<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 1/7/2009 12:50:17 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/personal/aanttila/Blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=552eb137-35b0-44f9-bee8-641e08159e2b" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:50:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Blog</title><url>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog</link></image><item><title>Great quote I saw referenced by 37 Signals</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2009/01/05/great-quote-i-saw-referenced-by-37-signals.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2009/01/05/great-quote-i-saw-referenced-by-37-signals.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
—David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:52:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting started with Silverlight unit testing</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/12/29/getting-started-with-silverlight-unit-testing.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/12/29/getting-started-with-silverlight-unit-testing.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Microsoft recently released the final versions of their unit testing components for Silverlight 2. While Scott Guthrie and Jeff Wilcox have blogged about it, their blogs targeted pre-release versions (specifically Beta 2), and things have changed quite a bit since then. I've been working on some c... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Media Center Fix for Windows Vista</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/07/08/media-center-fix-for-windows-vista.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/07/08/media-center-fix-for-windows-vista.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Using Media Center under the following conditions was resulting in stuttering video and audio, and the occasional green screen: 

Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, 64-bit 
4 GB RAM 
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 
Hauppauge WinTV 1600 TV Tuner 
I've seen a lot of posts on message boards where people are ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Integrating the Silverlight SDK into Visual Studio’s MSDN Library</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/06/27/integrating-the-silverlight-sdk-into-visual-studio’s-msdn-library.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/06/27/integrating-the-silverlight-sdk-into-visual-studio’s-msdn-library.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
If you use local MSDN rather than the internet-based version like I do and you are doing Silverlight work, here's how to integrate Silverlight's SDK into Visual Studio's local help. 

Open the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Documentation start menu item
Go to the Index tab, and type in &quot;comb... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vista Explorer Search Tips</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/04/29/vista-explorer-search-tips.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/04/29/vista-explorer-search-tips.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Quite by accident, I discovered some advanced search options using the built-in search box in Windows Explorer.  It's the little box in the top right-hand corner of your Explorer windows:

	If you search for something but name but can't find it, you get the option of using Advance Search:

	Clicking... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:41:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>TimeZoneInfo : Another reason to love .NET 3.5</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/04/01/timezoneinfo-another-reason-to-love-net-3-5.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/04/01/timezoneinfo-another-reason-to-love-net-3-5.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
One of the new classes in .NET 3.5 is TimeZoneInfo. MSDN's vague and all-encompassing description states &quot;Represents any time zone in the world.&quot; Scrolling further down, you'll find a list of actual things that TimeZoneInfo can do: 

Retrieving a time zone that is already defined by th... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Excel and CSV Reference</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/03/28/excel-and-csv-reference.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/03/28/excel-and-csv-reference.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
I've been doing a lot of work with CSV and Excel imports recently. There are a lot of poorly documented or disparate pieces of information that are required to interface with a CSV or Excel data source, so I'm recording it here. 
Formatting Overview 
There are a few formatting rules that you nee... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>.NET Runtime Optimization error on SQL Server 2005</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/03/27/-net-runtime-optimization-error-on-sql-server-2005.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/03/27/-net-runtime-optimization-error-on-sql-server-2005.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[If you're getting an error similar to the following in your Event Log, I've found a solution that may work for you.
NET Runtime Optimization Service (clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32) - Failed to compile: Microsoft.ReportingServices.QueryDesigners, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:42:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Customizing a Windows Service during installation</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/02/29/customizing-a-windows-service-during-installation.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/02/29/customizing-a-windows-service-during-installation.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Recently, I needed to add the ability install multiple instances of a Windows Service we've been developing on a single server. After some initial research (read:Google), I was able to get it working. The basic steps are as follows: 

Override Installer.Install 
Read the InstallContext for spec... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Coming up for air</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/02/21/coming-up-for-air.aspx</link><guid>/personal/aanttila/Blog/archive/2008/02/21/coming-up-for-air.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
I've been pretty heads down for the last month or so, working on an application that fills a very interesting niche. Even though the project isn't done, there are a few things that I've been able to come away with. 
LINQ is a huge productivity boostLINQ has saved quite a bit of development time o... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Adrian Anttila</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>