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  • Outlook 2007 does the little things

    People give Microsoft Outlook a lot of crap, but if you're willing to think outside the box, you'll realize they did all the little things that make life easy. For instance, I rarely use the calendar popup for creating new appointments. No, if...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-26-2008
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  • SQL Server 2000 vs 2005 Lazy XML Validation

    Someone was looking to do quick-and-dirty validation of an Xml document inside a SQL Server procedure today. I assumed, and regretted, that he meant 2005, which would have looked like this: declare @xml1 xml declare @xml2 xml set @xml1 = '<Node1><Node2...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-19-2008
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  • Installation Guides

    This evening I completed my first split-server (or dual server as it's called in the guide) installation of Team Foundation Server 2008. I've installed TFS a few times now in single-server mode which is pretty crazy easy when you consider what...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-05-2008

  • Reason #29 for using Virtual Machines

    Today I blew up a server. Couldn't figure something out so I pushed every button I could find, flipped every switch and changed every setting. Nothing. So you know what I did, I deleted it, copied over a new Sysprepped Hard Drive and had a clean slate...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-05-2008
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  • Why Plain Old LINQ is so powerful

    Ian Griffiths posted a great example of how powerful and cool LINQ is when used in everyday code (it's not all about databases people). If you haven't started to learn how to incorporate this awesome toolset into your daily coding life, you're...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-31-2008
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  • Roadblock to Mocking Unit Tests

    I've been a faithful unit tester for a few years now. I may not do everything by the book (I think end-to-end unit tests are helpful), but I do get good coverage most of the time. That said, I've found myself unable to use any of the Mock frameworks...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-15-2008
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  • Video Conferencing Code of Conduct

    My team uses ooVoo for video conferencing our Daily Scrum. It's been great and very reliable. My only complaint is a lack of whiteboard or desktop sharing, but we've overcome these obstacles with other tools (see SharedView ). Over the months...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-07-2008

  • Setting up a Virtual PC Domain

    I do a lot of demos and Virtual PC 2007 is a mainstay in my arsenal for those demos. I've used VMWare Server (the free one) and it is very nice, but I run an x64 OS and VMWare had neglected to sign certain emulation drives which caused me enough headache...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-07-2008
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  • Did you know? Screenshots of Virtual PC Instances

    If you are running a VPC instance and you'd like to take a screenshot of something on the VPC, did you know you can do that without any photo editing hassle? Simply make sure you aren't "in" the VPC (hit the right Alt key if you are...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-07-2008
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  • Why WPF? This is why...

    http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome! I didn't see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff. I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-02-2008
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  • Visitor Pattern with Anonymous Methods

    I don't often have the need to implement the Visitor Pattern , but today I was that day. I looked around really quick for an example of how to do this with Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Methods , which seemed like they were the way to go. It may...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-02-2008
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  • Virtual Property C# Code Snippet

    For those of you who use NHibernate you may find this convenient, if you don't already have your own. Below is a C# code snippet for creating a public virtual property (code and file are both there). Just put it in your <Visual Studio 2005/2008>...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-01-2008
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  • Backup Your Site

    So last night I was restructuring my hosting infrastructure (read: moving folders around) and managed to delete the folder that hosts most of my sites. I got that nasty sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was able to get things back up, but my...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-01-2008

  • Jing

    http://jing.cromwellhaus.com/2008-07-01_1427.swf
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-01-2008
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  • NHibernate Thinks Your Enum is Dirty

    Get your head out of the gutter. It's important to look at your mapping files closely when trying to diagnose unexpected results. One of our developers had recently added two properties to our big honkin' CustomerOrder entity. These both happened...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 06-30-2008
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