Windows 7 beta and the beta nVidia Driver
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
Two words: Don’t install
This is what nVidia says and you typically get it through Windows Update. I suffered with the title bar going missing and ugly black blocks on my desktop for a week before I figured that the nVidia beta drivers were to blame. It looks like others too are having the same problem.
It [...]
Running Windows 7 Beta
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7.
Both setups ran fine without a hitch although the upgrade route took a couple of extra hours with all the migrating of application and user settings.
The good news is that I’ve [...]
Tags: 64-bit, chrome, live mesh, windows 7
Oh MSDN Language Filter
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
For the love of god why is the language filter on MSDN a list of checkboxes that default to ALL languages.
You'd expect the guys at MSDN to have figured out how cookies work and remember the language you selected. But no, that would take the fun out of switching off each language one by one [...]
SQL Server Data Services
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
With SQL Server Data Services, it looks like Microsoft is finally entering the foray that Amazon's S3 service provided. As a Microsoft developer the best part is the integration with the tools and technologies that we use, especially LINQ. If you don't know what S3 is, it's basically a storage in the cloud thats hosted [...]
Visual Studio 2008 TFS breaking Unit Test Projects
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On the next iteration of my current we’ll be using Visual Studio 2008 and targeting .NET 3.5.
As usual I jumped the gun and installed it before the rest of the team, so I had to keep VS 2005 running at the same time. Everything was hunky dory until I installed the TFS 2008 client. This [...]
Another Silverlight post
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
I didn’t want to cloud the blogosphere with yet another post on Silverlight, but this post on TechCrunch is one of the better written article on Silverlight and covers all the aspects well.
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TFS now gets Web Access
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
Microsoft just announced the acquisition of devbiz solutions, the guys who make TeamPlain Web Access.
The best part is that it’s free now. If you’ve been holding off on TFS due to its lack of a web interface, there’s no reason to wait anymore.
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Super secret project and the MVP Summit 2007 so far
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft
I just got back from the session by Don and ChrisAn and they did ‘partially’ talk about the super secret project they’ve been working on.
I’ve captured the whole session on video and will have them up once I get it cleared.
The MVP Summit has so far been ‘wicked’. I’ve met some of the biggest legends who [...]
A new direction?
Posted by merill | Filed under .NET, Microsoft
Will Don and ChrisAn talk about this? ChrisAn was in the WPF team…
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Looking forward to the MVP Summit
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I’ll be at Redmond next month with the rest of the SL MVP gang. Don Box just gave yet another reason for me to get excited.
We’re being let in on the top secret project that Don and ChrisAn have been working on since WCF/WPF.
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