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Charles wrote:

 
Great idea. Maybe we should do some sort of Microsoft Founders thing on C9, but that may be hard to pull of for our BDay.

Without ASP.NET V2 which has a precompile option, your best bet is something like this

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/PreCompileAspx.asp

If you use a lot of user controls, you might be able to leverage this idea to speed your compile time?

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ascxparser.asp

Couple that with this to automate the process

http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=ef3d0a73-0468-46da-8780-ede0f12b6f22

Or just wait for V2...

Stephen.

The other thing is, have you looked at using setupmgr.exe to create an unattened setup file.  So you put this file on a floopy, boot from CD and walk away for 30ish minutes to come back to a fully installed machine.

This is a good resource on unattended setups http://unattended.msfn.org/

And then there is always RIS....

Stephen.

rudvard wrote:

Did you mean Norton GHOST or something else?

Norton have recently brought PowerQuest and integrated DriveImage into Ghost.  This has lead to a few changes, not all for the better IMO, but there are now several versions you can use.

Ghost 9, this has to be installed into the OS and will snapshot any drive the current OS can see to anything, be that DVD-R or a USB harddisk.

Ghost 9 Recovery, this is a bootable CD that runs on top of WinPE (the pre-installation environment) and will allow you to recover a local disk from DVD/Network/USB with mininal effort

Ghost 8.5 and lower is DOS based and requires to you to provide a DOS boot disk with any required network drivers, this is a lot more work than the WinPE route, but it does allow you to create images, which is handy as you can create an image from a machine which is not yet runable.

Another question is why do you need to reinstall quite so much?  Is there another solution that would be better for you, if you need a fresh install for testing have you looked a vmWare or VirtualPC?

Stephen.

Beer28 wrote:

Now in .NET, we have a reverse of JNI, JDirect ect.. in PInvoke, and the new model is that instead of VB and Java programmers reaching into object code for faster function libraries ect...

Custard555 wrote:

not sure if i want to use Exeutil.exe, looks hard to use (not really good at exchange) and also I don't have 110% free H.D.D Space :-< ! is there an easier way, maybe a program in is nice and easy to use? (any Microsoft people wanna make one just for me ???????)

The internal fragmentation of the edb file has nothing to do with the fragmentation of your disk.  The edb are like a mini file system of their own, but fragmentation of the edb will not be included in the report you listed above.  When you run an offline defrag on an edb, it will basically create a new edb file and copy the records from the old to the new, hence the free space requirements.

If you are really worried about the fragmentation (remember that the edb is random access anyway so the disk head is going to be jumping all over the place anyway) all the tools I have used need to be run repeatedly, it's not like the old dos days when a single defrag would nicely stack up all the files on your harddisk.  In my experience at least 4 or 5 passes have been needed to get a good result and the more disk space you have free the better, temporally get as many files as you can off the machine as you can.

Have a look at something like http://smallbiz.executive.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?RId=1&SId=1&CId=13 this will allow you to set the defrag on a continuous loop, leave it for a couple of nights and it will sort your disk out for you, then change the schedule to once a night and make it part of your routine maintenance.

Of course the ultimate defrag is to back up all the files from the disk format it and then restore the files, just remember to use a proper backup program that will preserve you file permissions!

Stephen.

I would like to see a link that lists all the other videos that the person being interviewed is also in.  So if you had a title like 'Christopher Brumme - The future of CLR exceptions' clicking on 'Christopher Brumme' would list all his other videos.