Favorite Visual Studio 2010 Extensions

Posted by: on | Sunday, October 24, 2010     Comments

Remember when we used to code in notepad? Those days are long, long gone. Now we have intellisense, syntax highlighter, code completion, linked navigation, drag-and-srop, code repositories, live debuggers... it can make your head spin. Though somehow, order comes out of chaos and perfect harmony is achieved with hundreds of thousands of lines of code shared worldwide with millions of coders. Quite a matrix we have developed!

I actually started coding in ASP.NET using notepad. I just could not trust the IDE's, especially Visual Studio, because they made so many assumptions and worked too much without me knowing. I felt ...

Windows Icon Overlay Limitations

Posted by: on | Thursday, December 17, 2009     Comments

I've recently installed Windows 7 on a powerful desktop and a netbook. For the most, it's been an easy transition, but every so often I'll run into little quirks.

I use the excellent TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) to connect to SVN repositories, and one of my favorite features is the icon overlay in Windows Explorer so you can see at a glance the files which are under source control and their state. However, I was only seeing a couple of the possible icons. What could be wrong?

After some investigation, it turns out that Windows enforces a hard limit on ...