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Groove: Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 installs SharePoint workspace

We are using Groove 2007 instead of the SharePoint Workspace but even you have deselected SharePoint Workspace in the installation of Office 2010 it will be installed automatically after you install Office 2010 SP1. Unfortunately I Did not install SP1 but it was pushed through the Update Service so suddenly I couldn't use Groove 2007 anymore.

Windows 8 CP, Visual Studio 11 Beta: The Application Data folder for Visual Studio could not be created

After first installing Visual Studio 11 Beta on my Windows 8 Consumer Preview I tried to start it but I encountered the following error:

The Application Data folder for Visual Studio could not be created

The program exited and I was left alone on my Desktop

So what was next .

Various: Howto create temporary files of specific size

Sometimes you want to have a file with a specific size for testing purposes.

Easily you can do that with the following command:

fsutil file createnew c:\onegb.txt 1073741824 

This will create a file with the name onegb.txt with a size of 1GB.

Framework: Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime

When we were upgraded our project to Framework 4 and compiled we were getting the following error:

Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (ISO)

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is an integrated development environment that seamlessly spans the entire life cycle of software creation, including architecture, user interface design, code creation, code insight and analysis, code deployment, testing and validation.