Shey’s Rebellion

Go to run and type in “regsvr32 /u wmpshell.dll” without the quotes and then hit enter.
To reverse this process go to run and type in “regsvr32 wmpshell.dll” without the quotes and hit enter.

I have NADD; every switch between applications is another distraction waiting to happen, I’m productive when I don’t have to switch back and forth between applications. That’s why I really like having all my dev. tools plugging in to my IDE.

I was excited when AnkhSVN working with Visual Studio 2005, now I can check in/out all my code from VS 2005; on top of that I discovered TestDriven.NET which lets me run my unit tests with a single click from inside Visual Studio.

Schweet.

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To make room for Visual Studio 2005, I wanted to uninstall Visual Studio 2003, only to find out that the setup program couldn’t continue because it was “unable determine the order of installation.” Lucky me, I get to waste the next couple of hours manually uninstalling Visual Studio 2003.

Microsoft’s Knowledge Base Article 824642 does a good job of explaining the steps you need to follow to remove your old copy of Visual studio. It references the utility MSIZap.exe, which is supposed to be part of the Windows Installer SDK, however, it neglects to mention that MSIZAP.exe is now available as the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.

Grab MSIZAP.exe and follow the steps provided in the KB article.

Happy uninstalling.

Sand’s Pit

My favorite picture from Sand’s Pit, Karachi.

When programming, you need to use a monospaced font for better readability, the default in Windows is Courier New which, shall we say sub-optimal.

ProFont to the rescue! It is the perfect font for programmers, it can be set to a very small size if you want; it is the most readable mono-spaced font I’ve ever used. The way it treats zeros, apostrophes, lowercase L’s, upper I’s, colons, and semi colons goes a long way in reducing eye soreness when you are staring at code eight hours a day.

So, What’s your favorite font for programming?