Installing .Net 3.5 SP1 can be difficult, especially when below screen appears 
A colleague of mine stumbled upon this today. You cannot install SP1 because the SP1 install setup process is running 
I just had to share it with you.
Archive for November, 2008
.Net 3.5 installation WTF
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Serialization in .Net 3.5 SP1
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008In .Net 3.5 SP1 it is now possible to serialize any object that has a default constructor without decorating it with [DataContract] or [Serializable].
Developers have these choices now when serializing objects:
- Implicit serialization – requires public default constructor and only serialize public read/write fields
- Use the [Serializable] attribute
- Use [DataContract] and [DataMember] attributes
- Implement the ISerializable interface
I must say, that I’m not keen on this new feature. I prefer explicit serialization to implicit serialization. I predict that implicit serialization of entire object graphs will cause performance problems for many .Net developers in the years to come. This could also be a good thing as I am a consultant 
Aaron Skonnard has a more detailed blog post about the new serialization features in .Net 3.5 SP1.
SQL Server 2008 Microsoft ISV Partner events presentations
Saturday, November 15th, 2008This week I hosted two sessions at two different events for Microsoft Denmark. One at Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Århus and one in Microsoft Denmark’s headquarter in Hellerup.
It was fun at the feedback was very positive. The best part was during the breaks with great edifying technical discussions. All the slides are available at Miracle’s homepage.