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AVIcode application monitoring from the server to the client


Have you ever wondered how your application performs from the users side of things? "74% of end user problems are not detected by IT." – Forrester Research AVIcode’s Intercept uX is the only client-side monitoring solution designed to automatically detect application problems from the end user’s perspective, and enable a definitive root cause diagnosis regardless […]

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 Released


  In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released Power Tools as well as several new features. The new features include distinct Build and Deploy phases, Static Code Analysis and improved integration with SQL CLR projects.Database Edition no longer requires a Design Database. Therefore, it is […]

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Pex – Automated White box testing for .NET updated


Right from the Visual Studio code editor, Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods, which you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage. Pex performs a systematic analysis, hunting for boundary conditions, exceptions and assertion failures, which you can debug right away. Pex enables Parameterized Unit Testing, an extension of […]

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Daily Email Notifications from TFS


Ever wondered if you could get a list of notifications from TFS daily?  You can receive a daily email that has a compiled list of notifications, but you will need to subscribe programmatically.  Please see this post from Mohamed Mahmoud at Microsoft for the source code.

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Hyper-V: An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine


I just got this error on one of my WS08 machines today. You can download the update here: Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB967902) Download the 967902 package now.

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Windows Workflow and SharePoint Server 2007: An error has occurred in


You will experience this error if you’ve added a Delay Activity to your Workflow and you have an object in memory that is unable to be serialized when the workflow executes the DelayFor.  The error isn’t really clear and nothing is written to the Event Log either when this error occurs. If you have a […]

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Oracle Text 10g Issue


We recently deployed an application which leveraged Oracle Text to a UAT environment and when it was moved to the production environment all our searches failed. After checking the index errors table CTX_INDEX_ERRORS,  which is owned by the user CTXSYS, and most users do NOT have SELECT privilege to it by default. The following errors […]

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SQL Server 2008 SP1 is available


SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. You can use these packages to upgrade any SQL Server 2008 edition. Slipstream – You are now able to integrate the base installation with service packs (or Hotfixes) and install in a single step. Service Pack Uninstall – You are now able to uninstall only […]

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Ottawa – Jam packed with events this week courtesy of Microsoft


Tuesday April 7th, 2009 Event Name: Coffee and Code Time and Location: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm at Bridgehead located at 109 Bank Street (at the corner of Bank and Albert). Event Name: User Group Connection: The Future of the Microsoft Windows-based PlatformEvent Code: 1032405593Time and Location: 5.30pm to 8.30pm at Microsoft Canada located at 100 […]

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Problems occur in the Create Unit Tests wizard


Problems occur in the Create Unit Tests wizard when you create a unit test for a method in a solution that contains a GDR project, a Silverlight project, or a WIX project in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 KB Article ID: 962866 Consider the following scenarioYou open a solution that contains one of the […]

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