May 2010 Entries

Connected Show #30 – You Don’t Find Skeet, Skeet Finds YOU!

In this episode, the man, the myth, the legend: C# MVP Jon Skeet joins Peter on a whirlwind tour into the bowels of the C# language. Jon talks up lambdas, expression trees, and other C# goodness. Prepare to have your brain tickled! (Interview starts at 31:18) Also, guest host Andrew Brust joins Peter to rap about phpBB in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, Office 2010, Windows Phone 7, and HTML5 video. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!

Connected Show #29 – Get LIT With Silverlight & WPF 4

  In this episode, guest Pete Brown joins Peter to discuss the recent releases of Silverlight 4 & WPF4. Pete talks about how to “light up with COM” and do some crazy sh---tuff on your client. Mics, webcams, and sensors, oh my! WPF or Silverlight?  Which one should you be looking at when deciding a client platform technology?  Pete helps walk us through those decisions as well as the deltas between the two XAML-based platforms. (Interview starts at 13:34)  Also on tap, guest host Dane Morgridge joins Peter to cover the latest Microsoft developer & interoperability news including:...

Network Access Protection – SHA Not Present

If you start having problems getting into your corporate network using DirectAccess on Windows 7 and have a similar message as the one below in your Action Center then try this solution. (You should know to check for errors in the Action center when your Windows 7 network icon gets a yellow exclamation point like this: ) Possible Solution (if Updates are the issue) If you get one of these errors that prevent you from accessing your corporate network using DirectAccess do the following: Manually go into Windows Update...