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• Cannot Install Programs on Virtual PC

  A fix for Virtual PC installs hanging forever after joining a domain: uninstall the Virtual Machine Additions, install your app, then reinstall them.

  Donn Felker – February 2, 2009

• MNGroups

  I started MNGroups, a single Google Group uniting the Twin Cities' scattered tech meetups so we can collaborate across community lines.

  Donn Felker – January 30, 2009

• Introducing Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer

  Launching Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer, a casual no-RSVP happy hour where technologists on any stack show up to a local pub and talk shop.

  Donn Felker – January 28, 2009

• My ReSharper Templates

  Free ReSharper live templates and file templates for NUnit tests and Rhino Mocks, built on Bellware's snippets plus my own additions. Downloadable.

  Donn Felker – January 24, 2009

• New Dime Cast up

  I’ve got another Dime Cast up here. The theme of this Dime Cast is Learning how to consume a WCF Service. View the Dime Cast here.

  Donn Felker – January 22, 2009

• PowerShell TFS WorkSpace Initialization Script

  A PowerShell script that automates TFS workspace setup for new developers, so they don't have to learn workspace mapping by trial and error.

  Donn Felker – January 22, 2009

• ASP.NET MVC Managed Requests

  Fixing SessionStateTempDataProvider requires SessionState to be enabled in ASP.NET MVC: add runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests to your config.

  Donn Felker – January 14, 2009

• NAnt: SdkInstallRoot has not been set

  Fix the NAnt build error where sdkInstallRoot has not been set by pointing nant.exe.config at the correct Windows SDK registry key instead.

  Donn Felker – January 14, 2009

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  Using Prisms (CompositeWPF) EventAggregator

  A walkthrough of Prism's EventAggregator pattern, how it decouples publishers and subscribers in WPF apps without bubbling events through every layer.

  Donn Felker – January 6, 2009

• Stereotyping Social-Network Users

  A tongue-in-cheek field guide to social network user types - the Weekday Warrior, the Extremist, the Politician, and more patterns I've noticed.

  Donn Felker – January 2, 2009

• Update to Store Locator Project

  Fixed a rookie JavaScript bug in my open source Store Locator project after learning real companies were quietly using it in production.

  Donn Felker – December 31, 2008

• New Dime Cast: Migrating from .asmx web services to WCF web services

  New DimeCast screencast walks through migrating an old ASMX web service over to a modern WCF web service, covering the why and the how.

  Donn Felker – December 30, 2008