VirtualBox 3.1 Adds New Features

I’ve been a fan (and user) of VirtualBox for several years now for desktop virtualization, so it’s great to keep seeing updates with exciting new features added.
The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox's potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.
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Dean Gou and Project Trident – .NET Rocks!

Another excellent podcast in which .NET Rocks! interviews Dean Gou about Project Trident. Project Trident was created for the real/near-time monitoring of thousands of oceanic sensors, in short it helps to crunch large quantities of data.
The boys talk to Dean Gou about Project Trident, a scientific workflow workbench. With Project Trident, you can author workflows [...]

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Wikis in the Workplace: A Practical Introduction

Decent overview of wikis at work, the ways in which they can be used, and an overview of typical concerns before implementing them with rebuttal.
The wiki crops up in many companies’ internal discussions about process improvements and efficient collaboration, but it is often shot down because so few people have exposure to good models of [...]

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Binding to Nested Properties

Ugh, grids. Seems like no matter what I want to do it ends up being more complicated than I’d like. Same goes for binding to nested properties…
My workmate Vijay is playing with WCF with a small project, and was asking me how to display a “nested” property of his business object in a DataGridView. I'll [...]

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Does Entity Framework/LINQ to SQL Implment ITypedList?

As I looked into the ITypedList interface I realized that perhaps everything I needed was already implemented as my business objects are generated by Linq-To-Sql? The answer turns out to be “sort-of”.
I’m taking a peek at both the Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL, and while I like the systems (and of course the LINQ [...]

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Binding Grids to Hierarchical Data Using the ITypedList Interface

This looks to be the solution to my current struggle with binding a collection of multiple types of related objects to a grid. (Or a Devexpress XtraGrid!)
Let’s start with an overview of the problem. If you want to create a grid-like user interface in an application, the easiest solution is to use the Microsoft DataGrid [...]

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EDMX Issues With Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to Beta 2

Scenario: Important meeting! Too much coffee! Bad lighting! In walks the killer! Wait…
No, that’s wrong. In walks Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with an inability to open an EDMX created with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, asking if I’d like to open the file in an XML editor. Ack! A previously printed paper diagram (for [...]

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ReportViewer Issue on IIS7 (After Migrating from IIS6)

After migrating a web application from IIS6 to IIS7 I experienced issues with the ReportViewer rendering incorrectly and incompletely. Google and Antonio Ooi to the rescue with an easy fix that required just a bit of web.config editing…
OTK Founder’s Column: Solving ReportViewer Rendering Issue on IIS7.

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Detecting Design-time in C#

Excellent, now I can detect Visual Studio design time anywhere in my code. (Make sure to read the comments, they provide a valuable correction.)
I came across interesting issue with one of our controls. I needed a different behavior during design-time and run-time. I was sure that .NET Framework has a nice solution for me, but [...]

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.NET 4.0 Beta Breaks WCF Activation

I suppose that’s why it’s a “beta” but I honestly only expected the .NET beta to break itself, not other applications. Here’s a better worded post than I feel like writing that describes the issue…
I’ve had a problem on my most recent Windows 7 install with getting the WCF activation to install. I kept getting [...]

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