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I"ve reworked my web site. It was looking a bit more like the uniform of a NASCAR driver than a web site, so I reworked the layout to make it cleaner. I admittedly stole many of my ideas from other web sites and templates I saw.

The other reason for the change was to eliminate ViewState.  I noticed my pages ballooning from the sheer size of the HTML that was being generated, much of it as ViewState.  I"ve eliminated ViewState in almost every case.  For example, the size of the HTML of my home page was reduced from 134K to 48K.  That"s just HTML size, not images...so the real size change should be even more dramatic.

Let me know what you think and if you find anything not working.  Thanks!

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I"ve gotten the new Visual Studio Orcas March CTP up and running (as the VPC it ships as).  I"ve been playing with the Entity Framework some today and I am pretty impressed so far. Unfortunately the automatic generation of the schema/mapping files still isn"t working in this build, but if you write it out by hand it does work.  I"ll be posting an example soon.

I"ve gotten the new Visual Studio Orcas March CTP up and running (as the VPC it ships as).  I"ve been playing with the Entity Framework some today and I am pretty impressed so far. Unfortunately the automatic generation of the schema/mapping files still isn"t working in this build, but if you write it out by hand it does work.  I"ll be posting an example soon.

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I know everyone and their brother has blogged on this, but I have been playing with the Orcas March CTP (comes as a VPC) and I wanted to know how to speed it up.  Scott Hanselman comes to the rescue again with some great advice.  What was unclear to me was whether a USB2 Harddrive would perform better than having the VPC on the same physical disk as my OS...the answer is a resounding "YES". 

I also compacted the VHD and merged it into a new non-differencing disk for added performance.  As of now it is flying with only 768 Megs of memory. 

Very recommended...

I know everyone and their brother has blogged on this, but I have been playing with the Orcas March CTP (comes as a VPC) and I wanted to know how to speed it up.  Scott Hanselman comes to the rescue again with some great advice.  What was unclear to me was whether a USB2 Harddrive would perform better than having the VPC on the same physical disk as my OS...the answer is a resounding "YES". 

I also compacted the VHD and merged it into a new non-differencing disk for added performance.  As of now it is flying with only 768 Megs of memory. 

Very recommended...

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I was setting up my new laptop with Vista today and it looks like everything is finally installed, except my fonts.  So I opened the Font folder and picked, "Add New Font".  This is what I saw:

While it is certainly skinned with Vista, this is the same font dialog that i"ve been using since "95 or perhaps 3.1.  I love the Drives dropdown and the Network button.  I wonder how much ancient code is still in Vista?  Anyone notice others?

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