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John Robbins

    Blog Jul 09, 2010

    Paraffin 3.13 and an Ask for Help

    Before I get into the quick new features for Paraffin 3.13 (download here), I need to ask for your help. Pretty much from the first day I released Paraffin, I've been consistently getting the following question: I want to be...

    Blog Jul 08, 2010

    Super Cool MSBuild Debugging In the VS IDE!

    Have you ever tried to figure out why your MSBuild-based build is failing? While the diagnostic output is OK, it really isn't an each task (no pun intended) to debug what's going on in an MSBuild file with the traditional...

    Blog Jul 07, 2010

    Updated PowerShell Script for Setting Your Symbol Paths

    Here’s my latest script for setting up a user’s_NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable as well as Visual Studio 2010’s symbolsettings. In a previous version of this script, I wasn’t setting the publicsymbol server cache directory in Visual Studio so you could end...

    Blog Jun 29, 2010

    Getting an iPhone with iOS4 to Internet Tether to Windows 7 without iTunes

    AT&T has finally enabled internet tethering so you can use your iPhone as a 3G connection. Those of you outside the US that have had iPhone tethering for years can feel free to laugh all you want now. Anyway, the...

    Blog Jun 18, 2010

    How to Capture a Minidump: Let Me Count the Ways

    As I was waiting for a minidump I was grabbing on a very large and busy server application to finish writing, my mind wandered and I realized there were quite a few ways to grab a minidump today. Back in...

    Blog Jun 16, 2010

    VS Remote Debugging Across Workgroups or Domains

    Remote debugging in Visual Studio works great if both machines are on the same domain and/or workgroup. It also works dreamily if you're doing straight native C++ where you can use the TCP/IP as the debugging transport. The problem comes...

    Blog Jun 16, 2010

    We deliver solutions that
    accelerate the value of Azure.

    Upcoming PowerShell Podcast Interview

    If you haven't guessed by now from my blog, I have a little bit of a passing interest in PowerShell these days. Hal Rottenburg from PowerScripting Podcast will be interviewing me about PowerShell and how it applies to developers. Of...

    Blog Jun 06, 2010

    Getting PDBs and Source When You Can’t Access Your Symbol Server

    The other day I wrote about using SYMCHK.EXE from the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDBG) install to pre-populate your symbol server cache. That prompted a question I got in email: Our test lab machines are isolated from the rest of...

    Blog Jun 03, 2010

    The Secret to Avoiding Debugger Slowdowns

    Symbol Servers are one of the best things that have ever happened in Windows debugging. Having a central store for all PDB files makes the debugging experience so much better because you'll always get exact right symbols with essentially no...

    Blog May 16, 2010

    Writing Data Structure Visualizers for Native C++/STL Code

    Pretty much any time I write about a cool .NET only feature here on the blog I get emails or comments about how the native C++ developers are left out in the cold. There are still a lot of applications...

    Blog May 13, 2010

    Debugging and Performance Tech Focus

    Wintellect is so much more than just me posting a random blog entry every once in a while. This year our big marketing focus is to offer unique and interesting content for developers. To that end we've set up our...

    Blog May 11, 2010

    Exclusive Offer: Proven Assessment of Your Current IT environment

    Add OneNote 2010 Linked Notes Capabilities to your Application

    If you've ever talked to me or read this blog, you know I'm a passionate OneNote user. If it weren't for OneNote, I would be a random mess. One of the new features in OneNote 2010 is Linked Notes, which...

    Blog May 11, 2010

    Fact-Based Analysis to Optimize Business-Critical Websites and E-Commerce Sites

    Paraffin 3.12: A Bug Fix and Three New Features

    After a bit of rest and relaxation, Paraffin, my tool to make managing your Windows Installer XML (WiX) fragments easier makes a surprise appearance back on my blog. If you're not familiar with Paraffin search this blog for numerous entries....

    Blog May 10, 2010

    Different Ways to Start Processes under a Debugger

    The other day I got a question about how to start a process under the debugger and there are quite a few different ways to do that. I thought I'd discuss them all because the information about how to do...

