Anith Gopal

Für Windows 7 gibt es ein neues Design, “ Nordic Landscapes ”. Es besteht aus insgesamt 17 Bildern und kann hier heruntergeladen werden. Viel Spaß damit!

We’re pleased to announce that Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure (ISBN: 978-0-7356-5662-8, 336 pages) by Steve Fox is available for purchase. You can order the book now at the site of our official distributor, O’Reilly Media. Your expert guide to building Microsoft® SharePoint® applications in the cloud Deliver custom, cloud-based business solutions using SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure™ together.

Sometime after Visual Studio 2010 shipped, we received reports about an issue where when targeting .NET 3.5, customers were receiving a build error stating that the RESGEN command line was too long. The errors/warnings would look as follows: Error: The specified task executable “ResGen.exe” could not be run. The filename or extension is too long Warning: The command-line for the “ResGen” task is too long.

Für Windows 7 ist diese Woche wieder ein neues Design rausgekommen, diesmal zum Thema Farben. Enthalten sind 13 Hintergrundbilder,  auf denen verschiedene Farbschleier abgebildet sind. Es gibt sowohl bunte, also auch eher schwarz-weiß gehaltene Aufnahmen.

In the previous three posts, we managed to double the speed of file loading time of CLRProfiler through profile-guided optimization in three simple steps. Now let’s take a look at reducing CLRProfiler’s memory consumption, making it more useful to real world applications.

and Scott At last year’s MIX10 event, Windows Internet Explorer Corporate Vice President, Dean Hachamovitch , announced the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 1 with hardware accelerated HTML5. This year, Dean will be back on the MIX stage as he returns as the day 1 keynoter at MIX11. Eight platform previews, one beta, one release candidate, and one final version of Internet Explorer 9 later – it’s a keynote you won’t want to miss

The Microsoft IT team have the job of running an complex and rapidly-changing IT infrastructure for a very demanding user base – our own. Sound familiar to you too? Well I guess it should, because almost every education institution has exactly the same challenges and budget pressures

Often I’m asked why installing a Windows Installer patch (MSP) takes as long or longer to install than the target product (MSI).

Windows Phones, by definition, are equipped with an accelerometer for detecting the physical orientation of the device. Applications can subscribe to notifications from the operating system of orientation changes and adjust their layouts accordingly

I was taking the Windows Azure CmdLets project and getting it into an MSI just to make it easier to deploy in a nice package.  I ran into problems with the Setup project not being able to properly establish the right registry settings for an x64 environment. Even though you set the target platform on the Setup project to x64 the InstallUtil.lib that get’s run is still x86.  In order to have it work property, you need to follow the steps identified here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kz0ke5xt.aspx   The section “64-bit managed custom actions throw a System.BadImageFormatException exception” covers the steps you need to follow, using the Orca MSI editor to replace the InstallUtilLib.dll from the one that the Setup Project embeds (x86) to a x64 version. Now, works like a charm… Resultant installer here: http://cicoria.com/Downloads/AzureManagementCmdletsInstall.msi The CmdLets are the same ones from the Training Kit – November 2010 release.

If you are one of a few lucky developers who requested and received VM Role confirmation email “Welcome to the Windows Azure VM Role Beta program!”… as below: Your subscription is now enabled to use the VM Role feature in Windows Azure. If you have not installed the latest version of the Windows Azure Tools (which includes the SDK), please install it from   here

It was over a year ago that I wrote and shared the first version of my Insomnia utility .