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February 2007 Entries

Register For Beta Exam 71-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server


Exam 70-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server counts as credit towards the following certification. •MCTS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Registration begins: February 1, 2007 Beta exam period runs: February 20, 2007 - March 5, 2007

posted @ Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:45 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Microsoft Windows Visual Studio Team System ]


Beta Exam 71-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server


Well, its study time again I have managed to get myself onto the 70-510: Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server beta certification, and I now have an exam date of the 27th February 2007. I have not studies since Uni ;). Alas there are no specific courses or study material, but I asked someone at Microsoft...

posted @ Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:07 AM | Feedback (4) | Filed Under [ Visual Studio Team System ]


VS2005 - Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1


 

If you get the following error publishing a project,


Error    32    SignTool reported an error SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 or higher. Please copy the latest version of CAPICOM.dll into the directory that contains SignTool.exe. If CAPICOM.dll exists, you may not have proper permissions to install CAPICOM.
Follow these steps

  1. Download a self-extracting zip file from here.
  2. Extract capicom.dll from this zip file 
  3. Copy Paste capicom.dll into your "C:/windows/system32" directory 
  4. click Start -> Run and type "REGSVR32 capicom.dll" and press OK 
  5. You should now be able to publish via ClickOnce.

 

 

 

posted @ Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:09 PM | Feedback (13) | Filed Under [ Microsoft .NET Framework ]


Some thoughts on .NET 3.0 from LinkedIn


There is no reason why you should not use .NET 3.0 on new projects. The only reason to upgrade .NET 2.0 projects would be to simplify support and increase flexibility if you are using web services, remoting, message queuing, workflow or single-sign-on. Upgrading to .NET 3.0 is not really the way to think about it as you are still using the .NET 2.0 runtime. When ‘Orcas’ is released so will .NET 3.5 which will bring a new version of the CLR as well. This will not be the same product and even Vist

posted @ Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:37 PM | Feedback (4) | Filed Under [ Microsoft .NET Framework Microsoft Windows ]


Windows Mobile Device Center


Well, its about time: The WMDC is out of beta and is available to download. WMDC is the replacement for ActiveSync on Vista and I would have expected it to be available for the business release of Vista. Up until now users have had to make do with the beta version that was originally released for Vista RC1, and I can tell you it was a little flaky in places. Not anything really problematic, just the usual beta unfinishedness, though it was usable.

posted @ Friday, February 02, 2007 8:14 AM | Feedback (1) | Filed Under [ Windows Mobile Microsoft Windows ]