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February 2008 - Posts

The Travel Day from Hell

Sometimes traveling for business can be fun. As part of my job, I've been able to travel all over this wonderful planet. On my business trips I've gotten to see great sites like the Great Wall of China, Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Old Jerusalem Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 11:14 AM by jrobbins | 26 Comments

Eight Weeks of PowerShell

As I wrote a little bit ago my New Year's resolution was to see if I could make PowerShell my full time command shell. The good news is that after eight weeks, I'm still using PowerShell and enjoying it. As I still have fifteen years of CMD/4NT barnacles Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:30 AM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

SOSEX 1.1 Released

Steve Johnson has updated his must have SOSEX extensions for WinDBG. The big change is that the !vars command can now dump the locals and parameters for a specific frame all the stack frames on a thread. For example, in the following snippet from a session, Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:54 AM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

.NET Mass Downloader 1.2 Released

Kerem Kusmezer has been busy! If you've had problems with .NET Mass Downloader working behind a proxy server, version 1.2 adds the –proxy command line switch if you need to specify server, username, password, and domain. The –proxy switch uses the following Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:42 PM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

.NET Mass Downloader 1.1 Released

The feedback and downloads for .Net Mass Downloader have been quite pleasing! Kerem and I just went through and fixed all the reported bugs so the 1.1 release is better than ever. The big fixes were that we now properly handle paths with spaces in them Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:04 PM by jrobbins | 14 Comments

Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader

Microsoft has really helped out the development community by making the .NET Reference Source Code available to the community. Being able to step in the debugger from your code to the Framework code truly helps with you understanding and use of all parts Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:55 AM by jrobbins | 52 Comments

Debugging VBA Macros and Managed Components at the Same Time

This week I got the following question in email: I'm writing a COM component in C# that is used in Excel VBA macros. I really need to debug the VBA macro and the C# component at the same time. Is that possible? Absolutely! Here's the steps: Start Visual Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:44 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments