Use “Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke”. sample: Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke( delegate () { LoadingBar = Visibility.Collapsed; });

After more than 18 years since I sold my last Amiga I have had again the pleasure of a GURU MEDITATION thanks to Virtual Box Thank you, Virtual Box!!!! Thank you!!!!!!! from Wikipedia: “ Guru Meditation is an error notice displayed by early versions of...

Remote Desktop 6.0 leverages a new feature called auto-tuning for the TCP/IP receive window that could be causing the trouble. Window Auto-Tuning could have issues on some networks, and cheap SOHO routers. I fixed typing the following command on the server...

Even if http:\\live.sysinternals.com is great when you’re not on your pc, I usually prefer to have locally all Russinovich Tools. The problem is that you have to keep up to date your local copy, problem that, I resolved writing the following PowerShell...

  Just select one machine and reposition it using CTRL + up/down arrows.

Useful blog post to bookmark. http://sharepointconnoisseur.blogspot.com/2010/10/sharepoint-2010-warm-up-script.html

SharePoint ULS Log Viewer is a windows application for viewing SharePoint ULS log files more easily. Supports filtering and easy viewing of data. Available on codeplex: http://ulsviewer.codeplex.com/

…created during service pack 1 (SP1) installation via PowerShell. Run Powershell in elevated mode (run as administrator) and type: Dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded You should earn more than 1Gb of disk space.

if you need to wok on this, I think that the following post is a must to have read: http://blogs.iis.net/samzhang/archive/2009/12/16/how-to-build-scalable-and-robust-live-smooth-streaming-server-solutions.aspx

Open your powershell “as administrator” then type: restart-service -Name Spooler -Force

Today without any reason VisualStudio was not able to connect with the WP7 device. When I selected “deploy solution” I received the following error: ------ Deploy started: Project: ... Deploying D:\MyProjects2010\... Deployment of application to device...

Super easy script from The Pursuite of Life Blog , that I ‘m copying here in order to keep it in my toolbox (get-childitem -recurse -force | where-object { $_.PsIsContainer -eq $true -and $_.Name -eq ".svn" } ) | remove-item –recurse –force

Starting from version 10.0 XBMC can use hardware acceleration to render video (DXVA 2 support for H.264, VC-1, and WMV9) on Windows 7 too( http://mirrors.xmission.com/xbmc/releases/10.0-Dharma-changelog.txt ). This is very useful if you have, like me...

I developed for fun a couple a WP7 apps and I needed to automate (just a little bit:-) the release process, mainly because: The application version must be entered in various point and should be keep in sync I’d like to store all released version in a...

When I work for a customer, can happen that I use a document as “template” to build a new one (copy –> paste –> rename –> delete some chapter and start writing). I know that this is not the best way to proceed but, sometimes I find this procedure...

The following steps assume that in your development environment you have a web site configured on Windows 2008 R2, and you want to allow SSL/HTTPS connections to it. On a production environment you will obviously need to purchase a SSL certificate for...

If you are starting to use powershell, the sheet you can download from the following link is priceless. Print it and keep it on your desk:-) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF8ED469-9007-401C-85E7-46649A32D0E0  

from command line: VBoxManage.exe clonehd source.vhd destination.vhd easy as 1-2-3 :-)

In Visual Studio 2005: In Visual Studio 2008: (Menu –> Tools –> Options)

Bare in mind that I already have Windows 7 installed. Physical disk that will hold VHD file must be formatted (does not have to be empty, can not be USB) Boot from Windows Server 2008 R2 DVD When first installation dialog box appears pres SHIFT + F10...

This week end I encoded some my old DVD in wmv file because I’m destroying my old DVD player and I don’t want to buy a blue ray disk (I’m sorry Sony:-). After the encoding arrived the boring time to organize file names, and because now PowerShell is available...

I’m writing here because every time I need to set up a bunch of virtual machines, I have to go back and look up where to find the Sysprep tool and how to use it. Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7: C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep...

God Mode is a secret Windows 7 Feature (If you can call so!!), which provides you an extended control panel to control your machine. Here are the Steps to invoke the God Mode: Create a new folder (right-click and click on “New Folder”). Right-click on...

I receive often emails with big attachment that fill my inbox space very quickly. On the other side, I usually like both to remove these attach and keep the email to preserve the thread for future use. Outlook 2007 don't have this feature so I wrote the...

I am quoting information from [ http://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2007/03/things-i-can-and-cannot-get-to-work-in.html] because I tumbled in this issue and forgot to " just " restart Outlook :^) Whenever I went in to Tools - Macro - Macros,...