Tweak the XP Search Option

I find using Visual Studio’s “Search in Files” option more reliable than using the XP Search option.  This may be why:
“…soon discovered that the standard XP search option will only search files that are registered as being text files. All other files are simply ignored when you try to search for text in a file.

Fortunately, I also found the solution to my problem. The registry contains a setting which you can use to override this standard behavior.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex]

"FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000001

Changing the setting to the above value will search all files for the text you enter. You can of course use RegEdit to do this, or download this registry patch to change this setting.

More registry tweaks can be found here.”
[via Jan's post]

Software Develoment Team Culture

Jan’s take on the art of software development

1. Develop and maintain a library of common code.
2. Agree to coding standards. Be flexible, but everthing being equal, try to make all code be as unified as possible.
   1. Avoid tricky code
   2. Keep methods small
   3. Always use descriptive names
   4. No constant values. Use enums or named constants
   5. If it’s not self-evident, comment it.
   6. Hold inspections. Makes developers accountable for their code (following standards), catches bugs, catches opportuntities for code-reuse, teaches other developers.
      1. Coding Standards
      2. Refactoring
      3. Code reuse (is a common function available, can code be added as new common function?
      4. Exception cases. Is code defensive?
      5. Is code self-explanatory or does it need comments?

Preprocess Win32 Messages through Windows Forms

Here is how to intercept all windows messages in your forms message queue

Startup Notes

How to get people talking about your product

I snapped the photo, now what?

Zooomr

Greg reviews Flickr, Zoto and SmugMug. Likes SmugMug best.

Star Ratings

Star Ratings using CSS

Rating Control using ASP.Net and Javascript

Vector Graphics in Browsers

SVG supported by Firefox
VML supported by Microsoft in IE 

<Canvas> for IE via VML
VML SVG and <Canvas>
VML and SVG Compared

Gary Beene's VML Information Center 

Advice to Beginners: 

Your intended audience is the key, deciding factor in this decision. If you're a corporate programmer and your company standard browser is MSIE, then just use VML and don't look back.

Ed is moving up!

Changes instore for Lonestar

Plano at last

It's about a 4 hour trip

coordinate:33.02,-96.69

Reached Dallas

One more hour to reach Plano.

coordinate:32.79,-96.79