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One this is for sure, there's plenty of materials on getting ramped on the Microsoft stack. We now have up on the MSDN Ramp Up center tracks for SharePoint... Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx www.MyRampUp.com
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If you're installing Visual Studio 2005 and need the WCF CTP Extensions, BUT you've already installed .NET 3.0 with service packs, the installer fails. To override the check use the following: msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1
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Biff Gaut is continuing his tradition of mixing humor with some good technical content as he attends the PDC. Over the past several PDC's, Biff has always been able to sprinkle his dry sense of humor into the mix of his daily reports on what he
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UPDATED: 8/6/2008 - Minor issue on Path I've built quite a few WSS / MOSS machines and one task that I always seem to do is create a simple CMD shell prompt on the desktop (quick launch, etc.) that gives me easy access to STSADM and has the path set correctly.
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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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I had heard on the radio a short blurb about "National Shutdown Day" being Saturday May 3rd (today). Only problem is I didn't hear about what we were shutting down. I had initially thought it was something like "National Lights
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A while back I blogged about how Verizon was Hijacking failed DNS lookups. What I failed to realize at the time was not only is this adding to a poor experience by users but opens up the ability for ISP's to obtain private information, in the form
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Here's a nice site that helps us Vista folk out on identifying which services are really needed, can be delayed start, or even disabled. General Service information too. While I Hibernate most of the time (shutdown -h) there are those times I need
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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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Before going full blown production with a Solution, there are times that you want to validate technical, functional, acceptance, or even general interest in a solution. I find it helpful to clarify what the terms imply and what the primary focus is of
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Here's a tool that completely slipped by me. I've been using ApexSQL for generation of SQL scripts for creating schema and data. Turns out, during the Visual Studio 2008 installation I see "SQL Publishing Wizard" pop up on the list. This
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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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For those of us that are cheap value minded, here's a service that provides conference calling, albeit using a long distance call. But with all you can eat phone pricing we have today, who cares. They also have a Web Desktop Sharing tool, in Beta - haven't
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Finally, I can get my DirecTV signal down to Media Center without a whole bunch of crap. I've been waiting for DirecTV's MC compatible capability for some time, this finally looks like I can get TiVo like function well integrated with MC. Using TiVo now,
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