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Debugger Canvas 1.1 is Released

There’s a lot of UI research going on focused around better debugging. Debugger Canvas is some that you can use today and the version 1.1 was just released . The speed increased in 1.1 are great and make Debugger Canvas much more usable. I’m in love with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:48 PM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Wintellect is Hiring!!

Business is good and we need YOU! Wintellect is currently seeking senior level technical development resources for both contract and permanent employment for our current client projects. If you want the challenge of keeping up with co-workers like Jeffrey Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:33 AM by jrobbins | 0 Comments
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Paraffin 3.6–Now Keeping Custom Added Namespaces

Paraffin 3.6 can be downloaded here: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/files/folders/18310/download.aspx Dan Gough had an excellent feature request to have Paraffin copy over any manually added namespaces to the .WXS file like the following. Previously, Paraffin Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:44 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Visual Studio 2010 Extensions Recommendations

The other day I was asked which extensions for Visual Studio I use so in an effort to save keystrokes , I thought I’d list them here so I can refer people to this list. There’s no way this is a comprehensive list and I do add and remove extensions all Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2012 4:31 PM by jrobbins | 7 Comments
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Setting the Power Plan with PowerShell

Edit: Make sure to read the comments from Shay Levy and Richard on clarifying my mistaken assumptions about how things work in PowerShell. Thanks to Richard & Shay for the clarifications! As I’m a command line kind of guy, I look for every opportunity Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:54 AM by jrobbins | 4 Comments
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Want Source Server to Work with Managed Minidumps in Visual Studio? Here’s How!

So you have an awesome minidump your IT guys grabbed with ProcDump . You’ve followed all the rules and have a Symbol Server and Source Server all set up. You open that dump with Visual Studio and BOOM, none of your indexed sources show up. You pull your Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2012 4:29 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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Things I Am Enjoying (December, 2011)

In the development world, there’s a lot of things that bump, distract, and annoy you through the day. Those get a lot of attention in blogs to help others work around those issues and to document the pain. What does not get a lot of attention are those Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:51 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments
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Is That a WeakReference In Your Gen 2 or Are You Just Glad to See Me?

Sometimes it’s easy to see why your .NET server application is using so much memory, but other times it makes no sense at all. I was at Microsoft earlier this week and someone who’d taken my debugging class stopped me and asked an excellent question. Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:39 AM by jrobbins | 4 Comments
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Installing Windows 8 on an ASUS EP121 & Initial Thoughts on Metro

So I have been installing new builds of Windows since NT 3.1 Beta 1 so I can’t help myself! After downloading Windows 8 Developer Preview I of course had to give it a go on my ASUS EP121 . It’s a full touch and pen slate computer that is one of the test Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:25 AM by jrobbins | 29 Comments
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Visual Studio 2010 Updates Now in Windows Update!

On a mailing list I’m on Ed Blankenship pointed out that VS updates are now coming through Windows Update. Finally! Hopefully Microsoft will keep pushing these updates for all products they ship because it’s something of a pain to keep a development box Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:04 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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More on TFS 2010 Build Numbers Inside Your Projects

The other day I wrote about how to incorporate build numbers into your .CSPROJ and .VCXPROJ files. In doing some more testing I found in some edge cases where the way I was getting the current build number by including Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:44 PM by jrobbins | 3 Comments
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TFS 2010 Build Numbers & File Versions from Inside Your C# and C++ Projects

A while ago, I showed using MSBuild 4.0 to create build version files with the TFS build number so that build number could be included in your binaries. While you can use Jim Lamb's excellent custom workflow activity , I liked doing the version numbers Read More...
Posted Monday, September 05, 2011 11:14 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments
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Windows 7 Hang with FireWire 800 Drive Fix

Recently I bought a smoking fast external SSD enclosures from Other World Computing. My plan was to use the FireWire 800 connection to the drive so I can get the best portable speed possible. Alas, on all my machines as soon as I tried to do anything Read More...
Posted Monday, August 29, 2011 5:42 AM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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Who’s Got Their Hands on My .NET Objects?

Everything in .NET revolves around memory. As in who in the heck is holding on to all my objects so memory usage just keeps going up and up and up. In conjunction with the Linked In .NET Users Group, on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern, Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 07, 2011 6:47 PM by jrobbins | 3 Comments

DRONE Profiler: The New Old Profiler

Deep down inside every developer really wants to create developer tools. Let’s be honest, how many of you are really excited to the tips of your toes about that Line of Business application you’re working on? It pays the bills but working on a project Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:29 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments
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