Archive for April, 2007

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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Wow, this is cool. Haven’t used it yet, the room I’m currently sitting in doesn’t have coverage.

MSBee and AssemblyFolders

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

You may have added directories containing .NET assemblies to the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders so .NET can find them.

Unfortunately, MSBee does not look here. If you haven’t heard of MSBee, it’s a Microsoft tool that lets you target .NET 1.1 using Visual Studio 2005.

Add the following XML to MSBuildExtras.Fx1_1.Common.targets in Program Files\MSBuild\MSBee:

<GetRegistryValue
      RegistryKey="Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\Cisco"
      BaseRegistryKey="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
      ContinueOnMissingKey="true">

      <Output TaskParameter="RegistryValues" ItemName="VisualStudioPIASearchPaths" />
</GetRegistryValue>

Speed Tests

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

With the new network configurations I’ve been using for the new job, I figured I’d run the DSLReports speed test again.

This seems a little fast, though:

Subversion and Team Foundation Server

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Conversion tool