    Blog Apr 29, 2010

    Want to Know How to Debug Better for Free?

    Recently, I did a session on Advanced .NET Debugging at the Atlanta Microsoft office and it was recorded for posterity. You can catch the three part video up on Channel 9, here, here and here. Unfortunately, the sound isn't the...

    Blog Apr 12, 2010

    VS 2010 Launches (and video of me!)

    Unless your internet connection died today you no doubt heard that a new version of Visual Studio released to the public today. It's a big release and one most of you will be upgrading to very shortly if you haven't...

    Blog Mar 29, 2010

    Code Signing Best Practices

    In the past I've written about code signing and how it's not as expensive or hard to do. Today I was searching up how to add a code signing certificate to a build machine's Local Machine store and ran across...

    Blog Mar 10, 2010

    Protect your business and use industry best practices.

    Start-PowerShellPoint

    Working on my PowerShell for Developers presentation I'm doing at our upcoming Devscovery Conference in NYC (April 27-29) it was a no brainer to use Jeffrey Snover's excellent Start-Demo script (much improved by Joel Bennett). If you're a bad typist...

    Blog Jan 31, 2010

    Microsoft Online Services: Very Cool (and Cheap!)

    This is not a technical post, but one that bumps into business. Yes, occasionally us software developers have to lift our heads up and see that there's more to life than hacking code. This is especially true at small companies,...

    Blog Jan 23, 2010

    Amazing .NET Reference Visualizations

    Half the battle when tracking down memory problems in a .NET application is seeing the reference chain so you can see why an object is still in use. You can use SOS and its !gcroot command to track them down,...

    Blog Dec 13, 2009

    Getting Rid of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Tray Crapware

    This weekend I purchased a Samsung N110 netbook and slapped Windows 7 on that thing as fast as I could. The install was beautiful and recognized all the devices on the machine. Giving Windows Update a whirl, I see there...

    Blog Dec 06, 2009

    Focus On Delivering Value to Your Patients.

    How I Use OneNote

    When I posted Tools We Use, there were several comments, as well as many emails asking me how I used OneNote for debugging and development. Yes, I was the one who wrote "The greatest piece of software ever written. I've...

    Blog Dec 01, 2009

    Tools We Use

    Inside Wintellect, we've been having a big email chain about all the tools all the technical folks use. Of course, we all use Visual Studio, TFS, and have read Hanselman's phenomenal Tools List, but our question was what are the...

    Blog Nov 24, 2009

    PowerShell Script for Setting VS 2010 Symbol Paths

    Edit (July 7, 2010): Get the latest version of this script here. A while ago, I wrote a PowerShell script that sets up the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable as well as Visual Studio 2008 so all the debuggers or tools that...

    Blog Nov 16, 2009

    Fixing a Nasty Windows 7 + Mac Pro Sleep and Hibernation Problem

    As I've written before, Windows 7 and Mac Pros are made for each other. Except when the Mac Pro doesn't want to wake up from sleep or restore from hibernation. That's one scary problem and I thought I'd share my...

    Blog Nov 14, 2009

    WiX Projects vs. TFS 2010 Team Build

    As I mentioned before, I'm in the process of moving my life over to TFS 2010 Beta 2. I'm using the excellent WiX 3.5 Beta that plugs into Visual Studio 2010 to create my setup and I had a developer...

    Blog Nov 09, 2009

    TFS 2010 Build Number and Assembly File Versions: Completely In Sync with Only MSBuild 4.0

    This entry still describes how the build numbers work, but I've updated the files and shown how to incorporate these changes into .CSPRO

    Blog Oct 23, 2009

    VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Visualizer Profiling In Depth First Look

    One of the most important technologies used at Microsoft is Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), especially inside Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. There's a small problem with ETW. It's beyond wonderful for the Windows team at Microsoft, but for...

    Blog Oct 20, 2009

    VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Resource Profiling In Depth First Look

    Nearly everyone reading this is using a machine with multiple cores. With a basic laptop containing a dual core CPU and your average desktop with a four core CPU, we have processing power our computing ancestors could only dream about....

