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  • Registered Organization on 64 bit

    When I’ve started new Visual Studio projects on my Vista x64 box, the Company field would always show up as “Microsoft”… somewhat presumptuous and definitely annoying.  At first I thought the problem was with the templates, but upon inspection they had the correct template parameters, $registeredorganization...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Jan 2 2009
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  • SQL 2008 + VS 2008 = dll hell

    If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you can’t install all of the SQL 2008 bits because of shared components for Visual Studio 2008.  SQL 2008 wants to use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 components and that might/will break your Visual Studio 2008 setup.  Good news is SP1 for Visual Studio is...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Aug 7 2008
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  • Running SQL 2008 Upgrade Advisor

    I downloaded the SQL 2008 Upgrade Advisor. When I tried to install it I got this :     It says a “Windows service pack” , yet Windows Update tells me my system is up to date.  Well it might help if I read the download’s system requirements ;)  What I needed to do was install windows...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Aug 7 2008
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  • Text preview filters for Vista|Windows 2008

    I really like the preview pane in explorer in Vista, but it doesn’t have previews for a lot of text based files registered.  You can of course write your own or download and install some other preview filters, but personally I find a text preview is all I generally need.  So I re-use the existing...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Jul 23 2008
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  • Nice recovery...

    I was working with Visual Studio and a few other applications, and put the computer to sleep while I took a break. Shortly after I resumed the computer did a hard restart. I presume it is something to did with Vista and the power management, but the nice thing was Visual Studio actually recovered the...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Nov 26 2007
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