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It seems that Microsoft has quietly released the final version of the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista pack. It supposedly adds full compatibility for Visual Studio 2005 running under Windows Vista, althouh you still need to run it as admin. Read More...
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As I mentioned on my previous post, I have spent a few days very puzzled with a behaviour in WCF reliable messaging/sessions. THe problem all starts because as documented here , creating WCF clients (the classes generated by svcutil.exe ) is quite expensive Read More...
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Well, it seems that this week I have been hitting every bug and/or unexpected behavior in the .NET Framework 2 & 3. What is more frustrating is that none of these bugs will be fixed imdiately, some being scheduled for "Orcas" and some for even later Read More...
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I was setting up my machine with Vista RTM and have noticed that a few MSI packages would fail to install with an error code 2869 and then a number (two or three) dialog boxes empty of any text. I figured out that these packages are the ones that were Read More...
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Well, it seems that Microsoft managed to deliver on their promises and get the new wave of products released early in the month: Office 2007 was announced as released by Eric Rudder (Senior VP in Technology Strategy at Microsoft) during his opening keynote Read More...
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Hello there, Well, it seems that Microsoft decided to quietly release Windows Vista and Office 2007 Beta 2 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. By the product keys made available on the MSDN Subscribers download area it seems that Windows Vista Ultimate Read More...
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Cool! Today is RTM day at Microsoft. They're sending to manufacturing SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 and guess what? They are making it available at MSDN subscribers downloads too. I'm already downloading my copy of SQL Server 2005 Developer RTM Read More...
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Well, this weekend I discovered that my new HTC Universal (O2 XDA Exec) has a bug that if you have it connected to your computer with ActiveSync on and try to make a phone call, it doesn’t open the phone tool. After that, you can even unplug the device Read More...
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Well, I have spent nearly 11 months without a Windows Mobile device (after I have given away my Motorola MPx200 and my iPAQ H5550 when moving to the UK) and I was really hard-pressed to get a new one, but didn’t want to buy anything that I would want Read More...
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Well, Microsoft has been saying for weeks now that we would be astonished by “The Goods”. “The Goods” is the DVD pack containing the betas and latest releases of most of Microsoft software under development. Well, we got the pack right on Tuesday, after Read More...
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Cool, cool, cool. The sessions haven’t started yet, but we have been handed some cool stuff already: - The missing DVD on “The Goods” pack, which contains a copy of Windows “Longhorn” Server - A copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team System Release Candidate!!! Read More...
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Ok, I haven’t been dully reporting as I promised, but probably because I didn’t think my days were going to be that busy. I’m now wrapping up some comments about the last two days and hopefully I will be able to elaborate more about each session after Read More...
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Ok, Bill Gates has spoken. The bottom line of his presentation is: Microsoft is going to release an overwhelming quantity of new technologies between the remaining of this year and the next year. The presentation of Windows Vista and Office 12 outlined Read More...
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Oh yeah, here it comes. Finally PDC has arrived in its full geeky atmosphere. I’m now sitting in the big hall, waiting for Bill Gates’ keynote as I write it. I was also waiting for my colleagues, Mick, Colin and Howard, but they didn’t show up on the Read More...
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We have noticed after migrating to Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 that refactoring was performing terribly bad. It worked much quicker on the November/2004 CTP and we didn't see a reason for it to change so dramatically, until today, when a colleague of mine, Read More...
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