With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 this week a lot of people will start upgrading to the new version. After the installation was complete I noticed the Surface project and item templates were not available. In this post I explain how to get the entries in Visual Studio 2010.

The Microsoft Surface is a Windows Vista computer running the Microsoft Surface Shell. This shell is by default localized for US English. It is possible to localize for other locales, but there is no configuration screen to set the desired localization. This post will summarize the different steps to localize the Surface shell.

If you want to develop for the Microsoft Surface you need a Surface device, but using the device to develop is not always practical, specially when there are more developers than Surface devices. The solution for this is to install the Surface SDK on you local development machine. This post will address some limitations you have to work around.

On CodePlex you can find the “MOSS 2007 - C# Protocol Handler” project. When working with the code I discovered 2 issues which I both fixed. Both solutions are summarized here.

As announced yesterday by Microsoft the Office 2010 products will be 64bit only. Well no surprise there, we already knew that. But they went even further: Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server on 64bit is a must for ensuring the best performance possible.

This week I gave a presentation at Winvision and recorded it in Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. The resulting recording is a webpage with multiple streams: desktop video, presenter video and audio. The problem is that the codec used doesn't work on x64 systems or Windows 7 (Server). Watching the separate streams isn't really an option because there is no audio included in the video streams. But I got lucky as it seems Microsoft has released a new tool called “Recording Converter for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007” only last month.