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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Not Detecting Physical Network Card
I got a new laptop a few days ago and I’ve been re-installing all my dev tools and servers on it. Tonight I installed Virtual Server 2005 RC2 and couldn’t get it to detect the wireless network card (NIC). It detected the wired NIC but not the wireless. I couldn’t get Virtual PC 2005 to detect…
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Scott Hanselman @ Beantown.NET User Group (6/12/2006)
The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting on 6/12/2006. Here are the details. -Ben Ultimate .NET Tools— Scott Hanselman (http://www.hanselman.com/tools) When: Monday June 12, 2006, 5:30 – 7:30pmWhere: Adesso Systems, One Liberty Square, 7th Floor, Boston, MA (directions) All are welcome, but please (RSVP) if you want free pizza! Talk Summary Scott’s known for his Ultimate…
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Intellisense For Team Server Work Item Template Schemas
In Team Foundation Server (TFS), you’re allowed — encouraged — to customize your work item definitions (take a look at witimport.exe and witexport.exe). There are some 3rd party tools out there that give you a GUI for editing the templates but I think the best way to learn how it actually works is to edit it…
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Case-insensitive string compare in .NET
I’ve been writing code full-time in C# for about 4 years now but every once in a while someone shows me something totally new. Last week, one of the devs on my team showed me an override of String.Equals() that does a case-insensitive compare. It kinda blew my mind that I’d never seen that before.…
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Delete a Team Project from Team Foundation Server
Wow…it’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post. It’s been a busy month and I’ve started ramping up to teach Team Foundation Server classes for the Richard Hale Shaw Group. Anyway, as I’m doing research, I keep finding the answers to non-obvious questions in TFS. The one that was getting to me…
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HOWTO: Create a UNIQUE constraint using NHibernate
I got an email question yesterday about how to create a UNIQUE contraint on a table using NHibernate. After some research on the NHibernate Forum and digging through the NHibernate source code, I was able to find a solution. (NOTE: my blog engine, .Text doesn’t unfornately allow me to put html or xml directly in…
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VS2005 Add-in: Solution Search
I finally got tired of having to hunt around for methods and properties in a large VS2005 solution and wrote an add-in to help out. The add-in allows you to type in a portion of a class, method, or property name, and then navigate directly to that file. In the case of a method or…
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NHibernate Performance
Rob Hurlbut sent me a link to a post on Jeffrey Palermo’s blog referencing my Channel9 NHibernate interview. I think Jeffrey really nailed the NHibernate performance meme with this quote: What performance do they really need? Now, NHibernate is NOT slow, but if you need to go 400 MPH instead of a measley 397MPH, then you…
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My NHibernate podcast interview with Ron Jacobs of Channel 9
Well, earlier this month when I was out in San Francisco speaking at VSLive, I was interviewed by MSDN Channel 9‘s Ron Jacobs on his ARCast podcast. I just got an email from Ron letting me know it’s up. Here’s the link. Share and enjoy. -Ben
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NHibernate and Rights-Based Security Talks at VSLive Orlando
This just in… I just found out that I’ll be doing my “Intro To NHibernate” and “Rights-Based Security” talks at VSLive Orlando in May 2006. -Ben