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Giving my Toshiba M3 a Right-Ctrl Key

Avanade issues Toshiba laptops to our consultants – well equipped M3’s. My initial beef with these machines when I first got my hands on one was the absence of a Right-Ctrl key… immediately followed by fear that my desk would catch fire from Read More

posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:51 AM by kellyb | 1 Comments
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New UI for Windows Live Messenger

I live my life through Outlook and instant messenger… In truth, I can’t remember using any of the features available in any of the MSN Messenger other than messaging (I count file transfer as messaging). I don’t care about webcams, VoIP, desktop Read More

posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:48 PM by kellyb | 0 Comments
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MSBuild Community Tasks Project

I was reading travisp’s post on Learning MSBuild and I remembered an interesting gem I stumbled across a while back when I had no time to blog. The MSBuild Community Tasks Project looks very interesting. They already have a Read More

posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:36 AM by kellyb | 0 Comments
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Custom Tools in VS2005

One of my favorite features of Visual Studio 2005 is the work they’ve done in the Custom Tools develop area. Custom Tools are those handy little VS extensions that let you generate code in the IDE. The most infamous is the DataSet generator. Read More

posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:00 AM by kellyb | 2 Comments
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Robocopy Cheatsheet

These days I find myself downloading really big files frequently – often on slow and latent networks. There are a few tools out there – namely robocopy – to aid in this task. After googling for the correct robocopy command line syntax Read More

posted Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:33 PM by kellyb | 0 Comments
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DevPartner 8.0 On It's Way!

I’m a big fan of Compuware’s DevPartner 7.2 (my profiling tool of choice for VS2003/.NET v1.1). I was contacted by Cristy Smith (my support contact from Compuware) about their 8.0 (VS2005/.NET 2.0) release a few weeks ago and she tells me Read More

posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:25 PM by kellyb | 0 Comments
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Speeding up CodeSmith Studio 3.x

CodeSmith 3.x Studio — the pricey IDE for editing CodeSmith templates — is a vastly improved developer experience than editing templates in your favorite editor, but anyone who has worked with it for extended periods of time has noticed it’s Read More

posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:41 PM by kellyb | 0 Comments
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