I was running a Windows Home Server under VMWare Virtual Server as a guest machine. It had a dedicated 750GB hard disk to host a fixed size virtual disk spanning entire hard disk. These days I am migrating this and other virtual machine to the Hyper-V 2008 R2 free server and here is how I did migrate...
So I finally bought an Acer T230H multitouch enabled monitor that is supported by Windows 7. Actually, it is a dual touch but that’s enough. (for more on multitouch input devices for Windows 7 see my previous article ). On the good side it is a decent 1900x1080 monitor, not too expensive and multitouch...
Lately I’ve built a .net class library that supports COM as well. To make setup file I usually use Visual Studio’s Setup Project because I rarely do anything complicated during the installation ant Setup Project does the work fine for me. This time the setup was a bit different, more complicated, because...
There are some graphical problems, probably due to new Visual Studio’s WPF UI, when running shinny new Visual Studio 2010 beta under VMWare Workstation : things like menus disappearing, strange artifacts appearing, etc. Luckily the solution to this is very simple: make sure the virtual machine is turned...
I am doing a presentation on Visual Studio 2010/.net 4 parallel programming enhancements in the near future. Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 CTP and that’s fine. The problem was that the one and only release comes in the form of a VirtualPC image. This is not a problem by itself but it is a problem...
When you think that VMWare invented everything they push the innovations even further. These days I've finally accomplished Windows 7 beta download and since I don't have a spare computer right now I've though of installing it under Workstation 6.5. I have to admit that I didn't install...