In the same vain as another post, I or someone needs to write a Visual Studio 2005 add-in for managing the Break on Exception feature. Specifically, be able to create profiles that can easily be switched between during debugging sessions that would enable/disable breaking into the deubber on certain types of exceptions but not other. [...]
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Note to self: Another Software Idea
September 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
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Chef and Vista
April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
As I mentioned last night, I made the 1.0.0 build of Chef and started doing some installation testing on Vista. It’s official – Vista’s UAC is kicking my ass. It’s during the database setup that I’m having the problem. Sql Server gets installed OK, it’s for some reason the database restore that times out. Kinda [...]
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Note to self: software idea
March 11th, 2007 · 4 Comments · General
I would like a software product that would allow me to define “profiles” of windows services to be running or stopped. For instance, there are times when I’m not on my LAN at home and want to code on my laptop. That entails having my sql server instance up and running. But I don’t want [...]
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Current Book
March 11th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
I am reading Code Complete, 2nd Edition (great Valentine’s Day gift Ana! and must say that it’s much better and far more interesting than I expected it to be. I thought of it as being one of those books that you just have to read, but would probably be a chore to do so. Boy [...]
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Visual Studio on Vista
March 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · General
As mentioned I installed Vista on my new desktop, since I have been running it on my laptop with Visual Studio for a month now without any real problems. Go figure, I ran into an issue that has been bugging me for the past couple days. The symptoms are as follows: Every time I start [...]
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Visual Studio followup
February 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Just a little follow-up regarding my issue with Visual Studio 2005 and Vista – I was able to make the problem go away by installing a hotfix for KB912019.
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Vista and Visual Studio 2005
February 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · General
I knew I was taking a slight risk installing Vista on my laptop, where I do quite a bit of my coding. I’m having a big problem with the Chef solution in Vista – it compiles and runs just fine but in the Visual Studio IDE I cannot open the WinForm Designer for anything but [...]
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Strong Naming
January 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
As a continuation of my last post, I thought some of you .net developers may be interested in hearing about some of the issues I ran into when strong naming. Admittedly, this is my first real attempt at using strong naming as it’s intended and therefore I just wasn’t aware of a few things when [...]
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