Category: Technology
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Reusable Library Naming
I plan to call my projects KarlZ.Silverlight.* while the assemblies they produce will be called KarlZ.*. Then I’ll link from the Silverlight project to the existing files in the normal .NET projects. The Problem – Different CLRs I’d like to use both MVC (Model-View-Controller) and Silverlight presentation tiers. My development and test environment for MVC…
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Dell Precision M45oo Review
Headline: I’m very happy! Details My wife gave her computer to a friend… Her needs were different from the capabilities of that computer. It was a nice computer – a tablet PC with 250 GB hard drive, but no battery life and fairly weak graphics and CPU performance. So she convinced me that I needed…
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My Desktop Gadgets Disappear
Headline: It seems that when the Dell Enhanced Power & Performance is used and you change to Ultra Performance (Max Fan Levels) it will shut down your desktop Gadgets. Switch back to something like “Cool (Reduced Temp Levels)” and they return! Enhanced Power & Performance On my Dell Precision M4500 I change environments quite a…
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Apple Pie?
I had a link on my site for a long time to Redmond Pie. As you might imagine they were primarily covering Microsoft. Their tag line tonight is “Covering Microsoft, Google, Apple, and the web!” (Bold is theirs) As I do quite regularly I went to their site. Tonight it struck me that they don’t…
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Silverlight is Hard–It is moving faster than I am
When will Silverlight slowdown? I’ve been trying to pick up Silverlight on the weekends ever since 1.0. However, just as I’m starting to catch on, all my code is obsolete. I thought that with Silverlight 4 things might slow down a bit. However, it seems that the RIA (Rich Internet Applications) Services are pretty key…
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My Turbo Boost Is Not Working…
Headline: If you are using PassMark PerformanceTest to test your i7 processor with Turbo Boost, make sure you have the latest version of their software. A bug in versions prior to build 1016 would cause Turbo Boost to stop working once you launched PerformanceTest (at least on a 64-bit machine). Strange but true story… I…
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Entertainment Wins–Hi Resolution Loses
Headline: 1920 x 1200 resolution loses out to 1920 x 1080 (1080p). Not news, but it seems to have gone unnoticed by many. I was thrilled when the higher resolution monitors came out. They were expensive, but I still enjoy my Dell 2407WFP monitory that has 1920 x 1200 native resolution. It rotates to make…
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Getting Silverlight 4 Business Application to Run on TFS Build Server
Headline: There is a folder that does not display by default in a Silverlight Business Application project called Generated_Code. That has to be added to the project and checked into the solution in order for your Silverlight application to run on your TFS Build Server. I was trying to get my Silverlight 4 test application…