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Yesterday I finally moved to Vista.
I had a lot of problems on the way and before you even start thinking about it, look at these issues part of the known issue list for running Visual Studio 2005 with elevated privileges on Vista.
But before you do that have a look at this! On a completely new installation of Vista you will find out that your Remote Desktop connections are running very slow. This is how you can fix the problem. Too bad that you have to lose a neat feature of Vista.
Remote Desktop slow problem solved


Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista Issue List
Running with elevated administrator permissions

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Title: Just-In-Time (JIT) Debugging of an elevated process will fail
Description: Elevated processes cannot be JIT Debugged by VS 2005. This includes system processes, such as IIS, and applications started by selecting ‘Run as administrator’.
Workaround: The debugger must be attached manually before the debugger will catch unhandled exceptions or user break points (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break, __debugbreak, etc).


Title: Dataset Designer extremely slow on Windows Vista
Description: The Dataset Designer appears extremely slow on Windows Vista. This is due to a change in the way Windows Vista supports Windows painting and renders the designer mostly unusable.
Workaround: None


Title: Debugging Web applications on IIS may fail without the IIS 6 Compatibility Layer installed
Description: ASP.NET Debugging against a Web application running on IIS 7 may fail without informing the developer as to why.
Workaround: Developers should install the IIS 6 Compatibility Layer for IIS 7.


Title: Opening a web solution with many sites is much slower on Windows Vista
Description: Users with web solutions that refer to many sites (typically 20 or more) will see a large decrease in performance when opening the solution. The solution will open but it may take some time.
Workaround: None

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Labels: Tools and Tips

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:20 AM |

The next meeting of Sofia.NET User Group will be help tomorrow (25^th of April) at 18:30 at local Microsoft office presented by Rosen Zhivkov.
I am sorry for the late notification but I really forgot to blog about it.
The agenda is:

- Integration of data with SharePoint, MS SQL Server, web services
- Extensibility and scripting of InfoPath with .NET and VSTO
- Forms Server - using of InfoPath forms with browser only - no ActiveXs
- Integration of InfoPath forms in WinForms applications
- InfoPath and Forms Server as front-end to Biztalk (real-life proof of concept project)
- Using Forms Server for rendering InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2007 Workflow

Demos of bug tracking, time tracking applications and others will be shown in the presentation also.

See you there!

UPDATE: The meeting was held on 25^th of April, not on 26^th as I originally posted. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Labels: INETA

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 9:46 PM |

This year Microsoft Imagine Cup will be broadcasted live this Thursday, 26^th of April starting from 9:30am. The very respectful jury (guess who is in :) ) will take a decision which one will go to finals in Korea. The choice will be tough as there are 7 teams that participate this year. As far as I know, this is the first time we have so many teams in Bulgaria.
They should all show application that helps us "Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all...".

Be the next one to participate in Imagine Cup. Go to ImagineCup.com for more information.

Labels: ImagineCup

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:29 PM |

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual Studio code name “Orcas” Beta 1 releases for Team Suite and Team Foundation Server.

Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time.

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Labels: Visual Studio Orcas

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 10:09 PM |

My mailbox is flooded with spam.



Current count is 1368.
Something big is happening in the last few hours but it seems that is has stopped already.

Labels: Rants

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:47 AM |

This year biggest event on Microsoft technologies, DevDays 2007, is already open. You can go and subscribe now. I have two sessions there:

Best practices using TFS Source Control and Team Build

Analysis and Tuning of WCF Applications

The major difference in this year event is that it has a small registration fee. You can read more here. Also the list of sessions is pretty impressive.
This is definitely a step in the right direction from Microsoft Bulgaria.

See you on 10-11 May 2007 at Hilton Hotel.

Labels: DevDays

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 11:00 AM |