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MSDN and TechNet: SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM are now available

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/27

If you have a TechNet or MSDN account, you can download the SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM builds.
Downloads have become available on April 23rd.

The SharePoint designer is available from the Microsoft Download centre as William Conrwill describes at CodeJedi.NET : SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM are now available on MSDN.

If you have SA, then as of today (April 27), you can get your volume licenses as well.

William describes more dates in his post Office, SharePoint, Project and Visio 2010 have made RTM!

I’ll be busy playing with all the bits from Delphi and .NET API perspective :-)

–jeroen

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Let me google that for you

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/27

Brilliant: Let me google that for you.

–jeroen

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Vista and up: Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC) title bar can be dragged out of the way :-)

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/26

I just found out that the title bar of a Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC) session can be dragged when running the RDP client from Windows Vista and on!

I pushed the mouse button inside the title bar right outside the button areas, and then accidentally moved the mouse.
The bar then moved :-)

This is great for instance when you use an RDP connection to a machine hosting VM’s (that also have their title bars).
Previously it was hard to click the latter, but now it is dead easy: just move the RDP title bar :-)

Such a subtle UI change, that I wish I checked this a long time ago (sometimes using things for a long time makes you numb in checking new stuff in updates versions <g>).

–jeroen

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Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Now Available – Windows 7 Team Blog – The Windows Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/23

Microsoft announced that Touch Pack for Windows 7 is now Available.

It is a set of games and applications to demonstrate the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7.
Which means it only works when you have a multi-touch monitor.

Microsoft states that the Touch Pack includes: Read the rest of this entry »

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Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/22

I usually pick a fresh VM for installing an RTM build, but if you have loads of stuff on your (physical) machine, upgrading RC to RTM can be a real time saver.

Stack Overflow has a nice question Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM answered by Danny Thorpe (yes, two links: blog / wikipedia).

The order is really imporant, so lets repeat that here:

  1. Uninstall all the VS 2010 parts
  2. Uninstall the .NET Framework Multitarget package.
  3. Reboot
  4. Uninstall the .NET Framework client package
  5. Reboot

–jeroen

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How to remove Windows (Desktop) Search … revisited | The random utterances of David Arno

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/21

Somehow, on one of my Windows XP VM’s, I installed Windows Search 4.0.

The indexer makes the VM dog slow, and even worse: the user interface of Windows Search 4 is much worse than the “Advanced” version of the default Windows Search.

But: it is tough to uninstall Windows Search 4. Read the rest of this entry »

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Maximum URL lengths

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/20

A client recently asked me what space should reserve to store URLs in their DBMS.

The plurality in the topic title is a hint: different systems have different limits on URL lengths.

But first:

Don’t use long URLs

If you use long URL’s (longer than say a coupe of 100 characters), then usually you have a problem.

First of all: short URL’s are easier to remember, index and search.

Second: long URL’s can pose problems.
It might be that your browser and server support them.
But a user might be behind an intercepting proxy (sometimes invisible to both you and your user) that imposes a URL limit.

In stead of long URLs with a HTTP GET, use shorter URLs with a HTTP POST. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, Delphi, Development, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Web Browsers, Web Development | 8 Comments »

Vliegen #Schiphol is weer begonnen

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/19

Kort na elkaar zijn op de Zwanenburgbaan deze vliegtuigen opgestegen:

Deze is opgestegen op de oostbaan, heeft rondje Wieringermeer gedaan, daarna stukje Noorzee en lijkt nu over Zandvoort terug te komen.
Wellicht luchtmetingen?
(Later: correctie: Kustwacht, dus vliegt laag).

Met dank aan http://www.flightradar24.com/ (inzoomen op Schiphol).

–jeroen

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Simple solution for “VMware Communities: Problem installing vConverter 4.0.1”

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/16

Sometimes you get an error message when trying to install VMware Converter 4.x:

A previous installation/reboot is still pending. Please reboot to complete the installation and try again to install.

Contrary to most solutions, this one is easy:
The message means “vConverter is already installed“.

So: check if you did not have it installed (or a previous version) before starting with hard measures :-)

–jeroen

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.NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded – update

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/15

Last week, I posted a C# implementation of the tee filter from Sterling W. “Chip” Camden.

Since then I have modified it slightly.
Not because the implementation is bad, but because some pieces of software play dirty when saving their redirected output.

One of those applications is SubInAcl, otherwise a great tool for showing and modifying ACL and Ownership information of Windows NT objects (files, registry entries, etc).

However, when redirecing output or piping it, it writes a zero byte after each byte of text.
I’m not sure why: it might try to face some Unicode output, or just be buggy.

The new sourcecode is below. You can also download the project and binary as tee.C#.7z (you need the freeware 7zip compression tool to decompress this).
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Posted in .NET, ASCII, C#, C# 2.0, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

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