    Blog Oct 20, 2009

    VS 2010 Beta 2 Sampling and Instrumentation Profiling In Depth First Look

    While some teams solve their performance problems by throwing bigger hardware at the problem, many of us really do care about creating fast code. Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer Edition and above has had a great profiler that I've used...

    Blog Oct 20, 2009

    VS 2010 Beta 2 IntelliTrace In-Depth First Look

    After getting a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I was dying to see the amazing IntelliTrace feature. You know IntelliTrace as Historical Debugging, but consider HD as the code name. No matter what the marketing people call...

    Blog Oct 20, 2009

    My VS 2010 Beta 2 Install Experience

    While I was hoping that VS 2010 would just install itself as soon as I downloaded the bits, they haven't quite gotten that feature working just yet. I guess the team had to leave themselves something to do in the...

    Blog Oct 19, 2009

    VS 2010 Beta 2 Code Analysis In-Depth First Look

    Code Analysis is one of those great tools that people don't run nearly enough. I have screamed repeatedly, "Never do anything at run time you can do at compile time." The best time to catch the Design Guidelines, security, and...

    Blog Oct 19, 2009

    Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is on MSDN!

    Go grab it and let the fun begin. See the Beta 2 home page to see what's new and how to get the bits.

    Blog Oct 06, 2009

    Initially Turning on FxCop/Code Analysis for a Large Code Base

    Recently I was asked a question that's come up several times so I thought I'd share the answer. I've inherited a large code base that has never had FxCop run on it. When I ran the binaries through FxCop, it...

    Blog Oct 06, 2009

    Updated Compile-Help.PS1 and Neat PowerShell Scripting Tricks

    One of my favorite PowerShell scripts of all time is Jeff Hillman's Compile-Help. Instead of attempting to read the PowerShell help in a text window, Jeff's outstanding script packages up all the help into a searchable, linkified, and easy to...

    Blog Sep 30, 2009

    Changing the Visual Studio Splash Screen Registered User

    On a mailing list I subscribe to, there was an interesting question, "How do you change the user information shown in the Visual Studio splash screen?" I've circled in red the user information below. As I was curious about the...

    Blog Sep 11, 2009

    WinUnit is Now on CodePlex

    As there are still tons and tons of native C++ development going on and you need to test that code just like you do for your C# code. I've been using WinUnit, which was first introduced in a great MSDN...

    Blog Sep 02, 2009

    Focus On Delivering Value to Your Patients.

    Mac Pro + OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) + Windows 7 x64 = Love

    If you've been reading my blog for a while, you have already seen my infatuation with using Apple hardware. With a freshly pressed copy of Apple's latest, OS X 10.6 now in my hot little hands, it was time to...

    Blog Sep 01, 2009

    Focus On Delivering Value to Your Patients.

    Fixing a Server 2008 R2 Upgrade from Server 2008 Activation Problem

    After remoting into my domain controller I recently upgraded to Server 2008 R2, I very briefly saw a balloon tip pop up that said: "Invalid Windows Activation" (or something close to that). That was odd as I was sure I...

    Blog Aug 13, 2009

    Paraffin 3.11: Fixed Directory Reference Option

    Sam reported a bug in Paraffin where I wasn't handling the –dirref option correctly. How embarrassing! It was a quick fix so grab the updated code and binary here. As always, please let me know if you have feature suggestions...

    Blog Aug 12, 2009

    Stay compliant with HIPAA/HITECH + HITRUST + PCI-DSS + IRS-1075 + SSAE 16

    Bugslayer Tips Reappear

    A while ago we lost the link where I had put all the tips that ran in my Bugslayer column in Microsoft Systems Journal and MSDN Magazine. Now they're back. Here's the complete collection: https://training.atmosera.com/bugslayertips.aspx. Enjoy!

