Here's how to get the full path to a file in VSS. Right click on file and select Properties from context menu. Click Report Button Click Preview Button The "Preview File Properties Report" dialog appears and contains the full path to the file. OR 1. Ctrl...

In the process of building a COM Add-in for Outlook I ran into the issue of events not being fired with XP. I needed to capture the ItemAdd, ItemSend and SelectionChange events, which his was working great on my 2003 server dev box, but when installed...

I finally learned what the cloaking feature of VSS does and wanted to share. If you cloak a folder, you are marking it as a folder that you do not want to include in a recursive get. For example, lets say you have this dir structure. $/ - Apps (Cloaked...

What do naming convention do you prefer when naming controls and why? Hungarian: lblUsername Pascal: UsernameLabel or Username Camel: username Other?

I am amazed at how many developers are still using windiff or VSS diff tool. Beyond Compare is great tool that I use almost daily. It allows you to diff files and folders using the context menu of Windows Explorer as well as through their UI. It is as...