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Error starting VMWare Server 2.0 – “The VMWare Host Agent service Terminated with service-specifc error”

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Ryan on May 29, 2010

Its that time again – upgrading OS. This time to Windows 7. I figure its been long enough now for the serious kinks to be worked out and I’ve been putting it off long enough. Its not the installation itself that is hard – mostly its a simple as bunging in a DVD, selecting a […]

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Ryan on January 7, 2009

ILMerge is an invaluable tool from Michael Barnett at Microsoft Research that can merge multiple assemblies together into a single assembly. ILMerge can output .NET 2.0 or .NET 1.1 assemblies by using the /targetplatform:v1.1 switch. At the time of writing v2.8.0626 (26th June 08) has a little problem when targeting .NET 1.1 and running on […]

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This seems to come up time and time again and can leave people hairless. I haven’t found a good, simple walkthrough – so I thought I would put together a quick post. Disclaimer : This post is written from the perspective of a developer setting up a dev/test system. For production purposes you need to […]

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Ryan on November 5, 2008

For many applications (especially server based applications) its essential to provide some sort of logging for support and troubleshooting. While logging to Windows Event logs is a good idea if you need to get an administrators attention its not really suitable for detailed logging, and if you have a problem you need to have already […]

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