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• Host clipboard not working when running Virtual PC?

  Sometimes, pasting stuff from your clipboard suddenly stops working when running Virtual PC. I found a tip on a blog and it "solved" the problem (actually it is a workaround :-)) http://wpfwonderland.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/fix-virtual-pc-clipboard-stops-working-on-host-pc Read More... Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 11:12 AM by Raimondb | 1 Comments Filed under: Virtual PC

• Adding sets of items to arbitrary collections using extensions methods

  Don't you just hate the fact that only some collection classes provide a possibility too add more than one item at once (such as List<T> does offer via AddRange). This means that often I'm writing this kind of code: var q = <some cool Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 6:43 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Linq, C# 3.0

• Unable to generate a WCF proxy using svcutil but retrieving the wsdl works?

  Tags van Technorati: WCF , .NET The other day at a client project, we wanted to generate a proxy using svcutil as we'd done many times before. However, the svcutil kept throwing strange error messages. Amongst them were: Other mime type expected, expected Read More... Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:19 AM by Raimondb | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET, WCF

• How to know if anything is checked out in a directory subtree in Team Foundation Server Source Control

  Just a tip: to teg a list of checkout for all users, navigate to the root folder of the directory tree you want to check in your workspace using a Visual Studio command prompt. Then use the TF tool with the following command line: "tf status /user:* Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:08 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio Team System, Tips-n-Tricks, Team Foundation Server

• Getting Remote Desktop connections working to Vista boxes

  After some searching I found the "old" dialog that enables the possibility of remote desktop (RDP) connections. Goto Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > System On the left side in this dialog choose "Remote Settings" Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:09 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Remote Desktop

• Persuading Visual Studio 2003 to use the correct login ID for Source Safe

  I had an interesting issue where somewhere in the past I had used the guest account inside Visual Studio to connect to Visual Source Safe. However, since then, Visual Studio remembered this login ID. It is visible using Tools->Options->Source Control->SCC Read More... Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 5:15 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2003, Visual Source Safe

• Tag. I'm it.. it seems : the 5 things

  Well, let's not be the partypooper..I was tagged bij Wouter and now have the hard job to find people who've not already been tagimized.. First, let's come up with five things you don't know about me (and I add: "when you know me through Read More... Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 11:03 PM by Raimondb | 4 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Version 1.2 of the Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider

  A new version of this provider has been released, which enables you to connect a variety op IDE's to TFS Source Control. This list now includes: Visual Studio 2003 Visual Basic 6.0, SP6 Visual C++ 6.0, SP6 Visual FoxPro 9, SP1 Visual Studio .NET 2002 Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:12 AM by Raimondb | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server

• Vista licensing already circumvented

  With Vista, Volume licensing now works in another way, requireing a local activation server for companies each 180 days, or single activation using Microsoft servers.. As this news story states, apparently all security can be broken, as some people seem Read More... Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 12:51 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Licensing, Vista

• Solving System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException with VSTS Unit Testing

  Recently VSTS kept throwing the following exception at me Unit Test Adapter threw exception: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.. Read More... Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 10:18 AM by Raimondb | 2 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio Team System, UnitTest

• Greetings from Redmond

  Currently I am staying in the US with Marcel to participate in an Advisory Board for the definition of a new series of certifications. Read this post from Marcel for some more of the details. As Marcel said, when you have any ideas on how to do better Read More... Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 5:17 PM by Raimondb | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, certification

• First Visual Studio Team System SP1 Docs are available

  With the new service pack, some interesting features have become available. Until recently we did not have documentation on those things yet. But now Brian Harry has made some of these documents and links available . I found especially the feature interesting Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:04 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio Team System, VSTS SP1, WIT, Work Item Tracking

• DSL Tools V1 have officially shipped!!

  As announced at stuart kent's blog DSL Tools have now officialy shipped as part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3. This means we can now start major DSL developments using VS2005, without having to worry that we can start all over again at the next Read More... Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:55 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, DSL

• Atlas by Fresh Logic Studios

  I ran into this Microsoft "Atlas" based application called "Atlas" :-) It integrates several other services (by mashup) such as Virtual Earth . Really cool application, and it shows wat the capabilities of the Atlas framework are ( Read More... Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:36 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Atlas, Mashup, Virtual Earth

• Rob Caron expands his horizon

  As most of you will know Rob Caron (and his blog) have been one of the major news sources for communicating about Team System developments. Rob has now announced that he will be switching jobs . His next job will still be at Microsoft though. As he writes: Read More... Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:02 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft