Adding Additional Internal Drives to Vista on a Mac Pro
I’ve written before about installing Vista x64 on a Mac Pro and how it’s the best Windows machine money can buy. Turns out I wasn’t the only one who wanted […]
Easily Converting to Visual Studio 2008
With VS 2008 being released on Monday, let the project conversions begin! While I wish we could have had a single project and solution format that would have worked between […]
Random Notes Taken While Installing VSTS 2008
As everyone on the planet knows, VS 2008 released to manufacturing and is available to MSDN Subscribers and everyone else. Here’s some notes on installing and interesting things I found: […]
Updated Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Source Code (3.2.11114.1)
After four or five reports that the SettingsMaster Add-In was failing to create it’s toolbar on some systems, I finally gave up and quit relying on what the Visual Studio […]
MSBuild 3.5 Tips and a Small MSBuild 4.0 Wish List
Earlier this week, I spent some quality time porting a moderately complicated build over to MSBUILD 3.5, the version that comes with Visual Studio 2008. There are numerous new features […]
PARAFFIN 1.01 – Bug Fix for Dashes in Ids
A big thanks to “Loctus” reporting a bug in PARAFFIN.EXE my WiX TALLOW.EXE replacement tool. I was allowing component and directory names to be created with dashes, which Candle does […]
The Six Its – The Key to Breaking Down Schedules
I’m sure everyone’s already read Joel Spolsky’s excellent discussion of Evidenced Based Scheduling, but if you haven’t you’re missing out. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that scheduling […]
itoldyouso – An Undocumented WinDBG Extension Command
Aaron Lerch recently wrote about a funny name for an exported function he saw exported from DBGHELP.DLL, itoldyouso. Aaron showed a small section of the Dependency Walker output, which piqued […]
WiX: A Better TALLOW – PARAFFIN (Part 3 of 3)
In the first installment of this series I discussed an introduction to WiX. In the second installment, I talked about the issues related to creating .WXS files with TALLOW.EXE and […]