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Dual Monitor Support for Windows 7 RC Dell D630
Dual monitor support broken after installing Windows 7 RC on a Dell D630 laptop? Here's the exact video driver that fixes it for good.
2009.05.07Read →Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM
Castle Windsor 2.0 has finally RTM'd after years of running off the trunk build. A quick note on the release and where to grab the new bits.
2009.05.06Read →ASPNET MVC IIS7 and Bad Request
Custom 404 handling working in Cassini but IIS7 returns Bad Request instead? Unlock the httpErrors config section with appcmd to fix it.
2009.05.01Read →reMix Event in Minneapolis
A Minneapolis .NET/Silverlight user group meetup recapping MIX09 highlights, Silverlight 3, Expression Blend 3, plus a private Star Trek screening.
2009.05.01Read →NCover Hangs on Configuring Profiler…
NCover 1.5.8 hangs at Configuring Profiler on a large 53-project solution. The fix: switch to a licensed NCover 2 build for your CI server.
2009.04.22Read →Twin Cities Give Camp Postponed
It has been moved to November 14th and 15th of 2009. Why? Get the inside scoop here.
2009.04.21Read →Finding App_Data Programmatically
Server.MapPath breaks in unit tests. Here's the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData trick to find your ASP.NET MVC App_Data path anywhere.
2009.04.14Read →IoC Auto Registration & Setter Injection
How to inject a single config-driven property into one auto-registered controller in your IoC container without touching all the others.
2009.04.13Read →A Very Cool WCF Tool: WCFTestClient.exe
WcfTestClient.exe, bundled with Visual Studio, lets you invoke and test any WCF service endpoint without writing a client or generating a proxy.
2009.04.10Read →Sending & Receiving Large Files
Sending gigabytes of studio session files to collaborators without an FTP server: how I split, upload, and download large file batches.
2009.04.09Read →Featured in the Spaghetti Code Podcast
Donn talks mocking, testing, and day-to-day development practices in an interview on the Spaghetti Code Podcast with Microsoft's Jeff Brand.
2009.04.07Read →TCCC6 Video Interview
Twin Cities Code Camp organizer Jason Bock caught me on camera again for a video interview, plus a short clip from my session at the event.
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