The Daily Six Pack: October 7, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Install Windows 10 on Hyper V How to install Windows 10 Technical Preview on Microsoft Hyper V in Windows 8.1 Pro ?, Senthil Kumar Other Hosting the VS 2013 ALM VM in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine, Wes Macdonald Download Windows […]
The Daily Six Pack: August 8, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Power BI Primer on Power BI (Business Intelligence), Mark Tabladillo Other Russia Grants Edward Snowden 3-Year Residential Permit, LeakSource Turn Windows 8 Task Manager into a Widget using Summary View, Anand Khanse Moving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2 Leveraging existing code […]
Resizing VirtualBox Disks Does Not Work With Snapshots
Resizing VirtualBox Disks – I wanted to resize the hard drive of my VM, and I figured that this would be an easy task. As it turns out, it is extremely easy. The only problem was that it wasn’t working. Here is how I resolved that error. Please note, this is my dev VM. If I mess […]
Moving VirtualBox VM’s To An External Drive
Moving VirtualBox VM – Sometimes space on your local drive isn’t enough to warrant a 20GB VM to be created. Move your VirtualBox VM’s.
The Daily Six Pack: January 9, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: VirtualBox And Hyper-V Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1, Scott Hanselman Other Windows 8.1 Developer Training: Geek Edition, Senthil Kumar Document Your Code with IntelliSense, Peter Vogel Securing Windows XP after End […]
The Daily Six Pack: August 23, 2013
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: VirtualBox Tips 10 ways to get the most from VirtualBox, Jack Wallen Other Integrating Search Charm with your Windows 8 Store Application, Mahesh Sabnis Misspelled strings in your projects? Visual Studio Spell Checker (with source too), Greg Duncan Visual […]
Parasoft Service Virtualization – Create Intelligent Test Environments
Parasoft Service Virtualization is a product you need to seriously consider if you are developing applications that you have to test. But before I continue, let me step back a bit. What is one of the first things you do when setting up a test environment? Well I guess that largely depends on your budget. […]
Resolve Windows Live Mail Error When Using smtp4dev
smtp4dev is an excellent testing tool to add to your tools library. Go ahead and download smtp4dev from CodePlex. It is a dummy SMTP server which is compatible with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010. smtp4dev Will sit in the system tray and listen for messages on the port you specify (usually port 25). The best thing about smtp4dev […]
Clone VirtualBox VM’s Easily To Provide a Fresh Dev Environment
Clone VirtualBox VM’s – Lately I have fallen in love again with VirtualBox. I have decided that using the same installation of SYSPRO on my local dev machine to do all customisations is inefficient. As time moves along and different customisations need to be done for different clients, my SYSPRO installation tends to become cluttered and […]
The Daily Six Pack: July 5, 2013
Windows 8.1 with .Net Framework 3.5 – Kunal Chowdhury gives us the low down on how to make it work on a fresh install. Gunnar Peipman talks about Edit and Continue with 64-bit apps being supported in Visual Studio 2013. Lastly, New York get’s it’s own unique Web domain. Today I have taken the day […]