Untitled-4 Blog Oct 19, 2009 Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is on MSDN! Go grab it and let the fun begin. See the Beta 2 home page to see what's new and how to get the bits.
Untitled-4 Blog Oct 06, 2009 Initially Turning on FxCop/Code Analysis for a Large Code Base Recently I was asked a question that's come up several times so I thought I'd share the answer. I've inherited a large code base that has never had FxCop run on it. When I ran the binaries through FxCop, it...
Untitled-4 Blog Oct 06, 2009 Updated Compile-Help.PS1 and Neat PowerShell Scripting Tricks One of my favorite PowerShell scripts of all time is Jeff Hillman's Compile-Help. Instead of attempting to read the PowerShell help in a text window, Jeff's outstanding script packages up all the help into a searchable, linkified, and easy to...
Untitled-4 Blog Sep 30, 2009 Changing the Visual Studio Splash Screen Registered User On a mailing list I subscribe to, there was an interesting question, "How do you change the user information shown in the Visual Studio splash screen?" I've circled in red the user information below. As I was curious about the...
Untitled-4 Blog Sep 11, 2009 WinUnit is Now on CodePlex As there are still tons and tons of native C++ development going on and you need to test that code just like you do for your C# code. I've been using WinUnit, which was first introduced in a great MSDN...
Untitled-4 Blog Sep 02, 2009 Focus On Delivering Value to Your Patients. Mac Pro + OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) + Windows 7 x64 = Love If you've been reading my blog for a while, you have already seen my infatuation with using Apple hardware. With a freshly pressed copy of Apple's latest, OS X 10.6 now in my hot little hands, it was time to...
Untitled-4 Blog Sep 01, 2009 Focus On Delivering Value to Your Patients. Fixing a Server 2008 R2 Upgrade from Server 2008 Activation Problem After remoting into my domain controller I recently upgraded to Server 2008 R2, I very briefly saw a balloon tip pop up that said: "Invalid Windows Activation" (or something close to that). That was odd as I was sure I...
Untitled-4 Blog Aug 13, 2009 Paraffin 3.11: Fixed Directory Reference Option Sam reported a bug in Paraffin where I wasn't handling the –dirref option correctly. How embarrassing! It was a quick fix so grab the updated code and binary here. As always, please let me know if you have feature suggestions...
Untitled-4 Blog Aug 12, 2009 Stay compliant with HIPAA/HITECH + HITRUST + PCI-DSS + IRS-1075 + SSAE 16 Bugslayer Tips Reappear A while ago we lost the link where I had put all the tips that ran in my Bugslayer column in Microsoft Systems Journal and MSDN Magazine. Now they're back. Here's the complete collection: https://training.atmosera.com/bugslayertips.aspx. Enjoy!
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 28, 2009 More on Backup and Restore On my post about restoring with Windows Home Server, Bill Tudor had an excellent comment that I felt everyone needed to read concerning backup and restore: Don't overlook the build-in image-based backup available in the better SKU's of Vista and...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 24, 2009 Fact-Based Analysis to Optimize Business-Critical Websites and E-Commerce Sites Windows Home Server Restore Hint Messing around I managed to wipe out one of my machines. Fortunately, I have rock solid backups with Windows Home Server, which I highly recommend. When disaster strikes, all you need to do is pop in the WHS Restore CD,...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 21, 2009 Fact-Based Analysis to Optimize Business-Critical Websites and E-Commerce Sites Can the VS Debugger Automatically Attach to Any Child Spawned by a Process Being Debugged? In my article on Easier Multithreaded Debugging, there was a great question in the comments from GregM: < p style="margin-left:36pt">John, how about a way to make VS automatically attach to any children spawned by the process(es) being debugged? The short...