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Friday, November 09, 2007 1:27 AM

Getting around Jet Engine not installed error on 64 bit Vista

There is a problem with 64 bit Vista and that is the Jet Engine, used by ADO.NETs OleDb Data Provider, is not supported. It's also no longer supported by Microsoft so a 64 bit version is not planned. If you develop with OleDb on 64 bit Vista you get...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:53 AM

VistaDb (100% Managed Database Engine)

Wow it's been a while, sorry for the lack of updates. It is due to a combination of studying for the MCPD (second attempt is looming) and having a bit of a deadline to meet on a project. I've been spending most of my time helping folks out on...
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Friday, August 31, 2007 10:28 AM

XSL-FO to PDF, MathML, Virtual PC, and MSIs

First off many thanks to Digvijay for his comment, it was well appreciated. I'm not to clever at replying to comments, only to happy to help. You may have noticed that there was a noticable gap in time between some posts, the reason for this was two...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 12:00 PM

TrueCrypt - Protecting USB Memory Sticks

For the last year I've been using a 8Gb JetFlash USB memory stick to store all my ebooks and projects on. It's a fantastic little memory stick because it comes with a piece of software called uFormat which partitions the stick into a unsafe and...
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Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:04 AM

Microsoft Patterns and Practices April 2007 DVD

Microsoft Patterns and Practices April 2007 DVD http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6724E09B-CA2E-425A-8D71-8FEBAD3BA203&displaylang=en Full DVD download of all the articles, videos, libraries, and tools posted by Microsofts Patterns...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:07 PM

Type Visualizers : Visualizing non-serializable types.

Well thank you PShaffer for your comment. You can indeed create type visualizers for non-serializable types using the Microsoft.VisualStudio.VisualizerObjectSource class. This object is responsible for serializing the type, in binary, from Visual Studio...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:13 PM

XML Debug Type Visualizer

I've create a XML debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 which you can download here . Just unzip and place the DLL in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers'. You can view the XML as text and...
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Friday, January 26, 2007 12:37 PM

ASP.NET AJAX v1.0

I'm sure your all aware, but if not, Microsoft have released v1.0 of the ASP.NET AJAX , previously know as Atlas. They had planned to release it as part of Orcas but it was deemed to groovy. On a related subject I tried out the I.E. Developers Toolbar...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:26 PM

Generic Collection Library

At last I have something worth blogging. I'm currently studying for the MCPD upgrade exams and word on the street is generics will be a large part of the first exam. Just so happens I've got a nice little book on the subject that's just the...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:00 PM

Axosoft - OnTime Bug Tracking Software

If you never saw it in this months issue of MSDN Magazine Axosoft's OnTime Bug Tracking Software is a suite of tools, developed in .NET v1.1, for controlling bug issues in software projects. What MSDN Magazine never told you was you can get a FREE...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:25 AM

C# Coding Standard and Code Style Enforcer

IDesign ( http://www.idesign.net/ ) have made available a coding standard for C# that they say has become a de-facto industry standard. I'll need to take their word for that but I've had a reasonable look and it's as good as any other standard...
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:58 PM

NMock

NMock is a dynamic mock object library for .NET. Mock objects make it easier to test single components—often single classes—without relying on real implementations of all of the other components. This means we can test just one class, rather than a whole...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:47 PM

Wink

You know those training video's you get where someone demonstrates on screen an application or a windows feature or how to do something.... well Wink is a free little tool that lets you make them. Check it out. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:59 PM

SnippetEditor

Here's a nice little tool for adding and editing code snippets in Visual Studio 2005. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/snippeteditor/
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