Archive for December, 2004

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

WiX (Windows Installer XML) links

WiX  (Windows Installer XML) is a toolset that creates Windows installation packages from XML. WiX is an open source project, originally developed by Microsoft. Here’s list of links that may help you build installation using WiX.
WiX tutorial
IntelliSense for WiX .wxs files
differentpla.net
Rob Mensching’s blog

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts

The proggy fonts are a set of fixed-width screen fonts that are designed for code listings.
http://www.proggyfonts.com

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

http://www.deskbarshortcuts.com

New site to share, try out, and submit MSN Toolbar Suite shortcuts
http://www.deskbarshortcuts.com
[Via msnsearch's WebLog ]

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

.NET Tool for Tracking down managed memory leaks

Leak Detector drives the debugger process, parses the output, and provides an easy way to explore an application’s heap.
Leak Detector

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

MSN Deskbar Clip

With the tool installed, you just type "clip <shortcutname>" in the MSN Deskbar.  For example:
clip blog
And "MSN Deskbar Clip" puts the URL that "blog" refers to on to the clipboard.  This is really useful for long URLs (such as pointers to MSDN articles, products on Amazon etc.)
MSN Deskbar Clip

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Tracking down managed memory leaks (how to find a GC leak) in 7 steps

Step 1: Run your process and put it in the state you are curious about Step 2: Use tasklist to find its process ID Step 3: Use VADump to get a summary of the process Step 4: Attach Windbg and load SOS Step 5: [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Wow! The MSN Toolbar Suite (with MSN Desktop Search ) Beta is available for download

List of features

Desktop Search feature, which lets you find anything on your computer—even within e-mail messages and their attachments.
There’s now an MSN Toolbar for Microsoft Office Outlook, the MSN Deskbar in the Windows taskbar, and an MSN Toolbar that works in both Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer.
MSN Toolbar lets you save address, sign-in, [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Garbage Collection Links

Difference between Dispose(true) and Dispose(false)? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconimplementingdisposemethod.asp
Forcing GarbageCollection http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconforcingcollection.asp
Why I need to call WaitForPendingFinalizers? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemGCClassWaitForPendingFinalizersTopic.asp
Suppressing the Finalize method is explained here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemGCClassSuppressFinalizeTopic.asp
Jessica explains all this in one of her articles: http://www.martnet.com/~jfosler/articles/UsingDispose.htm
[Via Subhag Oak]

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition – Community Technical Preview available for download. This is the first release of Express Manager – new database management tool for Express. Check out http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/

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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

MSN Web Messenger is now online

MSN Web Messenger
[Via Dan Crevier]

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