PDC Bloggers Bill Evjen

What to Uninstall Before Installing Visual Studio 2010

Bill Evjen — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:04:26 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...you will then come to a point where you can select the option to Uninstall the entire application. If you have installed the Silverlight 4 RC stuff, then you are also going to want to uninstall this and you are also going to want to uninstall the “Update for Visual Studio 2010 (KB976272)” before..."

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If You Have Community Ground Swell You Can Own the Space

Bill Evjen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:27:33 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...The Microsoft mobile solution...Will Microsoft succeed? This is tough to say... A community fight will occur over using ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC that will cause Microsoft to take some steps back in their messages...they cannot send Scott Guthrie to speak in every country in the world...killing him won’t help the company..."

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PDC09 About Touching 3 Screens: Mobile, PC and TV-Game

Bill Evjen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:35:03 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...I see why Microsoft did this. They just introduced all the cool features that you can do with the new Windows 7 APIs including multitouch and more. Most developers don’t even have computers to deal with this or some of the other capabilities. If Microsoft really wants development in this space..."

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PDC09 A Look Into a Data Center Container

Bill Evjen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:29:00 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "... Microsoft is building two rather significant data centers in each region of the world. Here is a video of the one in Chicago and some photos on one of the tours that someone took there. Microsoft, for PDC 2009, wanted to show the development community what these data centers were like and"

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Microsoft PDC 2009 Main Messages

Bill Evjen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:35:39 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "....This is a great message from Microsoft. They are going to dedicate themselves to making a singular experience in building our applications in these different types of containers and help us get the most out of the code that we develop. I love this message and it is something I really wanted to hear from them. The other message is quite shocking. Ray Ozzie pointed out that..."

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PDC 2009 Some Things That Are Different

Bill Evjen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:29:28 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...Obviously it has something to do with the economy...PDC is cut down from four days to three. Other things that are different include things like now, no breakfast served, there is no agenda’s printed and put with our badges, no more hard drives distributed, no backpacks provided, etc. I’m not..."

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Audio Junkie Cool Tool

Bill Evjen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:32:15 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...I have never been 100% happy with the standard Windows Media Player...I didn’t like how it organized my music and it didn’t provide much information on what was being played...One day I found foobar2000...you also can get a ton of information on what you are playing...The great thing also is that this player supports a ton of audio formats including..."

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Add Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets to Your Desktop

Bill Evjen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:50:11 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...it is now easier than before to build gadgets and it is a little more in the end user’s face in using them in the world’s most popular OS. Windows 7 makes it very easy to add some Microsoft Desktop Gadgets to your desktop. To add some of the already installed...you simple right-click on the desktop and you will find the option..."

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Installing Windows 7 RTM First Impressions

Bill Evjen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:04:51 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...So, after that brief hiccup, the install worked just fine...I didn’t have to install not even one driver myself. The install process found..."

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Installing Windows 7 RTM First Impressions

Bill Evjen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:46:52 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...So, after that brief hiccup, the install worked just fine...I didn’t have to install not even one driver myself. The install process found..."

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Risking the Competitive Edge by Staying on Windows XP

Bill Evjen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:57:28 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...It was recently reported in the press that big business would be waiting......the companies that don’t make the move in the next year are going to be at risk of entering a stagnant plane of thought within their organization. The new OS and Office suite will bring..."

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Zune HD Can Now Compete with ITouch

Bill Evjen — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:00:58 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...The one thing that sounds pretty exciting with the new Zune HD is the HD radio built into it. The older Zunes also have radio in them and it is nice feature to have – but now with HD radio..."

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Windows 7 RC is Free for a Limited Time

Bill Evjen — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:55:18 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...the incredible thing is that Microsoft has provided this operating system (OS) for free to the entire world...Some of the first things you will notice...You will find that the Quick Launch toolbar is now gone and this new toolbar is meant to replace the previous...You can then open multiple versions..."

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Why Windows 7 Final Release Will Come Soon

Bill Evjen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:57:37 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...The first is that Microsoft has surely taken a beating on Windows Vista – its early compatibility problems and the on-going performance issues that Vista was giving end users. Because of this, Microsoft as a company cannot afford to wait much longer and let other OS venders take market share from them. You will notice that Microsoft seems to want to put this OS release behind them and get to talking again about..."

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Why We Need a Revolution in Office

Bill Evjen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:48:51 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...what we are missing – and greatly missing – is an Office platform that is easy for the developer to work against.When you look at the types of applications that you are able to build, you typically build either web applications or thick-client applications using Windows Forms or WPF... ...what we are missing – and greatly missing – is an Office platform that is easy for the developer to work against. When you look at the types of applications that you are able to build, you typically build either web applications or thick-client applications using Windows Forms or WPF...What we need is a revolution in Office. Excel can be one of the most powerful clients..."

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Cisco VPN Works on Windows 7

Bill Evjen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:04:45 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...I am now on Windows 7 on my main machine (32-bit) and you can get the Cisco VPN software running quite easily now...used version 5.0.04.0300. Probably not one of the latest ones – but this one works and was one that was mentioned to be one of the more stable versions. I brought the setup.exe file for this..."

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Comparing the Kindle and eReader

Bill Evjen — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:28:39 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "... best part of the E Ink screen is that it is not like any display device you have ever seen. It is clear and easy to read things like text..is more like an old Etch-a-Sketch. It draws a screen of images or words...The ability to work easily with PDFs was one of the features that I was looking for..."

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How to Make Google Chrome Work on Windows 7

Bill Evjen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:57:28 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "I was even more frustrated. The IE that came installed on Windows 7 was a less than superior IE than what I could download off of the Microsoft site. I tried to install the latest IE 8 version from the Microsoft site onto Windows 7, but the installer would not allow that install to occur as it didn’t recognize the operating system of all things...To make Google Chrome work on Windows 7..."

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IE8 Issues on Windows 7

Bill Evjen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:11:24 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...I am having issues with the IE on Windows 7. It doesn’t work so well on my Intranet...my biggest pain is that the Delicious IE toolbar doesn’t install. It does install on Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on my XP machine as well as a Vista machine...To fix this..."

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Windows 7 Install Experience on Bare Metal Machine

Bill Evjen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:49:29 GMT

Bill Evjen writes "...When I installed Windows 7, it immediately found all my drivers for the two computers that I installed it on. There wasn’t a single driver problem that I experienced with the install...With that said, there were some things that didn’t install so well..."

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