The last difficulty to migrate the website to asp.net 2.0 disappeared the last couple of days. Yes, that is done, I installed the version 2.0 of the blog engine, not without pain.

I first tried to upload all the files, overwriting the existing files on the web site. Unfortunately, when I opened the page, I received the "Server Unavailable" error. After few days of talk with the Brinkster support, I finally decided to completely remove all the files and upload the DasBlog files again. This worked fine, so I moved further by uploading my theme customizations and it suddenly stopped working.

The reason why, is that I used the Technorati search functionality which was the guilty. As this feature was not providing me many advantages, I simply removed this section in the them.

At the same time, I opened an account to feedburner, allowing me to add links to every posts, like del.icio.us or digg.

Since the show number 60, it is no more possible to download directly the podcast from thepmpodcast.com, which is a podcast about Project Management. That could be surprising, but I am a little interested in PMing, without, nevertheless, wanting to be a project manager. So, Cornelius Fichtner decided to publish his podcast only by subscribing to the RSS feed.

Of course, there is still a way to play it directly in the web page using the Flash player, but it is far less convenient.

For me, it is a pity, because I do not have my aggregator every time with me (on the laptop, the tabletPC and the desktop) so when I just want to download a show, I just can't. And I think it is a feature that a podcast must have with some others like a torrent for example. Then the question is : Why limiting the possibility of downloading a podcast ? It may cause less downloads and limits the spread of this podcast, no ?

The perfect examples are podacasts coming from Pwop Production, publishing the .NET Rocks! show and the Hanselminutes one. That are the podcasts I listen to regularly, because of the content and the quality of the shows and they offer many, many ways to download them, along with some other goodies, like the transcripts.

The coming weeks, I am going to have a look at the latest Beta of Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and Microsoft has done all it was possible to make it easier (or almost).

First, they released Virtual PC hard drives (vhd) with all the software included. So, as I have the luck of having a MSDN subscription, I first downloaded the 9 parts of the VHD file. Yes ! A total of 4.2GB to download, taking the whole night to get it. But, once deflated, it takes more or less 13GB ! That's ok for me, on an external 420GB hard drive, I can afford it.

The only problem I had was that when I launched the VPC image, it simply failed, telling me that "The parent virtual hard disk has been deleted or has been moved from its previous location. Please select the new location of the parent virtual hard disk". That was strange, because, on the MSDN subscriptions site, there is no mention about a parent virtual hard disk. Or, at least, not enough visible for me.

To solve this little issue, it is better to download the VHD from the Microsoft download site. There, you have all the instructions you would need, and, the most important, where to download this parent virtual hard drive.

Link to the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Team Foundaction Server download