May 2006 - Posts
Authentication and Access Control Diagnostics 1.0 (more commonly known as AuthDiag) is a tool released by Microsoft aimed at aiding IT professionals and developers at more effectively finding the source of authentication and authorization failures. These
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Invirtus - software to make virtual machines more accessible to more people - Products . I could use anything to make this process easier; sure you could do many of these steps manually, but to automate it and get it done with little effort would be great
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Upgrade Advisor Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs . Nice to see that our COO was right, the Toshiba M3’s that were bought 1+ years ago CAN run Aero… In fact passes all the tests in the Upgrade Advisor…
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gotAPI.com :: Reference Lookup Service gotAPI.com :: Reference Lookup Service .
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How to get calling . I’ve been using Vonage for about 6 months. For $25/month the service is pretty good. Nice features with voice mail being saved to WAV files for download and automatic email. However, today I tried out Skype’s (SkypeOut)
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Here Chuck Boyce, who helps run the SQL Server Worldwide Users Group , mentions a couple of my SQL Related posts. Chuck is also on the PASS board and runs the Phila PASS chapter. Thanks alot Chuck… http://www.sswug.org/sswugradio/pdetails.asp?pid=94
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An article I wrote a couple weeks back has been posted to www.Sqljunkies.com Accessing Application Configuration Settings from SQL CLR Recently, one of my peers asked a question regarding the ability of SQL CLR classes to read configuration data from
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Have Data Will Travel : Where does Service Broker Fit? . This is a good “perspective” post on where Service Broker, MSMQ, BizTalk, and WCF fit in architectures. I was at an MGB (Microsoft Global Briefing)* about 2 years back. So, the presentation
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SimpleTech STI-HD2.5/USB2 External Enclosure - OEM at Newegg.com . This so far is the best external USB 2.0 Drive Enclosure that I’ve used. Great design with a short USB cable that folds away. Wish they had 2 other things: Way to get a longer USB
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If you're developing WinForm applications, generally at some point in the project you develop an Exception Dialog box that provides a user friendly interface for error messages. Usually, it's a generic box that displays parts of the exception stack and
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Virtual Appliances: VMTN Appliances . VMWare has done a great job of leveraging the community to build ready-to-go Virtual Machines build on Linux core and other open source software. These are download and start machines that do all sorts of things.
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I’m starting to see more applications leveraging Aero Glass on Vista. They look quite cool. Here’s a couple of posts on getting Aero on WinForms and Windows Presentation Manager Tim Sneath : Windows Vista Aero Pt. 1 - Adding Glass to a Windows
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Contract first forces you to design your service interfaces in ways that should remove implementation issues that affect that design. Here’s a Visual Studio add-in that helps you in that quest – it’s from The thinktecture folks. There has been a lot of
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Avanade, NPower NY and Microsoft invite local nonprofits to apply for an “Xtreme Techover” organizational makeover, to help transform their community technology centers and administrative systems to better serve their communities. Organizations
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Publishing on demand… Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free .
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Scrum for Team System is a free Agile Software Development Methodology add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, developed by Conchango, in collaboration with Ken Schwaber and the Microsoft Technology Centre UK. Scrum for Team System provides development
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Looks like the TFS utility aftermarket is begining to grow. Now, if they can get TDD right…. Here is a short list of some Team System utilties that you may find useful. If you know of a Team System utility that has made your life simpler, please
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Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog : Building a Custom File Transport, Part 7: Request Channel . I was looking at building my own File Transport when I did a search and up comes this excellent series. Can’t wait till Nick’s all done.
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Recently, one of my peers asked a question regarding the ability of SQL CLR classes to read configuration data from an Application Configuration file. After doing some quick Google searches on the topic, I came up with a couple of links that indicated
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