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I've been doing a lot of Linux development on a Virtual Machine (ESX) recently and figured it would be nice to leverage the virtual VGA ...

A colleague of mine kindly pointed me to http://www.startssl.com as a source of FREE digital certificates. Fill your boots...

I have a client who has a collection of storyboard / wireframe PDF documents describing end-user interaction with a company website, and my ...

I am in the process of retiring my old FreeBSD 5.5 based file server and replacing it with a more modern BSD distro that is aimed specifical...

I am in the process of migrating user mail from a Zimbra ZCS v6.x FOSS BSD server to a Zimbra ZCS v8.x FOSS VMWare appliance Linux server. I...

I was looking for a way to make a full local backup of all JIRAs that are mentioned in my JIRA activity feed (which equates to all JIRA issu...

After a lot of experimenting I found a reliable way to track which controls are getting focus: Component currFocus = null; KeyboardFocus...

I've recently had the need to create a hidden windows .NET form (from creation) and found numerous suggestions, however the most simple ...

Copied for longevity (from the great Igor Tandetnik): The difference is not between ODL and IDL - you can change the file extension to ...

I've been working on a bit of Java code which needs to handle an HTTP proxy authentication failure, the code in question uses IE via the...

LPCSTR pszNarrow = NULL; USES_CONVERSION; pszNarrow = W2CA(pszWide);

You can leverage the choice command for pausing for <x> number of seconds: choice /D y /T 1 >NUL (substituting the '1')

Need to retrieve the locally stored encrypted password that Tortoise SVN stores for each of your repositories? http://www.leapbeyond.com/r...

My client was recently taken over by another company and as such all of the network infastructure was migrated over to a new Active Director...

Useful information on debugging problems in release builds when all your customer has is an instruction pointer address as the error. Give...

Need to manipulate Windows bluetooth via the command line? Bluetooth command line tools: http://bluetoothinstaller.com/bluetooth-command-...

A handy tip for invoking a debugger (or anything else) in place of a normal executable at image load time is to set the following registry k...

Make sure multiline is set to true!

If like me you're having problems accessing an embedded (assembly) resource using  GetManifestResourceStream() , then read on: GetMani...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms235211(v=VS.80).aspx http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/vcgeneral/thread/f46b5972-6cb5...

Try this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976656

For reference, here you can find a list of all versions of MSXML: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269238 .. and just in case Microsoft d...

Here it is: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.platformsdk.sdk_install/msg/087b0178f5d8159e?&hl=en

I've recently been busy working on an ActiveX DLL written in C++/CLI, I chose C++/CLI (instead of C#) because we have "legacy"...

I came across this succinct (well as succinct as you can be when discussing this topic) and comprehensive description of Dispose and Finaliz...

Something else noticed whilst developing my C++/CLI ActiveX control. I'm using the CRT (v9.0) and for deployment I'm shipping the ...

I've been working on an ActiveX control written in C++/CLI recently and I thought I'd share the COM registration function ([ComRegis...

error LNK2022: metadata operation failed (80131195) : Custom attributes are not consistent: (0x0c00007d). This is caused by specifying a ma...

Useful information: JScript / Javascript can't pass values by reference into a COM component, whereas VBScript can...

Just experienced a wasted 60 minutes trying to figure out why a C# project I've created (which is registered for COM Interop / CCW) coul...