Of Ones and Zeros

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Installed on Windows 7 RC

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by bryan.

Today I installed Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 on the Windows 7 RC running in VMWare Workstation 6.5.  Special thanks to Miha Markič for this tip regarding disabling 3D graphics acceleration in VMWare.  This is what the top bar of Visual Studio looked like before that change:

And this is what it looks like after:

Much better!  In any event, if you haven’t seen it yet, here is the new VS2010 start screen:

Pretty clean looking.  One of the very first things I looked for in this version is to make sure it can target the 2.0 Framework, and sure enough, support for 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0.  Very cool.  Stay tuned for more updates as I get a chance to play around with this some more.

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft’s SharePoint team has announced that there is a bug in Service Pack 2 for MOSS that will trigger SharePoint to believe it is a trial instance of the product.  A workaround is supplied by Microsoft:

We are working to release a hotfix to automatically fix this issue. A manual work-around is currently available and involves customers re-entering their Product ID number (PID) on the Convert License Type page in Central Administration.  For more information and detailed steps please read this KB article.

In addition, Microsoft is working on a hotfix to be released shortly.  More information can be found on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog:

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

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Blog has been updated!

Posted on 06. May, 2009 by bryan.

This blog was in desperate need of an update, aesthetically and infrastructure related. If memory serves, coming into yesterday Of Ones and Zeros was running on WordPress 2.3, and hadn’t received any TLC so to speak in the past 18 months. Initially I was planning to move this blog over to the excellent Sitefinity platform by telerik, but I had a last moment change of heart and elected to stay with WordPress.

So a couple interesting bits with the update:

• Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1
• Hosting has been moved to Providicom
• UI has been completely updated (thanks to WooThemes for their excellent premium WordPress themes)
• My latest tweet is incorporated into the banner of the blog, and you can click the bird icon to follow me on Twitter
• Using the excellent SyntaxHighlighter javascript by Alex Gorbatchev to make code segments on the blog readable
• Incorporated latest delicious books into the sidebar
• Support for Gravatar and threaded comments

I hope you enjoy the update and please let me know if you have additional ideas for Of Ones and Zeros.

Thanks for reading.

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