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  • runas cmd makes your life easier

    This week I had to temporaly use a different user on my machine. So at first I thought I had to move all my settings (outlook profile, firefox bookmarks, vms, etc) from my primary user to this new one. This is not a nice task. Hopefully I remembered the runas command which allowed me to run the above programs (indeed I'm currently creating this post running WLW using runas) as my primary user from the new user session. IMO this is definitily a very good tip if you have the same scenario in the feature.

  • Read source code to be a better developer

    I want to give it a try. My idea is to take a look at one or two projects every week and post some conclusions of what I could learn of them. Here you have for example the latest Scott Hanselman's post showing his weekly results.  So if you have in mind a really cool source code stuff, please feel free to ping me (leaving a comment to this post or using the contact me link) and let me know where I can get it!  Thanks!

  • Adding a custom VS Task List Token

    You probably used the TODO task list token to add a comment about what it should be done. But what about if you want to use a custom token to add a different kind of comment; for example a Review(x) comment. VS allows you to add custom task list token via Tools->Options->Environment->Task List as it's shown in the following screenshot: