November 2006 - Posts - Danie Bruwer

November 2006 - Posts

Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts
22 November 06 11:03 PM | danieb | 8 comment(s)

Here is a handy quick reference for keyboard short cuts. I have found them useful since my PC is so slow due to Beta\CTP’s that I am experiencing lag on my cursor causing me to miss click the desired command. This also helps when waiting for a right click menu to open only to close again.

Luckily I have a MSDN Subscription
21 November 06 05:51 PM | danieb | 3 comment(s)

Yes, there is an Office 2007 'kill switch'

Ordered a Zune
17 November 06 03:31 PM | danieb | 2 comment(s)

As everyone knows the Zune launched in the US. The official distubuters (Amanzon) doesn't ship to South Africa. So I eventually found a distubuter that ships to South Aftica.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

Ships with in 10-14 days. at 250+34$

Virtual Drive for Vista
03 November 06 02:24 AM | danieb | 43 comment(s)

Deamon tools and alcohol 120% causes problems in Vista. I found that Virtual CloneDrive works the best.

Hamachi (VPN)
02 November 06 02:38 PM | danieb | with no comments

Has anyone tried out Hamachi. Sounds good.

"Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application.
In other words Hamachi is a program that allows you to arrange multiple computers into their own secure network just as if they were connected by a physical network cable.
Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. Its core version is also free."

(CTPs + Vista Security Issues) == Unexpected Exceptions / Errors
01 November 06 12:45 AM | danieb | with no comments

I have been playing with Windows Workflow, ADO vNext, Linq and DO.NET vNext Entity Data Model Designer. I must say all very impressive technologies.

Some lessons I had to learn the hard way.

  • MS doesn't support LINQ to SQL (DLinq) and LINQ to Entities in the same project in the Current CTPs.
  • Visual Studio removes the section form the webconfig when you try to debug (F5)

    <!-- remove the original System.Data assembly in Entity Framework projects for this CTP. This is
    temporary, for this CTP only.
    -->
    <remove assembly="System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
  • Don't use varchar. Instead use nvarchar since varchar it not currently supported.
  • If you get some random error try running VS as administrator.