http://www.makiwa.com Stuart Campbell's occasional musings about software development, etc. Thu, 08 May 2008 11:04:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2008/05/08/ie-developer-toolbar-stops-working/ 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2008/04/26/consolas-a-new-font-for-visual-studio/ 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2008/04/13/vista-hibernate-problem/ 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2008/03/06/ie7-emulation-in-ie8-beta-1-doesnt-do-what-it-says-on-the-tin/ 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. ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2008/02/08/editing-a-project-file-as-xml/ 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/11/25/error-uninstalling-vs-2008-beta-2/ This is not easy if you have thumbs as big as mine! But the phone looks cool! http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/11/25/blogging-from-the-iphone/ 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/11/15/automating-subversion-export-on-windows/ Technorati Tags: Software , Windows Media Player , Vista I've been tearing out what hair I have left, trying to work out why the mp3 files aren't updated when I change the metadata in Windows Media Player 11 on Vista. I spent hours updating ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/10/17/solution-windows-media-player-11-doesnt-update-media-information-on-vista/ 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 ... http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/09/02/vista-doesnt-connect-to-some-websites/