    Blog Jul 28, 2009

    More on Backup and Restore

    On my post about restoring with Windows Home Server, Bill Tudor had an excellent comment that I felt everyone needed to read concerning backup and restore: Don't overlook the build-in image-based backup available in the better SKU's of Vista and...

    Blog Jul 24, 2009

    Fact-Based Analysis to Optimize
    Business-Critical Websites and E-Commerce Sites

    Windows Home Server Restore Hint

    Messing around I managed to wipe out one of my machines. Fortunately, I have rock solid backups with Windows Home Server, which I highly recommend. When disaster strikes, all you need to do is pop in the WHS Restore CD,...

    Blog Jul 21, 2009

    Fact-Based Analysis to Optimize
    Business-Critical Websites and E-Commerce Sites

    Can the VS Debugger Automatically Attach to Any Child Spawned by a Process Being Debugged?

    In my article on Easier Multithreaded Debugging, there was a great question in the comments from GregM: < p style="margin-left:36pt">John, how about a way to make VS automatically attach to any children spawned by the process(es) being debugged? The short...

    Blog Jul 18, 2009

    Automatically Freezing Threads (Brrrrr)

    Looks like many people liked my macros that made multithreaded debugging easier. One of the comments on the article from Sam was worth exploring deeper: John, Great post! Would you have any idea how to make VS do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/837869/is-there-a-shortcut-in-vs-for-next-statement-in-current-thread...

    Blog Jul 13, 2009

    Easier Multithreaded Debugging

    Last week I was working at Symantec and one of the people I was working with asked me the following: "When you're debugging heavily multithreaded applicatons, Visual Studio doesn't handle it too well. You can't see multiple thread call stacks...

    Blog Jul 03, 2009

    The Swedes and Tourists

    The estimable Raymond Chen posted a funny story today about an experience he had in Sweden. (Make sure you read Raymond's post so you can understand one of the greatest blog comments ever!) Anyway, I had to laugh out loud...

    Blog Jun 29, 2009

    Paraffin3.1: New and Improved!

    Aren't "New and Improved" the most over used, and contradictory, terms in the marketer's dictionary? How can something and be new, but yet improved because if it is improved that cancels out the new. My point is that I want...

    Blog Jun 17, 2009

    How Does VS2010 Historical Debugging Work?

    Visual Studio 2010's Historical Debugging feature fascinates me. As you sit in the debugger, being able to move backwards while in the debugger (or attach the execution log to a bug) has to be the killer feature coming up in...

    Blog Jun 10, 2009

    Comparing and Contrasting WPF and Silverlight

    While Silverlight is a functional subset of WPF and the gap is ever narrowing, there are many features that WPF supports that Silverlight does not. Silverlight even offers a few features that WPF doesn't. Microsoft asked us to do a...

    Blog May 28, 2009

    Upgrade Install from Vista to Win7 RC on a Mac Pro

    While Microsoft really wants everyone to test doing an upgrade install of Windows 7 from Vista, I don't know anyone who has because all my friends are jaded Windows developers. Having installed Win 7 RC from scratch twice on my...

    Blog May 27, 2009

    Visual Studio Remote Debugging and PDB Files

    Thanks for all the comments and emails about my blog entry, PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know. There was lots of nice feedback, but more importantly great questions! Instead of responding in the blog comments to these questions as...

    Blog May 26, 2009

    Mind Boggling Great Deal on a Lenovo X200 Tablet (and installing Win7)

    As I have written in the past, I have a bit of a "love-hate" relationship with Lenovo and their ThinkPad line, but its way more on the love side because their hardware utterly rocks. As it was getting time for...

    Blog Apr 26, 2009

    Moving from VMware Server to Hyper-V

    As I've written in the past, I've been using VMware (both Workstation 6.5 and Server 1.04) for what seems like ages. They've served me well but I wanted to be prepared for two changes coming up this year. The first...

    Blog Apr 22, 2009

    Missed Devscovery NYC? See the Keynote!

    Missed Devscovery NYC? See the Keynote! If you couldn't make it to NYC last week to have a blast at Devscovery, we missed you. One of the most interesting parts was Scott Hanselman's keynote on Social Networking for Developers. Scott,...

