Telerik acquires Vanatec, adds ORM to portfolio
Vanatec OpenAccess will be rebranded to Telerik OpenAccess ORM and will be available individually or as part of the Telerik Premium Collection. This will happen with Telerik’s upcoming Q3 release, scheduled for November 5, 2008. The initial release of OpenAccess as a Telerik product will also introduce key new features and effortless integration with the Telerik UI product lines, here are some highlights about what is coming up on November 5th:
Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Q3 2008 (Nov 5th, 2008)
- improved design time experience
- improved LINQ support
- integration with Telerik RadControls
- the new version is also Java-free (the dependency to J# libraries has been removed)
Link: www.telerik.com/vanatec
Did you know that you can copy files from:
- a remote computer to your local computer or
- a remote computer to another remote computer
using Remote Desktop (Windows XP or higher) by simple right-clicking the file and selecting Copy and then selecting Paste on your local machine/the other remote computer?
From the Microsoft KB article 300698:
Copy and Paste Files
You can copy and paste the files between the remote session and local computer, or vice-versa, by using the Copy and Paste feature.
Read the full article at: TechNet
You urgently need a tool to undelete files you accidentally deleted?
I had the situation and was quite happy with Undelete Plus. It's free and you don't need to install it.
Enjoy!
Start > Run > Vsp1cln.exe
Vsp1cln.exe is the Windows Vista SP1 File Removal tool.
Note: You won't be able to uninstall Vista SP1 anymore after this operation.
Not Microsoft. Not Adobe. But Foxit.
Read about it: here.
Download it: here.
If you update your version of Nokia Software Updater the most recent version quits working by displaying this message:
"Sorry, Microsoft Windows Vista is currently not supported."
One could think that large companies like Nokia would be able to support the Windows Vista operating system since it's around for over a year now.
You might think that that operating systems that will certainly become the industry-wide standard and are on the market for way over a year now are supported by all major products.
From the system requirements of Nero 8:
- Windows Vista® Gadgets are not available for Windows Vista® x64
- Nero ImageDrive currently supports Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP (32 Bit only)
Error when trying to install ClickOnce application
Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider.
[Link]
I'm using this RAR IFilter from the IFilterShop.com (free for non-commercial users) and my RAR files are now indexed including the contents.
They also offer interesting IFilters for ASPX, CHM, MSG, MS Project, Mind Manager, and many more other file types.
The new Windows Search 4.0 offers:
Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:
- Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems
- Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
- Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
- Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
- Improved indexing performance
- Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
- Per-user Group Policy settings
- Windows software updates for Watson errors
- Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects:
[Download]
Information from the author, Brandon Paddock:
Features:
- Monitor the current state of the indexer
- See how many items need to be processed
- View the total count of indexed items
- Stop and start the indexing service
- Open the Indexing Options control panel
- View the installed Windows Search version number
- Multiple backgrounds / color combinations

[Download]
If you experience the error message:
The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine
this is caused by the Jet provider not being available in native 64-bit.
You will have to target x86 with your .NET apps to make it work.
Since EPSON Status Monitor does not work properly under Windows Vista I recommend extracting the installation files and simulate an old operating system (Windows XP SP2) by using the compatibility tab for all EXE files in the folder.
Then install and enjoy!
P.S. You can force a cartridge change on a EPSON Stylus Color printer even without using the EPSON Status Monitor software. Read here.
Prerequisites:
Situation:
- After "optimizing" the VM the file grows (in my case from 13 GB to 100 GB, which is the maximum size of the dynamic disk)
Workaround:
- Create a full clone of your VM (this copies all the linked disks + your VM into a target disk). You are not using the base disks from that moment on. But the resulting VM will be nice and small and in the future you can use PerfectDisk again to optimize and shrink your VM.
Background:
- VMs with linked disks are not available for SHRINK operations.
- WIthout linked disks this works perfectly.
Situation:
- You have a linked clone.
- You do not have any snapshots, just the current state.
- You want to create a full clone out of the base image(s) and the current state using the VMware Wizard.
- You get the error message that you need (3.5 GB) of free hard drive space.
- Freeing space on the source and target drive does not seem to help.
Solution
- Just create a snapshop and re-try the full-clone-creation.
Enjoy!
.REG files can not only add and modify but also delete keys and values from the Windows registry.
To delete a registry key
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
To delete a registry value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
"TestValue"=-
Enjoy!
You need to open the item "View 32-bit Control Panel Items". And there it is. :)
Enjoy!
... and even resetting the normal.dot won't help you there.
But it's soo simple. A double click between the border between your document and the rulers will display them. Read the full story here.