Blogs @ IRM

Our SQL Azure Explorer Addin for VS2010, which is on Codeplex was mentioned on the  Last Week on Channel 9 show, which is cool. Made the download stats peek even though it’s for VS2010 Beta 1 only and you need to have an SQL Azure CTP account.  That show is one of the best for people like me who need to keep up with the latest stuff ...

Me and Dag König just released the alpha version of a (so far) small Codeplex project we’ve been working on for the last week or so – an SQL Azure Explorer Addin for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. The reasons for this project are several, but mostly to learn more about VS2010, how to create addins for it, dig into SQL Azure and at the same time learn ...

I’m having problems in my 64 bit Windows 7 beta with the built in support for unzipping zip-files containing *lots* of files. It often hangs near the end and I have to reboot to sort things out. Downloaded 64 bit version of 7-Zip and it work fine – so far. You might want to try that one out if you have the same problems. Eventually it may also ...

I’ve decided to go for the Windows 7 beta on my new Dell M4400 due to the problems I got with the 64-bit Vista on it. Several blue screens and the most annoying audio stutter made me make up my mind. I must say I got some help from the pro support in the US (the Swedish support people didn’t get back to me at all), and after upgrading and rolling ...

This free (Alex accepts PayPal donations) ISO Burner/recorder works pretty well on Vista and got both 32 and 64-bit versions. Quote from his site: ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) ...snip...  to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO ...

When deploying solutions that contains a Security Token Service (STS) you will probably have to set the security properties of the private key of the certificates that are used to sign and encrypt the messages. It can be very difficult to find the file though, but luckily there is a resource tool for this specific purpose that can be downloaded at ...

I just published this open source project on Codeplex, and this information is available on the Writespace Codeplex home page as well. Writespace is a fullscreen writing environment, developed with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) as a ClickOnce installed add-in for Word 2007 . Unfortunately Codeplex cannot host ClickOnce applications, so ...

Earlier this week we had problems with MSDTC between a developer machine running Windows XP SP 2 and Windows Server 2003, and after testing also from developer machines running Vista. As I always do when having problem with MSDTC, we downloaded DTCPing and adjusted a suggested setting, but we still did not manage to get DTCPing through to a ...

Version 2.0 of SyncToy has been released on MSDN Downloads. SyncToy does not replace FolderShare for syncing files between different computers, but is a more effective way to copy/move/sync files on your computer. The dev-team uses the tool primarily to move pictures and music from devices (cameras, mp3 players etc) to folders on their computers ...

I just learned from a former colleague that redgate has acquired .NET Reflector. Read more at redgates web.

My friend Jan-Erik told me he was about to write a blog page about good tools he is currently using, so I thought I might just do the same. I like my machine clean, so if I'm not using a program or tool for some time, it's out. I'm not listing the most obvious tools and programs from Microsoft (word, vs etc.), but these tools I use frequently and ...

It doesn't really matter what language the tool is written in, but this program happens to be one of the smoothest screen capture utilities around, and it happens to be written in C#. I've been using it for months, and I have no plans to replace if for another cropper/clipper/capture tool. It's available on CodePlex and there's also a Cropper ...

I just tried it out with Eric, and it worked like a charm.  Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and get your point across by showing them what's on your screen. Share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real time.A Windows Live ID (Passport, Hotmail, or MSN) is required to start sessions, but not to join ...

A common problem is the need of different configurations in development, test and production environments. For example it's very common to have different databases, and therefore its necessary to modify the connectionStrings section when moving from development to test. Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects contains a solution for this, but ...

TechEd keynote this year is presented by S. Somasegar (Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, Microsoft) and we've got some great seating not far from the stage (super early bid benefit).   Announcment: Microsoft Sync Framework CTPSoftware + Services Blueprints from pattern & practices Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 ...

Another plugin for VisualStudio which has been around for a while, helps you write code documentation for your c# classes. This is the summary from Roland Weigelt's blog about his tool:GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited from ...

This little project from CodePlex is quite useful for those of you who are responsible for the Build process, Team Build, CruiseControl.NET, NANT, etc. This is the project description from their website on CodePlex: MSBuild shell extension gives you what you've always wanted: A way of cleaning, building and rebuilding your .net projects from ...

Microsoft has released a handful tools for DBPro which can be downloaded from here. There are more information GertD's blog.

I recently blogged about some issues we've had with Datadude, and this is a post about yet another problem. The problem arise when we use schema compare, making a compare between the physical database and the project. When we do this we get differences, that actually does not exists, and I believe, that this too is related to caching.   If you ...

I'm now working on a project where we are building a couple of Entity Services/Data Services, all of them having their own database (of course). When setting up this projects, we decided to use Team System for Database Professional (Datadude), mostly to get the possibility to get good source control of all things that goes into a database, and ...