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PowerShell V2 installed by default

January 19th, 2009
daniel.seiler

I’m quite sure you know Powershell – this incredibly fancy Shell that allows you to do things you couldn’t even imagine without :)

Version 1.1 of Powershell is now heavy on market – every new software from Microsoft must be powershell-enabled.

But the best thing is that Microsoft announced, Powershell will be installed by default on every copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. And as far as I know there will be support for Powershell in Windows Server Core.

Find the details here

 

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Windows 7

January 18th, 2009
stefan.jaeger

Since a week I am using Windows 7 and until now, I am really satisfied. Windows 7 feels much faster than Vista and it’s something like a fine tuned Vista.

 

Here you can read the most notable new features:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx

 

For further information, you will find here a good walkthrough:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/the-geek-blog/what-you-should-expect-from-the-windows-7-beta/

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Administration, Software

Delegate.DynamicInvoke for .NET Compact Framework

January 18th, 2009
Daniel Marbach

As you might already know I’m a certified windows mobile application developer. My speciality is hybrid application development for applications which target both the full .NET framework platform and also the mobile platform. Of course nobody wants to write the same code for each platform again so you have to come up with some tricks and solutions to overcome some limitations on the compact framework.

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Windows 7

January 17th, 2009
konrad.dambeck

It’s new, It’s hot, It’s Seven and It’s in Beta. The new version of the Microsoft Client Operating System. Since the 10 of January the beat version can be obtained from  www.microsoft.com. So lets take a short look to the new philosopher’s stone of Microsoft. In this little Video you can see the Installation of Windows Seven. Take a special look to the Hard drive Partitioning and to the new Homegroupe feature.

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NMock2 and the year 2009

January 17th, 2009
Urs Enzler

A short list of features that you can expect of NMock2 (.NET mocking framework) in one of the next releases:

  • mocking of classes
  • nonstrict mocks
  • detectation of swallowed exceptions
  • NMock2 ReSharper plugin for code completion
  • state full mocks

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmock2

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Welcome traveller

January 15th, 2009
Daniel Marbach

A warm welcome to all travellers throughout the web. Every long journey starts with a first step which leads the traveller in the right direction. The planetgeek.ch team is proud to present planetgeek.ch, the joint venture blog of several IT professionals. So this blog post is our first step into a new journey full of interesting topics, articles and news created and published by ourselfs.

We hope you enjoy your stay on planetgeek.ch and you’ll visit planetgeek.ch more than just once…

 

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