You know what…. As much as I like Vista, it is really getting on my nerves. Not only have I lost my multi-monitor support ( I used to run four monitors) but I was having the stupidest problem with Visual Studio. I was not able to Debug in Visual Studio. So, of course, I tried to download all the patches and upgrades to fix this seemingly ubiquitous problem. But none of this worked.

Turns out, you have to right click on Visual Studio and "run as administrator" to enable debugging in VS 2005 on Vista. What a crock… not to mention how many hours I spent trying to fix it. I should have Googled it from the beginning.

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As many of you know, Microsoft has decided to name WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere) Microsoft Silverlight. It is a pretty cool name, but what is really cool is that it is named after one of my friends David Silverlight. Microsoft has launched a new campaign to reward community involvement. You can read about David's meeting with Bill and how the name came about here.

So I just found this cool new tool called ZoomIT. I have used others in the past to help when doing technical presentations but this one is great. It is simple and too the point and allows me to use a marking tool on my screen. ;)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/ZoomIt.mspx

Happy Presenting…

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So I just found this cool new tool called ZoomIT. I have used others in the past to help when doing technical presentations but this one is great. It is simple and too the point and allows me to use a marking tool on my screen. ;)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/ZoomIt.mspx

Happy Presenting…

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So I had a really annoying thing happen today with Word 2007. I was trying to work with a document and it would not let me select the text using my mouse.  Hmmmm... thats weird??  So of course I do what any sane person would do... Reboot ;)

Well that didnt fix it (I thought maybe it was a result of docking/undocking without a restart)

After digging around a bit (Googling) I found out I was not the only one to have this problem. I am still not sure what caused it but was able to find a fix.

****  Use at your own risk *******

. Close Word and Outlook
2. Start / Run and type regedit
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data
4. Rename this key.
5. Restart Word

That fixed the problem for me. Maybe when I have time, I will hunt down the actual reason for this but for now I need to use word ;)

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Here are the files for my Building an ASP.NET Website from End to End Talk Today.

Download Files

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Working with SQL output Caching and SQL 2005 is a little different then working with SQL 2000. Here is a great resource on how to set this up for your ASP.NET pages.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379559(VS.80).aspx#caching_topic2

I could not have said it better myself ;)

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Just in case anyone else is having problems getting debugging to work with Visual Studio 2005 and IIS7, here is a link that will fix your problem.

http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/28/Fix-problems-with-Visual-Studio-F5-debugging-of-ASP.NET-applications-on-IIS7-Vista.aspx

Thanks Mike….

Hey…. I made it into the Seattle PI newspaper. Pretty cool ;)

I was actually posting the Bill post below.

Pretty cool

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