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Utilities

A 26-post collection

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A better git bash prompt

git clone https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt.git ~/.bash-git-prompt --depth=1 cat >> ~/.bashrc <<EOF if [ -f "$HOME/.bash-git-prompt/gitprompt.sh" ]; then GIT_ »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on github, bash, Utilities, tips 11 April 2019

Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent

Windows Azure Fieldnote Summary Windows Azure Drives [1] provide a means to represent a file based (disk drive) persistent storage option for the various role types »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Cloud, CloudDrive, Utilities, Windows Azure 19 January 2012

MiniProfiler– A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET.

Once in a while a good tool that I find out about that helps me developing solutions comes in real handy.  MiniProfiler is one of »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, ASP.NET, MVC, Troubleshooting, Utilities 18 September 2011

Raffaele Rialdi DeployManager June 2011 edition–Now supports SAN certificates

Raffaele Rialdi has been adding features to his certificate management tool.  Already supporting wildcard certificates, he’s now added SAN cert support. But it’s »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities 06 July 2011

Creating Wildcard Certificates with makecert.exe

Be nice to be able to make wildcard certificates for use in development with makecert – turns out, it’s real easy.  Just ensure that your »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, ADFS, Certificates, Tricks, Utilities 28 June 2011

Lorem Ipsum–Generating in Word 2010

Well, apparently I missed this hidden feature having used the Lorem Ipsum website for some time, but if you enter the following in blank Word document »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Tricks, Utilities 27 June 2011

Who needs reflector? ILSpy to the rescue..

Reflector has been invaluable over the years.  I’m torn about the idea it’s become a paid for tool, and by all means folks »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, Troubleshooting, Utilities 05 May 2011

Note to self – cURL download utility…

Time to time, we all need this capability.  I keep forgetting what the link/name of this tool is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities 08 October 2010

Live Mesh – becoming Windows Live Mesh…

Good to see it’s sticking around and most importantly, they’ve increased the initial 2 GB limit to match what we had on Live Mesh »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities 13 September 2010

Copying Properties between 2 Different Types…

I’m not sure where I had seen some of this base code, but this comes up time & time again on projects. Here’s a »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, Utilities 11 March 2010

Need a simple LDAP server for Windows 7?

Well, in the past we had ADAM – which has migrated to AD LDS for Windows – under Vista, we really only had a hack to get it »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities, Win7 26 February 2010

Collapse Project as a Visual Studio AddIn.

I’ve taken that macro that’s been passed around for years, and put it into a VS Addin. The following links for the full VS »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities, Visual Studio 23 February 2010

Snip-IT Pro – manage all those little code snippets for re-use and sharing…

An old colleague of mine from Avanade has apparently put out a very cool tool for managing re-usable “snippets” of code from a repository.  This »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Development, Utilities 30 November 2009

Cleanup your Features…

Many times, your coding, etc. SharePoint features.  You’ll code something up, deploy, activate, etc.  Using WSP builder, while a convenient tool, it also »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, SharePoint, Utilities 11 November 2009

Minor update to the WSS Command Prompt…

  Take the following and paste into a VBS file – then run. Still need to choose the Link, then set the “Run as administrator” when UAC »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, SharePoint, Utilities 11 November 2009

Making a Windows 7 bootable USB…

This get’s even easier.  The Microsoft store has released a utility that will, from an ISO (eg. one you get from the Microsoft Store) »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities, Win7 22 October 2009

Connecting to Verizon Wireless Broadband

For some reason all of a sudden I started getting PPP errors during connection on VZW broadband on my Mobile phone. So, I had to re-initialize »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities 13 August 2009

This version of the enterprise library cannot be installed side by side with version 4.0 on x64

When upgrading to Enterprise Library 4.1 on an x64 machine, even though you’ve run the 4.0 uninstaller, and even removed the registry key, »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, EntLib, Utilities 22 May 2009

Making a Win7 Bootable USB device.

I have an old Toshiba that has no optical drive.  To install Win7, I needed a bootable USB stick.  Here are the basic steps »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Infrastructure, Utilities, Win7 04 May 2009

Couple of Visio Links

Visio is my primary diagramming tool.  I wanted to point out a couple of recent links I came accross that help in diagramming various things. »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Architecture, Utilities 04 April 2009

Kerberos Configuration Troubleshooting

I wanted to post about one of the best tools I’ve found for getting Kerberos properly configured and in the process getting some great HOWTO »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, Kerberos, SharePoint, Utilities 26 February 2009

SourceSafe in the Cloud – a second life for VSS

This post in no way endorses the use of Visual Source Safe, Mesh, or general supportability of this approach.  This is entirely at your own »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, Cloud, Utilities 16 February 2009

Startup Delayer – Smoother Starts…

I have to give a nod to Startup Delayer from r2 Studios… This tool takes over the “timely” launching of all those startup programs that just »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities 06 February 2009

Live Messenger and AVG (Grisoft) Anti-Virus Issue 8100030d

If you’re running Grisoft AVG with Web Shield and trying the new Windows Live Messenger you might be experiencing connection issues. For me disabling the »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Utilities 10 January 2009

Using Virtual.Server COM interfaces on an x64 Machine and Visual Studio

Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks.  Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, Utilities 15 July 2008

Learning LINQ - No excuses

There are really a whole bunch of great resources out there that help the community get up & running with LINQ. Personally, with all the additional »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, LINQ, SQL, Utilities 13 March 2008
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