March 2007 - Posts

Friday, March 30, 2007 1:46 PM

Jetpac Refueled

This may just make a valid reason for me to get me an Xbox 360 . Jetpac was one of the first games made for ZX Spectrum , and we used to play it for countless hours back in the eighties. It was released by Ultimate - Play The Game [makers of many legendary
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:42 PM

Alt-Tab flipping in Windows Vista

When running Windows Vista on a non-graphic-capable PC [not having at least DirectX 9 capable graphics processor], you lose the comfort of enjoying eye-candy features like Aero Glass , Flip 3D [Win-Tab switching] and graphically enhanced Windows Flip
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Friday, March 23, 2007 2:26 AM

Slovenian Windows Vista

Microsoft Slovenia announced general availability of Slovenian Windows Vista ... TV commercial, accompanying this important local release, is one of the cleverest I've seen lately...
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Monday, March 12, 2007 2:00 PM

On the beach

It's been a while since I've built my last Sandcastle , but with latest, March CTP , this for sure will turn into regular practice. Together with related Sandcastle Help File Builder , we've finally got a decent code documentation building tool again
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:16 PM

Client Application Services and Membership provider

In previous VS "Orcas" post, we took a peek at Client Application Services, a part of .NET Framework 3.5 and the related System.Web.Extensions.dll. We also created a simple WCF LoginService, used for authenticating users against a Membership database,
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:20 AM

No more excuses...

... for not running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista. Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista is available for download. Remember to uninstall the Beta before installing this release version. And if you've installed SQL2005 SP2
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:31 AM

VS "Orcas": LoginService

ASP.NET 2.0 introduced Membership, Role and Profile providers for storing, validating and managing users' credentials and profiles to the web application development world. While these providers can quite easily be used in the same manner in a desktop
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:52 AM

Smarter Client Development with Visual Studio "Orcas"

This series of posts will follow my exploration in forthcoming Visual Studio "Orcas" features, focusing on developing Smart(er) Clients, or, as the above title permits, smarter developing of (desktop) clients. I'll begin the series with my "Orcas" installation
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