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December 2007 - Posts

Friday, December 14, 2007 3:10 PM

Windows Vista SP1 RC1 - my early experiences

Last week we announced that RC1 of Vista Service Pack 1 was now available broadly to MSDN and Technet subscribers. I decided to give it a whirl as my main notebook has been feeling rather sickly of late (To be fair it is loaded with beta and alpha Microsoft
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Friday, December 14, 2007 2:51 PM

UK Partner with an Open XML solution? You could win an Xbox 360

David in my team has been busy being creative and has come up with a nifty little competition for UK partners - with 10 Xbox 360 consoles as prizes. Nice one Dave. You can find more details at http://isvfasttrack.co.uk/openxml.aspx or you can contact
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Friday, December 14, 2007 1:56 PM

Does the MSJVM explode on January 1st?

Back in November I posted a gentle reminder about the end of life of the MSJVM . Since then several ISV have asked me "what actually happens on January 1st?" The short answer is... nothing. Your applications which use the MSJVM will continue
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Friday, December 14, 2007 1:34 PM

Where are the release notes for .NET Framework 3.0 SP1?

In my previous post I talked about where is the redist for Service Pack 1? Whilst looking into this issue for an early adopter, I also struggled to find the release notes for SP1 (and http://support.microsoft.com simply refused to help!). Thanks to an
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Friday, December 14, 2007 1:27 PM

Where is the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 Redistributable hiding?

The short answer is... it doesn't exist yet. Thankfully things are not quite as bad as that. There are a couple of approaches an ISV can take if you plan to redistribute the .NET Framework AND you can not rely on Internet connectivity to take advantage
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:18 PM

Links for Architect Forum IIS7 Session

Today I delivered an overview of IIS7 at the Architect Forum held at our offices in Reading. I promised I would share a few of the links I mentioned during the session. Main IIS7 site Summary of how Microsoft.com are using IIS7 and more recent webcast
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