Sara Ford's Weblog

You may have wondered what that Restore File Associations button does on the Tools-Options-Environment page.  This button allows you to restore your file extensions for VS 2005, in case any were broken after uninstalling a previous version of Visual...

VS 2005 has a built-in logging system to help Product Support Services troubleshoot Visual Studio issues. You may find it useful to troubleshoot issues on your own. Run "Devenv.exe /log" The log file is written out to %USERPROFILE%\Application...

If you ever need to combine solutions, here’s how to do it… 1. Open your main solution (the solution you want to add another solution to) 2. Go to File – Add – Add Existing Project 3. Change “Files of type” to Solution Files 4. Select the sln file Results...

In Visual Studio 2005, solution folders improve the manageability of solutions that contain a large number of projects.  You can group projects within the solution into these solution folders.  However, just having a project hierarchy isn’t...

For the latest information on how you can donate directly to waveland, please visit my official Save Waveland entry . Update 10/6/2005:  Fixed typo with date.  Thursday and Friday Oct 6 and 7 is the fundraiser. Update 10/3/2005:   ...

(written at 9pm CST on Thursday 10/13/2005) My God, this is what an apocalypse looks like. We left Seattle on 4pm on Saturday and arrived in Waveland Wednesday night at 11pm.  We were delayed by the snow storm in Denver, and we weren’t able to get...

(written at 10pm CST on Friday 10/14/2005) Today was a much better day for me emotionally.  I was able to deal with the scenery a lot more and get more action items crossed off.  We started off going to St. Clare with our first round of donations...

(written at 9:30pm CST on Monday 10/17/2005) People have been asking me a lot lately, "how have you been holding up?"  Well, let’s see.  Day 1 – Overwhelming.  Day 2 – Despair.  Day 3 – Anxiousness.  Day 4 – Anger . ...

Full story plus video can be found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9591977/ My thoughts: When Brian Williams says, “found via Internet”, a NBC Nightly News producer contacted me on Friday via this blog and we went from there.  It was pretty difficult...

Welcome to my official Save Waveland post.  All information I collect about how you can directly donate to Waveland will be posted here.  Updates will be sent out whenever the contents of this post change. Am I missing an organization? ...

Tonight (Tuesday, Oct 4th), NBC Nightly News will be going live from the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  All i’m going to say is, "if you have been following my blog, you will want to watch tonight." More info from Brian William’s weblog at http...

I want to give a shot-out to Chetan's blog. He owns our Automation Object Model (aka DTE) for Visual Studio. He promised me he going to be a frequent blogger, so definitely check it out if you use VS Extensibility! http://blogs.msdn.com/chetanc/

Here I am, 13 days away from my black belt exam.  I’m mostly concerned about having to do the 4 kicks each leg.  This is where you do front snap, side snap, roundhouse, and back kick without setting your foot down.  And of course they make...

(written at 11pm CST on Saturday 10/15/2005) And today was even better.  It’s starting to become more bearable the destruction. Today we went to Slidell to get supplies.  It’s amazing how much alive cities like Gulfport and Slidell are, just...

First of all, a huge thank you to the www.clearwire.com for providing the free wireless at the Waveland Cafe.  Also a huge thank you to the Waveland Cafe for feeding me, my family, and the entire town. We just got in last night at 11pm.  Snow...

Updated 10/20/2005: The sender has asked me to pull this information, as they've taken in as many families as possible. Thanks! Save Waveland!!

At bookstores and newsstands, you’ll find a Special Edition of National Geographic on Katrina.  On page 40 and 41, there’s a center-spread of downtown Waveland.  The longest pier thingy on the right of the center is the Waveland Memorial Pier...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34052677@N00/ Pictures may speak a thousand words, but a million are needed to describe the devistation. I have St. Clare Church registered with the giving campaign (just a fyi to the microsofties).  Once i get the Waveland...

Three hotel rooms for cross country trip:  154.73 dollars U-haul trailer to tow donations for cross country trip:  268.25 dollars Gas to drive Chevy Blazer towing a U-haul trailer for cross country trip:  527.58 dollars Being greeted by...

(written at 11pm CST on Sunday 10/16/2005) “Camille killed more people during this Katrina than in ’69.”  This was the best quote I’ve heard all day. I’m exhausted.  We got Kyle’s prescription filled at WalMart… in the pharmacy trailer. ...

The Save Waveland drive was a huge success.  We collected approx 800 dollars just by giving out free cookies!  We also had to make 3 trips to the house due to all of the donations.  A big Thank You to everyone who stopped by, and especially...

Hey all, I’m going to officially sign off now – So many people i need to say goodbye to today.  Our flight leaves MSY (New Olreans) at 1pm on Friday, so we’re going to leave for the city around 10am.  I wish i had known that Gulfport was operating...

(written at 10pm CST on Wednesday 10/19/2005) Finally, I found a place to donate the clothes.  A church in Diamondhead has offered to take the clothing.  They were no longer accepting donations, but when they heard we were from Seattle with...

One of my neighbors from down the street in Waveland has put up a website with more photos. Check it out at http://www.priceferrell.com/ Save Waveland!!

(written at 9pm CST on Tuesday 10/18/2005) This morning, we officially donated the Chevy Blazer to the Waveland Animal Control.  They accepted it with open arms.  I took pictures of us handing over the keys.  But actually, we still own...