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Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks. Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child drives are useless. So, how do you know which drives are differencing disks and what is their parent? One way
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There are really a whole bunch of great resources out there that help the community get up & running with LINQ. Personally, with all the additional providers that I've seen ( Qak Leaf List ) - several of which I see great use for - LINQ to SharePoint
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Here's something that I just came across, perhaps I just wasn't looking. It's in Beta but it's ultimately a 3rd party library of add-ins, etc. for Visual Studio. No search, but you can sort on the columns in the categories. Search is there, down to the
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Now that GotDotNet has been mothballed and CodePlex is more project oriented, Microsoft has gotten back into the mix with Code Gallery. This is a community site, the content is minimal for now, and quite frankly, the interface is lacking. While there's
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A timely article appeared in the NY Times today ( link ) regarding Parallel computing as the next key factor in keeping up with the ever demanding needs of getting things done faster. As the article points out, the single CPU processor can't address
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Here's a cool tool that provides an interactive LINQ environment that you can use to develop queries against LINQ sources (SQL, Objects, XML, etc.). If you're working with LINQ and need an environment that supports both expression and language statements
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One thing I can say about SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007)development is it sucks. The tools are weak from creating to debugging. Something that literally took about 15 minutes in straight ASP.NET took 3+ hours yesterday. So, I'm rethinking my perspective
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On one of my machines, when attempting to build out a small SSIS solution none of the toolbox items were showing. Turns out there's a quick way to recreate/reset them. Just delete the "toolbox*.*" files from the "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application
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So, I was looking at Google Reader and noticed a link in the upper right - Offline (new).. What's that? Turns out, Google has a project called "Gears" that provides Javascript hooks that will interface with a few locally running services: Cache, DB, and
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A little while back Martin sent me a question on some of the examples in Chapter 10 of our book ( Pro WCF ). The point of the question was how to dynamically consume a WCF services (late bind) from C++ using COM. The root of the capability lies in the
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Well, an article, whose content was mostly taken from the WCF Book , is finally published on MSDN. It took quite a long time from "acceptance" to appearance. I believe it was back in February 2007 that it was finalized from a content perspective. Since
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I found this tool from an article in Code Magazine. Package This uses the MSDN Content Service Web Services to first give you a list of MSDN or TechNet categories, then you can just click and download, and generate either HxS or CHM files. If you don't
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The BizTalk server team has released the aforementioned tool to facilitate the development of "Adapters" (not just BTS, but general WCF) for creation of WCF extensions to consume existing service interfaces. Mostly, it facilities building well structured
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In addition to these set's of videos, which concentrate on ASP.NET 2.0, there are a great bunch of short " nuggets " that Microsoft UK put together. When I was learning Workflow, Mike Taulty's nuggets (that doesn't sound right) really helped me get through
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Wow, could it be even easier to move to Silverlight from Flash? This is it, the next battle for the UI - Flash and Macromedia (I mean Adobe) are in the sights. Link to Electric Rain Harmony - Flash SWF to XAML Converter - For WPF and Silverlight
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