December 4, 2008 – 7:18 pm
This is a very common thing many of you might be knowing this thing already. However, I am just putting this information as it might help someone. In a distributed development scenario it becomes imminent to have remote debugging possible lest you have your development environment both on your regular development system and the remote [...]
December 3, 2008 – 2:31 pm
Very often scenarios crop up when we want to clean our mammoth source code repository without having to export it elsewhere. I was looking for an elegant way to delete hidden .svn folders which are created by tortoise svn to keep track of the repository state on the client. I found this site which provided [...]
September 8, 2008 – 11:45 pm
It was really odd for me to find an error in MSDN code example which took almost a couple of hours to figure out what is wrong. I am working in VSTO (Visual Studio Tool for Office). I am developing a plugin which is suppose to override some of the specific Office 2007 functionalities and [...]
August 31, 2008 – 2:42 pm
I would have never known that this takes up these many calls to perform a simple Console.WriteLine operation unless Microsoft had released the source code of the .net framework. I am delighted that the source code for 3.5 sp1 is out. It is time to dive deep in the framework itself.
Find the link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/rscc/archive/2008/08/28/net-framework-3-5-sp1-sources-are-available.aspx
August 21, 2008 – 10:19 am
I found this incredible link to start most of the XP system apps from Run box.
Program
Run Command
Accessibility Controls
access.cpl
Accessibility Wizard
accwiz
Add Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs
appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools
control admintools
Adobe Acrobat ( if installed )
acrobat
Adobe Distiller ( if installed )
acrodist
Adobe ImageReady ( if installed )
imageready
Adobe Photoshop ( if installed )
photoshop
Automatic Updates
wuaucpl.cpl
Basic Media Player
mplay32
Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
fsquirt
Calculator
calc
Ccleaner ( if installed )
ccleaner
C: Drive
c:
Certificate Manager
cdrtmgr.msc
Character [...]
August 20, 2008 – 5:03 pm
While looking for an appropriate signature quote I stumbled across this website. I really liked a few of the quotes.
And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: “It’s just what we asked
for but not what we want.”
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history [...]
August 13, 2008 – 12:16 am
I had a task in hand to read and update a few registry settings. Since the registry keys might change in future and some more changes might be required on the fly, I decided to go with script instead of a config driven executable. Also, one compelling reason was that it has been some time [...]
Very often I require to perform (de)compression of archives programmatically. I use SharpZipLib for this purpose. After fiddling with several algorithms I found this simple piece of code that performs an elegant task of quick decompression of a zip archive.
internal void Decompress(string fileName,string extractPath)
{
FastZip fZip = new FastZip();
fZip.ExtractZip(fileName, extractPath, “”);
}
Link: http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2006/01/17/Unzip-files-programmatically-in-C_2300_-_2D00_-_2300_ZipLib.aspx
While exploring for CodeRush guides I stumbled across this website. The author has compiled a very good link to various tools and utilities which someone can use to boost his productivity a great deal. The reason I bookmarked this website and I am providing the link here is that it contains almost all the productivity [...]
I am an ardent admirer of console commands. For a very fast execution of the most simple tasks, I rely on cmd. About an year back I saw my tech architect using Grep on windows. Until then I didn’t know how effective it could be on Windows platform. At that very moment I downloaded unix-utilities [...]
