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  • Revelations on Windows 8

    Today the //BUILD/Windows conference started with a day full of main sessions. A two and a half hour keynote followed by three “Big Picture” sessions after lunch introduced all present to the new Windows 8 OS and platform. Personally, I am still catching my breath over the amazing amount of information...
    Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 09-14-2011
    Filed under: Conferences, Windows OS
  • Getting ready to unwrap the big picture at BUILD

    Tomorrow is the first day of the //BUILD/Windows conference. BUILD is a highly anticipated conference and expectations are equally high. I thought it would be good to put some of my thoughts on my blog before the conference actually started. You see, BUILD is special in a way that most conference of...
    Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 09-13-2011
    Filed under: Conferences, Windows OS
  • Extracting files from an MSI package

    Reminder to self, as I have searched for this too many times: How to extract files from an MSI file without actually installing it: msiexec /a c:\downloads\WCFRestStarterKit.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\RESTStarterKit Run this from an elevated command prompt. The target directory does not have to be created...
    Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 06-17-2010
    Filed under: Windows OS, Tools and Utilities
  • Quick tip on Visual Studio 2008 and UAC

    On a Windows Vista (and presumably Windows Server 2008) that has User Account Control (UAC) enabled you are no longer able to drag and drop files from Windows Explorer into your VS solution. I always used this to quickly add files to a project. What a bummer. There are 2 workarounds: Copy or move the...
    Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 02-16-2009
    Filed under: Windows OS, Visual Studio 2008
  • Running classic ASP on IIS 7

    It's not really difficult to run classic ASP on Internet Information Server 7, but there are some bumps down the road. Here's a little help to get you started: First of all, check whether you have the Windows feature for ASP installed. Go to Programs and Features in Control Panel and click Turn Windows...
    Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 02-18-2008
    Filed under: Windows OS, ASP, IIS 7
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