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TechEd Conf: Most Technologies and Most People
Joel Oleson writes, "...If you like the most technologies and see the most people you should choose: Microsoft Tech Ed...speakers are almost always quality due to the extreme screening. Preference is given to Microsoft and MVP speakers....There are 10 around the globe, so don’t only look at the US if you’re looking for an adventure. The upcoming one in..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:02:55 GMT

Set-FileTime cmdlet Changes File Dates
Richard Siddaway writes, "...converting a bunch of video files between formats and wanted the file in the new format to have the creation date of the original file....PowerShell Community Extensions has a Set-FileTime cmdlet that can do this..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:55:12 GMT

Office 2007 Install Surprises
Dave Campbell writes, "...I neglected to consider what all I am supporting here...Office 2003 was uninstalled, which under normal circumstances would have been a nice surprise, but then I started thinking about the 4 large MS Access applications that I deploy from a server. And of course all my shortcuts to build MDB files disappeared because..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:59:26 GMT

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TeamBuild Error Workaround: Unknown User Name or Bad Password
Adam Buenz writes, "...9 times out of 10 this is a domain trust problem. Simply put, a TFS user domain doesn’t trust the TFSService account, thus when users are added the TFSService account doesn’t have the read permission on the domain controller. So you can either implement..." more

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:05:52 GMT

Maintaining a Consistent Application State with TPL
Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework writes, "...TPL enables writing state-sensitive applications on the .NET platform without convoluting the application code with many if statements or customized exception types. While the code is still a little verbose, it closely resembles the state machine's diagram. The attached zip file contains the complete C# project. Feel free to download..." more

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:02:56 GMT

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VSTS Load Testing Configuration Options with Visual Studio 2010
Ed Glas writes, "...[here are] the products you need for load testing with Visual Studio 2010. I included a diagram with one configuration option for load tests....If you are using Visual Studio 2008, these options should look familiar to you as the VS 2008 load agents and controller offered the same configuration options. The new twist with VS 2010 is the Virtual User Packs..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:31 GMT

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:55:12 GMT

Security Bulletin Release for February 2010
Microsoft Security Response Center writes, "...today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office...Here is the mapping from the bulletin numbers in the ANS to the released bulletin ID’s:..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:34:03 GMT

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Workaround Accessing Shared Drives from the Windows Virtual PC
Ben Armstrong writes, "...One of the issues is that shared drives do not get drive letters assigned to them inside the virtual machine with Windows Virtual PC. Which means that while it is easy to use them from the graphical user interface, it can be problematic if you want to access them from the command line. Luckily there is an easy solution..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:56:03 GMT

NET 4 Code String Function to Check for Empty Strings
Pete Brown writes, "...it’s a little thing, but it’s nice to have it in there, especially considering we get all sorts of nice new little things, and the client framework install is still smaller than it was in .NET 3.5..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:49:55 GMT

Asure Platform Discussed at the Architectural Level
Philippe Destoop writes, "...The article provides a great overview of the different cloud types available before diving into the Windows Azure platform. The latter gets presented from a conceptual, logical and technical view covering several architecture aspects such as security, deployment, scalability etc. A very interesting read..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:47:31 GMT

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Peter Ritchie

Peter has been working in software development for 18 years. He's been working with computer software since his first computer an Atari 800. Peter is president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co, where he provides Windows-based software development, management and coaching services. Peter specializes in Agile software development and management. Peter spends much of his spare time improving his skills but enjoys traveling to sunny destinations. more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:06:42 GMT