Microsoft Design Principles and Scenarios Star 2011

In 2011 I completed a course and in Microsoft's eyes became a design principles and scenarios star. More on this as I remember it, it was the design toolbox and I still have all of the files. And here was my avatar.

Building Singularity

In 02010 I downloaded and read about a Microsoft research OS called Singularity. Now I'm going to tell you how to build it. First you can download it from Codeplex here. Next unzip the RDK and right click on the "configure.cmd" and run as administrator, accept the defaults and press enter. This should place a Singularity shortcut on your desktop. Next open the the shortcut placed on your desktop and type "msb Distro\World.proj" allow about 25-30 min depending on your machine to build. After it is built you should be able to run it in a VM. I might go into more detail later. If you really want to have fun read up on MSBuild and and how to add you own CLI projects to the Applications folder. The Singularity build requires .NET 3.5.You also might need to add "C:\Windows System32;" to your PATH environment variables. You also can find many of the build tools like boogie and the CLR Profiler on Codeplex. You might want to sandbox your modifications so if Microsoft releases another Singularity variant in the future it will be compatible. Again read up on MSBuild. You can turn on your virus protection after the build. Because many viruses are written in assembly.