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M-Audio with Windows 7 64bit and Camtasia
M-Audio MobilePre went silent after upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit. Here's the driver fix that got my Camtasia screencast audio working again.
2010.02.09Read →Medium Trust is a PITA
Medium Trust hosting turned a deleted controller reference into a 2.5-hour debugging nightmare. Why partial-trust .NET environments are a pain.
2010.01.31Read →I’ve Moved to WordPress
Why a die-hard .NET developer moved his blog to WordPress -- BlogEngine.NET kept breaking on RackSpace Cloud, and it was time to use what works.
2010.01.28Read →New DimeCast: Spark Partials Part 2
Part 2 of the Spark View Engine Partials DimeCast digs deeper into undocumented features for building clean, well organized views.
2010.01.28Read →MVC vs. WebForms. Stop It.
Stop the ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms flame war -- pick whatever ships working software fastest for the team and problem in front of you.
2010.01.22Read →GiveCamp 2010 A Success
Recapping the first Twin Cities GiveCamp, a weekend where volunteer developers built a free software solution for the Animal Humane Society.
2010.01.18Read →Shortcut: Including a Namespace
Without ReSharper, the Visual Studio shortcut to auto-include a missing namespace changed in VS2010: it's now Ctrl+. instead of Shift+Alt+F10.
2010.01.11Read →FIX: Failed to Generate a User Instance …
Fix for SQL Server's failed to generate a user instance error: run your IIS app pool under an account with rights to create the DB.
2010.01.10Read →New DimeCast Is Up: Spark Partials Part 1
New DimeCast, part 1 of 2, covers using Partials in the Spark View Engine to keep your views clean, compartmentalized, and organized.
2010.01.09Read →New DimeCast is Up
New DimeCast covers Named Content Areas in the Spark View Engine and how to use them to keep your view content organized and structured.
2009.12.29Read →Suspending Resharper 5
ReSharper 5 replaced the old disable toggle with Suspend - here's how to map it to a shortcut so huge generated files don't lock up your IDE.
2009.12.04Read →Android Tip: Watch Screen Sizes
With more Android phones shipping in different screen sizes and densities, test your app across all of them in the emulator, not just one.
2009.11.07Read →