I'm so tired of not having tabbed browsing when navigating through windows explorer. I've tried a few solutions in the past, but what I really want is just an extension/addon/plugin/something that lets me browse my file system with tabs. Does anyone have any good solutions that they have found to do this? Alternatively, I'm willing to ...
Unfortunately it looks like for various reasons I'm going to have to use Visual Studio 6 instead of a newer version of VS. It's been a long time since I've used it. I'm looking through its menus and don't see any obvious way to set up any custom build steps (pre-build, post-build, pre-link... anything would help actually). Can anyone g...
I've long been a fan of Stored Procedure Keyboard Accelerators, as described in this article. When we moved from SQL 2000 to 2005, though, and from Query Analyzer to Management Studio, the handling of the arguments changed. In QA, comma-separated arguments were automatically read as two separate arguments. In SSMS -- at least for me -...
I would like to create a blog where my Twitter updates essentially create blog posts, with a comment thread. If there isn't blog software that does this right now (I did some searching but couldn't find the commenting aspect) what would be the simplest approach and starting blog software to do this? Potentially an alternate approach to ...
How to customize the color of the symbol inserted in the "glasses mode" in emacs? I have not found the option for this. Can anyone suggest anything? ...
I'm trying to determine how to modify SAP R/3 package code of an installed system. Can anyone suggest the module/tool for that? ...
How have you tweaked the MATLAB environment to better suit your needs? One tweak per answer. ...
Which Visual Studio Color Theme do you use? Do you find that the darker themes work best for you? Do they help ease your eye strain? What is your favorite color theme & where can I get it? ...
A recent project had me working with C# again, and I noticed something I hadn't before -- C#'s Intellisense shows possible exceptions that can be thrown when calling a method Since I work mostly with VB.NET applications, it'd be really nice to have this feature in those applications as well, but it's unfortunately absent from VB's Int...
Is it possible to assign a global hotkey to a specific feature in an Adobe AIR app, i.e. the app feature responds to the hotkey whether the app is active or not (it must be running of course, but only in the system tray). ...
I have Flex based consumer website where I would like to change various look and feel type settings based on random and other criteria, and then track these through to what results in the most sales. For instance I might completely switch out the homepage, show different things depending upon where people come from. I might show or hid...
I tried looking for the .emacs file for my Windows install for Emacs but could not find it. Does it have the same filename under Windows as in Unix? Do I have to create it myself? If so, under what specific directory does it go? ...
How to hide the default toolbar and to disallow the default context menu of the DocumentViewer control? ...
We have a product with an install base of about 50, over 50% of these installs have customizations in the code for the business logic, and that is currently done by huge IF and Switch statements. We are currently in the process of updating the code to .NET 3.5 and would like to handle the customizations in a more managable way. The onl...
What tweaks / addins / themes do you have rigged up to make your IDE awesome? For example, in Visual Studio I color themes, CodeRush draws lines between braces, I always install and use the Consolas font and I have it setup to sync my settings across computers for when I change hotkeys and whatnot with the help of FolderShare. Also, th...
Has anybody succeeded in customizing the Places Bar for VS 2008? My customizations from VS 2005 did not transfer to 2008 (obviously), and no matter what I do with the registry, I cannot make my custom places appear on the Open dialogs. I have read and applied the relevant MS KB article, to no avail. This used to work fine with VS 2005, ...
If I have a button like the one in this image : http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?4cd775814c.png how could I make the text display itself vertically ? As in j B u t t o n 1 I would like to know how to do the same thing for JLabel . I'm sure there has to be a better way than to create as many labels as there are characters ...
I'm interested in reading about the various ways other developers and architects deal with the customization of certain areas of their applications for certain sites. Call outs to customer implemented pre and post processing, events doing the same, allowing business logic methods to be overridden, using strategies with pluggable modules...
I know that there at least two approaches to leverage the web.config file: using the configSource attribute which was introduced in .NET 2.0 - here is a good blog entry about it. The file attribute of the appSettings tag which lets you point to an external file with a relative path. Described in the MSDN documentation on the appSetting...
We're using Infragistics grid (most probably, we'll have 8.2 version at the end) and we want to configure row/cells appearances "on-demand" in order to be able to provide sort of "dynamic appearance". For example, I want some cell to be red or green, depending on its value. We might want to tweak other characteristics as well (font, siz...