    Blog Apr 03, 2009

    Customizing Exception Handling in the VS Debugger

    In the last two weeks I've gotten many questions about how to automate and program the exception handling the Visual Studio debugger so I thought I'd show how to some cool macros I've created to make it easy. If you're...

    Blog Apr 02, 2009

    Link 32-Bit Native C++ EXEs with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE

    If you're not running a 64-bit version of Windows, I bet that at least one of your customers is. While you should be working on porting your native applications to 64-bit, it doesn't look like that many teams have made...

    Blog Apr 02, 2009

    OMG! Someone Did a Book Report!

    Whenever I teach a debugging class, the first thing I talk about is one of the most important points I make though the entire class: read Steve McConnell's masterpiece, Code Complete 2nd Edition. I ask for an honest show of...

    Blog Mar 06, 2009

    Code Quality – A Conversation with John Robbins

    At the 2008 PDC, I finally was able to meet the people behind one of my favorite products, NCover. As I'm passionate, (some would say a zealot!) about code coverage, having a great tool like NCover in the market is...

    Blog Feb 03, 2009

    Fixed ADPlus That Works with Windows 7 (and Probably S2K8 R2)

    Edit Feb. 20, 2009: Note that Microsoft has fixed ADPlus with the 6.11.1.402 version of the Debugging Tools for Windows. Use that version instead of my version posted here. Windows 7 has been working quite well for me and the...

    Blog Jan 24, 2009

    The Case of the Corrupt PE Binaries

    After installing Windows 7, I also installed the Windows 7 SDK as I wanted to poke around the updated headers and documentation files to see what was new at a low level. Additionally, I wanted to make sure all my...

    Blog Jan 14, 2009

    Mastering Windows Debugging Virtual – Native Developers Rejoice!

    After many, many requests, we are offering my Mastering Windows Debugging class as a virtual session on February 3 and 4, 2009. The world still runs on native C++ Windows applications so if are designing and debugging those hard core...

    Blog Jan 12, 2009

    Impressions of Windows 7

    It's been a whole three days that I've been using Windows 7 so that makes me an expert. (Just kidding!) However, since I was able to grab my copy before Microsoft faced server death, thank you MSDN Subscription, it's given...

    Blog Jan 10, 2009

    Win7 Beta – Remove the Send Feedback Link on Every Window

    I'm knee deep in setting up my Lenovo X60 Tablet with Windows 7 and my initial impressions are extremely positive. The fact that all the drivers for my laptop were in the install except for the fingerprint reader and the...

    Blog Jan 08, 2009

    Windows 7 Beta – Hot off the Digital Download

    If you're an MSDN Subscriber, you've got a little present waiting for you at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions. Both the x86 and x64 versions of Windows 7 Beta! It's wonderful to see that Microsoft is back to generating excitement about their OS betas....

    Blog Jan 01, 2009

    PowerShell: One Year Later

    At the end of 2007, I made a New Year's resolution to start using PowerShell as my command window. Amazingly, that's the only resolution I've ever kept in my life! Shocking, isn't it? What's even better is that by using...

    Blog Dec 22, 2008

    Paraffin 3.0 – Now with Full WiX 3.0 Support

    Congratulations to the WiX team on hitting the Beta milestone for WiX 3.0! Now that code and schema changes are on the ramp down on the project, I thought it was the time to update my Paraffin tool to offer...

    Blog Nov 07, 2008

    PDC 2008 Thoughts

    Just when you thought everything was said about the PDC, I thought I'd add a couple of notes from my perspective. I'd planned on doing this earlier, but am still recovering from all the parties and had to wait for...

    Blog Oct 23, 2008

    Totally Awesome Windows Trick

    While I prefer the term "particular", some (especially my wife and all my friends) would call me "anal-retentive." For example, I am, ahem, particular where my windows show up on the screen. I have all the applications I run set...

