Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

I will be giving a luncheon presentation on October 3rd about Team Foundation Server, a copy of the invite is below: ———————————————————————————————————————————  The Ottawa .NET Community is pleased to invite you to its first Luncheon Presentation of the 2006/2007 season. These free luncheon presentations are designed to provide .NET developers in the Ottawa area with […]

I got my invite for the Homecoming weekend in the mail recently, if you want to get more information read about it on the Ashbury web site.  All alumni are welcome! Here is the registration form.  The deadline is today so hurry if you haven’t signed up.

  If you go to the INTEL website and download the Processor Identification Utility and you view the "CPU Technologies" tab (by the way, the utility doesn’t work under Vista — they have a OS independent version) The line that is important is "Intel(R) Extended Memory 64 Technology" if you have a "Yes" in the column on the […]

  So I took the plunge, backed up my Windows XP SP2 installation on my Compaq nx9600 and prepared to install Vista.  I backed up since I fully intended on wiping my drive and starting fresh.  The install went without a hitch*, here are my laptop specs: Compaq nx9600Pentium 4 3.4 GHz2 GB RAMATI X600 Video 128MB100GB […]

  It seems I am not the only one who thinks this is a great idea check out the discussion at CodePlex.  My feeling is this — Exchange has OWA (Outlook Web Access) so therefore Team Foundation Server should have CodePlex. These days I spend alot of time working out of the office and being […]

  Brian Harry blogs about this great utility check it out.

  Microsoft made my day, they finally released this fix to the public.  Ever since I upgraded my laptop to 2GB of RAM so I could run Virtual Server I lost all ability to hibernate my computer…..this caused me frustration. This download will sooth the pain. Download it now 🙂

  You can improve performance by switching garbage collector modes under certain scenarios.  There are two modes, Server and Workstation.  The Server GC is optimized for scalable throughput on multiprocessor machines, the WorkStation GC is optimized to reduce collection pause times for interactive applications. The Server GC creates a heap per processor, while the WorkStation […]