Contents tagged with Hints amp; Tips
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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 1.5.0.4.
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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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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 start blogging again. ;o)
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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 them won't fix the issue! The good news is that I now have a patch that seems to work. I'll explain what causes the issue and how the patch works.
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Cheeky way to Build XML
Concratulations Aaron Skonnard! As well as being a scary thought, that is a very concise way to build XML.
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[InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.Build.Engine.Unittest")]
I was spelunking the .NET framework 2.0 and noticed the following assembly attribute on 'Microsoft.Build.Engine'.
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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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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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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!
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Visual Studio Favorites
I didn't know you could do this...