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PLINQO - Get it, use it, love it

I've stumbled across a LINQ to SQL extension called PLINQO freely downloadable at http://plinqo.com/ and includes source code. PLINQO is a set of CodeSmith templates that generates code for you around your LINQ to SQL DBML file. It generates Manager classes and Query classes automatically (it does this by looking at your primary keys, indexes and foreign key constraints). You must buy CodeSmith , which is the template engine, but PLINQO is free. Its actually quite amazing and saves you tons of time and energy creating boiler plate code. So glad I found it, now I want you to investigate it too. Go check out the video tutorials to see what I mean. Awesome .

Virtual Machine Key Combinations with Hyper-V

Taken from here and kept for prosperity incase the information was ever lost. So all credit for the following information goes to Ben Armstrong . Standard Windows Key combination Virtual Machine Connection Key Combination Explanation CTRL + ALT + DEL CTRL + ALT + END Displays the Task Manager or Windows Security dialog box on Windows (or logs in). ALT + TAB ALT + PAGE UP Switches between programs from left to right. ALT + SHIFT + TAB ALT + PAGE DOWN Switches between programs from right to left. ALT + ESC ALT + INSERT Cycles through the programs in the order they were started. CTRL + ESC ALT + HOME Displays the Windows Start menu. N/A CTRL + ALT + PAUSE Changes the Virtual Machine Connection window to / from full screen mode. N/A CT