Archives
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Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?
Sadly, it appears the answer is "yes". Specifically, the debugger has a huge limitation - one that's been there since Visual Studio 2005 (maybe even 2003). You can't set a breakpoint on the first line of an anonymous function. Consider, for example, the following:
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Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?
I finally got around to installing the latest beta of Windows Live Writer, my favorite blogging tool. As part of the install, it displays the following dialog:
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Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution
A while back I blogged about a problem I had installing Visual Studio 2005 on a fresh Vista install - it complained about requiring Windows XP SP2. I never found a satisfactory explanation, but copying the DVD contents to the hard drive worked around the problem. The stock suggestion was to check the Compatibility settings on the property page for setup.exe - but in my case no compatibility mode was set. Or was it?
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Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)
Maybe this is common knowledge, but my co-worker and I spent some time chasing this down today, so I figured I'd post it in the hope that it will save other people some time.
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Hacking a 100% zoom feature onto NoSquint with KeyConfig
I recently blogged about the NoSquint Firefox extension, for remembering per-site text zoom levels. I also recently blogged about the Keyconfig extension, which allows you to change hotkey bindings. I guess you could say that this post is the bastard child of those two posts.
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Dealing with Conflicting Keyboard Hotkeys in Firefox
It's been a good week for new (to me) Firefox extensions.
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Dealing with Small Font Sizes in Firefox - NoSquint
Generally, I find that the font sizes used on many, if not most, web sites, are too damn small - especially on a 15" UXGA laptop screen. To avoid having to hit Ctrl-+ (text zoom) on every page I visited, I've been increasing the the minimum font size in the Firefox Options dialog. But this isn't an ideal solution - it screws up the layout of a lot of web sites. And minimum means minimum - you can't use Ctrl- - to zoom out and shrink the text size.
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Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista
I've got a brand-spanking new, clean install of Vista on my laptop, and I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on it. Unfortunately, I'm not getting very far. The installer always displays the following dialog, complaining that I don't have XP SP 2 installed:
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Renaming the blog - finally
I've been meaning to rename this blog for ages. The whole PuppiesAndIceCream thing was originally just a dumb joke from when I renamed the blog the first time, and I never meant for it to stick. But being the unimaginative person that I am, I never came up with another name, and so it has stayed.
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Running Assembly Reflector Add-in Updated for Reflector 5.0
For details and the download link, go here.
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VMWare on Vista Lameness
Am I the only one majorly annoyed by VMWare's support policy (or lack there-of) for VMWare on a Vista host? Apparently EMC's stance is that in order to run VMWare on a Vista host, we need to wait for VMWare 6.0. This presents several problems:
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Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets
Ever since upgrading to Vista and Office 2007, I've had a really annoying problem with Outlook 2007. After running for a couple days, the UI would lose the ability to repaint itself correctly. It would glitch out and start drawing large blank regions or garbage. It smacked of a resource leak, but caused by what? I tried everything I could think of - upgrading the video drivers, disabling add-ins...nothing fixed the problem.
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The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio
One of my co-workers was struggling with a strange problem recently - he installed SQL Server 2005 (with Analysis Services 2005), but the Business Intelligence Studio application didn't install. If you haven't seen it, BI Studio is really just a special version of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, with Analysis Services-specific projects and editors. What he saw was that even though the SQL Server installer claimed to have installed it, and even created a shortcut for it, the actual devenv.exe executable wasn't installed (the shortcut pointed to an invalid path). I'd installed SQL Server many a time, and never seen this problem. A search of the MSDN forums turned up this helpful topic, with the following advice from 'softie Dan Jones:
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Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?
I've been working a bit with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (bit of a mouthful, isn't it?) recently. The toolkit consists mostly of a set of extender controls. In ASP.NET AJAX lingo, an extender is a control that attaches AJAX-y functionality to an existing ASP.NET server control. Each instance of an ASP.NET AJAX extender control is associated with a single instance of an ASP.NET server control through its TargetControlID property.
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Snipping Tool on Vista
In a comment on my post about problems running Cropper on Vista, Chris Hammond pointed out the Snipping Tool that's built into Vista (Programs, Accessories. I wasn't aware of this tool - it's really quite cool! It allows you to draw a rectangle or free form shape on the screen, and captures whatever is displayed on the screen in that region (it also supports the standard window and fullscreen snapshot). Thanks for the pointer, Chris!
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How TO Sell Software - JetBrains responds
This morning I was pleased to find a comment to yesterday's blog post about JetBrains from Alex Tkachman, COO of said company. He was very apologetic about the problems with their site, and generously offered me a free license to Resharper. Thanks Alex!
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Vista Issue for Application Developers - Notification Icon Color Schemes
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Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper
One of the unfortunate casualties of my upgrade to Vista has been Cropper, the excellent screen capture tool from Brian Scott. It seems that desktop composition wreaks havoc with Cropper's ability to capture screen shots correctly - the Cropper overlay shows up in the captured image, thusly:
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How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems
JetBrains is currently running a special promotion for Resharper, offering a "Personal License" to individuals for $99. Being potentially interested, I've spent the last couple of days trying to get an eval license so I could try the software before buying. Unfortunately, filling out the form for a 30 day eval license and submitting it just results in the error ""Our server is temporarily busy. Please, try again later or contact us via e-mail: webmaster@jetbrains.com". I sent an email to that address, but got no response. This does not make me feel warm and fuzzy about buying their software.