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Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:33 AM

Fresh Install Backups and Windows Home Server

I was building a new Vista Media Center , and replaced XP Home on my old laptop with XP Professional. It always take quite some time until I configured my machines the way I like it. This time, I have Windows Home Server ready, after I configured the
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:05 AM

How to Convert a list of Object/String to an Array Using LINQ?

This is something that I really like, I can convert a list of objects into an array of something. I had a need to convert a list of string into an array of string, of course it can be done easily in several different ways, creating an array of int, converting
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:47 PM

I Am in Love with LINQ

I have been reviewing LINQ since last year, but I had never had a chance to actually jump and use it extensively. My last project uses Visual Studio 2008, and there are opportunities to use LINQ. Probably because I have reviewed it before, the learning
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Friday, March 14, 2008 6:31 AM

How to Generically Convert One Data Type to Another?

I once had this problem to read an Xml file and populate an object's properties with the value from the Xml. The problem was, the Xml was very simple, everything was string, the properties of the object itself had different data types. The object was
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:53 AM

How to Build TFS Build Locally?

If you need to test your TFS build after playing around with the TFSBuild.proj, you can do that by do the following: Synchronize the source control to your workspace. Open Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt (or Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt), located
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:39 AM

How to Make Sure InstallState Files Are Removed After Uninstall?

If you are building setup using Visual Studio and you have several custom actions and you noticed you see one or more .InstallState files in the target path after uninstall, most likely you have added your custom action to the Install custom action, but
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:26 AM

How to Correctly Pass TARGETDIR to A Custom Action?

If you have a custom action setup, passing TARGETDIR to the custom action, and suddenly you are experiencing weird error, you may have incorrectly passed the TARGETDIR. Sometimes the Event Viewer have this entry: The description for Event ID ( 11001 )
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