Some people complaint about the need to sign in to Visual Studio 2013 for it to run, without a possibility of running a disconnected/offline setup. Introducing a static activation key licensing option (which I just discovered) - you can obtain it from your MSDN subscription page.

I found so many articles on the internet suggesting the need to write your own classes to read/write app.config. While the read is fairly easy, people are struggling a lot with the write, some are saying that write is not supported by .NET at all.

I am running Windows 7 x64 both as a host and a guest VM using VMWare Workstation v9. Here are the figures of Windows Experience Index for each instance, so you can estimate virtualization efficiency.

By experiment, I discovered that Visual Subst no longer works in Windows Server 2012, as good as it did in previous versions of the OS. Specifically for the purpose of referencing a DLL from a locally mapped drive.

So I picked a rather new adapter kit, which was supposed to deliver 500 megabits over a 100 Mbit connection, which sounded kind of interesting.

After a brand new checkout, developer is getting this error on commit - Commit Failed (details below); Error Access to '/svn/.../!svn/act/{guid}' forbidden

This will be an article from an average home user with a slight hardware/software background. I will provide my personal experience and opinion regarding use of this camera. Expect all statements to be supported by facts, but do not expect lots of research effort being put around each.

Here is my pure CSS implementation of simple blockquote style. I will explain every line of CSS being used as CSS comments - you will need most of them. Works in as low as IE8. IE7 is still okay, just not showing the quote symbol.

You will need a command line SVN tool for this to work. Install it on your machine and configure environment:path to point to its binaries. Then use below Powershell script. It needs to be executed under a versioned folder, and it will output a log for that folder.

Here I am going to show some basics of custom drawing in VB.NET. This is not production-class code, but rather a head start for those assessing whether or not it's feasible to custom draw anything (result vs effort). In this sample project, I will highlight all even items of a ListBox with LightGray color.