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Sunday, August 03, 2008 3:34 PM

Before testing an addin - Reset Visual Studio’s previous addin knowledge

note to self: if you are testing an installation of an addin on a “dirty” machine where this addin has already been removed and installed many times, be sure to clean visual studio from the previous addin with this command line: devenv.exe /ResetAddin...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 6:28 AM

Howto: Set custom Visual Studio Addin menu icons without a satellite dll

Update : Here is a more full featured declarative example of doing buttons with icons . OK. Setting icons on your visual studio addins is officially a sucky process and I wish MS would make this a much less painful experience. I cannot believe how much...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:15 PM

Make Zune resume your mp3 audio book files when replaying

This simple tip really helped me: Simply tag the mp3 file's "Genre" tag as "podcast" which will enable resume on them through the zune player.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:56 PM

Making Tab mix plus and other firefox addons work with Firefox 3 beta

I installed Firefox 3 beta and the addon I missed the most was Tab Mix Plus (along with IETab , but that works on the beta). Here's how I was able to have Tab Mix Plus working on Firefox 3: 1) Try downloading the latest dev build of the addon from this...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:35 PM

Parallel Builds with MSBuild

I just learned something new: You can do parallel builds with MsBuild if you have a multi core CPU. awesome.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:21 AM

Fix: Cannot copy file 'X' to file 'Y'. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. in Visual Studio 2008

This just saved me loads of time(especially because it only happened every once in a while): if you encounter the amazingly annoying "Cannot copy file because it is being used by another process" when you want to rebuild or rerun a project in...
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Monday, February 04, 2008 6:41 PM

Nice little gmail trick

I just realized a cool trick in Gmail (and google for domains mail): you can check one message, then go further down or up in the list several messages and shift-click on its check box, and it will work like a regular list box - all the messages in between...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:38 PM

Tip: Easily change logon settings for all users on your machine

OK, I did not know this one, but it's so simple: Click Start , click Run , and type " control userpasswords2" . more here (by Doug Knox )
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Monday, June 25, 2007 6:59 PM

Unit Test Tip: Encode test data as part of your test xml comments

What a cool idea, and simple too. You can encode various test data as XML comments on your test, and then use them in your test by parsing the XML file generated by the compiler. More details here . Lars Thurop wrote the CommentReader which can enable...
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Monday, June 25, 2007 2:34 PM

ThreadTester with new Ability: StopWhenTrue() and thread polling

I've updated The ThreadTester Library with a new ability: StopWhenTrue(). It allows you to periodically poll while all the threads are running (and the test is blocking) and either assert stuff or stop the run midway when some condition is true. Download...
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