As part of a customer project I needed to create a Netware environment for testing. It's been a little while since I did any netware management and I quite enjoyed it. I did, however, encounter a couple of gotchas which I thought I'd write up for the greater good.
Netware OS
Installing the Netware OS was actually …
Read More- I have been consistently impressed by the blog/efforts of the ever lovely Sara Ford. for those of you who do not know who Sara is, she is a SDE/T on the Visual Studio Core team at Microsoft and via her blog provides us time strapped developers with visual studio hints in bit size easy to understand chunks almost …
Read More When you are using a VSTO enabled Word Template inside a SharePoint custom content type you have to be careful which actual .DOTX file you use within the SharePoint custom content type.
- DO NOT - use the .DOTX from your VSTO Visual Studio project directory
- DO USE - the .DOTX from the the project's ClickOnce publish …
Read MoreVisual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available on MSDN subscriber downloads. or from Microsoft download.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso)
there are a good number of fixes and new features in the service pack (including TR1 for you C++ philes out there)
you …
Read MoreI posted about NBC Olympic coverage - today I discovered I cannot stream BBC provided media content from the Olympics on my Windows PDA using Opera via the Vodafone 3G service. Seems the BBC does not think I am in the UK. I know Yorkshire assumes it should be independent, but I don't think it has happened yet.
I …
Read More- After the announcement at Mix of the NBC Silverlight Olympic streaming service I was looking forward to have a look at what had been created. Turns out you have to be in the USA to watch it, I assume due to media rights issues, a bit of a shame. I hope something can be worked out with a small fraction of the 2200 hours …
Read More My blog is now being mirrored at http://msmvps.com/blogs/rfennell/Default.aspx as well as being available in it's real location http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/rfennell
To quote MSMVPS it is The Ultimate Destination for Blogs by Current and Former Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals.
Read MoreI have at last got round to moving the location of the WSS sites used by our TFS server from the WSS instance running on our TFS Application Tier (AT) to our main 64bit MOSS 2007 server farm. A job I have been putting off for ages.
I decided that there was nothing on the TFS WSS sites of importance, other than …
Read MoreOver the past few days I have been travelling around the country by car, something I have not done for a while, preferring the train. It was a good chance to try out a couple of gadgets. One I have had a for a while, my HTC Touch Cruise phone, but the other was new a Pure Highway DAB car radio.
So what did I learn? …
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