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[29 Apr 2009 | 3 Comments]

Microsoft File Transfer Manager is the tool used by Microsoft to download MSDN Subscription files. It is a nice little tool and very handy when getting rather large updates for Microsoft products. Sometimes though the download item get stuck in the queue and the Transfer Manager keeps trying... [More]

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[31 Mar 2009 | 5 Comments]

I’ve done quite a bit of MDB upsizing to SQL Server in the past. And it works just like a snap - you go to Tools -> Database Utilities -> Upsizing Wizard, choose your destination server, couple of clicks, bang - you are done! So, when I needed to import a MS Access 2007 database into SQL 2008... [More]

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[10 Feb 2008 | 0 Comments]

If you get depressed after looking at the standard Visual Studio coloring theme for years, try changing it. Scott Hanselman posted a gallery of ready to use themes to any taste - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx  I like Jeff Atwood's (CodingH... [More]

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[6 Feb 2008 | 0 Comments]

CodeIt.Right is finally finished after about 3 years in the making. My 7 years long dream come true. The tool it out! Cheers! (I truly believe that code analysis coupled with automatic refactoring will change the way .NET developer teams and solo developers work!) Read this blog post to fin... [More]

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[21 May 2006 | 0 Comments]

This one is very handy and yet not very intuitive - I keep forgetting it and search every time I got to replace a field value when editing table content in Enterprise Manager. Posting it here, so I don't have to search again and also this may help you too :) When you manually update ... [More]

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[5 Aug 2004 | 0 Comments]

Doug Lawty posted a very useful tip: don't press Alt-PrtScn to get a clipboard copy of the content of a Message Box (as a image), instead use simply Ctrl-C (just text)! Couldn't resist to share this with you - it came as a complete surprise to me and I’m considering myself fai... [More]