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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:57 PM

My Boot-to-VHD experiment: found some tips, like it, but still haven’t found VM nirvana

Summary Windows 7’s Boot to VHD works as advertised – native speed, virtual machine flexibility. I came up with some tips and tricks which you might find useful Having to reboot without hibernate to switch to the VHD machine means it’s a lot less useful...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:31 AM

MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet

a.bookmarklet { border: 1px black dashed; text-decoration: none; padding: 2px; background: #fff9d8; } There’s a semi-hidden feature in the MSDN Library website : Low Bandwidth view. We’ll talk about how to use it, why I like it, and some tips for switching...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:30 PM

Using <body> Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

I previously wrote about taking CSS beyond a simple style library by writing HTML that’s easy to style. I’d like to go into one point in a bit more detail – avoiding class explosion by leveraging descendant selectors : You might think that really stylable...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:23 AM

Using Vista Previous Versions to Restore Files You Thought You'd Lost

I'm a big fan of being productive by not losing work. I don't care how optimized your system and development tools are; if you have to do work to get back to where you were at a half hour ago, you're going backwards. I've previously written about using...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:32 PM

[Utility] TeraCopy removes the file copy pain from Windows Vista

Last September, I asked why aren't Windows file copies restartable ? It's a huge productivity killer - and very frustrating - when you're copying a large file from a network share or over a VPN and the copy fails when it was 80% complete. At that point...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:46 AM

Opening Adobe Illustrator (AI) files when you don't have Adobe Illustrator

You've been waiting for the design firm to send final artwork. The e-mail finally arrives... Uh, oh. That organic.ai file is an Adobe Illustrator Artwork file. Since I'm not a full time designer, I haven't gotten around to spending $600 for Illustrator...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:19 PM

Getting JavaScript and ASP.NET talking (outside of AJAX)

Passing values between ASP.NET and JavaScript code is messy A lot of effort has gone into simplifying the AJAX pattern, in which your JavaScript code calls methods on the server without requiring a full page post. You don't hear much about the synchronous...
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Monday, January 14, 2008 11:49 PM

Registry setting keeps Windows from wigging out when you open lots of IE7 tabs

Summary Opening too many tabs in Internet Explorer 7 can cause the Windows shell to switch to "Evil Mode". Fortunately, there's a registry setting that fixes the problem by increasing the Windows heap size. The Problem Internet Explorer starts to go nuts...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:03 AM

Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (Release)

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:07 AM

Creating Zip archives in .NET (without an external library like SharpZipLib)

Overview SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging. SharpZipLib is good, but there's that GPL thing SharpZipLib...
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