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My company issued me a new Dell Latitude E6400. It’s a fine machine, and I like it very much. Yesterday our system tech hands me the machine brand spanking new with our base company image on it (Windows 7 Enterprise – 64 bit). My plan was take the image on this machine and copy it to the solid state hard drive that I have in my personal laptop. I don’t need this Lenovo T61, but it’s got a blazing fast SSD in it and I want to use that – not this old school SATA thing that came w/ my...
Fiddler is a great tool for inspecting HTTP traffic. If you’re building a web services based application or AJAX intensive web application, you’ll need to check this out. Fiddler has been around for a long time and there’s a lot of good content out on the net about how to use this. There are several gotchas with this tool – like how it behaves with local addresses (i.e. localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc.). Be sure to read up on all of that if you’re new to Fiddler.
One lesson I learned today while playing with the latest CTP of ADO.NET Data Services, is...
I’ve been maintaining the list of software on my Windows 7 Paving – New Base Image Software List from some time ago. The original intent of that post was to itemize all of the applications that worked w/ the beta of Windows 7. I was using that post heavily for building out new machines. Windows 7 is now in the wild now and there are very few applications left that aren’t compatible. I’m going create a new post that simply itemizes the software I run and why. I’ll keep this current are my world changes
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I saw a link to this FileHelpers Library today while reading my blog list. This is very interesting – from their site: The FileHelpers are a free and easy to use .NET library to import/export data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams. The idea is pretty simple: You can strong type your flat file (fixed or delimited) simply describing a class that maps to each record and later read/write your file as an strong typed .NET array ...
This morning, I had Virtual Box in full screen mode on my Windows desktop, and I forgot the keystroke to get out. The typical key combos didn’t work. Strangely, I couldn’t find anything on Google or Virtual Box’s user guide that told me how to get out of full screen. Of course, it tells you how to get out when you go to full screen mode, but if you don’t pay attention (or forget), good luck finding it after the fact. Luckily, I have Virtual Box on my laptop as well, so I had a backup. So anyone out...
Over the years, I’ve switched between VMware Workstation, VMware Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, and Microsoft Virtual Server for my Virtual Machine hosting platforms. A friend of mine recently suggested checking out VirtualBox from Sun. I was somewhat hunting for a new platform because I no longer own a VMware Workstation license, and the free version of VMware Server has went completely web based which I found very difficult to use. I’ve tried to like Virtual PC, but Microsoft has seemed to abandon this product and fully investing in their Hyper-V technology. I’ve heard great things about Hyper-V, but it’s not...
Some time ago I wrote a post called Base Personal Image. I wanted to write an update to that, but decided it would be nice to have it in it’s original date for historical purposes. So, I’m writing a new post and stamping it with the year. Here’s the topology of my setup The staple of my setup are Windows Live Mesh (this replaced Folder Share for me – now called Windows Live Synch). This is what ties everything together for me. Core Windows Vista SP1...
Here are two of my favorite right-click goodies I use on all of my machines. Setup You first need to register cscript.exe as your default scripting host with Windows. To register it with Windows, run this from a command prompt: cscript //H:cscript Build .csproj Files by Right-Click Save these into an ANSI text file with a .reg extension and double click them for Windows to import these into your registry Visual Studio 2008Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Build Debug]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Build Debug\command]
@="cmd.exe /k \"C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\\MSBuild.exe %1 /t:build /p:Configuration=Debug\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Build Release]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Build Release\command]
@="cmd.exe /k \"C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\\MSBuild.exe %1 /t:build /p:Configuration=Release\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Rebuild Debug]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Rebuild Debug\command]
@="cmd.exe /k \"C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\\MSBuild.exe %1 /t:rebuild /p:Configuration=Debug\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Rebuild Release]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.csproj.9.0\shell\Rebuild...
Ya know the class Windows XP open file dialog? This thing... That left hand nav bar looks so interesting, but it's not. Well, it might be interesting for people who frequently open files from the Desktop without double-clicking them from there. I rarely, if ever, do that. However, I would love to be able to create my own entries in that left hand nav area. There's a short list of about 5 locations that I FREQUENTLY open files from that need to be located deep in some folder structure of my own creation. I wrote about TeraCopy and...
I love utility software. I love software vendors like Moon Software, that produce targeted utility software like Password Agent and Backup Magic. I was reading Jon Galloway's blog the other day and found his write up about TeraCopy from Code Sector. TeraCopy has some nice features beyond what Windows gives you, such as restartable copies, but it also make Vista tolerable when copying files. It's a must have for Vista users or anyone that like RoboCopy.
While snooping around Code Sector's site, I found DirectFolders. I'm downloading it now, so I can't speak to it personally,...
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