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  • Fix: Close lid on laptop changes screen resolution

    I’ve got a Dell Precision M65.  It rocks.  Dual core.  2gb’s of RAM with room for up to 4gb.  Two hard drives.  Virtual Server 2005 R2 just plain screams. Last week I downloaded and installed all the updated drivers from Dell after I started getting some blue-screens related to my wifi driver and video driver. …

  • Can't access web app from the machine that app is hosted on (aka. localhost)

    When I do development work for clients who don’t have their own development server, I set up a IIS virtual host on my server so that I can post iterations for them to review.  Every client gets its own domain name like http://clientName.benday.com.  It’s a pretty cool feature of IIS that allows you to host lots…

  • Can’t access web app from the machine that app is hosted on (aka. localhost)

    When I do development work for clients who don’t have their own development server, I set up a IIS virtual host on my server so that I can post iterations for them to review.  Every client gets its own domain name like http://clientName.benday.com.  It’s a pretty cool feature of IIS that allows you to host lots…

  • Team Foundation Server & Team System @ VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas

    I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas on Team System and Team Foundation Server.  The title of the talk is “Team Foundation Server: Beyond the GUI”.  Here’s the abstract: Did you know that Team Foundation Server (TFS) has an API to control, customize and consume almost any piece of TFS functionality,…

  • Team Foundation Server & Team System @ VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas

    I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas on Team System and Team Foundation Server.  The title of the talk is “Team Foundation Server: Beyond the GUI”.  Here’s the abstract: Did you know that Team Foundation Server (TFS) has an API to control, customize and consume almost any piece of TFS functionality,…

  • VS2003 Plus Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Plugin kills VSS

    Microsoft released a plugin for Visual Studio 2003 (and some other IDEs **) that allows you to use Team Foundation Server as the source control repository.  (Yay!  Down with SourceSafe!)  It’s called the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider.  I installed it in VS2003 and it works pretty well.  The only problem is…

  • Windows LiveWriter and .Text (dotText)

    When LiveWriter got announced, I was totally bummed out that it didn’t work with the .Text (dotText) blog engine.  Turns out that that was incorrect.  Thanks to James W for this post describing how to set up the integration.  -Ben

  • Beantown.NET User Group Meeting (9/7/2006): Secure Code Reviews

    The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting again on Thursday, 9/7/2006. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month we have Robert Hurlbut coming to talk about doing secure code reviews.  As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.  If you want free pizza, send me an RSVP using the contact form (http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx) by 1pm…

  • Mysterious errors from dotText (.Text)

    For years — pretty much since I started my blog — I’ve been getting emails from people saying that they get an error from my blog engine (.Text aka dottext).  Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value Usually, by the time I get there to check it’s working fine.  Somehow it fixes itself.  Today…not so…

  • VSTS / TFS Tips

    Richard Hale Shaw and I just finished writing a few mini-articles for FTPOnline on VSTS and TFS. They just got posted as part of a special report that FTP is doing on Team System. Tip #1: How to deploy supporting files as part of your VSTS unit tests.  This would be of interest for people doing…

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