Windows Vista x64 RC1


  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 […]

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CodePlex Source Code?


  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 […]

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What I like about Atlas and Why


If you aren’t familiar with Atlas it is a framework for building richer, more interactive applications. The first thing that comes to mind is "experience", the user experience is so much better thanks to Atlas.  If the visitor of your website does not have to endure alot of postbacks to access content and/or navigate your site all the better.  […]

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Team Foundation Server Trial Expirations


The 6 month trial period is fast approaching, Brian Harry has blogged about this topic and included a link to the MSDN article. In the article under "Product Key Considerations" they mention: If you acquired Team Foundation Server through a volume licensing program, you will not have an individual product key to provide during the […]

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Windows XP Hibernate Fix


  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 🙂

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ASP.NET Garbage Collection


  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 […]

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Keep tabs on your site errors


Putting up a site on a remote server and placing your errors in the event log won’t do you much good so I opted to place some code in Global.asax Application_Error() to email me if something went horribly wrong.    Here is what it looks like:   void Application_Error(Object sender, EventArgs e) {         Exception […]

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Team Foundation Server/MS Project Issue


We connected up MS project to Team System only to discover that MS Project uses "," as a list separator in the Resource Name and each resource now has become 2 people.   The work around is to change the list separator character in your Regional Settings to the ";" character.  This issue is apparently logged […]

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Shared NIC Issue


While running some unit tests in our W2K3 VM configured with 2GB of RAM on a W2K3 HOST with 3Gb of RAM and a single ethernet adapter we noticed that if the VM accessed the HOST machine (sharing the same adapter) the machine connectivity was completely wiped out and the entire machine must be rebooted….and I tested this […]

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