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Make Outlook 2007 Reading Pane Show Plain Text

Edited: I messed up the value name While I’m probably a Luddite, I prefer to read my mail as plain text. However, Outlook 2007 removed the option to set that in the Reading Pane. Poking around a bit, I found if you add a DWORD value, ReadAsPlain, and Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 10:52 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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Updated Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Source Code (Jan 03 Update)

Like most people , I didn't realize that the VERSIONINFO resource was only a 16-bit number. Consequently, using my GenerateAssemblyFileVersionTask in the brand spanking new year produces date numbers of 70103, which will produce a CS167 compiler error. Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:34 AM by jrobbins | 4 Comments
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Updated Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Source Code (Dec 28 Update)

I botched the upgrade install. I changed the name of the property in MainInstall.WiX I used in the upgrade detection to 30610172VERSIONBEINGUPGRADED at the last minute. Being an idiot, I did all my install testing with the wrong build (long, sad story). Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 7:51 PM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Updated Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Source Code

A minor update to the existing code, but added all the cool MSBuild tasks for working offline with TFS as discussed here . Moved everything to Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Removed mssccprj.scc installed with Wintellect.Visualizers, which obviously wasn't supposed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:43 PM by jrobbins | 3 Comments
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Working Offline with TFS

(Note: The following may work with Visual SourceSafe or other version control systems, but I only tested with TFS.) (Note 2: Some kind folks indicated I might have sounded more shrill than I probably meant so I've edited this post. Sorry for any offense. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:34 PM by jrobbins | 4 Comments
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Sitting at the Feet of Masters...

Wil Shipley , the programming god behind the amazing Delicious Monster (sorry, that sexy app is Mac only) has written one of the most cogent posts about software development I've seen in a very long time. I don't care if you're doing Windows , Mac , or Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:44 AM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Debugging Services on Vista

Chris Jackson was very kind enough to point out that the discussion of debugging services in Chapter 4 of my Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications doesn't work on Vista because of session zero isolation. He's absolutely right and I really appreciate Read More...
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 5:32 PM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Wow! It's Done.

Fifteen minutes ago I sent in the last PDF chapter review of Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications . That means I'm done! The book still has to go through production, but it's out of my hands so I can finally get a bit of life back. As always, finishing Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:59 AM by jrobbins | 5 Comments
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Looking for Great Consultants and Trainers

Business is going great at Wintellect for both consulting and training. Consequently, we have run out of all the people we know and need to start looking outside our circle for more. I thought it might be a good idea to go directly to our blog readers Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:45 PM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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New WinDBG Posted

Grab the new WinDBG while it's fresh . I was told they were going to include the Source Server tools for Team Foundation System, but I don't see them in either the x64 or x86 installations. Also, it looks like CVS support isn't included any more. At least Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:45 AM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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Confusing Error Message 100,433

As someone who's a zealot about always running LUA , the following error message really ticks me off. What the heck were they thinking?! Read More...
Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 1:11 AM by jrobbins | 3 Comments
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Perfect Source Everytime You Debug

Do you want to know how to get the exact version of the source file when live debugging or reading minidumps? My Bugslayer column, which was turned into an article, on Source Server has finally made it to the August 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine ! They Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:55 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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CrashFinder 2.55: A Bug Fix and x64 Support!

Thanks to Dave Scherer who reported a problem in CrashFinder where the 32-bit version running on x64 wasn't properly handling the WOW64 version of NTDLL.DLL because it is missing the import table. In doing the fix I figured it was the time to produce Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:21 PM by jrobbins | 11 Comments
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Confusing Error Message 100,432

Exactly which part of zero don't you understand? --------------------------- Change Password --------------------------- Your password must be at least 0 characters, cannot repeat any of your previous 0 passwords and must be at least 0 days old. Please Read More...
Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 4:15 PM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Reading List

I posted an updated Recommended Reading List that lists the books we've all found helpful here at Wintellect. If we're missing any books that you think need to be there, please drop them in the comments. There's so many books being published these days, Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:16 AM by jrobbins | 3 Comments
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