Development
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I rely a lot on tools like the IE Developer toolbar. Recently after uninstalling IE 8 Beta 1 and returning to IE 7, the toolbar just stopped working. I could launch it, but all the options were greyed out.
It took me a while to fix this, yet the solution is embarrassingly simple. I found it ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I’ve just downloaded a new font for Visual Studio. It’s called Consolas and I think I like it. You can get it here.
According to the blurb:
Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Since installing Vista SP1 (even since the release candidate I think) my system would fail to hibernate.
It would look like it had hibernated, but the next time I booted I would get a “Windows did not shut down successfully”. And then it would boot normally as though it hadn’t been hibernated.
Anyway, found this thread and ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
IE8 Beta 1 has some cool features, but, as I still need to develop for IE7, I only installed it over IE7 because it has an IE7 emulation mode. Problem is, that mode doesn’t quite work.
Oh. Oh. Oh. See Gmail puke. Look Microsoft! Look!
What is going on with the left navigation? It’s usually more ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
I sometimes need to edit a *.csproj file as XML. However, there isn’t an option for doing so in Visual Studio. Or so I thought.
I often end up opening the *.csproj as a text file from explorer, but then of course, I lose all the Intellisense goodness.
Perhaps I’m slow but it wasn’t until today that ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I’ve just had a bit of a pain uninstalling Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 on Vista. I followed Scott Guthrie’s steps for uninstalling it, but when I tried to uninstall VS 2008 itself I got the following error:
Error 1325.’WebDesignerCore’ is not a valid short file name.
Needless to say, a brief episode of profanity ensued. ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
This is not easy if you have thumbs as big as mine! But the phone looks cool!
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I was having problems using the a command line Subversion client on Windows XP to export from the repository. The problem was mainly my own stupidity but I’ll share the "solution" anyway.
The Subversion help describes the "export" command as follows:
export: Create an unversioned copy of a tree. usage: 1. export ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
I recently re-installed Vista and had this weird problem where I could connect to some websites, but not others. I solved the problem by explicitly setting the DNS addresses to the ones used by the router. If you are having this problem this might work for you too.
In the online status page of the router ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
I'm working on a financial web app that's SSL-secured, and recently on page load, IE6 has been throwing up the mixed content prompt: "This page contains both secure and unsecure items".
This confused me because I searched through the app and couldn't find any URLs with the "http" scheme.
Using Fiddler2 I was able to decrypt the ...
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