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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:48 PM

How I was able to get Virtual Server 2005 to work on Windows Vista

Recently, I needed to configure and use a virtual server image that was provided to me by another team here at Microsoft. In order to do this, I had to install and configure Virtual Server 2005 to host this image on my desktop OS. I am running Windows
Posted by astebner | 11 Comments
Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:57 PM

Link to public beta of XSSDetect cross-site scripting code analysis plug-in for Visual Studio 2005

I ran across a few interesting posts on the Application Consulting and Engineering (ACE) team's blog that I wanted to link to here so that more folks will hopefully see them. The ACE team announced a public beta this past week for a tool created by their
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:57 PM

Microsoft Tester Center is now live on MSDN

A new portal with information about software testing has been posted this week on MSDN. You can check it out at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/testing/default.aspx . To summarize the launch note on this page: At the Tester Center, our goal is to provide a
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:48 PM

PE header setting that can cause an application to fail to launch on Windows 2000

Over the past couple of weeks, I've heard from a few users who tried to run the .NET Framework cleanup tool on Windows 2000 but were unable to. On these systems, users received errors stating that the program named cleanup_tool.exe could not be run because
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Monday, October 15, 2007 9:17 PM

Narrowing down odd behavior in the Program Compatibility Assistant on Windows Vista

Recently, a fellow Microsoft employee found this blog post that I wrote a while back, and he contacted me with a question regarding some odd behavior he was seeing with the Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) on Windows Vista. He found that a specific
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 5:09 PM

List of Windows locale identifier constants and strings

Recently, I was looking for a list of locales supported by Windows as well as the locale ID values and abbreviations for each of them. Fortunately, a friend pointed me at this location on MSDN: Locale Identifier Constants and Strings - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776260.aspx
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:14 PM

How to prevent the Program Compatibility Assistant from appearing on Windows Vista

While researching the root cause of the issue that can cause a Windows XP SP2 block dialog to appear when trying to install the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 1 on Windows Vista (described in more detail in this blog post ), I learned some useful information
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Friday, March 23, 2007 7:28 AM

MSDN community content sites now available in several languages

The online MSDN documentation library has introduced a feature called MSDN Community Content. This feature provides the ability for anyone in the community to contribute to the content by providing supplemental information, correcting inaccurate or confusing
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:10 AM

MSDN Magazine article describing how to integrate WiX v2.0 with MSBuild

The March 2007 edition of MSDN Magazine contains an in-depth article describing how to use WiX v2.0 and MSBuild to integrate setup into the overall software development lifecycle. You can find the article at this location: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/wixtricks/default.aspx
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Monday, March 05, 2007 4:40 PM

Links to Windows Vista global development information

Back in January, I wrote a blog post with links to information about the multi-lingual user interface features available in Windows Vista. Since then, some additional information has been published about developing world-wide applications for Windows
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:38 PM

White paper with UAC development information for Windows Vista

Recently, a friend of mine asked me a question about an installer that his team was working on. They have an MSI that is launched by a lightweight bootstrapper that is named something like ProductSetup.exe. When running this installer on Windows Vista,
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
 
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