Archive for December, 2007

Vista Reduced Functionality Mode nightmare…

…or what I learned over the weekend

This entire saga starts Thursday morning. I was able to get about three hours of work in when I felt the need lo reboot my computer.

When my computer came back up, I found myself in “reduced functionality mode.” I didn’t even know what reduced functionality mode was until this happened to me Since I have to expect that you don’t either, I’ll explain.

RFM (not to be confused with RTFM. which I should have done when I got this computer) is a state you can end up in for one of several reasons which I’ll cover next.  You get a blank screen with a couple dialog boxes on them and no explorer interface.  You also get one hour before you are logged out.

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Monday, December 31st, 2007

DotNetNuke 4.8.0 Released

Yesterday DotNetNuke 4.8 was released.  You can checkout the full change log at http://support.dotnetnuke.com/project/ChangeLog.aspx?PROJID=2 but some of the more interesting bug fixes include: (more…)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

How to code LINQ

Today we finally put all the code we’ve been looking at for the last couple of weeks into practice and take a look at LINQ.  Today’s example will be relatively brief but once you understand the underlying parts, which we’ve covered already, there really isn’t much to actually using LINQ. (more…)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007