Guy Barrette

When deploying to a Web farm, each server has to have the same machineKey validation key.  This MSDN page explains everything you want to know about that even providing some C# and VB code to generate the keys but why bother, Milan Negovan created a simple page to help you do just that!   :-)

There’s a bug in the WIWA feature in Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool that prevent downloading attached files to work items.

Jean-René Roy from DevTeach latest boot camp is about iPhone development and is targeted at .NET developers looking learn how de develop iPhone apps.

Windows 7 for a mere $29! The catch? You need to be a student.

I’ve been scratching my head on this one yesterday.  I wanted to use some kind of custom authentication with RIA Services instead of using the default one.  The overview document found here states this:

Today, the Server Explorer would not show up in my Visual Studio 2008 and I could not add a new data connection.  From the Visual Studio command prompt I tried to run “devenv /resetskippkgs” to no good.  I then found this post on StackOverflow.  The trick seams to make sure to run the command prompt as an administrator.