For several days I have been trying to get Visual Studio 2010 working in VirtualBox. The symptoms were that the GUI hanged on start, but the actual application responded to events like resizing, moving and closing. A hint for the solution was found at this article on Stack Overflow.

It turns out that I had to disable the 3D-acceleration in the virtual machine. After that, everything works as it should.

The last few days I have tried to make sense of Unicode and how to handle files stored in UTF-8. After some major headscratching I think I figured it out.

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If there is anyone who has checked this blog a couple of time, they will notice that the contents hav now been reset. It seems that the database of the blog, or something else, had been corrupted. So here we are again, trying one more time.