Poster: LINQ queries explained

My fellow VSTS MVP Marcel de Vries published a great poster explaining the various options a developer has when using the powerful LINQ queries.

Download poster at: http://www.infosupport.com/linq

Disabling time synchronization in VMware

Sometimes it might be useful to set the date and time in a virtual machine explicitly. Therefore you need to turn of the automatic time synchronization with the host system.

To do so set the following options in the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx) using your favorite editor:

tools.syncTime = FALSE
time.synchronize.continue = FALSE
time.synchronize.restore = FALSE
time.synchronize.resume.disk = FALSE
time.synchronize.shrink = FALSE
time.synchronize.tools.startup = FALSE

Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/AJGB/archive/2006/10/19/94498.aspx

For more info see:
Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines

P.S. For disabling the time synchronization with Virtual PC 2007 see:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2007/11/28/disabling-time-synchronization-under-virtual-pc-2007.aspx

Windows requires activation after cloning a VM

Even if your base image is activated correctly the clones created from it might require an activation.

A simple workaround is to force VMware to generate a new MAC address. This will probably cause Windows to ask you to re-activate your base image. Once this is done you can clone it without having to re-activate it again.

Turn off beep sound in virtual machine

As described here:

sc config beep start= disabled

Converting Virtual PC virtual machines to VMware

The most reliable way to convert your Virtual PC/Virtual Server/Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware is to use the "VMware vCenter Converter" (available free of charge).

The History of Microsoft

See how it all started on Channel 9…

• The History of Microsoft - 1975
• The History of Microsoft – 1976
• The History of Microsoft – 1977
• to be continued

You can subscribe to this episode here.

Unable to print or preview in Windows Vista

Problem description:

When trying to print or print preview a page in Internet Explorer you receive an permission error about the Temp\Low folder.

Solution:

Equipped with administrative privileges change the integrity level of the "Low" subfolder %Temp% to low (as explained here):

icacls Low /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Unable to save to favorites folder in Windows Vista (Unspecified Error in IE7)

Problem description:

When attempting to add a favorite in Internet Explorer you receive an "Unspecified Error".

Solution:

Equipped with administrative privileges change the integrity level of your favorites folder to low (as explained here) by typing:

icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager: what's the user name to log on?

After launching Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager it asks you for enter a username and password combination.

What it expects is the username and password of a Windows account with administrative privileges.

Welcome to my new Treasury

After over 5 years I really had to leave dotnetjunkies for several reasons and moved my "Treasury" to this new and beautiful place.
I now maintain three blogs – you can reach them consistently at www.nenoloje.de/blogs:

• Neno Loje's Treasury [RSS]
  My primary weblog about diverse topics that make the life of a developer easier: .NET, ClickOnce deployment and Windows Development. In English.
  
• TFS & Visual Studio ALM Blog [RSS]
  My technical blog exclusively about Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform: Visual Studio (VS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). In English.
  
• Neno Loje’s Futterkiste [RSS]
  My German language blog with information specific to the German-speaking area, like local events and conferences.

Enjoy reading!

ERROR: Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer

When trying to switch to "Explorer View" or open a SharePoint document library in Windows Explorer and receive the following error message:

How to fix

Install: Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306)

More information: KB907306

Shortcuts for Full Screen Mode

Full screen, please! But how? Well, it depends...

Program	Shortcut
Remote Desktop Terminal Services Client Hyper-V VM Connection	[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Break]
Visual Studio	[Shift]+[Alt]+[Enter]
Internet Explorer & Windows Explorer	F11
Windows Media Player	[Alt]+Enter or F11
VMware Workstation	[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Enter]

Tip: A process using a lot CPU time? Suspend it.

Did you know that you can suspend a running process temporarily so you can focus on something different and resume it later, so that it doesn't steel your CPU time while you are working on something else?

You can use Process Explorer (by sysinternals) to suspend and resume processes easily.

Download or run online: Process Explorer

[Remote Desktop] Quickly copying files when using Remote Desktop

  Did you know that you can copy files from:

• a remote computer to your local computer or
• a remote computer to another remote computer

using Remote Desktop (Windows XP or higher) by simple right-clicking the file and selecting Copy and then selecting Paste on your local machine/the other remote computer?

From the Microsoft KB article 300698:

Copy and Paste Files

You can copy and paste the files between the remote session and local computer, or vice-versa, by using the Copy and Paste feature.

Read the full article at: TechNet

Caution: You should not use the clipboard while a file is being copies using this method, otherwise the file transfer will be cancelled immediately. Additionally you should know that this is not a very fast way to copy large files over the network.

Undelete Files with the free Undelete Plus

You urgently need a tool to undelete files you accidentally deleted?

I had the situation and was quite happy with Undelete Plus. It's free and you don't need to install it.