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What the heck? I just got an error message telling me that I am unable to install the 64 bit version of Office 2010 b/c I have a 32 bit Office product installed. The odd thing is that I have a 64 bit version of Office 2010 installed already! I’m trying to install Microsoft Project 2010...
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You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the new DLL into the CAB file? Wouldn't it surprise...
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OK - so I'm a bit irritated, but this is a great case of Microsoft's dev teams doing something which contradicts documentation and expected behavior. Here is the story, including the business case which this bug stomps all over. Doug Ware (formerly of Magenic fame and now an independent SharePoint consultant...
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The client location I'm at now uses a ClickOnce deployed Windows application to perform some highly critical business functions. Some time in the last two or three weeks, the application's certificate expired. We tried to deploy an update and everything BLEW UP! Apparently, when you sign code from Visual...
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We both took a few hours off of work back on November 20th last year and took a beta version of the upcoming 71-631 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring exam. Well, turns out our scores just got posted and we both passed. Now he's an MCP and an MCTS (congrats man) and I'm an MCP, MCTS...
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Did you know that if you are working on a Word document and you want to be able to see one part of the document while editing a completely different section, you can freeze a portion of the document on the screen? You can accomplish this dual view by dragging the little divider bar down from above the...
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Unfortunately for us, it looks like the closest developer focused event is happening in Greenville SC What: Microsoft Across America Launch Event (Developer) This is the Vista and Office 2007 launch event. Session 1. Office and Vista: Better Together for Developers. || Session 2. Building Differentiated...
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MAKE Magazine already has several posts up about circumventing some of the Zune restrictions such as how to get the Zune to appear in your Windows Explorer . There are several other articles on the site, including how to put in your own larger hard drive and how to bypass the Zune to Zune wireless song...
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As illustrated in this post from the SharePoint team , the upgrade from the 180 day trial versions of MOSS 2007 Standard and MOSS2007 Enterprise to the full versions is as simple as changing a license key number through the user interface.
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I work with a lot of virtual machine images (my laptop is basically a host for Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and Outlook). I've been using the following steps to streamline my use of VPCs Tired of having to remember different passwords for different VPCs? Set your Windows Server 2003 image to auto-logon Sick of...
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Jim Wooley posted about how he informed me that this great HTTP analyzer tool called Fiddler existed. This let me look into my code's exceptions to figure out what was happening. He posted about the existance of the tool and how it's a great thing. I thought I should post my specific example, what it...
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Dan and I are working together to tech review an upcoming SharePoint 2007 book. We were asked at the last minute and have extremely short deadlines, so we're looking for ways to eek out dribs and drabs of speed during our review process. To that end, I present you with a quick tutorial on assigning keyboard...
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A good friend to all of us here in the Atlanta .NET community, Jim Wooley, is changing jobs. Today is his last day with his current employer and he IMs me with a question. “Matt”, he IMs. “Here’s a SQL Server MVP type of question for you. In 2005’s Management Studio, how do you remove a server from the...
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I just learned about something new. Way back in the Windows NT 4.0 days, I learned that Windows allowed software to use up to 2 Gb of memory. The boxes could actually hold up to 4 Gb, but the memory was usually split 2 for the app, 2 for the OS. Since then, 32 Windows versions have dramatically increased...
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I’m working on rewriting an application that handles part of the promotions and advertising sales here at work. The application was written back in 1997 or 1998 by an Access developer who didn’t seem to really have a firm grasp on concepts like normalization and whatnot. The application itself...