Windows Menu Key in VMWare Fusion

Okay it’s been a while. Nobody reads this regularly anyway, since all my google analytics hits are from google! I digress! I recently became the proud owner of a Macbook Pro. It was about time I have all the modern development platforms at my fingertips, including native OSX and iPhone/iPad development platforms. So far, I’ve [...]

ASP.NET MVC AJAX RedirectToAction

I had a problem recently in an application I was writing where I popped up a dialog box (jQuery Dialog) with a registration partial view. Once the user successfully registered, I checked to see if the request was an ajax request (Request.IsAjaxRequest()) and returned RedirectToAction to go to the home page. However, what ended up [...]

Extracting MSI Files Locally to Avoid Install

I use a lot of tools in my .NET development projects that I like to keep in my source control repository so all developers have the same version and mostly the same configuration. I do set up my projects so these can generally be overridden, but the build system uses the ones I keep in [...]

Using vim Buffers and Marks for Efficient Code Editing

I love things that make my programs act like vi when I need to edit or jump to things quickly. Among the vi addons I use are: viPlugin for Eclipse, viEmu for Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio, and Vimperator for Firefox. I was coding on a rather large project recently using Zend Studio [...]

Windows XP 64-bit with IIS 6 and ASP.NET 2.0 Websites

I had a hard time getting IIS 6 on my newly reformatted Windows XP Professional 64-bit to serve up ASP.NET applications. IIS was not installed by default, so I installed it through the normal control panel operations. Then I ran aspnet_regiis -ir, and figured that was that. When I added a virtual directory on the [...]