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Microsoft is Thinking About Monetizing Developer Products!
Scott Dorman writes Absolutely not! While I understand the desire to monetize every "product" coming out of Microsoft, it sometimes ends up hurting the community as a whole...The other problem is that you then start sending mixed signals to the community. On one hand you say that running static code analysis is a best practice but you then restrict that capability to companies/developers willing to spend $10K+ on a Team System SKU. This makes it hard for the community to recognize the real value since it becomes seen as a restricted/ elite/ enterprise-only feature. It also makes it harder for us to talk about things...
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Aug 7 Thu
WS 2008 Hotfix Affects How Failover Cluster Works With Hyper-V
Jose Barreto writes "This hotfix includes a few key improvements on the way Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management makes your Hyper-V virtual machines highly available, including: Changes to the virtual machine view..."
Aug 6 Wed
How Data Compression Impacts Fragmentation
SQL Storage Engine Team writes "...the impact of data compression on fragmentation will depend on the schema, data distribution and the application. You can minimize fragmentation by using a lower fill factor but..."
Tips on Debugging Your Notes Data Sources
Stephen Walch writes "

If you are attempting to debug a migration job that is not doing what you expected it to do, this is a good way to look at the shape of the data you are feeding into our tool. If your “problem job” is specifying views or selection formulas, edit the data definition and specify the same options..."
Windows with C++: Asynchronous WinHTTP
MSDN Magazine writes "...how to use the Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) API for implementing HTTP clients in C++."
Why Would I Compile Dynamic Language Scripts?
Srivatsn Narayanan writes "...There are a lot of reasons to compile scripts into a binary form...For folks who don't want to distribute source code in plain text this provides one level of obfuscation. To that end, a function called CompileModules has been added to the clr module to compile scripts into executable IL. The signature of the function is:"
How to Examine the VS Exception Object From the Exception Assistant
Sara Ford writes "

There are a few options on the exception assistant that allow you to example what happened. The first of these is the View Details link at the bottom..."
How to Change the Ring on Communicator
Brettjo writes "If you want to change the default ring tone of Communicator then follow these steps: Take your favourite tune and turn it into a WAV file. Copy this WAV file to..."
Good to Know: GetObjectbyKey in E.F. vs Querying For a Single Entity
Julie Lerman writes "I thought that GetObjectbyKey and TryGetObjectbyKey only searches the cache for entities that already have been created. But...if it doesn't find the entity in the cache, it will create a query and go look in the database also...So depending on your needs, GetObjectbyKEy (and TryGetOBjectbyKey) is very efficient because it won't go to the database unless it has to, however..."
Use the Clean Install Approach With Firefox 3.1 Alpha Version
Harry Waldron writes "Developers who install this test version, should use the "clean install" approach, where Firefox is completely removed including the settings found in user profiles managed in the Documents and Settings area..."
More Info on New SQL Server 2008 Release
Teo Lachev writes "...if you have Visual Studio 2008 on your machine, you must wait for a few more days to get the official release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, which is a required prerequisite to integrate the SQL Server 2008 client tools with Visual Studio 2008."
EntitySplitting Not So Easy in Certain Cases
Matthieu Mezil writes "EntitySplitting allow you to map an entity on two or more tables...However, there is a special case. Imagine you have a table Employees: Id (PK), LastName, FirstName and a table Consultants: Id (PK and FK to Employees.Id)..."
Tip and Lessons Learned Using MOSS Site Collection Restore vs Content Database Restore
Ben Abler writes "...Our results from this test proved out the following:..I would recommend using content database restores instead of site collections restore (depending on what you're trying to do of course), but we've found it's a much faster and cleaner approach..."
Wizard to Create Unit Monitors for Operations Manager 2007
System Center Forum writes "Here is a File Sytems Management Pack that includes stateful monitoring for several items and includes custom object classes for monitored folders and shares, as well as a lovely diagram view."
Aug 5 Tue
Gotchas Combining MakeCab and MSBuild
Wouter van Vugt writes "If you didn't spot it… the DDF references the DLL to put in the solution package, but it is doing this using a hardcoded reference to the output of the debug configuration. If you now want to create a release build, you will forget about this, and accidentally package the debug build instead"
More Clouds at the PDC
Steve Clayton writes "Cloud Services now has 11 sessions scheduled – more than any other category. Here are the 11 sessions so far..."
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