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Monday, May 29, 2006 11:02 AM

Firefox Copy / Paste bug driving me insane!

There has been a bug in Firefox for a long time that causes Copy / Paste to work inconsistently on Windows. Recently this bug has been driving me mad. After doing a little investigation I hear this bug is supposedly fixed in the soon to be released Firefox...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:09 AM

Editing a VS2005 Project File

The .Net Security Blog has a usefull tip on how to edit a VS2005 project file without leaving Visual Studio. Like most people I tend to use Notepad(2). Here's another way that comes with color coding and intellisense.
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Friday, November 11, 2005 10:48 AM

Every Developer Should...

James Avery has just put online the latest installment of his 10 must-have tools series. This time it's Ten Visual Studio Add-ins Every Developer Should Download . The CopySourceAsHTML add-in looks particularaly handly. Maybe I should install that and...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:15 PM

Beta2 Breaks 'Test With... Debugger' (in VS2003)

I have finally got the the bottom of the issue mentioned yesterday. I can confirm that installing VS2005 beta2 or any of the Express products will break 'Test With... Debugger' in VS2003 (or VS2002). What makes the situation worse it that uninstalling...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:49 AM

Cheeky way to Build XML

Concratulations Aaron Skonnard ! As well as being a scary thought, that is a very concise way to build XML. myFamily.InnerXml += "<child sex='unknown' bday='7/4/2005'/>";
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Friday, August 13, 2004 3:31 PM

[InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.Build.Engine.Unittest")]

I was spelunking the .NET framework 2.0 and noticed the following assembly attribute on 'Microsoft.Build.Engine'. [ assembly: InternalsVisibleTo ( "Microsoft.Build.Engine.Unittest" )] I knew this feature was planned, but I didn't realise it was live in...
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:43 PM

Debugging Application Startup

Matt Pietrek has a useful tip for attaching a debugger on application startup. I'm sure this will save my skin one day. More info and fun .
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Monday, February 02, 2004 1:39 AM

clientScriptsLocation

Donny Mack shows us how to specify the 'aspnet_client' directory in your Web.config. I'm sure this will come in useful soon (I'm playing the Cassini web server).
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003 12:32 PM

psexec \\computer -u Administrator cmd

The above command launches an interactive command prompt on \\computer running as Administrator. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell over at Sysinternals never fail to amaze me. If you haven't already, go grab Pstools now! Jason Posted @ 10/8/2003 2:18...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:43 AM

Visual Studio Favorites

I didn't know you could do this... Just right click on the command bar. Make sure 'Web' is checked and click on the favorites icon. You can then drag shortcuts of your projects into the favorites tool window.
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