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June 2008 - Posts

Monday, June 30, 2008 11:45 AM

collection and property initializers are so nice

I happened to change a piece of code over the weekend and used both. It's a tiny piece of code, so I thought it would make a good example of just how much readable code is using them. Before: List<Property> p = new List<Property>( 1 ); Property
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Friday, June 27, 2008 10:28 AM

Hyper-V has shipped!

http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v Many people on our team (including myself, of course) have been running pre-RTM bits (the beta that came with Windows Server 2008, RC0, RC1, and their escrow build), and we've been extremely happy with it. It's light-years
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:16 PM

THE PowerShell book (Windows PowerShell in Action, Bruce Payette's book) now on Safari!

Just noticed in an email from Bruce that his book is now available on Safari ! Yay!
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Friday, June 20, 2008 4:38 PM

Another James loss == another customer win

For those keeping score, last time it was Windows Server 2008 . For various reasons (that I won't bother reiterating here, since there's no value in doing so), I wanted to make our next release 64-bit-only. There's a little bit of precedence in that Exchange
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:01 PM

HashTab - easily see the hashes for files

While wanting to verify the hash of a dd-wrt firmware I downloaded, I read about this app called HashTab that makes it a simple shell extension.  What a great idea!  The license agreement phase of the install states it simply enough: I love
Posted by jmanning | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:38 PM

Odd Server 2008 link speed issue

Despite having a 1 Gbps Intel network card plugged into a 100Mbps switch, my Link Speed claims 10Gbps. So, while I'm pushing 75Mbps of traffic (copying the vhd file as per previous blog post), it claims a network utilization of 0.75% instead of 75%. Other
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:27 PM

Giving full trust to a network share

Tan's post reminded me that I never got around to posting this silly batch script that I use. As you can see with Tan's example, you can call this with just a hostname, or hostname/sharename, or whatever. For both of us, we're ripping off Shawn's original
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:37 AM

Screenshot-fest: Using SCVMM 2008 Beta to convert my old Vista dev box into a Virtual Machine

While you can certainly use Vista's Complete PC Backup to generate a vhd of your machine, it doesn't make a bootable, usable virtual machine. I didn't want to lose a bunch of things on my old dev box (I need to reinstall it with Windows Server 2008),
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:20 AM

You can't run HyperV in a HyperV VM

I didn't think it would work, but I was trying it yesterday because of the OS requirements for SCVMM 2008 Beta . Of course, you can run Virtual PC under Hyper-V (or Virtual Server, or VMWare, or whatever)
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