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Add /nosplash to the end of your visual studio shortcuts.. also you can also go to tools->options and change the startup to an empty environment to speed up open times  

Was thinking about this today. You can now write Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations and the like all online (Google Docs, Zoho, etc, etc). You can record video straight to websites through your webcam, you can video conference directly through the web. Visual Studio in the Cloud: Why can’t you code directly into the [...]

I have been doing some coding with VS2008, and have been playing with the .NET Membership, Role, and Profile providers. I don’t use "Web Sites" when I create projects, instead I use "Web Applications" – what is the difference? Web Sites don’t really act like a first class application, there are some weird things with [...]

I have been pretty busy lately. I have some posts that I want to write up, but it seems they are getting bigger and bigger, longer. More stuff :) Just a highlight, this weekend I decided to do a full drive backup and create a restore cd, I followed this process. http://www.darkchip.com/DriveImageXML/Complete%20System%20Recovery%20Process.html I just didn’t [...]

Whew, long title, amazing results! Problem: You have a laptop or computer and you are working remotely for a company. You VPN in. Your computer is not on their Active Directory (AD) domain. You try to connect to SQL Server using SSMS or Analysis Services using Excel, but it doesn’t work because it is using [...]

Tonight, just for the heck of it, I decided to get PHP running on my machine. I am running Vista (not SP1 beta). I already have IIS installed, so that pre-req was taken care of. First thing, I made sure I had everything turned on.. Start->Run->Programs and Features->Turn Windows Features on or off… I made [...]

Since Visual Studio 2008 came out yesterday, I installed it. One gotcha – if you already have SQL 2005 installed, check custom on the install steps, because VS2008 will install SQL Express 2005 and start up an instance of that, I had to then uninstall SQL 2005 Express. PITA :) Technorati tags: VS2008, Visual Studio [...]

As of late I have been stuck in C++ world. MFC/Win32, pointers and HRESULT’s. Ugh. Earlier this week I got a chance to get back to C# and .NET (aka My Roots). I needed to create a class library for a project, basically from scratch, since there was no existing library created. I started to [...]

So I fired up VS2005, and wanted to make a quick prototype C# Console Application, except I couldn’t find the Project Template!! Found out that if you close Visual Studio,  run the VS CMD prompt, and run this: “devenv /installvstemplates” It should add the templates back. Good to go! Technorati tags: VS2005, Visual Studio 2005, Project [...]

So, as of late, I have been programming more in C++ than in C#/.NET. The first order of business was getting everything to Visual Studio 2005, which has been accomplished. In .NET, there is built in Unit Testing, Code Coverage, Refactoring, etc. In Visual Studio C++ unmanaged/native C++, you don’t get any of that. (Thanks [...]