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Visual Studio 2010 profiler on Windows 8 issue

Posted on December 15, 2012 by erictummers

I’ve been using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 8 machine for a while now. Never had an issue until today when I tried to start the profiler. Turns out the driver it uses is not compatible with Windows … Continue reading →

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Change Visual Studio background color

Posted on November 1, 2012 by erictummers

The background color of Visual Studio 2010 is a dark blue gradient. Problem is the gradient gives a flickering effect on external monitors when the frequency is under 75 Hz. I want to change it to a solid color. Visual … Continue reading →

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TFS Express done right

Posted on September 14, 2012 by erictummers

In my previous post about TFS Express I installed it side-by-side with Visual Studio 2010. This gave me some compatibility issues when running unit tests with code coverage. To be able to demo some things offline I did needed a … Continue reading →

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No Hyper-V for you!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by erictummers

I want to use Hyper-V from Windows 8. But the “Turn Windows features on or off” wizard has Hyper-V platform grayed out. Telling me the processor misses SLAT in the tooltip. My machine has an older Core 2 Duo T5500 … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Release Preview to RTM

Posted on August 31, 2012 by erictummers

Up first: an upgrade from Release Preview (build 8400) to RTM (build 9200) is not possible. As so many people I installed the Developer Preview, the Consumer Preview, the Release Preview and the RTM. Every new version was a clean … Continue reading →

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