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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:36:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/32-64-asp-net/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/32-64-asp-net/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:54:14 +0000 Paul Luc http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7915 Many developers struggle with the use of 32-bit and 64-bit address spaces.  In a nutshell, 32-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 64-bit address spaces and 64-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 32-bit address spaces.  Web applications are no different.  As a result, special attention needs to be paid to the requirements of web applications running [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/32-64-asp-net/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/defrag-vms/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/defrag-vms/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:30:08 +0000 Jonathan Scott http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7194 If you’ve worked with virtualization long enough, you may have noticed that performance can degrade over time.  This phenomenon is related to disk fragmentation, particularly in scenarios where a lot of software installation, removal, and updates are performed.  As you might imagine, this is the situation for many test environments and development environments.  To recover [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/defrag-vms/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/cad-virtualization/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/cad-virtualization/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:00:10 +0000 Daniel Rohats http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=5628 Virtualization has progressed considerably in the past few years, but graphics performance has been notoriously poor because VMs (virtual machines) have been unable to take advantage of the host’s video card.  Even if your workstation has the latest from NVidia, ATI, or some other video card manufacturer, the VM has had no way of taking advantage of the GPU [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/cad-virtualization/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/accessing-virtual-disks-via-windows/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/accessing-virtual-disks-via-windows/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:30:24 +0000 Steve Dunn http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7133 One of the often overlooked features of VMWare Workstation is the Virtual Disk Mapping utility.  Available through the standard VMware Workstation GUI, the tool maps a Windows drive letter to a virtual disk used in a VM.  Mapping a virtual disk can be done much quicker and easier than launching the VM to access the [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/accessing-virtual-disks-via-windows/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/whats-new-vmware-workstation-7/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/whats-new-vmware-workstation-7/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:30:51 +0000 Michael Craffey http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6503 You skipped Windows Vista, and now you really want to see if Windows 7 is worth the leap.  Or maybe you may want to test SQL Server 2008 installed on Windows Server 2008 for your PDM system.  For many IT professionals today, the solution of choice for these challenges is virtualization.  And if VMware is [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/whats-new-vmware-workstation-7/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/the-value-of-vm-players/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/the-value-of-vm-players/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:59 +0000 Derek Neiding http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6841 Virtualization has many benefits, and we at Razorleaf are big advocates of the technology.  Internally, we leverage workstation virtualization products, and several of our clients make use of different server virtualization products.  What about the VM player products out on the market today?  Let’s take a look at the value that those products could deliver [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/the-value-of-vm-players/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/free-virtualization-tools/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/free-virtualization-tools/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:00:14 +0000 Michael Craffey http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6595 It’s not uncommon for large organizations to have embraced virtualization, both in the testing environment and for production use.  Many vendors have offerings that make it easier for smaller organizations, or individuals, to take advantage of virtualization too.  In fact, all the major vendors offer free or personal versions of their flagship products.  And you [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/free-virtualization-tools/feed/ 2 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aras-innovator-compatibility/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aras-innovator-compatibility/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:00:38 +0000 Dennis Lindinger http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6329 Early in January 2010, ARAS released Service Pack 6 for version 9.1 of their Innovator product, making it available to subscription holders.  In addition to resolving a number of issues, Service Pack 6 added support for Windows 7 clients to their compatibility list.  With this addition, the list of client operating systems supported by Innovator [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aras-innovator-compatibility/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/wheres-my-filemon/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/wheres-my-filemon/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:45:01 +0000 Paul Gimbel http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6087 The FileMon file access monitor and RegMon registry access monitors have been very powerful tools for troubleshooting performance and system error issues. These tools, however, are no longer available. They have been replaced by a new, unified Process Monitor. ]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/wheres-my-filemon/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/windows-compatibility-mode/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/windows-compatibility-mode/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:02:32 +0000 Jonathan Scott http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6060 If you’ve ever run a program that was designed for a different version of Windows, and experienced unexpected behavior, you may have found a resolution to your problem with Windows Compatibility Mode.  In case you haven’t run across this helpful setting, take a quick look at it to see what nagging problems it might be able [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/windows-compatibility-mode/feed/ 0