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22. november 2007 15:46

Visual Source Safe 2005 over web problem 0x80072F19

Did you ever try VSS 2005 Internet connection? I did once just for testing. I need it now for real, to connect to a client of mine. The client set everything up and I tried to connect. I tried to connect and got a connection error. This was easy to pinpoint
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2. november 2007 13:21

Speeding up build times dramatically

I have a VS 2005 solution with 19 projects.In total it consumes ~600MB of disk space (entire solution folder, including binaries). Needless to say that build times are relatively high. They are high even though my workstation has 4GB of RAM, RAID 0+1
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14. avgust 2007 11:21

Team Foundation Server 2008 and all of the 64 bits

Microsoft is lately trying to go 64 bits with their OS. Vista x64 isn't going anywhere due to the lack of 3rd party drivers (hey, it is hard to obtain even 32 bit drivers for Vista , you can forget about 64 bits for now). At least that's my experience.
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30. maj 2007 14:33

Neverending saga of writing data into Program Files folder

Writing application data into Program Files folder is bad. Period. Only the files at install time should be written to Program Files folder. Otherwise one is facing security issues (i.e. an application could inject code) and practical issues (if one is
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22. marec 2007 22:11

Are password textboxes really secure?

You know, the control on the form that displays some character over and over instead of displaying the text behind. Let's create a simple demo. i will have a WinForms application with a single form that hosts a single TextBox. I'll set TextBox.PasswordChar
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22. marec 2007 18:32

WPF/E at work

I know I am bit late, but nevertheless, if you want to see a nice and cool example of WPF/E driven web pages then you must navigate to www.windowsvista.si . Even if the page(s) are in Slovene you should understand much of what you'll see. NOTE: WPF/E
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1. marec 2007 14:32

Pitfalls of antivirus programs

One has to be careful when using an antivirus application that protects computer in real time (scans files when one opens them). Here is what happened. I am working on a project for a customer of mine. For source file control we use Visual SourceSafe
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23. december 2006 12:25

VMWare Workstation 6.0 beta is available

VMWare started a beta program for its Workstation 6.0 product. I have to say that I find Workstation as a must have product - one that you can't live without, at least I can't. IMO it is the best workstation virtualization product out there (running on
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14. december 2006 11:50

Microsoft Robotics Studio Now Available

Seems like Microsoft Robotics Studio is RTM. I wish I had enough time to play with robots. I think I have to buy a bunch of robots to my kids and then show them how to program them since my kids are too young.
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30. november 2006 23:59

Nice looking WinForms controls from telerik

telerik (excellent asp.net controls ) entered WinForms controls market a bit late, but with an interesting innovation: their r.a.d. controls for WinForms are highly skineable (or themeable if you wish) and animatable in a WPFish way. Not that surprisingly
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22. november 2006 23:18

When Murphy kicks in on presentation

I had my worst presentation so far today. While Matjaž delivered his usual good talk I created a mess but it wasn't my fault. At least not a huge part of it. The plan was to show how a get-process cmdlet is quickly and easily built with Visual Studio
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22. november 2006 8:57

You have to license Ribbon UI on your applications

This one might come as a surprise to developers: If you use Microsoft like Ribbon UI (Word 2007, Excel 2007) in your application you have to get a license from Microsoft in order to legally use it. And it doesn't matter if you buy a ribbon component
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12. november 2006 15:09

Red-gate's SQL Compare

Recently I was facing this problem: I am developing an asp.net 2.0/remoting/winforms application which stores data in Sql Server 2005. From time to time I publish my application and its database to the public for testing purposes. The project is under
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7. november 2006 23:47

About Visual Studio 2003 on Vista

A while ago Somasegar's blog post about MS not supporting Visual Studio 2003 on Windows Vista caused quite a stir in community. A lot of people were very concerned about this issue. A note at this point: .net 1.1 and newer will be fully supported.
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4. november 2006 14:23

(Managed) DirectX versions confusion

(Managed) DirectX 9.0x is the perfect example on how not to handle version numbering. First, there is a "global" version problem which Jeff Atwood describes here . They are all 9.0c! Only the release date changes. So, you have plenty of 9.0c versions
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