...

Der TechTalk ist vorbei und ich habe Ihn nicht einmal komplett miterlebt, ich musste leider nach Hamburg krankheitsbedingt abbrechen. Am Montag in Karlsruhe war es ein, zumindest für mich, lustiger Abend. Die Demo die wir dabei hatten, ein Kassensystem,...

Microsoft and Black Marble are presenting a day exploring the opportunities and benefits of VS2010 in ALM. You can register for this event by visiting www.blackmarble.com/events Alternatively you can telephone 01274 841305 Venue: Royal College of Physicians,...

Tim Heuer has a great blog post on the new NotificationWindow class for Silverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser applications. This class allows you to create notifications or 'Toast' for your Out-Of-Browser applications when you need to provided helpful information...

So far we've kind of assumed for most of the time that the ImportantObject is easy to create. If not you probably want to create an interface for the ImportantObject. And creating an interface is probably a good idea anyway. So this is a refactoring of...

아래 블로그에서는 Hyper-V 서버와 Failover cluster 를 이용한 5가지 구성방법에 대해서 설명하고 있습니다.  주의하실 것은 VM 위에 올라가있는 Failover cluster 에는 iSCSI만 지원한다는 것 입니다. 1 – Parent-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers 2 – Child-based Failover Clustering with two physical...

Based on feedback that we received both internally and externally we decided to make a rather significant change to the TFS client object model.  This change centers around the TeamFoundationServer, TeamFoundationApplicationInstance and TeamFoundationServerBase...

Hi all, sorry for the absense – we're all really busy fixing Visual Studio 2010 performance, memory consumption, improving stability and fixing last minute bugs. Good news: if you're seeing this: Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject'...

Windows API Code Pack – доступная в исходных кодах библиотека, предоставляющая доступ к ряду возможностей Windows 7. Список возможностей: Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and Thumbnail Toolbars Windows Shell...

Мы возобновляем добрую традицию проводить семинары User Group вместе с нашими друзьями из компании Luxoft и собрание 23 декабря состоится по адресу 1-й Волоколамский проезд, д.10, стр. 3. Участие бесплатное, регистрация по ссылке: http://mdna.ineta.ru/Events/EventMultiSessionInfo.aspx?Id=5039bcb6-2f15-480f-8c81-b1c229ad0f07...

When the Forward Compatibility GDR for Visual Studio 2008 shipped, a change was made to the Team Foundation Server 2010 code that blocks incompatible clients. That means that after TFS2010 beta2, clients that don’t have a forward-compatible patch installed,...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include an updated version of Robocopy that includes a multi-threaded copy feature. /MT [:n] :: Do multi-threaded copies with n threads (default 8). I’ve been using this for a while now and I’ve been seeing excellent...

Scott Mitchell wrote a great series of articles where he describes how to use Microsoft Chart control from simple binding to more complex scenarious. I highly recommend to read his articles for everybody starting working on the control: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/072209-1.aspx...

For a little over a month, Windows Update was failing on one of the servers in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). Specifically, KB 970892 simply would not install on JUBILEE -- my Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 VM, that I use...

Symptom: When clicking “Add/Remove Windows Components” in control panel, it shows error “setup was unable to load the master information file” and rejects further action. Troubleshooting: This error occurs when master information file %windir%\inf\sysoc.inf...

Александр Яхнин , статьи которого мы неоднократно переводили в русском блоге windows mobile , сегодня ( 8 декабря) будет выступать на юзер группе в Санкт Петербурге. Ссылка на регистрацию тут http://sp.ineta.ru/Events/EventOneSessionInfo.aspx?Id=bb2b31de-59c7-4b98-8b03-7b37998818b9...

Александр Яхнин , статьи которого мы неоднократно переводили в русском блоге windows mobile , сегодня ( 8 декабря) будет выступать на юзер группе в Санкт Петербурге. Ссылка на регистрацию тут http://sp.ineta.ru/Events/EventOneSessionInfo.aspx?Id=bb2b31de-59c7-4b98-8b03-7b37998818b9...

In this video, Ryan Linton (a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team), walks us through a demo on how to enable Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell. Watch the video:  Enabling Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated)...

They’ve announced the winners of the 14th Annual Computerworld Singapore Readers Choice Awards and Microsoft has some awards to take home: Product Name Category Microsoft SQL Server Database Management System Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. I highly recommend to review the Services in SharePoint 2010 Products diagram, Managed metadata operations (SharePoint Server 2010) and Plan for large Pages libraries (SharePoint...

The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online viewing. In it we discuss and demo (use time breakpoints  to fast forward to a specific topic): the overall theme of the release – simplicity & improved...

背景 Backgroup： 在.net framework里， encoding class对很多编码方式提供了支持。但是在有些环境中，我们得到的可能只有对Unicode和UTF-8的支持。比如说compact framework and Silverlight . 本文中我们已GB2312为例子给出一个通用的解决方案。 In .net framework, encoding class support more than Unicode. but in .net CF and silverlight,...

Welcome to Go With The Flow blog, where we focus on all aspects of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in .NET Framework, including technologies , news and various events. Through this blog, we hope we can have more communication and interaction with all...