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LogParser, event logs and Longhorn Server

I am a frequent user of LogParser and when I recently started using Windows Server 2008 beta as my desktop OS I ran into a problem with it. One of the things I use LogParser for is extracting the...

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Vista Performance article

Came across this interesting article about measuring performance on Windows Vista. Contains various nuggets of information about what goes on under the covers. Doug

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Time to be a grumpy old man...

Here goes - I don't like the copy replace dialog in Windows Server 2008. It's too big, there's too much detail and the things you are meant to click to do something are not obviously clickable until...

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Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate

Developers interested in preparing for IIS7 and Orcas will be interested to know that the Release Candidate (RC) build of Windows Server 2008 is now available. Of course, this release includes an...

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Does DEP/NX affect web applications?

A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download, Kima posed an interesting question in the comments. Kima asked whether the new enforcement of NX...

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Local dump collection in Windows Server 2008 and Vista Service Pack 1

Here is a neat new feature added to Windows Error Reporting (WER) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - you can now have WER generate and keep full user mode dumps of crashing...

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Yeah! I passed!

And the reason I was trying to view an XPS document was because I wanted to print my MCP transcript which you can download in either XPS or PDF format. And the reason I wanted to do that, was because.....

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Learn IIS7 : short tutorial videos available on IIS.NET, plus more

There is a lot of great information available to help you learn IIS7 over at IIS.NET. Also available are short video tutorials. Unless I am missing something there is no overall list of the available...

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Great blog for file system related stuff

I don't often get involved with storage issues unless it is affecting one of my customer's websites in some way (usually performance, though could be a hang). During an issue I am currently working on,...

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Released: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with Service Pack...

Just released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d Handy if you manage your servers running Windows Server® 2008 R2, Windows Server® 2008,...

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TechEd 2014 is underway with LOTS of exciting new stuff announced!

TechEd North America 2014 is underway! You can find an overview of the announcements on Soma and Brian’s blogs. Below are some resources of particular interest to developers News & Videos: Read...

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Upcoming webinars from @WSDevSol

Some upcoming webinars, first one today! Brought to you by members of the Windows Store Developer Solutions team in Microsoft Customer Service and Support. Debugging your Direct3D apps for Windows...

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PasswordVault.Add may fail on Windows 10

  I am slightly embarrassed by the length of time since my last blog post. But never mind, here I am again! I’ve been working on a customer issue lately where an existing Windows Store app was failing...

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Version history of the CLR 4.0

  Following on from my “Version history of the CLR 2.0” post I’ve decided to start one for 4.0. The below generally only refer to patches affecting core CLR files clr.dll, not the rest of the...

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Unable to build a simple Cordova app in Visual Studio? Here’s a possible fix…

It is not so often these days that support cases have a quick solution. With the wealth of forums and other channels for peer assistance, most straightforward issues get fixed before people call us. So...

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace

Exciting announcements yesterday about the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace. Find out more about Red Hat solutions on Azure here. /D

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File version history for CLR 4.x

In the past I have maintained some blogs posts about version histories of the CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0. People seem to have found those useful over the years but they have become quite tough to maintain....

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Troubleshooting exceptions in a Windows Phone app

You know the situation – you develop and debug your app, all works well and you deploy it onto the phones of a few testers or friends. Then, you get reports of the app just disappearing.   An app...

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Open the Visual Studio Output windows with the keyboard

I am not great with keyboard shortcuts. I use quite a few but my repertoire is a bit limited. One thing that frustrated me for a while though was the apparent lack of a shortcut to bring up the Output...

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GenGetProcessInfo.Start(0x1234) failed, 0x800700ea

This is rather obscure but seems to come up every so often. Here 0x1234 would be the process ID of the process that we were attempting to dump. The Win32 error is 0x800700ea The issue here was that one...

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