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New Technologies != Better Architecture

Continuing my reading of The Architecture Journal (following yesterday's post ) I was a bit taken aback when I read this in the interview with Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie: AJ: As readers think more about embracing a Software + Services model, where should they start today...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-19-2007
Windows Update on Vista - Error 779

This is one of those posts where I complain about Microsoft and Windows Update (of which there seems to be a large number of people complaining recently, specifically on Vista with regards to updates released last week). For the last couple of months I've been ignoring a "Security Update for...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-02-2007
Visual Studio 2008 Usability Video

Following my previous post on Expression Blend where I was whining about poor usability I took the opportunity to check out Daniel Moth's video on Visual Studio 2008 Aesthetics and Usability. Although there is nothing earth shattering about the video it does illustrate the the VS team is listening...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-23-2007
Visual Studio and Vista UAC with Open With Command

One of the issues of doing development with Visual Studio under Vista is that there are some cases where you need to be running Visual Studio as Administrator. Normally you do this by right-clicking "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" from the Start menu and selecting "Run as administrator"...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-12-2007
Vista Security is a Real Pain (and not very secure)

Yesterday I put my old slow hdd from my laptop in an external enclosure so that I could easily access any data that I had on my computer before the upgrade. Unfortunately this plan got thwarted when I attempted to access my documents folder (ie f:\Users\Nick\.....). This raised a security access denied...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-01-2007
Update for Windows Mobile Device Center

Most of us Windows Mobile users will have at some stage cursed ActiveSync, affectionately known as ActiveStink as it is IMHO one of the most unreliable products Microsoft have ever released. With Vista, ActiveSync is no longer - instead we have Sync Center (part of Vista) and the Windows Mobile Device...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 06-09-2007
.NET Compact Framework v2, SP2

In case you haven't seen this link, SP2 for the .NET Compact Framework v2 has been released and is available for download here . Neil Cowburn has a couple of great screenshots of the Remote Performance Monitor running under Vista. He also pointed out that instead of using Sandcastle command line I should...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-08-2007
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Vista

Ok, so we have all seen/felt the pain that Vista has caused - none more than in the developer community where we not only have 3rd party applications that don't play nice, our main development environment doesn't even work properly. I'm sorry but can you, as a fellow developer, honestly say that you...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-08-2007
Things that make you think Vista needs more testing!

Ok so maybe not Vista itself, but applications/service packs that get released for Vista IMHO need more testing before they are released. This includes service packs that Microsoft releases. What I'm referring to is what Jeff Wharton talks about in this post where SP2 for SQL Server installs perfectly...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-28-2007
Getting OneCare an WMDC to play together

Late last year I posted about my frustration with the betas of OneCare and the Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) not playing well together on Vista. Now that both have been released I'm pleased to pass on the fact that there is a work around to get the two products to play together properly (many thanks...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-06-2007

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