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January 2008 - Posts

PowerShell Script for Setting Symbol Paths

In my continued resolution to make PowerShell my full time command line interface, I've been porting over some of my batch and JavaScript files as a learning exercise. Since the only way to really learn a technology is to do something real with it, this Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:21 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Apple Now Supports Vista x64 on Mac Pros!

As I have been screaming from the roof tops , the best Vista x64 machines are Apple's Mac Pros . They are rock solid, quiet, and beautiful. Apple just announced the latest Mac Pros with up to 8 CPUs. They also snuck in complete support for Vista x64! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:14 AM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Updated Fast VMware Server Backup Scripts

Back in October, I wrote about how I use the Volume Shadow Copy Service to backup my VMware Server virtual machines with minimal down time. I updated my batch files to have better error reporting and error handling. As always, let me know if you find Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:18 PM by jrobbins | 0 Comments

The Cool MoGo Mouse

One of the benefits of being selected as a Microsoft Valuable Professional for 2008 was a package that contained some Bluetooth accessories. The most interesting was a MoGo Mouse BT . It's a slim mouse that sits in your PC Card slot where it charges. Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:57 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments

WinUnit: An Outstanding Native C++ Unit Testing Tool

Whew! I can finally talk about one of the coolest pieces of code I've seen in ages: WinUnit . About a year ago, my friend, Maria Blees showed me an idea she had for unit testing native C++ code and asked if I thought it was any good. It was far more than Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:04 PM by jrobbins | 13 Comments

Smarter Logging with MSBuild

MSBuild has made my life so much easier that it makes me shudder thinking back to the days of NMAKE. With very little effort, I've been able to automate so much of my software build and processing that I almost wonder if MSBuild will eventually start Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:25 PM by jrobbins | 3 Comments

Additional .NET Framework Source Code Debugging Tricks

With the big announcement today, everyone's looking at the Framework sources like mad. Make sure you read everything in Shawn Burke's blog entry before you start. I thought I'd mention a couple of additional hints to help you out. If you've been downloading Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:16 AM by jrobbins | 7 Comments

Prepare to Migrate Your Visual Basic 6.0 Code to Visual Basic .NET

Do you have tons of VB6 code still running in your organization? I'm always surprised in our consulting and debugging work how much VB6 code is still running. I'm a strong advocate of not breaking working code, but with Microsoft ending all support for Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 10:59 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

New Year’s Resolution: PowerShell

Besides eliminating war and solving world hunger, another of my New Year's resolutions was to use PowerShell as my command window. While you're probably thinking using PowerShell is not much of a resolution, for me it's huge . I do nearly everything related Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:12 PM by jrobbins | 11 Comments