Saturday, September 27th, 2008
So having got my home server up and running I finally got around to getting music streaming off it into my living room with a Logitech Squeezebox Duet.
First off this is not an appliance, it's a science project, albeit a really good one. I spent a happy hour fiddling ...
Tags: Gotchas, Hardware, Squeezebox, Windows Home Server
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
It works! So the build is complete and I have a working server. Interesting this weekend the system disk in the machine I have downstairs chose to start failing CHKDSK. WHS actually picked up on this and warned me while it was trying to backup. Restoring the disk from ...
Tags: Gotchas, Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Back in September I ran into some issues using SN.EXE on Vista. SN would look like it had added a strong name verification skipping entry when really it hadn't. Doing the SN -Vr *,######### with the SN.EXE tool that ships with Visual Studio 2008 gives a much better behavior. ...
Tags: Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As promised, another post on actually writing code as I've been busy trying the help the p&p DocTools project out the door. One of the final hurdles was getting the VSTO Word Document Add-In use delay signing. I was missing a key step in this process... Build ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Visual Studio, VSTO
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Fusion is Microsoft's name for the technology that resolves and loads assemblies requested by your application. It turns out that the .NET framework comes with a little application that allows you to see what caused each assembly in your application to get loaded, how it was loaded (context) and where ...
Tags: Gotchas, Visual Studio
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