RTFM!

I'm going to be short on this. Microsoft 2008 Server R2 is 64-bit only. So there is no chance installing the beta will work on your 32-bit-guest-pc-only VPC. A pity for the wasted bandwidth...

MCTS WinForms 3.5

Just got the email:

Congratulations on earning your Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Forms Applications certification! We hope you enjoy the benefits of your certification and of membership in the Microsoft Certified Professional community.

MCPD ASP.NET 3.5

After two months, I finally got the result of the beta exam for my MCPD ASP.NET 3.5 certification. I passed!
I am still waiting for two more exams from the beginning of December, but hopefully they will follow shortly!

Installing Windows 7

I’ve installed Windows 7 last week. Unfortunately I hadn’t much time to play with it because we had a serious escalation on my work. The intranet server was performing badly, so I did a crash course performance counters for ASP.NET and now know that the caching service is an essential component for the Tridion Content Management system.

For improving ASP.NET Performance, the following articles helped:

• Improving ASP.NET Performance (for .NET 1.1, but concepts are version independant)
• Performance Counters for ASP.NET