Synology DS215j update results in read only access
Saturday morning I received a mail from my parents NAS (Synology DS215j) about a reboot after a system update. A few hours later my father called me, mention...
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Activating RDP access for Windows 10
Today I’ve installed the Technology Preview of Windows 10 onto my Xen Server. With the XenCenter program under an existing Windows 8.1 installation it was an...
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Comparison of Syntax-Highlighter-Plugins for Windows Live Writer
After a longer period of blogging abstinence I had again to search the right plugin for Windows Live Writer (WLW) to get a pretty printed source code. I reme...
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Shortcut for indention decreasing and increasing in list styles
Context Using the CTRL + or shortcuts to move between different heading levels works perfect. But if you use list styles it doesn’t switch the other defined...
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Productive work environments for F# development (under windows)
IDEs, Editors, .. Here are my favorites in descend order Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries L...
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Sublime Text 2 – Package installation not possible, no package listed
Problem I tried to add the Emmet (fka Zen Coding) package to Sublime Text 2. But by running this “Install Package” (CTRL + SHIFT + p) command no packages wer...
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SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu
Situation, Problem During playing a little bit with these WPF MVC F# projects inside SharpDevelop I stumbled over the situation, that I could not send F# sni...
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SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.”
Situation My private machine has Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This Visual Studio edition doesn’t allow to develop with F#. So I...
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Installing redcar under Linux
Installing redcar with sudo gem install redcar ends up in this error Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing redcar: E...
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Fast deletion of folders
Problem If you try to delete large folders with explorer it could run for several minutes. Also when you try to suppress the moving to recycle bin via SHIFT...
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Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks
Problem If you go in Explorer to the GAC folder (%windir%\Assembly) a shell extension gives you a special view of the content there: In this view you couldn’...
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Synchronizing BlackBerry contacts to other phone (e.g. Android)
Install App “Kontacts” via BlackBerry App world Run Kontacts and Export to csv Start “BlackBerry Desktop Software” Choose File Press BlackBerry Icon in addre...
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Productive Toolset for C# Developer
Programming Visual Studio ReSharper Agent Johnson Agent Smith StyleCop for ReSharper Keymaps SettingsManager Git Source Control Provider Gist NuGet Package M...
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Outlook hangs during startup by step “loading profile”
Problem Starting Outlook shows only the splash screen with comment “loading profile”. I could cancel the startup but restarting shows the same. I verified wi...
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Entity Framework: Connecting to a mdf user database file via localDB during script execution
Problem If you run the “Generate database from model” wizard and execute the generated script the destination database could be the wrong one (for instance m...
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Be careful when Git suppresses bin Folders
Initial situation Often for Visual Studio projects the typical content of a .gitignore file contains this line bin or [B|b]in It is used to avoid that Git tr...
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Find out the URL of a RSS feed in Outlook
Challenge In the past I added some RSS feeds to outlook. For one of these feeds now I would like to know the original URL. But this is not very intuitive to...
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Converting Creole to HTML, PDF, DOCX, ..
Challenge We documented a project on Github with the Wiki there. For most articles we used Creole as markup language. Now we have to deliver a lot of the con...
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Wise settings for Git
These settings reflecting my Git-environment. It a result of reading and trying several ideas of input from others. Must-Haves Aliases [alias] ci = commit st...
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@Microsoft: please provide universal and professional concepts
Why such constructs are included in the csproj-Files? <CodeAnalysisRuleSetDirectories>;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static...
Clean CodeTools
Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects
Problem Normally I try to have my continuous integration as most a possible toolset free to ensure that no local stuff could have an impact to my build. My S...
Code AnalysisTools
Setup license stuff for PostSharp 2.1
Problem Normally PostSharp runs fine on unattended build servers. So on our global Jenkins continuous integration server PostSharp does the job. But on my lo...
Clean CodeTools
MSB4067: The element <ImportGroup> beneath element <Project> is unrecognized.
Problem Our global Jenkins continuous integration server throws this error during compile step. My local TeamCity continuous integration server runs fine. Wh...
Code AnalysisTools
Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration
Problem A continuous integration server should only have a minimal toolset installed. This ensures that no unwanted libraries could affect the build and othe...
Clean CodeCode AnalysisTools
xUnit runner eats system diagnostic output
Problem When using xUnit and constructs like Debug.WriteLine the DbgView-tool does not show the written output anymore. Solution Add a new Listener – for exa...
C#Tools
NuGet: Update to an older version of a package
Problem I must go back to an older package version (from 1.1.0.0 to 1.0.0.0) but the Package Manager Console does not allow this. With the command Update-Pac...
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Review SmartAssembly from Red Gate
As an GWB-influencer I had the chance to review SmartAssembly. Because obfuscation is an important part in protecting intellectual property this review chanc...
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Modify properties of “Git Bash Here” shortcut in Explorer and Console Enhancement Project
Essentials Run the bash for this as administrator. The shortcut is located in the Git installation folder. "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Git”. Good Setting for the la...
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Be carefully by using PostSharp regarding license choice
Initial situation If you download and install PostSharp you run the professional edition in trial mode if you don’t configure additional things – also if you...
