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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 - now available on Microsoft Update

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:46 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been available for a while now. This post has several links and information on new updates.

Transactional File System Operations with C#

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:01:02 GMT

In this post Tuna tries to explain his approach to transactional file system operations. This piece of code uses two of the Vista's new features namely Kernel Transaction Manager(KTM) and Transactional NTFS.

I hate Vista. I'm moving to Windows Mojave.

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:31:03 GMT

So I've heard the bad press. I've seen the pc vs. mac ads. I've heard my friends' complaints about crashing, security, and speed. That's why I'm moving to Windows Mojave. It seems Microsoft finally got an OS right.

Keyboard Shortcuts on Steroids With a Cute Little App

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:01:11 GMT

A great little App that will make assigning keyboeard shortcuts easy

Vista SP1: Terminal Services /console switch no longer working

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

One caveat of installing Vista SP1 if you use Terminal Services.

Inside Vista SP1's File Copy improvements

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:31:02 GMT

Mark Russinovich: "Windows Vista SP1 includes a number of enhancements over the original Vista release in the areas of application compatibility, device support, power management, security and reliability."

Boot vista from a flash drive

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:31:02 GMT

Detailed step by step to create a PE version of Vista that boots from a flash drive. Awesomeness.

Coding4Fun Developer Kit

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

A collection of tools which have been developed to abstract the complexity of doing software development using common Windows Vista APIs. The kit features include drag 'n drop controls and components, SmartTags, Visual Basic and Visual C# source code for all tools and samples as well as complete QuickStarts and APIs documentation.

Adding a transparent background to a Vista Gadget

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:46:01 GMT

Adding a transparent background to a gadget is easy! Simply create a transparent .png file and reference it from your Gadget HTML.

uTorrent Server Vista Gadget

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:31:01 GMT

The geekzilla team continues to enhance the accessibility of your torrent server with this great find on Microsoft's Web site!!! Now you can monitor your torrents from anywhere, using your Vista Sidebar!!

CC.NET Monitor for Vista vNext

Thu, 03 May 2007 02:01:01 GMT

The CC.NET Monitoring sidebar gadget is getting closer and closer to be a replacement of CCTray: in a few days you will be able to add many server, filter projects and force a build on the server

Longhorn Server Beta 3 Available for Download

Wed, 02 May 2007 22:16:02 GMT

Longhorn Server Beta 3 has been made available to the public. It's more or less the same as the April CTP, but with some compiler optimizations, a couple of bug fixes, and a couple of new IIS7 modules shipping with the OS - including the long-awaited FastCGI module.

Vista Gadget for CruiseControl.NET - CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:01:01 GMT

Vista Sidebar gadget to monitor any CC.NET server. It uses the XmlStatusReport that comes with CC.NET and has a nice glassy look

Installing Vista Business on Virtual PC 2007

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:01:02 GMT

A photo tour showing the installation process for setting up Widows Vista on Virtual PC 2007.

How to configure Vista to enable ClickOnce publishing

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Because Vista (and Longhorn Server) run the new IIS7, there are a handful of tweaks you have to make to IIS and VS to make ClickOnce publishing work...

Amazing Vista Wallpapers

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:16:01 GMT

Did you know that more than 10,000 images were evaluated during the Vista wallpapers selection process ? Some of them was from amateur photographers recruited from Flickr, and even Microsoft employees who enjoy photography! Photographer Hamad Darwish provide on his website a photo collection of images taken during Microsoft's Windows Vista photoshoot and did not make the cut into Vista's Wallpaper Collection.

Some handy shortcuts for Windows Vista

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:01:01 GMT

Some handy keyboard shortcuts for Windows Vista.

I'd like to buy Vista please

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:01:01 GMT

..no problem, which one would you like?

What's New in Windows Vista

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:31:01 GMT

Go on a brief tour of some of the new Windows Vista features for regular users.

Windows Vista Two Week After The Launch

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:01 GMT

Windows Vista has been on the market for roughly two week now. Here's a roundup of some of the major developments (and other interesting items) since the launch of Microsoft's $6 billion investment on Jan. 30

Turning the Page 2.0 - Power of Vista

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Just a precursor to the cool apps that are lining up for vista

New Vista GUI Stuff For Devs

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:16:01 GMT

Basically, even though Vista looks more or less like good old Windows, a lot has changed, and Kam has the inside story. He even clears up the answer to a question that's been troubling devs for a while now: What is Aero? We've all heard a lot about it, and in many different contexts. As a result, there's some confusion about what it really is.

Complementary copy of Office Professional 2007

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:31:01 GMT

Complementary copy of Office Professional 2007

Next Generation Yahoo Messenger built with WPF and .NET

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:01:01 GMT

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Yahoo showed off some cool demos with their next generation messenger client (you can watch a video of it in action at http://messenger.yahoo.com/vista). One of the really cool things about the new messenger client is that it was built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the .NET Framework.

Using Visual Studio 2005 on Vista

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Article summarizing what is necessary to make it possible to develop and debug with visual studio on Vista.