30
OCT
2008

How to make your Windows Live Writer portable

I am using Windows Live Writer for posting items to my blog. One thing that I don’t like in general, is that applications store resources in the MyDocuments folder and that you cannot specify another location. I’m a huge fan of portable applications, which means that they don’t...
27
OCT
2008

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 CTP Available

With the PDC 08 going on you can download a CTP of Visual Studio 2010.
19
OCT
2008

99 Bottles of Beer in more then 1200 different programming languages

I found a funny and interesting site called 99 Bottles of Beer. The purpose of the site is to have a wide range (> 1200) of programming languages that generate the lyrics of the song 99 Bottles of Bear. Take a look at the following examples Commodore 64 BASIC (V2) Language v...
19
OCT
2008

Organize your NHibernate mapping files inside Visual Studio

NHibernate uses an xml file to describe the mapping. Typically it is embedded as a resource file inside your project and it has a consistent filename convention, namely <classname>.hbm.xml. Typically an NHibernate project has the following structure Would it not be nice if...
16
OCT
2008

Running MSTest without Visual Studio – Gallio to the rescue

In some cases it can be useful to quickly run your Microsoft unit tests on a machine where Visual Studio is not installed. For example on an end-user machine and/or during acceptance testing. Microsoft unit tests have a great integration with Visual Studio and Team Foundation...
07
OCT
2008

Need for more space on your VHD?

Today I needed to install extra stuff on my VPC, but it turned out that there was not enough space. Donn Felker blogged a nice article how you can resize your VHD, I followed all the steps and It worked like a charm.