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September 2007 - Posts

LogParser example - start and end time for a NetMon trace
I had some large NetMon files to work with the other day. I wanted to quickly check the start and end time for each trace but didn't want to have to wait for NetMon 3.1 to load and parse them. LogParser came to the rescue again: >logparser -i:NETMON Read More...
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate
Developers interested in preparing for IIS7 and Orcas will be interested to know that the Release Candidate (RC) build of Windows Server 2008 is now available . Of course, this release includes an updated version of the .NET Framework 3.5. The core 2.0 Read More...
Typing rate
Daniel's post about his typing rate piqued my curiosity so I gave it a go. YOUR RESULTS ARE: Number of words typed: 155 Test duration: 3 min Speed: 51.9 words/min. (259 keystrokes/min.) Error penalty: 9 Accuracy: 94.2% It's interesting that of those who Read More...
Time to be a grumpy old man...
Here goes - I don't like the copy replace dialog in Windows Server 2008. It's too big, there's too much detail and the things you are meant to click to do something are not obviously clickable until you hover the mouse over them. Hmm. Looking at this Read More...
Vista Performance article
Came across this interesting article about measuring performance on Windows Vista . Contains various nuggets of information about what goes on under the covers. Doug Read More...
Version history of the CLR 2.0
[update 20/11/7 added .NET 2.0 SP1] [update 15/11/7 added 4 new recent fixes] Following on from my post about ASP.NET 2.0 fixes , summarised below are the Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2.0 major releases and hotfixes, in version number order. ASP.NET Read More...
Web Testing Case Study - Hotmail
Came across this interesting case study article about how the Hotmail team used Visual Studio 2005 web testing features to test the latest version of Windows Live Hotmail. Doug Read More...
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