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Web Application Installer in WiX

If all you need to do is install your web application into Default Web Site, life is easy. Especially since Windows Installer XML (WiX) has all that support right in the box . Where things get nasty is if you need an installer that lets the user choose Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:01 AM by jrobbins | 12 Comments

Disabling the Visual Studio Source Server Security Warning Dialog

The estimable Ed Blankenship posted a must read article for everyone using TFS 2010: Source Server and Symbol Server Support in TFS 2010 . Bookmark that article because it’s the one stop shop for all the best practices for symbol server, source indexing, Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 12, 2011 6:44 PM by jrobbins | 3 Comments
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ASUS Eee Slate EP121 Review

Looking over the offerings at CES 2011, the ASUS Eee Slate EP121 caught my eye as I had been looking for a replacement slate computer since my beloved Motion M1400 found a new home with my niece. I ordered one as soon as it was available and I got it Read More...
Posted Friday, February 04, 2011 5:42 AM by jrobbins | 82 Comments
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Random Cool Things

In the last week or so, there’s been a number of interesting emails pass through my inbox. So interesting in fact, I wanted to make sure to share them. Aren’t those Code Metrics for .NET in Visual Studio great? I find them very helpful to give me interesting Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:13 PM by jrobbins | 5 Comments
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Using Home Server? Be Careful with the WHS V1 Update Release 2 (KB981089)

As I always have Process Explorer running in tray area, I noticed that with my computer doing nothing, the CPU icon was showing constant 10%-12% CPU utilization. It was one of the many SRVHOST.EXE processes, and running the RPC Endpoint Mapper Service Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:01 AM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Install a New Virtual Directory to Default Web Site with WiX

Sometimes the internet is totally awesome and other times it’s a complete morass of “how come I can’t find anything?” Recently, I needed to build a quick installer that did nothing more than install new virtual directory under the ubiquitous Default Web Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:19 PM by jrobbins | 10 Comments

Window Clippings 3 Released

One of my most used utilities, Window Clippings , has a brand new version! Kenny Kerr has added all sorts of wonderful screen capture goodness to Windows Clippings 3 that allows you to take that perfect snapshot of what’s on your screen. There are gobs Read More...
Posted Monday, November 29, 2010 3:47 AM by jrobbins | 4 Comments

Code Signing Certificates – The Three Year Update

A little short of three years ago, I wrote a blog entry, " Code Signing – It's Cheaper and Easier than you Thought ." In there I talked about buying my three year certificate from TUCOW's author web site (who's a reseller of Comodo certificates) for $195 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2010 9:52 PM by jrobbins | 8 Comments

10 Years and Free Training

Has it really been ten years since Jeff Prosise, Jeffrey Richter, Lewis Frazer, and I started Wintellect? No way! It really is true that when you're having fun, time flies. When we started we had no idea we'd survive the Dot Com Crash, the Housing Bubble, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:45 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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Performance is Never Loosely Coupled

Yes, yes, oh god, yes! All "When Harry Met Sally" references aside, one of the most important performance statements you will ever read in your development life is expressed below from Rico Mariani. We see this anti pattern constantly in our consulting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:53 AM by jrobbins | 5 Comments

What Is Different between the OS’s on Two Machines?

Don't you love it when your application works on one machine, but not the other? We were running into this exact issue with a client and needed to see what was different between the operating systems on two machines. Thinking that the issue might have Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:03 PM by jrobbins | 11 Comments
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Want a free copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with a full MSDN Subscription?

Do you want all that IntelliTrace goodness as well as all the OS/Tools that MSDN offers? For free? Of course you do! Head over to Wintellect's Marketing Director Bethany Vananda's blog ( http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/bvananda/archive/2010/09/09/devscovery-sponsor-thank-you-wintellect-contest-join-the-fun-win-prizes.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:44 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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Zen of Paraffin

With Paraffin 3.5, I included this document, but thought it would be worth posting as well for those of you that aren't familiar with Paraffin. You can download the lastest release here: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/files/folders/18310/download.aspx Introduction Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:34 PM by jrobbins | 8 Comments

Paraffin 3.5 – Now with Better Minor Upgrade Support

Slowly but surely I'm getting through the list of feature requests everyone's been asking for. This release of Paraffin brings support for the trick outline by Vagmi Mudumbai ( http://geekswithblogs.net/Vagmi.Mudumbai/archive/2006/06/11/81426.aspx ) of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:23 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments

A Cool WinDBG/SOS Hidden Feature

Every once in a while you run across an undocumented trick that totally and completely makes your day. A great example of that is the ability to debug MSBuild scripts in Visual Studio. Today I ran across another amazingly useful feature in WinDBG and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:03 PM by jrobbins | 13 Comments
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