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by Aaron

Visual Studio 2010 Remote Desktop Performance Tips

I was disappointed, but certainly not surprised, to see that Microsoft employees blogging that Visual Studio 2010 performance over remote desktop would almost match, or be slightly slower than Visual Studio 2008 performance.

However, they got some good advice on how to optimize your RDP experience with Visual Studio.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jgoldb/archive/2010/02/27/optimizing-visual-studio-2010-and-wpf-applications-for-remote-desktop.aspx

Slow connections:

  1. On slow connections, change remote desktop connection settings to use 16-bit color.
  2. If running on high latency connections, select a “high latency” connection speed in RDC options:
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  3. On XP/Vista, grab the new remote desktop client, version 7.0.
  4. Disable all check boxes except Persistent bitmap caching.
  5. Also recommended is using a smaller window size (but that may be the most difficult to do).

WPF Application Optimization for Remote Desktop

In addition to the performance tips for Visual Studio, there’s a very nice set of best practices to follow for how to optimize any WPF application for use over remote desktop. Until the long-ago Longhorn promise of truly remoted-WPF applications support is added to the platform, we’ll need to optimize your WPF applications if they may be used over remote desktop.

The worst offender that I’ve encountered in the past is that animations, even hidden behind an opaque element, still cause that area of your application to be sent for each frame of the animation! (You might need to think about how silly that seems).

by Aaron

Gogo Inflight Internet

I just won a free usage on my next Gogo enabled flight (in-flight internet) by entering here:

http://upshot.gogoinflight.com/

You can also be awarded a 25% or 50% discount. You just pick which item will be the first to arrive, and a silly view-only game plays ……

 

(The dumb thing was that the thing wouldn’t take my wiredprairie.us e-mail address!)

by Aaron

Cheese and Cheeseburgers!

Honestly, I eat maybe 1 or 2 beef cheeseburgers in a year (and I don’t even care for most cheese!). Regardless, I still thought this web site, Cheese and Burger Society is really well done (pun not intended!).

It uses Adobe Flash, but really to good effect. There’s a voice over for each recipe.

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“Number 7… it’s not for the guy who makes spreadsheets for a living.”

“Limburger, I once fought off three hungry bears to protect my Limburger. True story.”

There are interesting cheese facts:

Famous for its pungent tendencies, this brave and bold Belgian cheese does nothing but intensify with age. Limburger was created to complement the highly flavored meats commonly eaten in Belgium and Germany. Today, a single cheese plant in Monroe, Wisconsin produces all the surface-ripened Limburger made in the United States.

(Monroe, Wisconsin is relatively close to the WiredPrairie homestead.)