Dual/Multi Core Support for Visual Studio 2005/2008

January 20th, 2010 Category: General

It’s a shame, but Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 doesn’t support compiling several .c / .cpp files in parallel when working with a dual/multi core CPU. Especially when e.g. compiling  on a Intel Core i7 with quad core and hyper threading this is really annoying. In Visual Studio 2010 this will be supported… But many many people want to work with Visual Studio 2005/2008 and get advantage of their powerful multi core CPU’s.

For this reason you can get the MPCL Plugin, it enables support for compiling several files in parallel on all your cores. It’s not for free but the price is fair.

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Written on January 20, 2010 | Posted in General

Microsoft’s New Smart Phone

October 28th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

It really looks like that Apple’s iPhone will get serious competition from Microsoft :)

Written on October 28, 2009 | Posted in Fun,General

BlueScreen Screen Saver

June 17th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

There is a pretty cool screen saver from Microsoft TechNet (formerly Sysinternals) available, which shows a blue screen and the animated boot screen of Windows. If you want to shock your colleagues then you should get it :)

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Written on June 17, 2009 | Posted in Fun,General