    Blog Oct 23, 2008

    PDC Open Session: The Future of Diagnostics and Debugging/Tuning

    There's a ton two tons of interesting stuff coming up from the Diagnostics team in Dev10: the kind of stuff that completely changes the way you debug and tune! John Cunningham, the development manager for all diagnostic tools in Visual...

    Blog Oct 23, 2008

    See You at the PDC!

    This is like my seventh PDC! My first PDC was 15 years ago in 1993 and I still have the Windows plastic slinky on my bookshelf. Anyway, I'll be at the 2008 edition of the PDC so please stop by...

    Blog Oct 22, 2008

    CrashFinder 2.8 – Yes, Native Code Still LIVES!

    While .NET gets all the press, love and attention, hard core C++ native development still pays the bills for many of us. As it's just a few days before the mass geekfest which will be all about everything .NET I...

    Blog Aug 31, 2008

    NetMassDownloader 1.5 Has Complete Support for VS 2008 SP1

    Now that the .NET Reference Source Code for .NET 3.5 SP1 has made it up to Microsoft's servers, Kerem Kusmezer and I updated NetMassDownloader to support populating your symbol server cache directory with all the source code and symbols. Microsoft...

    Blog Aug 30, 2008

    So You Want To Set a Windows Journal Recording Hook on Vista? It’s Not Nearly as Easy as You Think!

    Eons ago in Internet years, I wrote what proved to be a very popular tool, Tester, the latest edition appeared in my second book. With it you could record and playback UI automation scripts. While Tester wasn't perfect, the number...

    Blog Aug 12, 2008

    Random Thoughts on Visual Studio 2008 SP1

    As the world knows, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out so start your download engines. I've installed it on one machine so far and I thought I'd mention a few things I found interesting. The install took exactly an hour...

    Blog Aug 02, 2008

    Just Where Did Those Performance Counters Go?

    On a particular Vista machine, I was setting up a PerfMon view to monitor the .NET memory performance of an application and ran into a problem. The.NET Memory # Bytes in All Heaps Performance Counter wasn't in the list of...

    Blog Jul 21, 2008

    Debugger Settings Visual Studio Add In– Easily Copy Breakpoints between Machines

    So there I was knee deep in a great debugging challenge. On one machine, I had set up somewhere around 15 advanced breakpoints that had all sorts of properties set such as conditionals, hit counts, and so on. As I...

    Blog Jul 12, 2008

    Paraffin 1.04 – A New Switch and Easier Updates

    If you're using WiX 2.0, my Paraffin tool can help you automate some of your setup chores. To read more about Paraffin, see the three part article, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Thanks to Matthew Goos who sent...

    Blog Jul 10, 2008

    Software Development Meme

    So Charles Petzold tagged me for this Software Development Meme and did that hurt. Just kidding. J It's the first time I've been tagged since I was like five years old. Anyway, here goes: How old were you when you...

    Blog Jul 10, 2008

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    accelerate the value of Azure.

    In Defense of Vista and the Challenges Facing Windows 7

    Perception is everything. That applies to everything in life and certainly applies to Vista. It doesn't take much web searching to find plenty of commentary indicating that Vista has not been well received and is often downright hated. In a...

    Blog Jul 09, 2008

    Hear My Interview on Debugging

    Craig Shoemaker recently interviewed me about my favorite topic, debugging, of course, for Pixel 8. We had a great time on the interview and I even got to tell one of my favorite debugging war stories. We also talked about...

    Blog Jul 01, 2008

    More on Regular Expressions

    The always enjoyable Jeff Atwood wrote an excellent discussion about regular expressions that everyone should read. Having seen many times where a developer will write a full blown parser instead of a regular expression, it's critical every developer spend a...

    Blog Jun 26, 2008

    The Case of the Access Denied

    After coming back from vacation, I powered on my laptop, named BERLIN, and it took an inordinate amount of time to login. After much disk grinding, the desktop finally loaded and it wasn't my normal desktop, but a temporary desktop...

