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Today I deleted my CodePlex project TfsPasteAttachment It was (up until today) located @ http://tfspasteattachment.codeplex.com/ Since the functionality had been removed from the product during Whidbey, the codeplex project was an add-in that added it...

[ EDIT : found the relevant blog post which points to the instructions MSDN subscribers have to use, so I can now use the Send Feedback links :) ] It was a little disconcerting that I can’t even successfully send feedback.  Now, I’d be happy to report...

This isn’t new to Windows 7 (I got the same when upgrading from XP to Vista). However, it still feels like we’re “punishing” one of the user subsections that don’t deserve it (especially since I’m in it! :) Trust me, I “get” that it’s not a very populous...

Many thanks to reader ajcg whose comment in my previous post was spot-on. Once I upgraded VPC 2007 to SP1 , then the Virtual Machine Additions version that got installed into the guest (Win7) was 13.820 which was recent enough to work on Win7! Yay! More...

(note to those that it's not obvious to: this is a joke... laugh! ) It turns out this xkcd comic is a little behind the times - we de-Hitler'd over 5 years ago!

Clearly someone on the Win7 team is a fan of Colbert's comic ! ;) At least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it until Tek himself says otherwise! :)

EDIT: UPDATE: SP1 fixes this ! Yay!!! Others seem to have run it with no problems, and I installed it and ran fine (installed the update as well, even though there wouldn't be any mp3 files on that VM). However, attempting to install the VM Additions...

Sea Tea Pea Three Whee! Go get it ! The bits in the overview I want to call out (because I've seen others trip over this) - In Windows PowerShell V2 CTP, the WS-Management-based remoting features work correctly only on Windows Vista with Service Pack...

While chatting with a co-worker about a bug I had fixed a few weeks back, Communicator unexpectedly (to me) translated (I) into an emoticon for me (I know, I can turn emoticons off). So, time for a quickie one-liner and then paste the resulting text into...

I'm noticing silverlight pick up a behavior from flash that I don't like: kicking out of full-screen when there's a click on the other monitor (or other loss of focus from the plugin). Now, if it's full-screen and there's only 1 monitor, then I guess...

A few of us were working just this morning on trying to prevent this confusion in the next version, so it seems like a decent time for a blog post. When the TFS 2008 (and 2005 for that matter) setup is asking for "Reporting Services Data Source Account...

I ran across a C# file that had been removed from its csproj file, but it hadn't been deleted from version control. So I wrote a script ( Chris Sidi had already written one, though) to find the .cs files that weren't in the "containing" .csproj file param...

I won't claim this is efficient, or well-written, or whatever, but it WorksForMe and I figured I'd share. Feel free to post better versions in the comments or on your own blog and add a link as a comment :) Option Strict Off Option Explicit Off Imports...

What's your favorite? Chris Rathjen‎‎ [9:05 AM]: i take it you want enterprise? ‎‎James Manning‎‎ [9:05 AM]: NCC-1701 *D* please ‎‎Chris Rathjen‎‎ [9:05 AM]: dude the E kicks the D's ass ‎‎James Manning‎‎ [9:06 AM]: yeah, it does but D has more sentimental...

I happened to change a piece of code over the weekend and used both. It's a tiny piece of code, so I thought it would make a good example of just how much readable code is using them. Before: List<Property> p = new List<Property>( 1 ); Property...

http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v Many people on our team (including myself, of course) have been running pre-RTM bits (the beta that came with Windows Server 2008, RC0, RC1, and their escrow build), and we've been extremely happy with it. It's light-years...

Just noticed in an email from Bruce that his book is now available on Safari ! Yay!

For those keeping score, last time it was Windows Server 2008 . For various reasons (that I won't bother reiterating here, since there's no value in doing so), I wanted to make our next release 64-bit-only. There's a little bit of precedence in that Exchange...

While wanting to verify the hash of a dd-wrt firmware I downloaded, I read about this app called HashTab that makes it a simple shell extension.  What a great idea!  The license agreement phase of the install states it simply enough: I love...

Despite having a 1 Gbps Intel network card plugged into a 100Mbps switch, my Link Speed claims 10Gbps. So, while I'm pushing 75Mbps of traffic (copying the vhd file as per previous blog post), it claims a network utilization of 0.75% instead of 75%. Other...

Tan's post reminded me that I never got around to posting this silly batch script that I use. As you can see with Tan's example, you can call this with just a hostname, or hostname/sharename, or whatever. For both of us, we're ripping off Shawn's original...

While you can certainly use Vista's Complete PC Backup to generate a vhd of your machine, it doesn't make a bootable, usable virtual machine. I didn't want to lose a bunch of things on my old dev box (I need to reinstall it with Windows Server 2008),...

I didn't think it would work, but I was trying it yesterday because of the OS requirements for SCVMM 2008 Beta . Of course, you can run Virtual PC under Hyper-V (or Virtual Server, or VMWare, or whatever)

I'm a few days behind on posting this, but now you can run the current version of sysinternals tools directly from \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools !  If you're in PowerShell , you can just cd over to it , even.  If you don't want to use a UNC...

Maybe I'm the only one, but that movie gave my 6-year-old self quite the nightmares . I don't think my parents got the memo. Unlike many animated features, the film faithfully emulated the dark and violent sophistication of the book. As a result, many...