by Nino
29. April 2010 06:24
Today Microsoft updated several of the components in the toolchain for Windows Phone 7 development for both Visual Studio and Expression Blend:
Microsoft Expression Blend Software Development Kit (SDK) Preview for Windows Phone
Microsoft Expression Blend Add-In Preview for Windows Phone
Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh – now supports VS 2010 RTM!
Charlie Kindel has a detail blog post about the refresh bits here
A reminder that if you have a previous version of the Blend SDK Preview for Windows Phone, Blend Add-In Preview for Windows Phone and Window Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh, you must uninstall them prior to installing the new versions.
by Nino
30. November 2008 17:42
I use Cropper as my primary screen capture utility. Unfortunately, it will not run on Windows Vista 64-bit (it causes a Bad Image Exception), despite it being built on the .NET Framework.
Having discovered this, I thought “surely, I could not be the only individual who has ran into this issue” and headed to the Cropper Issue Tracker where, lo and behold, I found this item. The fix turns out to be quite simple: Change the platform from ‘Any CPU’ to ‘x86’, recompile and then replace the installed assemblies. This fix will also work on Windows XP 64-bit.
The installation directory is <drive>\Program Files (x86)\Fusion8Design\Cropper. You will need to replace not only the assemblies in this directory, but also those in the plugins sub-directory.
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:43
I was preparing a new virtual machine this weekend and ran into some troubles getting VMWare Tools installed (I repeatedly received errors about the vmhgfs module). I am using VMWare Workstation 6.0.2, and the guest OS was Ubuntu Linux 7.10. After quite a bit of futzing about, I turned to the Ubuntu Forums, where I found this gem of a thread. A bit frustrating that the whole thing was caused by having "<" instead of "<=". Thanks to Ubuntu Forums poster aNyBosZ.
Post #2 by aNyBosZ gives the fix:
Software necesario
- sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
vmwaretools
- cd /tmp
- tar -xzvf VMwareTools-6.0.2-59824.tar.gz
- cd vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source
- cp vmhgfs.tar vmhgfs.tar.old
- tar xvf vmhgfs.tar
- cd vmhgfs-only
- chmod 644 compat_slab.h
- vi compat_slab.h
Search-> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 22) || defined(VMW_KMEMCR_HAS_DTOR)
Fix-> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 22) || defined(VMW_KMEMCR_HAS_DTOR)
Save Chages
- chmod 444 compat_slab.h
- cd ..
- rm vmhgfs.tar
- tar cvf vmhgfs.tar vmhgfs-only
- cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
- sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Feel free to sub in your favorite text editor for vi on the line "vi compat_slab.h". I used gedit. (yesh, I'm a vi hater).
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:43
Here is a free, WPF-based disk space visualizer. See screenshots and get the download at: http://www.diskspacefinder.com/index.html
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:43
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:43
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:43
Looking for something at CodePlex today, I stumbled upon Sukesh's IIS7 Mobile Admin. Here is his blog post about it. Very nifty - go check it out! (note that it requires the Hostable Webcore Service he wrote - links to the HWS are on the blog post and CodePlex page). UPDATE: Sukesh dropped me a comment - HWS is _not_ required.
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:42
I happened upon this nifty Vista Sidebar gadget tonight.. check it out: Window Mobile Traveler's Toolkit
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:42
by Nino
9. November 2008 04:42
There was a good crowd at tonight's CINNUG meeting for my Windows PowerShell presentation - thank you to all who were in attendance.
My PowerPoint deck and other materials may be found at the download page here (If you want to skip the fluff and get the .zip straightaway look here).
There were a few questions that came up during that talk that either I wanted to double-check on or needed to research an answer, so here they are:
Q: How do I permanently load a custom cmdlet?
A: Put it into your profile script.
Create a profile.ps1 file and place it in your profile dir. Add Add-PSSnapin MyCustomCmdlet to your profile script.
The profile would be \Documents and Settings\<profile>\My Documents\WindowsPowerShell\ on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It would be \Users\<profile>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell on Windows Vista. Look at this entry on MSDN for Customizing Windows PowerShell for more.
Q: How do I FTP from PowerShell?
A: Options:
- Take a look at this script by Joannes Vermorel.
- NetCmdlets http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell
- Take a look at this script posted to the microsoft.public.windows.powershell newsgroup
Again, thank to all who were in attendance and happy PowerShell-ing. ...and for some fun, check out PowerShell Invaders (you may need to sign the script depending on your execution policy).
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