by David | Aug 23, 2014 | Debugging, Development
I’ve taken up some Android programming again and this time in Android Studio, it really does improve the situation in comparison to Eclipse though it’s still far behind Visual Studio + Resharper but since it’s based on IntelliJDEA it does have a...
by David | Aug 10, 2014 | Deployment, Development, General, Tooling, Tools
There’s always that time when you set up a new environment and want to get to that file registered in %PATH%, like msbuild in the developers console or something. You Google or dir /s and eventually find that files but always wonder, is there...
by David | Aug 7, 2014 | Development
WPF often provides you with an option to set an ItemTemplate or an ItemTemplateSelector when styling say lists or even content controls (ContentTemplate). This is useful although most would probably just define an implicit style by not giving it a key:...
by David | Jul 16, 2014 | Automation, COM, Debugging, Development
I love the way COM interfacing enables you to do awesome scripted things but sometimes (more often than not) it brings me just a little closer to madness. Primarily I’ve been having huge problems getting things to marshal properly from vbs (visual basic...
by David | Jul 15, 2014 | Clean code, Development, Tooling, Tools
I got around to some cleaning today removing all our project warnings, yes you know which I mean, those nasty yellow things in the bottom of your Visual Studio screen every time you build. The ones we shrug at and say “well, they’re just warnings” 🙂...
by David | Jul 15, 2014 | Development, General, Testing, Tooling, Tools
We’re using a nice vSphere ESXi 5.1 host for a lot of our VMs at work and today I found myself unable to get proper mouse and keyboard capture in the VMs. It just acted really strange, sometimes I could get mouse capture when I was outside the VM and as soon as...
