Developer OneNote

Month: April 2010

OneNote Is Unable To Start

You might see OneNote failed to start with following error message displayed

OneNote is unable to start. This may be caused by insufficient hard drive space or by insufficient write permissions for OneNote’s notebook cache files in you user setting folder. Try to delete any unnecessary files from your computer and then try starting OneNote again. If this message persists, contact your system administrator. Error code: 0x45D
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April 16, 2010
Will the screen saver disrupt my presentation

If you give presentation to customers you might have the question like will the screen saver disrupt my presentation by locking my laptop screen.

The answer is NO, if the PowerPoint presentation file is opened in full screen Side Show mode, screen save will never get trigged. However, it must be Side Show mode. If you have presentation opened in edit mode, and the laptop is idle longer than screen save timeout threshold, screen save will still get triggered and lock the screen.

April 16, 2010
Final Visual Studio 2010 available for download

Visual Studio 2010, the best version of Visual Studio ever, is now available for download in Microsoft download center. The build number for RTM VS2010 and CLR4 is 4.0.30319.1.

Here is link for free trial

Visual Studio 2010 Professional

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Training Resources

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course

Moving to Visual Studio 2010 e-Book

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April 13, 2010
Difference between Chrome Versions
People might get confused what is the difference between Chrome channels. According to http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
- Stable channel. Everyone is on the Stable channel when they first install Google Chrome. The Stable channel is updated with features and fixes once they have been thoroughly tested in the Beta channel. If you want a rock solid browser but don’t need the latest features, the Stable channel is for you.
- Beta channel. People who like to use and help refine the latest features subscribe to the Beta channel. Every month or so, we promote stable and complete features from the Dev channel to the Beta channel. The Beta channel is more stable than Dev, but may lack the polish one expects from a finished product. If you’re writing extensions, you need to use this channel or the Dev channel.
- Dev channel. This developer preview channel is where ideas get tested (and sometimes fail). The Dev channel can be very unstable at times, and new features usually require some manual configuration to be enabled. Still, simply using Dev channel releases is an easy (practically zero-effort) way for anyone to help improve Google Chrome.
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April 12, 2010
MSI and WIX How to Tutorials
WiX tutorial
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/

Introducing WiX
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/19/wix.html

WiX Tutorial – Steps to Create an Installer MSI with WiX
http://www.dalun.com/wix/01.09.2005.htm

Windows Installer Guide from Microsoft MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/windows_installer_guide.asp

General WiX Documentation and Help
- Windows Installer XML (WiX) v3.0 Help
  http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/main.htm
- WiXUI dialog library guide
  http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/WixUI_dialog_library.htm
April 11, 2010
Manage Hyper-V remotely from windows 7
Once Hyper-V role is enabled on windows server 2008/R2, Hyper-V manager will be installed automatically. However, you don’t need to log on to Hyper-V host server to use Hyper-V manager. Instead, you can manage Hyper-V machines remotely from you Win7 desktop.

To manage Hyper-V machines remotely from Win 7, following these steps:
1. Install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7, download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en
2. Go to Start > Control panel Under Programs, click on Get programs
3. On the left panel, click on Turn Windows feature on or off
4. On the feature list, expand Remote Server Administration roles > Role Administration Tools, mark Hyper-V Tools, then click OK
5. Go to Administrative tools > Hyper-V Manager, launch it
6. Now you can manage Hyper-V virtual machines from your windows 7 box. (more…)
April 6, 2010
Microsoft Free SEO Toolkit

Microsoft’s free SEO Toolkit. The SEO Toolkit provides detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions to help improve the relevance of your website in search results.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/seo

Note: this toolkit can only run on Vista and Windows 7 (more…)

April 1, 2010
WordPress 3.0 Features

WordPress 3.0 has a few great new features and improvement.

Ability to Choose Username When Installing WordPress

In previous version WordPress, default username for Admin is hard coded as admin. In WordPress 3.0, this secure hole is fixed, default user name can be customized when you install WordPress.

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April 1, 2010