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Visual Studio on Vista

March 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · General

As mentioned I installed Vista on my new desktop, since I have been running it on my laptop with Visual Studio for a month now without any real problems. Go figure, I ran into an issue that has been bugging me for the past couple days.
The symptoms are as follows:

Every time I start VS, [...]

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Visual Studio followup

February 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Just a little follow-up regarding my issue with Visual Studio 2005 and Vista – I was able to make the problem go away by installing a hotfix for KB912019.

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Vista and Visual Studio 2005

February 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · General

I knew I was taking a slight risk installing Vista on my laptop, where I do quite a bit of my coding.  I’m having a big problem with the Chef solution in Vista – it compiles and runs just fine but in the Visual Studio IDE I cannot open the WinForm Designer for anything but [...]

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Strong Naming

January 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

As a continuation of my last post, I thought some of you .net developers may be interested in hearing about some of the issues I ran into when strong naming.
Admittedly, this is my first real attempt at using strong naming as it’s intended and therefore I just wasn’t aware of a few things when I [...]

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Automated Builds

January 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Several hours today were spent advancing my automated build process for Chef. I’ve had CruiseControl.NET building the software for months now but I’ve had a gaping hole in the processes that has been staring at me since I started it.
What is this hole you ask? Version numbering.
Why is versioning so hard in this [...]

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Chef Beta 1!

December 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment · General

Well it’s a week and two days later than desired, but it’s finally here.  The first beta of the new Chef!  For those of you that are going to be trying it out and providing your feedback, thank you very much – I really appreciate it.
Details available at www.ejichef.com.

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Build System

November 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment · General

Last night I put together a simple build system and got some of the application versioning in place for the future.  I’m running CruiseControl.NET for the builds but haven’t set it up for continuous integration since I’m the only one coding.  I’m also not running any build tasks other than a straight compile, although once [...]

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Registration Keys

November 20th, 2006 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Over the weekend I finally spent some time to tackle the problem of registration keys.  Particularly, generating them.  The last piece of software I attempted this was WakeUp! Alarm Clock, with a very cheesy, homegrown routine for creating a key tied to the user’s name.  I never ran across any cracks/keygens for WakeUp! but I’m [...]

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