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I have decided to dig deeper into an area of development I usually try to avoid – the client. Not just another rich desktop client, but a web client. For years, I have always kept myself at arms length when dealing with client technologies, especially web technologies. I have worked with them many times, but I have always preferred the server side. I have worked with nearly every Microsoft client technology from the Window C API, MFC, ATL, WTL, VB, WinForms, WPF, and probably a few others I can no longer remember. Each one of those frameworks helped to convince me that I prefer the server side. I had even done some ASP and ASP.NET development at various times. Its not that these frameworks are ‘wrong’, it is just that I prefer the server side.

Recently, I have received a few requests for some changes and an example for my Type Tracking Extension for Unity. This post is to address those requests. Of course, all of the source code for this post is added to the GitHub project Unity Extensions .

With every fresh install of a new computer comes the pain that is installation of all my applications. My old machine had well over 200 different things installed. Those things being applications, device drivers, and plug ins. Of course, we cannot forget Windows Update, which needs to be run periodically through the installation process.

The first step on this journey is to prepare the USB key. Having burned so many CD and DVD discs in the past when doing install, I feel that this is a long overdue feature from the folks in Redmond. Having done this for my RC install, I can tell you it is not too difficult, just poorly documented.

I have been running Windows 7 beta than RC for many months now. Despite all the warnings against using it as my main machine, I have done so, and have had little to any issues. The few things, such as the Bluetooth driver for my laptop, I have chalked it up to the standard driver delays for 64 bit drivers.