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 Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last
decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools for a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, mountain biking, and modifying cars.