Vista will try and run most programs without admin rights even if you are signed on as an admin. Some programs such as Visual Studio need admin rights so it is worth setting them to always run as administrator. Confusingly, looking at a shortcut’s properties, the compatibility tab has an option to “Run this program […]
I upgrade, move, or reinstall the OS on my PCs fairly often so setting a master category list with a macro is useful: Public Sub ResetCategories() DeleteAllCategories CreateCategory “! goals”, 1, 0 CreateCategory “! objectives”, 2, 0 CreateCategory “! projects”, 3, 0 CreateCategory “@ anywhere”, 4, 0 CreateCategory “@ computer”, 5, 0 CreateCategory […]
The following macros convert outlook items to tasks with different categories. Based on this blog post which in turn is based on this one. The item body is copied to the task body and the item itself is added as an attachment. If multiple items are selected, multiple tasks will be created. Created tasks are left […]
Trying to install Vista on a machine and getting a blank screen after one of the reboots? This could be caused by an incompatible display driver. I solved this problem by: Reboot the machine and hit F8 to get the Windows boot menu. Select Safe Mode with Networking. Vista will boot then will complain that […]
VS2005 defaults new classes to internal rather than public (although it appears that Orcas defaults to public). This is good as it reduces the public interface of your assembly and it encourages you to actually think about whether a class needs to be public. You can allow other assemblies access to your internal types and […]
With Vista (and probably XP and IE7) right clicking on a zip file on a network share brings up an Internet Explorer dialogue: This page has an unspecified potential security risk. Would you like to continue? It appears that the OS thinks that your network share is in the Internet Zone rather than the Intranet […]
To Strongly name an assembly you need to associate it with a public and private key. This can be either done by the developer when they compile the assembly (signing) or by at a later stage for instance by the QA department (delayed signing). Public and private keys can be associated with code signing certificates, generated […]
When I am doing anything more complicated than simple file browsing I use Xplorer2 rather than the windows file browser. One of the features of Xplorer2 is the ability to run commands on files you have selected. These are the commands I currently have set up: VS Cmd$”C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\sdkvars.bat”Sets the console to […]