Microsoft issued a press release announcing the both the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and its general release. The public beta will be available November 2009, along with the public betas of Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010. The general re ...[Read More]

I’ve talked to many developers who have recently started doing some SharePoint programming and have gotten hooked. In fact, they like SharePoint development so much, especially the event receivers, that these developers are starting to think about u ...[Read More]

A colleague of mine recently posed an interesting question: Why would you ever want to specifically target an assembly compilation to x86 or x64? Wouldn’t you always want to use the AnyCPU option? What are the options? Here’s a bit of background o ...[Read More]

I’ve heard a bit of confusion recently over just what is needed to create 64-bit virtual machines using Microsoft technologies. Part of the confusion stems from the very liberal use of the term “64-bit support” by much of the Microsoft marketing fol ...[Read More]

Last year I wrote a post about how some x64 (64-bit) systems cannot use more than 3 GB RAM, even though that is one of the main purposes of getting an x64 system.During the course of working with one such system, I discovered an unsettling developme ...[Read More]

A while ago I published a post titled "Why I hate x64". I created a laundry list of all of the things that I personally found that did not work on a 64 bit platform. Well, I just updated that post with two more entries:Motorola Q9 Update f ...[Read More]

UpdateMore on x64 here:/en-us/community/blogs/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=54I hate x64. x64 promised to increase the capabilities of computers. More memory, greater speed, bigger, faster, etc… And then, things stop working. Things I like. Things th ...[Read More]

This is a great post:http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2006/09/30/Certificate-Services-Website-generates-404-on-Windows-Server-2003-x64-_2800_64-bit-edition_2900_.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessageThe post is in reference to Certi ...[Read More]