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Ten Cool Visual Studio 2010 Features

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I’ve attended an event late March in Glasgow where Scott Guthrie, Microsoft vice president showed off some of the new fewatures of Visual Studio 2010. Based on this talk and my experience using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the Release Candidate I’ve collected the ten most useful new features of this edition. These are:

Pinning [...]

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Teamwork isn’t an easy sport: the bigger the team the harder it gets. If the goals/milestones are set clear, one person will probably complete the project just fine. If it’s a team of two they’ll probably split up the work, track each other progress and finish in time. If its one of three, four or [...]

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A great disk storage usage monitoring tool

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

It’s quite a common problem that disk space shrinks dramatically and something has to be deleted. But what are those big files taking up the free space? With Windows you simply need some kind of tool to get a picture of disk usage. And the best tool I’ve found to do the job so far [...]

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Monitoring website load

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Over the weekend I’ve been in charge of monitoring one of our bigger portals which consists a database server (running SQL Server 2005) and multiple web servers (running IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET) connecting to it. The architecture of the system is the following:

I’ve chosen a really simple - and at first glance efficient - way [...]

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