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Finally, the long awaited Skype app for Windows Phone is here. This information has been announced today during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Please find a blog post here (original URL https://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/02/27/windows-phone-at-mobile-world-congress-2012.aspx). Just in case the Zune link does not work, please try it via marketplace (original URL https://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/c3f8e570-68b3-4d6a-bdbb-c0a3f4360a51) … this worked for me!

Background: the Managed Metadata Service and TaxonomyHiddenList SharePoint 2010 introduced the Managed Metadata Service as a way to define a centralised, hierarchical taxonomy of terms that could be reused across site collections. Instead of every site re-creating its own dropdown choices, an information-architecture team could maintain a global term store and let lists and document libraries reference it through a Managed Metadata column. It was a real step up for enterprise content management, especially for organisations standardising on terms across regions, departments, or product lines. ...

For all you Java developers out there, have a look at this link in order to learn more about C# and the .NET framework.

I am totally excited about my new home entertainment system. It uses a standard digital satellite dish along with an external FireDTV (Digital Everywhere) digital TV receiver connected to my more or less frumpy desktop PC. The computer runs Windows 7 RC with Media Center configured to use the satellite box. My living room is equipped with a Xbox 360 connected to the TV. The Xbox 360 and my desktop PC talk to each other via powerline AV ethernet connection (since I totally forgot to put a system of conduits in my home). ...

… or rather: good things come to those who wait. Yesterday, I planned to install Visual Studio 2008 on a Vista machine. Sounds like not much of a challenge, but the problem was that I previously installed VS 2008 Beta2. I knew that there might be things to consider, so I followed Scott Guthrie’s blog post where he describes all necessary steps to uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release. During uninstall everything went just fine. So, I started VS 2008 setup. It first installed .NET Framework 3.5 which seemed to be okay. But then suddenly the setup stopped without any reason or error message. ...

Background: Winsock LSPs and why they break ASP.NET In 2007 it was very common for laptops to ship with mobile broadband software — UMTS / HSDPA dongles or built-in 3G modems came with bundled connection managers from Vodafone, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, and others. A lot of that software installed a Layered Service Provider (LSP) into the Windows Winsock chain so it could intercept and inspect TCP/IP traffic for connection management, traffic accounting, or “smart” routing between Wi-Fi and cellular. ...

One thing that quite frequently happened to me: I worked with MS SQL Server Reporting Services for quite a while, due to some reason (that I cannot assign right now) while accessing the ReportManager I get the following error message “Failed to decrypt symmetric key”. The suggestion now is to run RsKeyMgmt to delete all encrypted content and to run RsConfig to re-generate a new key. However, when running RsKeyMgmt on my machine running a German version of Windows XP I get the following: After I type in J and click on ENTER nothing happens. It just doesn’t do anything. I googled for solutions but just couldn’t find anything. The only way to get RS back to work was to reinstall it. This happened quite a few times to me until I found this post (original link: https://www.developmentnow.com/g/115_2005_1_0_0_454625/rskeymgmt-gives-no-response.htm) from Brian Welcker. So, the simple solution to this is to type in Y instead.