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Microsoft has committed to release Visual Studio 2008 by the end of this month!

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Read the official press release here Microsoft Commits to November Release Date for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Sweet! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008

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VS 2008

.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Microsoft has released the updated poster, now if only I knew someone with a really big printer 😉

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.NET

Building a SharePoint 2007 Web Part for WSS/MOSS

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I will be co-presenting a luncheon at the Ottawa .NET users group about Windows SharePoint Services v3 and one of my tasks for the presentation was to build a SharePoint Web Part. I have both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 on my computer and wasn’t sure which environment would be best suited for it but in […]

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Windows SharePoint Services

Oracle 8i and 11g export compatibility

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I couldn’t wait for the x64 version of Oracle 11g for Vista so I downloaded and installed the x32 version and installed it under Vista x64.  The install went perfectly and the management web site worked flawlessly, I don’t have a metalink account so I couldn’t configure that portion of the install. I had a […]

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Oracle

SharePointPedia – The “source” for information about SharePoint

November 4, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


The Microsoft SharePointPedia Team just announced SharePointPedia 1.0 a social computing platform built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 where people can post and find information related to SharePoint. Cool, and it supports Windows Live ID.  If you want to add WLID support to your SharePoint site check out the CKS project […]

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SharePoint

Outlook Connector: Error: 4102. Client. Cannot change immutable data: MessageClass.

October 31, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 5 Comments


  Error in MailThere is an error synchronizing your mail account. Please verify your account has been configured correctly by first accessing your mail on the web.Error: 4102. Client. Cannot change immutable data: MessageClass. If you use the Outlook connector for your MSN or Hotmail account you may have started to receive this error (and […]

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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2 VPC Expires Early

October 26, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  It has been discovered that the operating system for this particular VPC will expire November 1st.  While this may seem like a major pain in the ass, Microsoft is releasing an updated VPC image next week and moving your TFS databases is straight forward.  Here is the link to the Orcas docs at MSDN […]

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VS 2008

Free Vista Gadgets for use with Team Foundation Server

September 26, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you’ve been thinking the Vista SideBar could be more useful besides just displaying the weather or the Microsoft 2008 Global Launch Wave Count Down and you use Team Foundation Server you have to check out these FREE gadgets from Application Aspect. My Team Foundation Server Projects Gadget My Team Foundation Server Projects gadget will show […]

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Team System

Free ASP.NET Hosting until January 2010

August 31, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


This is awesome news!  This is what you get from Verio: .NET Framework 3.0 SQL Server 2005 Express ASP.NET 2.0 w/Ajax support 100 MB of disk space Now you can have a home to showcase all those Microsoft technologies you’ve been playing with besides http://localhost on your dev machine. Here is what you need to do: Have a […]

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4GB SD cards and ReadyBoost

August 15, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


So this time I decided to get serious with ReadyBoost on Vista.  I went out and purchased a 8GB SD card not knowing that SDHC is a format not supported by any of my laptops….luckily I checked before opening the package and returned it.  In its place I got two 4GB SD cards….what a circus […]

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