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• Visual Studio Update for Windows Vista

  It seems that Microsoft has quietly released the final version of the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista pack. It supposedly adds full compatibility for Visual Studio 2005 running under Windows Vista, althouh you still need to run it as admin. Read More... Posted 10 March 2007 18:40 by paulo.reichert | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2005

• WCF Reliable Sessions Puzzle

  As I mentioned on my previous post, I have spent a few days very puzzled with a behaviour in WCF reliable messaging/sessions. THe problem all starts because as documented here , creating WCF clients (the classes generated by svcutil.exe ) is quite expensive Read More... Posted 22 February 2007 21:30 by paulo.reichert | 8 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005

• Generics compilation bug in .NET 2.0

  Well, it seems that this week I have been hitting every bug and/or unexpected behavior in the .NET Framework 2 & 3. What is more frustrating is that none of these bugs will be fixed imdiately, some being scheduled for "Orcas" and some for even later Read More... Posted 22 February 2007 12:44 by paulo.reichert | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0

• Windows Installer MSI packages error code 2869 on Windows Vista

  I was setting up my machine with Vista RTM and have noticed that a few MSI packages would fail to install with an error code 2869 and then a number (two or three) dialog boxes empty of any text. I figured out that these packages are the ones that were Read More... Posted 21 November 2006 12:54 by paulo.reichert | 2 Comments

• Busy week at Microsoft

  Well, it seems that Microsoft managed to deliver on their promises and get the new wave of products released early in the month: Office 2007 was announced as released by Eric Rudder (Senior VP in Technology Strategy at Microsoft) during his opening keynote Read More... Posted 08 November 2006 14:21 by paulo.reichert | 1 Comments

• Windows Vista and Office 2007 Beta 2

  Hello there, Well, it seems that Microsoft decided to quietly release Windows Vista and Office 2007 Beta 2 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. By the product keys made available on the MSDN Subscribers download area it seems that Windows Vista Ultimate Read More... Posted 24 May 2006 21:50 by paulo.reichert | 2 Comments

• YEYYYYY!!!!! RTM DAY!

  Cool! Today is RTM day at Microsoft. They're sending to manufacturing SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 and guess what? They are making it available at MSDN subscribers downloads too. I'm already downloading my copy of SQL Server 2005 Developer RTM Read More... Posted 27 October 2005 21:40 by paulo.reichert | 0 Comments

• O2 tech support and Microsoft Voice Command

  Well, this weekend I discovered that my new HTC Universal (O2 XDA Exec) has a bug that if you have it connected to your computer with ActiveSync on and try to make a phone call, it doesn’t open the phone tool. After that, you can even unplug the device Read More... Posted 18 October 2005 12:13 by paulo.reichert | 0 Comments

• My new WM 5.0 Device

  Well, I have spent nearly 11 months without a Windows Mobile device (after I have given away my Motorola MPx200 and my iPAQ H5550 when moving to the UK) and I was really hard-pressed to get a new one, but didn’t want to buy anything that I would want Read More... Posted 16 October 2005 20:06 by paulo.reichert | 0 Comments

• PDC: “The Goods” look more like “The Bads”

  Well, Microsoft has been saying for weeks now that we would be astonished by “The Goods”. “The Goods” is the DVD pack containing the betas and latest releases of most of Microsoft software under development. Well, we got the pack right on Tuesday, after Read More... Posted 16 September 2005 00:37 by paulo.reichert | 1 Comments