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_ »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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) »
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 »
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, »
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 »
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. »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »