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The build-in hot key combo to pull up Windows Task Manager is Ctrl+Shift+Esc which appears to have been in Windows since XP (or earlier).  And all this time I’ve been right-clicking on the task bar.

I made an error with formatting in a blog posting after inserting a code snippet into Live Writer using Paste from Visual Studio. Like in Microsoft Word, I found it near impossible to correct my error from the Edit tab of Live Writer.  Luckily Live Writer provides a Source tab making it possible (although tedious) […]

Want to kill an hour?  Forget to include a primary key constraint on a SQL table and use the Visual Studio auto-generated dataset. You will get this error when issuing the Update() command on an adapter: “Update requires a valid UpdateCommand when passed DataRow collection with modified rows.” If you look at the code in […]

After you have built your release WCF Service Library .dll in VS 2010, when deploying to IIS 7, the .dll file(s) should go under the bin folder of the application root of the web site.  This must be common knowledge, but it took me a few “bings” to find the answer from this link: … […]

To make sure IIS 7 is setup to work with the latest WCF and .Net 4 framework, use these two utilities: aspnet_regiis.exe and ServiceModelReg.exe. On an x64 machines, both of these utilities can be found in the folder: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319 From a command prompt launched with “Run as administrator” rights run aspnet_regiis –i –enable Per MSDN, […]

[DebuggerDisplay("Customer={CustomerName} Phone={CustomerPhone}")] class WEOTestClass { public WEOTestClass(string _name, string _phone) { CustomerName = _name; CustomerPhone = _phone; } public string CustomerName { get; set; } public string CustomerPhone { get; set; } public override string ToString() { return( "Customer: " + CustomerName + " Phone: " + CustomerPhone ); } } For viewing classes when […]

For about an hour, all I wanted to do was use a WebGet attribute by adding this line of code to a test WCF application I was creating: using System.ServiceModel.Web; I went to the Add Reference dialog and looked for the assembly…  But as you can see below, for this project, it wasn’t available.   […]

myOSity.com reminds me of the original Microsoft Windows 3 Program Manager—an icon based launching pad to windowed applications (several of which are from various authors from around the web).  Interestingly, according the the creator’s blog the project will be going open source onto CodePlex. And for a very clever twist, check out Wiki-OS.  The concept […]

Subversion works great and is easy to install on Windows using Visual SVN Server.  Rather than using text commands to checkout/commit/log/etc, TortoiseSVN  seamlessly integrates with the Windows File Explorer as a shell extension providing excellent visual tools such as a Repo-Browser, Revision Graph, and Log Statistics. While TortoiseSVN has a visual diff tool, Beyond Compare […]

Using RegEdit, find the location of BlendLaunchPath. On my Windows Server 2008 box, the REG_SZ BlendLaunchPath was under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Expression\Blend\4.0\VS] The proper location is: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Expression\Blend\VS] Below you can see the new VS key added with the BlendLaunchPath: Solution originally found in Tim Heuer’s blog.