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Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [ I've just become a Media Centre junkie ], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a "Media Center" for 3 or 4 months now. I say "Media Center" rather
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A lot of people have been talking over the weekend about how they've upgraded to Vista and either had it work without a hitch, or with some very big hitches indeed. My story is mostly boring - a couple of little hitches, but nothing too major. Things
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This morning Darren retired from being the guest blogger on TechTalkBlogs . Under his reign, many a thing Vista was pushed, poked, prodded, and presented. He did a great job (ok, so he linked to me a few times, I'm a sucker for free advertisements, but
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I really like the new CommandLink control that exists in Vista. Actually, it's not a new control - it's just a new style on the button control, but it still looks damn nice. The app we're currently writing at work is being written with with a series of
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For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with WCF, Windows Workflow, and other stuff while putting together a new app that we need. It's been a steep learning curve - trying to keep things familiar (as in, the other guys on the team will still be
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I've been running Vista B2 as my primary OS for about 10 days now. I'm still deciding whether to activate it on day 14 or not - little things are getting in my road and pissing me off no end :) Some are forgivable, and things you'd expect from a beta
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Windows Error Reporting seems to have been improved in Vista. At least, it looks a lot nicer - although maybe it's just the glass stuff :) One thing they know how to do is call a spade a spade, it seems. This evening I was running a modification to my
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Darren, on the TechTalkBlog, is after submissions of Vista Visions - simple examples of cool new stuff. Well, here's my first contribution. When you first install Vista on your computer, it might not be running quite as fast as you expected - or faster,
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Well, can you? Yup, I'm home on a Saturday night playing solitaire on my computer. Pretty Sad. But wait! Is that....? Yes - I finally found time to install Vista B2. I've been trying since it came out to find time (I already found time once, actually,
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