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Quite a few people started reporting having issues connecting to Cassini earlier in the week. I’ve seen blog posts , tweets and internal mail threads as people who had a working environment one day found the could no longer connect the next. The solution
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Given the success of my “new” Media Center I thought it deserved a little more money spending on it to avoid the “Media Center would like to change channel to record xxxx” scenario. Prescribed: Dual tuners. Dual tuners allow you to either watch one channel
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Find out who your friends really are with this handy PowerShell script! Essentially it will go through your friends and followers and produce two “difference” lists; people who follow you that you’re not following and people you follow but don’t follow
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Thanks to everyone who turned up for a very busy event today at Cardinal Place. The slides are now available on SlideShare and the originals will be on the MSDN Events Website in a few days. Catching up on Rich Clients Part 1 of 2 View more presentations
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My Media Center is old. Very old in fact. It pre-dates Media Center 2005 and was supplied as part of a company scheme (even mentioned on the Carrera web page ). Let’s just say that, from the outset, the hardware wasn’t great. It was noisy and smelly and
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Love it or loathe it (and I do both at times), I regularly indulge myself by watching a bit of The Gadget Show . It's hardly Top Gear / Fifth Gear / any other car show on TV which I can watch all day on Dave and would do if only my wife would let me (and
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I see we've announced broader availability of SP2 Beta on the Windows team blog . With immediate effect, MSDN and TechNet subscribers can access Service Pack 2 Beta and from 4th December it will be available to everyone via the Customer Preview Program
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If you haven't seen it, the Windows 7 Developer Guide gives a nice summary of what's to come in Windows 7 (or at least some of what's to come - there could well be more :-)) from a developer's perspective. Download it from MSDN Code Gallery - Windows
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PDC's just out of the way and it's already time to start thinking about MIX. I saw this logo on the website and thought we were going to be expected to run a 10K in the desert. Fortunately it's 10K of storage and a challenge to do as much as you can with
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KYN02 Day Two Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell Better than Day 1's keynote this one covers things more from a UI perspective with Windows 7, Office Web Application in Office 14, Visual Studio and Live Services. KYN03
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The first in a very short series of posts where I try and distil some of the key announcements we made at PDC into something I can make sense of. First up, Windows Azure. Azure consists of both an operating system and a set of services. Windows Azure
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If you want to watch any of the PDC 2008 sessions, you can simple peruse the session list at: http://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx select the session you want to watch and click the "Watch Session Recording" icon. On the other
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Eric and I have published the full set of resources links from yesterday's event on What's New in Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/02/2008-10-02-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx Technorati Tags: vs2008
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I spent many frustrating hours yesterday trying to get 2 demos to work for today's Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 event at TVP. What was very odd was that both demos (or similar) worked fine on MikeT's machine but neither worked on mine and in both cases the
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Things are starting to shape up nicely on the developer track so I thought I'd try and give you a flavour of what you'll see if (surely "when"?) you join us in Brighton in September for ReMix UK. There'll be a big focus on rich client with Silverlight,
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