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Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:00 AM

MSDN Wiki [Matt Connelly]

MSDN Wiki is a new site that experiments with adding community content to our product documentation. We’ve built a wiki around the VS 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation that allows anyone to add and edit code examples, tips and tricks, and other
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:00 AM

FileInfo.LastWriteTime discrepancies [Lakshan Fernando]

I recently investigated a customer issue of incorrect time reporting with FileInfo.LastWriteTime and thought of sharing this information in the blog. In the customer case, the last write time was off by about one hour for some files. We depend on two
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:02 AM

Arbitrary length Integer/Arbitrary precision Double Classes [Ari Weinstein]

Another set of functionality we may want to add in Orcas are classes which can be an integer of arbitrary length, and a double of arbitrary precision (which could essentially be the arbitrary length integer with a decimal offset). Aside from this type
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:27 AM

Hi From the New Guy [Justin Van Patten]

This is my first week here as a program manager on the BCL team at Microsoft and what a week it’s been! I have to say, this team rocks! Everyone has been incredibly kind, welcoming, friendly, and patient with me as I get up to speed and learn the ropes.
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Friday, July 14, 2006 10:53 AM

Copying Access Control List (ACL) entries between files [Kim Hamilton]

If you’re trying to transfer the access rights from one file to another, the obvious way seems to be getting the FileSecurity object from one file and applying it to another through the Get/SetAccessControl methods. The following code sample attempts
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:31 PM

What causes services to hang around after uninstallation? [Katy King]

I recently got a question from a user about uninstalling a managed service. The service installed and ran fine. But after it was uninstalled using InstallUtil.exe /u, the service was still listed in the Services MMC console, just marked as disabled. Attempting
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:32 PM

Time Zone Scenario Feedback Wanted [Anthony Moore]

The Base Class Libraries is exploring scenarios related to Time Zone support and we are very likely to have a solution for this problem in the next release. We have already received a lot of great feedback from an earlier post. There are several high
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