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Copy vista installation to larger hard drive

February 25th, 2009

Today I was investigating options in robocopy to move files from one folder to the next while preserving directory timestamps (/DCOPY:T) and came across something that may come in handy for those of you that tend to run out of space on primary hard drive.   It only requires your vista installation CD and no other tools.

http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2006/12/07/100596.aspx

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Source Code Outliner Power Toy

February 25th, 2009

This is one of my favorite plug-ins for Visual Studio.  In my opinion it works better than the Alpha drop down at the top of the window.  For those of you that organize your source code this tool will be perfect.

http://www.codeplex.com/SourceCodeOutliner

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Out-of-memory exception in Visual Studio

February 24th, 2009

There is a limit in 32-bit windows to only use up to 2GB of RAM. This site lists a hack to fix it both in the boot.ini (XP) and also in Visual Studio, although I haven’t been successful with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE command yet.

http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx

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Property Manager AddIn for private members

February 20th, 2009

Ya, i know, you can type “prop” + tab->tab but i like this better. It will create the public properties for a highlighted list of private members to the clipboard. You can then choose where to paste the results in your code.

For a complete description:
http://www.csharper.net/blog/property_manager_addin_for_visual_studio_2005.aspx

To download the VS 2008 Compatible version:
http://www.csharper.net/blog/visual_studio_2008_add_in_compatibility.aspx

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