Poltergeist? No, Vista Data Redirection
As I was working with a Vista machine, I started noticing that occasionally when I make a changes to some files, only certain programs can see them, but others can’t. […]
Hacker’s diary
Minimizing Your Virtual PC Hard Drive
Just installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 in a virtual PC (Microsoft Virtual PC 2007). It is kinda slow, but it works. In the process I created two “baseline” […]
Where to put log files in Windows?
Following up on the previous post. Linux (and UNIX in general) has a centralized location for logs: that’s /var/log. Windows does not. The original idea was that you are supposed […]
Setting Folder Security in MSI
I had a surprisingly difficult time trying to figure out how to set folder permissions in my windows service installer. Here’s the story: I have a Windows service that writes […]
What’s in a name? A patch by any other name would work as sweet
This week-end I was playing with some sources and I wanted to apply some patches to them. So, I downloaded patch.exe from GNU and tried to run it on Windows […]
Should URLs depend on underlying server technology?
I ran into an interesting problem when I was brushing up my web site lately. Let’s say I had a static HTML page named http://www.ikriv.com/page.html. Now, I decided to use […]
WCF Configuration: Thou Shalt Not Hard Code
WCF comes with a very handy configuration language that allows you to define bindings, end point properties and the like. Doing the same in code is a) tedious, b) inflexible: […]
One more time about TFS
Every day when I open my solution in Visual Studio I get this message box: After that Visual Studio checks out my solution file and a number of project files, […]
WPF: Cannot Combine Bindings and Other Text
It is not a big deal, but still unpleasant. It is not possible to do something like <TextBlock Text=”Speed: {Binding Path=Speed} mph” /> The text in the squiggles appears verbatim […]
WPF: Pack URIs: what's the point of all the commas?
WPF uses “pack” URI schema to point to resources. An absolute pack URI looks like this: pack://application:,,,/ResourceFile.xaml The schema is described in this MSDN article and they claim the URIs […]