    Blog May 05, 2008

    WinDBG 6.9.3.113 Released

    Looks like the WinDBG team was busy over the weekend and posted a new build of WinDBG: 6.9.3.113. The big fixes look like squashed bugs and performance improvements in symbol server portions. I bet you could drop those DLLs into...

    Blog Apr 26, 2008

    Vista x64 is Now Officially Supported on Mac Hardware!

    You all know my geek love for Apple hardware. Yesterday Apple released the official drivers for Vista x64 support! You'll need to download and install Boot Camp Update 2.1 and you'll be set. Totally and completely excellent news!

    Blog Apr 21, 2008

    Easily Downloading and Installing the Sysinternals Suite

    Everyone uses Mark Russinovich's and Bryce Cogswell's excellent Sysinternals Tools. Tools like Process Explorer and Process Monitor have helped solve some of the toughest bugs I've ever worked on. I've been surprised how many people didn't know that all the...

    Blog Apr 20, 2008

    Paraffin 1.03 – Couple of Bug Fixes

    Last year I released a tool to help make maintaining WiX 2.0-based installations easier called Paraffin. I've fixed the following two issues: I was relying on the short name of the file when generating an updated .PARAFFIN file. Sadly, it...

    Blog Mar 19, 2008

    Installing Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 on a Mac Pro

    Recently, the computer I was using as my server started having some overheating problems. The good news is that the machine shut down before harming components, but with that machine running my domain controller I needed it running in order...

    Blog Feb 25, 2008

    The Travel Day from Hell

    Sometimes traveling for business can be fun. As part of my job, I've been able to travel all over this wonderful planet. On my business trips I've gotten to see great sites like the Great Wall of China, Golconda Fort...

    Blog Feb 17, 2008

    Eight Weeks of PowerShell

    As I wrote a little bit ago my New Year's resolution was to see if I could make PowerShell my full time command shell. The good news is that after eight weeks, I'm still using PowerShell and enjoying it. As...

    Blog Feb 15, 2008

    .NET Mass Downloader 1.2 Released

    Kerem Kusmezer has been busy! If you've had problems with .NET Mass Downloader working behind a proxy server, version 1.2 adds the –proxy command line switch if you need to specify server, username, password, and domain. The –proxy switch uses...

    Blog Feb 08, 2008

    .NET Mass Downloader 1.1 Released

    The feedback and downloads for .Net Mass Downloader have been quite pleasing! Kerem and I just went through and fixed all the reported bugs so the 1.1 release is better than ever. The big fixes were that we now properly...

    Blog Feb 06, 2008

    Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader

    Microsoft has really helped out the development community by making the .NET Reference Source Code available to the community. Being able to step in the debugger from your code to the Framework code truly helps with you understanding and use...

    Blog Feb 03, 2008

    Debugging VBA Macros and Managed Components at the Same Time

    This week I got the following question in email: I'm writing a COM component in C# that is used in Excel VBA macros. I really need to debug the VBA macro and the C# component at the same time. Is...

    Blog Jan 22, 2008

    Apple Now Supports Vista x64 on Mac Pros!

    As I have been screaming from the roof tops, the best Vista x64 machines are Apple's Mac Pros. They are rock solid, quiet, and beautiful. Apple just announced the latest Mac Pros with up to 8 CPUs. They also snuck...

    Blog Jan 21, 2008

    Updated Fast VMware Server Backup Scripts

    Back in October, I wrote about how I use the Volume Shadow Copy Service to backup my VMware Server virtual machines with minimal down time. I updated my batch files to have better error reporting and error handling. As always,...

    Blog Jan 17, 2008

    WinUnit: An Outstanding Native C++ Unit Testing Tool

    Whew! I can finally talk about one of the coolest pieces of code I've seen in ages: WinUnit. About a year ago, my friend, Maria Blees showed me an idea she had for unit testing native C++ code and asked...

    Blog Jan 17, 2008

    Smarter Logging with MSBuild

    MSBuild has made my life so much easier that it makes me shudder thinking back to the days of NMAKE. With very little effort, I've been able to automate so much of my software build and processing that I almost...

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