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My Favorite Visual Studio 2005 Add-Ins

I have been using Windows Vista on my laptop for two solid years. I thought it was about time to dual boot my machine with Windows XP Professional. I find that my battery life and performance has greatly increased compared to Vista. I use my laptop for...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2007 8:39 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005, XP Professional, ReSharper, MRU Cleaner, Consolas, GhostDoc, CoolCommands

Looking for a Mission Critical Operating System?

During my daily reading this afternoon, the following post on blogs.msdn.com caught my eye. Apparently NASA uses XP on some of its mission critical machines. Someone at Microsoft managed to snap the following picture from a TV screen at the Houston Mission...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2007 8:19 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Windows Vista, XP Professional, Mission Critical

MSDN Library April 2007 Released

I just saw that the MSDN Library April 2007 was released. I'm so happy that an update has finally been released! It literally has been ages since they released it as a free download. The link is a direct download link as the page is not yet available...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2007 10:01 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: MSDN Library, Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Released

Microsoft earlier today released an Visual Studio 2005 SP1 patch that fixes certain application compatibility problems when running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista. Download ( Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista )

Published Wed, Mar 03 2007 12:53 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Released

Today Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. I personally have been waiting quite sometime for this update to come out as it fixes compatibility for Windows Vista. Hopefully we will not have to wait that long for Visual Studio 2005 service...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2007 12:17 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Windows Vista, SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

Today, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 available for download immediately. Service Pack 1 also provides over 70 improvements for common development scenarios including: New processor support (e.g., Core Duo) for code generation and...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2006 12:38 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005

A white paper on how to make your Windows Vista application UAC friendly.

Microsoft has released a white paper pertaining on "how to develop UAC compliant applications for Windows Vista", The following document contains the subjects or topics below. "This white paper includes details many aspects of designing...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2006 4:30 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Windows Vista, UAC

How to use Microsoft's Speech API (SAPI) in a managed application (C# - VB .Net)

Sometime soon, I plan on releasing a cool application that uses text-to-speech. Some of you might have been curious about the implementation about text-to-speech for quite a while. The implementation of text-to-speech really isn't that hard as long...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2006 3:55 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: C#, Windows Vista, VB.Net, Microsofts Speech API, SAPI

Are your applications ready for Windows Vista?

The last beta build of Windows Vista has been released to the public. If you’re developing any applications where your intended audience will be using Windows Vista, then this is the time to download Windows Vista before it goes RTM (Released to...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2006 4:19 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: .Net, Windows Vista, IIS7, UAC

"Firefox To IE7" and Windows Vista RC1

If your getting a "bookmarks.html does not appear to be a valid firefox document." when using " Firefox To IE7 " in Windows Vista RC1 or newer its due to the File IO Permissions and UAC. To fix this right click "FireFox To IE7...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2006 2:18 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: Firefox To IE7, Windows Vista

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