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As a Vista user and supposed 'good influence' on my fellow developers, I've been strongly resisting the urge to turn off the User Account Control when doing development. So far, so good. One area that almost had me was developing WCF services that listen
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http://www.catalystss.com/Articles/Advanced%20Development%20on%20IIS7.pdf . The latest release of IIS saw a heavy focus on modularization and integration. This focus has made IIS7 the most customizable release of IIS ever. This modularization and integration
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The Orcas setup for WCF misses adding a couple of items needed for WebScript and the WebHttpBinding, both of which are needed to configure and run JSON type Web services. The fix is to update the applicable config file. To make the fix apply across your
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http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx It's always a good idea to have the latest version of the tools. Get yours today!
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Just a few days ago, we had a discussion about ways to attach debuggers to processes whenever a process started, including a service. I was going to blog about it, but Larry Osterman already has something up from early 2006. http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2006/03/01/541403.aspx
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With System.Runtime.Serialization , you only need to be able to transform data to and from some ‘wire representation’ to an XML Infoset . Whether that thing looks like XML or not when printed doesn’t matter. The .NET 3.5 framework is going to ship with
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This one drove me nuts the past few days. I have a need to run a few virtual machines on my laptop. This machine connects to the outside world over wireless networks. At home, my wireless network is setup to use both MAC filtering and WEP. In order to
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I just had the pleasure of spending a week talking about Windows Communication Foundation. That week reopened my eyes to what an amazing thing WCF really is. It also opened my eyes to the set of new ideas developers have to wrap their heads around. One
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I just saw this posted: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90e2942d-3ad1-4873-a2ee-4acc0aace5b6&DisplayLang=en . The download is 28.9 MB. From start of download to complete install took me 26 minutes ("Time remaining: 0 seconds"
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One of the chief complaints I've heard (and experienced!) of the Microsoft virtualization technology is that it just doesn't work well. I've been running Virtual PC 2007 on Vista for the past 6 weeks. My impression is that the guest OS is running about
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The Saturday after Vista RTM was released to MSDN, I grabbed, backed up my important files, and installed Vista. My first attempt was a simple upgrade from XP to Vista. The machine was running the typical dev set of applications: · Visual Studio 2005
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