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Buenas, todavía no he tenido la suerte de participar en ningún proyecto donde pueda trabajar codo a codo con expertos en interfaz de usuario que utilicen la suite de productos Microsoft Expression. Sin embargo, sobre lo pocon que conozco al respecto,...

  Personally I have to say, it is better to be known as a Master than an Architect :-) This certification is not for everyone and is not just a level above MCDBA. It is also not for the faint hearted, This is a course that does test you, 7 days...

As a technical interviewer at Avanade, when I complete the technical portion of the interview, one of the most common questions that I get from prospective consultants is “What is it really like as a consultant? What is your day like?” Sometimes...

The long awaited to refresh to the Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor in Windows Server 2008 has finally released!  Although it came more than the expected 180 days after Windows Server 2008 RTM'd, my progression from a beta to RC to the RTM version...

I spent the bulk of yesterday and a good chunk of this morning trying out a new tool from Acronics called "true image". It is primarily a backup utility however it has this cool feature that allows you to convert the backup to a VHD/VMK..Two step P2V...

There is one main advantage of TFS over HP QC and it is reporting capability. This feature alone is enough not to use HP QC while making a selection for Project Management Tool.  HP QC has a web base configurable report that is very limited in...

Today I received an e-mail from MS inviting me to attend a focus group on Friday July 25th 2008 covering the Hyper-V Exam (70-452). I don´t think that I can tell you that much about the content (-> NDA) but expect some photos...

the new and updated version of VMRCplus os available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=80ADC08C-BFC6-4C3A-B4F1-772F550AE791&displaylang=en ...

Buenas hace unos días en la presentación de Software Factories, se me “reseteó” el IDE de Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 y perdí muchas opciones con las que trabajo frecuentemente. Entre ellas la aplicación para generar GUIDs. Ayer el amigo David desde...

During this week I had a problem with page layouts installation via features.  In the past, I created a lot of features to install page layouts or to do some operations, but for the first time I had a strange error using some page layouts. Creating...

  Getting things done is hot these days. People have so much things to do, that time management is becoming extremely important in order to deal with your time as good as possible. Getting things done is more like, getting 'all' those things done....

  For people trying to install the MSDN version of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on a Windows Server 2008, please use the SP1 (trial) version download from the Microsoft download site. The msdn version (without SP1) has an incompatibility...

This is the one of my Preparing for Certification series of experience blogs.  One of the fortunate things of working in consulting and subsequently moving into a role where I am assisting others to prepare for consulting themselves is the opportunity...

Buenas, hace unos días en el evento de MadNug, comentábamos con Luis algunas de las capacidades y mejoras que se han incluido en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Entre ellas, y cuando comenzamos a hablar de las reglas de análisis de código, llegamos a...

En más de una ocasión hemos tenido que depurar de una forma un tanto compleja, o al menos no de la forma habitual, es decir ni depurando directamente desde Visual Studio ni atachando procesos, ¡seguro que si!  Más concretamente, y para el caso que...

Hace unas semanas hablaba con un compañero acerca de como implementar una aplicación con acceso  a MSMQ y tras una larga discusión, en un intento de conseguir pensar en el mejor camino de lograrlo, pensé en hacerlo con WCF, y,  ¿Que mejor...

Buenas, si has editado un proyecto de compilación de Team Foundation Server (el clásico TFSBuild.proj) conocerás el infierno que significa el paso a paso para editar los mismos. En primer lugar hay que hacer un Get Latest Version de la carpeta Team...

Today I upgraded http://blogs.sqlxml.org to Community Server 2008. Previously it was running Community Server 2.1, so since I missed a few versions the upgrade was not quite as simple as it could have been. However, it went pretty well overall I think....

Hi The time has come, I get to go to Redmond! I will be attending the new Windows 2008 Master program. .. No holiday trip though, the course runs everyday of the week (including weekends) starting at 8AM with just one day off (probably to catch...

On my Windows Server 2008 laptop, if I open Google Maps in the browser this is what I get: Everything is totally scrambled.  It used to work just fine in IE8, but now it is completely broken. I've tried turning Emulate IE7 on and off, clearing...

So the problem: All mailboxes of the users are migrated to a central Exchange server, comming from various Exchange 5.5/2003/2003 mailservers (contact me if you want to know how :) ) . and mailboxes where cloned.. now the client needs to be pointed to...

Lo scopo di questo post è quello di indirizzare la realizzazione dei form di raccolta dati fruibili da utenti internet anonimi che fanno browsing di siti ospitati su SPS. Degli esempi di form possono essere Contact Us, Survey, Pool, Blog...

Buenas, hace unos meses expliqué cómo desbloquear archivos tomados por otra persona en TFS utilizando sentencias de lineas de comandos. Si bien esta solución es viable, puede ser un poco tediosa cuando tienes que realizar muchas acciones de este...

Peter Provost just posted on Speeding Up Vista Boot Time: When you have a computer with a recent model CPU, chances are it's a dual-core CPU. Both Intel & AMD have been producing dual core CPU's for a few years now. By default, Windows Vista will...

Buenas, existen varias formas de averiguar el tamaño de una base de datos. Lo podemos hacer sumando datos con algún query contra los datos de sistema, visualizando las propiedades de la misma o sino de la siguiente manera; que para cerrar un viernes...