Two Annoying Vista Problems Solved!
Okay I admit it. I like Vista. I didn't want to like it, really. I'm a VB developer, not a gamer, not a heavy office user, I know the difference between an .exe and a .dll, I keep my own dang files organized -- I don't need the OS to index anything while taking up my precious CPU!
But.. it happened.
A month ago I got a new Lenovo T60p and after about 2 hours on Vista and Office 2007 I was hooked. Development has its bumps (it always does) but it's been a good experience so far, much better than I thought it would be.
There are a couple annoying things, however, like when I attach a SQL-Express database it coughs up an error and puts the database into read-only mode. I just have to set it back to read-write everytime. Turns out I just need to run SQL-Server Management Studio as an administrator to get around this problem.
The most annoying thing for me was that when I click on a Visual Studio Solution (.sln) file it would do nothing. Nada. Ziltch. Bummer. I was already running VS as an administrator. Today I finally decided to look around the web for a solution/hack. Here's what I found and it works great! I know a couple people in our .NET User Group were griping about this a while back. BTW, this came from the same blog as the SQL attach post above. Thanks to Bryan Phillips.
Two annoying Vista problems solved. :-)
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About Beth Massi
Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
