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Jim Pierson writes about the new Visual Round Trip Analyzer (VRTA) tool that was just released to download.microsoft.com , highlighting 12 easy tips for developers looking to speed up their web applications. Having been a long-time user of VRTA internally
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(Or not.) There's been a lot of dead air on this channel, and I should apologize for that. We've been hard at work on some new, exciting projects which soemehow have managed to steal all of my free time. Really though, that's an excuse -- mostly I just
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There was quite the buzz around the office today about the newly released Windows Search 4. Amongst other things, this release improves the performance and stability over previous versions of Windows Search (read: the search included natively in Windows
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I just installed the latest Powermate drivers on my x64 Server 2008 machine. And everything actually worked . Go Griffin!
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Thanks to the tip by Jon Davis , I found the following workaround for the somewhat-annoying error: Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in [..] because of the following error: No Windows PowerShell Snap-ins are available for version 1. when opening a new
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My girlfriend just emailed me. She mentioned that someone at her work saw her using OneNote, and asked her why she liked it. And she wasn't able to give him a very convincing argument (she claimed that was because "she's probably not using it to it's
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(Cross posted from L/J ...) After much fiddling, it turns out that one can get the Griffin PowerMate to work under Vista. You just need some patience. And a bit of luck. In particular, you need to: Run the installer. Copy the Control Panel Applet, PowerMate.cpl,
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Now that OneNote 2007 Beta 2 has been out for a couple of days, I'm curious to hear your thoughts. While I'm probably directly responsible for your gripes regarding: Migration, Tables, Drag and Drop, along with the updated UI, I'd love to hear your feedback
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How do you get ride of those extra keyboards and mice? With Synergy , of course! In the Office org, it's pretty standard for most devs to have at least two machines. You've got your somewhat beefy dev box for coding, an older machine to dogfood builds
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Version 1.0.1 of the OneNote Managed DataImport classes has been released, and addresses the following issues: Importing into OneNote 2007 Beta1/TR now works. Custom sizes are now handled correctly. Grab the new version from here . Oh yeah, I've also
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I use a lot of command prompts on a day to day basis. And w ith several source code enlistments on my machine each requiring different environments, it's sure hard to keep track of them all. Yeah, there's some background color/font/title tricks that you
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Be the first to know. (Or at least the second or third.) http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx
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POWER UP Your OneNote PowerToy Contest "Show the world how you Power Up OneNote with the add-on functionality of PowerToys. It's your opportunity to influence the future of OneNote. It's your chance to wow a global audience. And it's your shot at winning
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February isn't just about President's Day and Valentine's Day. Move over, there's a new holiday in town. Check out AJ's latest expose in five parts: An In Depth Look at the OneNoteImporter Managed Assembly ( II , III , IV , and V ), where he goes undercover
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Darron Devlin just released two new PowerToys: a OneNote Image Writer (a virtual printer driver that can be used to print any document directly to your OneNote notebook) and WebPageToOneNote (adds a button to your IE toolbar that captures an image of
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