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Using NuGet in a MSBuild-target to have the packages at the last stand
Motivation Encouraged from the article “ Using NuGet without committing packages to source control ” I decided to wrap the NuGet-call in a MSBuild target ins...
Clean CodeTools
Note to self: Visual Studio makros for build events
Archived article: Note to self: Visual Studio makros for build events.
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Let ReSharper and xUnit work together
Getting the ressources First at all download xUnit http://xunit.codeplex.com/releases/ xUnit Contrib ReSharper http://xunitcontrib.codeplex.com/releases/ Thi...
Clean CodeTools
Code Contracts: For unit test a manual rebuild is needed for toggeling “runtime checking”
Toggeling the checkbox “Perform Runtime Contract Checking” lets run the next application start with the new set option. But for unit test an explicit new bui...
Code AnalysisTools
Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process
If you develop ArcGIS Add-ins with Visual Studio under limited permissions you get during the build process an error, that the stuff could not be registered....
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Get Keymaps for ReSharper running
Keymaps for ReSharper is a nice tool and allows the user easily to learn short cuts of ReSharper. Unfortunally the last update is from january 2010. So the i...
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Mercurial behind a proxy
For getting data with using a proxy simply modify the command with included –-config-parameter with proxy-information. So the original: hg clone https://ralf...
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Running CopySourceAsHtml Add-in under Visual Studio 2010
Until now CopySourceAsHtml only supports Visual Studio 2008 out of the box. But it is no problem to pimp up the config-file for supporting Visual Studio 2010...
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Differences by pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote
By pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote both applications act a little bit different. Meanwhile Word supports RTF-formatting OneNote does not. OneNote...
C#Tools
Installation experiences with NDepend under Win7/64 with restricted user permissions
Today Patrick gives me a new license for his static code analysis tool NDepend for my fresh machine with Win7/64. This platform is new for me, so some things...
Code AnalysisTools
Hudson error: could not delete ..config.xml
Today we updated our Hudson CI-server. After changig job-configuration Hudson throws an error, that the config.xml could not be deleted. But the new entries...
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Searching the new FxCop-Release (10.0)
Today my FxCop-GUI stated, that a new release is available – but the link to this release is broken. After googling a little bit i realized, that the new rel...
Code AnalysisTools
My own set of SuppressMessage-lines
StyleCop issues inheritedoc-comment Using <inheritdoc />-comment is not recognized by StyleCop. So this needs a suppression: // <inheritdoc /> [ SuppressMess...
Code AnalysisTools
Specify a project-specific custom dictionary for FxCop build tasks and Visual Studio Team System static code analysis
Using a project-specific custom disctionary for FxCop and FxCop build tasks is very simple. The FxCopCmd call in the FxCop-target offers the parameter /dicti...
Code AnalysisTools
Global SVN Ignore Patterns und Zeitstempel-Optionen
Globale Konfiguration Die setzt man unter den globalen SVN-Einstellungen. Diese öffnet man per kontextsensitiven Menü im Explorer: Global Ignores Standard *....
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MSBuild Exec task: using quotes in WorkingDirectory does not work
For a general applicability i tried to specify the WorkingDirectory attribute in a qotted manner: <WorkingDir>"$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\Esri...
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Installing StyleCop for ReSharper
Installing StyleCop for ReSharper under an administrative account does not activate this ReSharper plugin under my developer account. A system analysis show...
Code AnalysisTools
AgentSmith: suppressing spell checking warnings
If AgentSmith throws a warning that some term is not spelled correctly for this term the spell checking could be suppressed with: //agentsmith spellcheck dis...
Code AnalysisTools
Working with Microsoft FxCop
Run FxCop as a post build event Since FxCop 1.36 it is possible to include FxCop in a post-build event. So FxCop runs after compiling in Visual Studio and al...
Code AnalysisTools
ReSharper is not available
Today a colleague ask me to help. On his system all ReSharper menus are grayed out. Also the Visual Studio Add-In Manager does not show this add-in. He tried...
Code AnalysisTools
Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 compatibility with ReSharper
In our team we have developers with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. Often we have projects which must be coded by a mixed team. Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 comp...
C#Tools
Nice tools for I18N
Resource Refactoring Tool a nice tool under Visual Studio 2005 - but with Visual Studio 2008 a lot of peoples (including me) have troubles :-( Multi-Language...
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Sandcastle Help File Builder: Content Editor opens without functionality
If the content editor of SHFB opens without any functionality then the configuration file is corrupt. This is repairable through deleting the config-files un...
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HTML Help Compiler Error HHC3004
Today i had an error by building my sandcastle documentation project. After compiling during opening the output instead my chm-file in the help viewer the in...
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Using images and cursors in resources
Often i see code-constructs like 1: try 2: { 3: string bitmapResourceName = GetType().Name + ".bmp" ; 4: Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(GetType(), bitmapResource...
C#Tools
Using ILMerge in a post build step
Offen also a simple application references some other assemblies. In those cases for a deployment all of these assemblies are needed. Instead giving the cust...
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das SDK-Tool fuslogvw
Im Zusammenhang mit der Entwicklung eines eigenen BizTalk Adapters trat immer wieder das Problem auf, dass nicht klar war ob ein Assembly geladen wurde oder...
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