Scattered Notes
Stefano Mapelli's weblog
Migrating from WF 3.0/3.5 to WF 4.0
A full set of documents have been released at the beginning of the year to suggest migration...
Author: esseemme Date: 09/27/2010
Prevent date/time synchronization in a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine
If you need to prevent date and time synchronization between a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine and...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/24/2010
Claims-Based Identity and Access Control
Interested in learning about claim-based identity and how you can leverage it to implement access...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/02/2010
Mapping of Microsoft Office 2003 toolbar and menu functions to Microsoft Office 2010
Moving from the Microsoft Office 2003 suite to the latest Microsoft Office 2010? Having a hard time...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/02/2010
Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4
If you need the very latest Windows SDK, you can get the entire ISO file here. If you prefer the web...
Author: esseemme Date: 07/08/2010
Download the C# 4.0 Language Specification
Time to update your knowledge of the C# language! :-)Get your copy of the C# 4.0 Language...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/29/2010
Ramp up your development skills
Ramp Up is an interesting initiative I discovered today that may help you quickly build your...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/13/2010
MSDN Magazine digital edition now in PDF format
Last year I noticed that the MSDN site was getting behind in providing the CHM (compiled HTML)...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/13/2010
Get ready for Visual Studio 2010!
Final release of Visual Studio 2010 is getting near and you need to get ready for it! :-)First of...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/13/2010
TechNet Chopsticks videos
Microsoft Belux (Belgium) is hosting lots of what I think to be very interesting TechNet videos....
Author: esseemme Date: 04/01/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 for Developers Training Kit
An updated version of the SQL Server 2008 R2 development training kit with over 100MB of videos,...
Author: esseemme Date: 02/28/2010
Development material for Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
For all devs interested in the very latest Microsoft software development technologies there are two...
Author: esseemme Date: 01/26/2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual machines
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual machines are available...
Author: esseemme Date: 12/27/2009
"Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2009" presentations and recordings
Videos and presentations of the 19 technical sessions that took place in May 09 in London during the...
Author: esseemme Date: 12/26/2009
BizTalk project fails at being created
It seems that Visual Studio 2008 updates may break BizTalk projects creation. To fix this situation...
Author: esseemme Date: 11/17/2009
Evaluate Biztalk 2009
If you are in the process of evaluating the Biztalk 2009 (the Microsoft platform for EAI, B2B and...
Author: esseemme Date: 10/31/2009
Run Wireshark on Windows 7 x64
Today I tried installing the latest version of Wireshark (version 1.2.1 rev 29141) on my Windows 7...
Author: esseemme Date: 09/11/2009
Free ebook on Microsoft virtualization technologies
Microsoft is offering for free "Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, 2nd edition", a...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/03/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit
Over 400MB of hands-on-labs, demos and presentations in the "Windows Server 2008 R2 developer...
Author: esseemme Date: 07/31/2009
"Threading in C#" free ebook
You can get a pretty much complete ebook on threading using the C# language from here (the link for...
Author: esseemme Date: 05/14/2009
Free "Illustrated C# 2008" ebook
RedGate is offering for free download of the ebook "Illustrated C# 2008" (730 pages) from Apress. Go...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/08/2009
All MIX09 videos available online
MIX is the Microsoft conference for designers and developers who build innovative web sites. At MIX,...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/01/2009
"Jit n Run" free ebook on ASP.NET development
RedGate (the well known software house that makes a few exceptional SQL Server tools) has published...
Author: esseemme Date: 03/26/2009
.NET Framework: adding a separator to a context menu
To add a separator menu item to a context menu in a .NET Framework application, you simply have to...
Author: esseemme Date: 03/25/2009
Install the loopback network adapter on Windows 7
To install the Loopback Network Adapter you need to run the "Add Hardware Wizard". However control...
Author: esseemme Date: 02/26/2009
14 lessons to get you started in C# and .NET
On programmersheaven.com you can download a 338 pages long PDF ebook that can help you get started...
Author: esseemme Date: 02/26/2009
Keyboard, mouse, webcam and headset drivers for Windows 7
If you are trying out Windows 7 you might want to download specific keyboard, mouse, webcam and...
Author: esseemme Date: 02/14/2009
How to download the .NET Framework's source code
Microsoft's .NET Framework's source code can be downloaded via Visual Studio 2008 on a per-need...
Author: esseemme Date: 01/14/2009
Want to learn C#?
If you are looking for a quick ebook to introduce you to the C# programming language you might want...
Author: esseemme Date: 01/10/2009
Application Architecture Pocket Guides from Patterns & Practices
The Patterns & Practices team has recently released 4 application architecture pocket guides...
Author: esseemme Date: 12/10/2008
PDC 2008 session videos online on Channel 9
If you could not make it to PDC 2008 (Professional Developers Conference held in October 27-30 in...
Author: esseemme Date: 11/04/2008
Seeing 4GB of memory on 32-bit Windows Server 2003
I have been using Windows Server 2003 standard edition as a workstation OS on my laptop for sometime...
Author: esseemme Date: 10/11/2008
"TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows" free ebook updated to Windows Server 2008
The "TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows" ebook (560 pages) updated to cover Microsoft's...
Author: esseemme Date: 10/06/2008
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V white papers and ppts
There is lately a growing number of white papers and presentations available on Windows Server...
Author: esseemme Date: 10/05/2008
SQL Server 2005/2008 driver for PHP
If you are into writing PHP websites, you should know that you can use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or...
Author: esseemme Date: 09/21/2008
Guide to improve Windows Vista performance
Microsoft has released a 14 pages long guide to help improve performance of the Windows Vista...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/17/2008
Videos and slides of .NET developer events in the UK
Video registrations of .NET developer events that have taken place in various cities in the UK can...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/15/2008
FrontPage Server Extensions on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008?
If you need them go and download the installer here.
Author: esseemme Date: 08/13/2008
Learn Microsoft Expression products
If you want to learn any of the products that go under the Microsoft Expression umbrella, you should...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/13/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 here and and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 here. If...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/12/2008
SQL Server 2008 is RTM ... finally!
SQL Server 2008 is finally available in its RTM release. That is a great news. The bad news is that...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/07/2008
VS2008 Integration Services Project error: Failed to save package file .... with error 0x8002801D "Library not registered."
If when creating a Visual Studio 2008 project of type "Integration Services Project" you get a...
Author: esseemme Date: 08/05/2008
BigInteger in .NET
For a small personal project I've had to look for an implementation of a big integer, a class...
Author: esseemme Date: 07/08/2008
Starting out with SharePoint development
If you are starting out with WSS/MOSS development, as I am, you might be interested in downloading...
Author: esseemme Date: 06/27/2008
Newbie to coding? Want to do some .NET development?
If you are starting out with writing code and want to try your hand at .NET development, the first...
Author: esseemme Date: 06/15/2008
VC++ CRT vs OS CRT
Read this excellent blog post about how to link the OS CRT (C Runtime Library) instead of the ever...
Author: esseemme Date: 05/31/2008
Enterprise Library gets to 4.0!
Enterprise Library in its 4th edition is now available for download here. This is the final version...
Author: esseemme Date: 05/16/2008
Windows command reference ebook
For anyone who frequently uses Windows shell commands, this ebook will probably become a precious...
Author: esseemme Date: 04/10/2008
Office Open XML file format made it to become an ISO standard
Read the story here.
Author: esseemme Date: 04/02/2008
Unsplitting a VPC virtual hard disk
As we know files on FAT32 file systems can't go beyond 4GB in size. This will, for example, cause...
Author: esseemme Date: 03/13/2008