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September 2007 - Posts

Remember to undo your impersonation

A couple of weeks ago I got an interesting query from a customer, whom had a problem impersonating a service user account by code; the design was a bit more complicated, though: Impersonation not set in web.config By code they needed to impersonate the Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:56 PM by Carlo Cardella | 5 Comments
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My goodness, were's gone my Properties window?!?

I had a funny half-hour this afternoon, when one of my colleagues took a new call from a customer whom had some troubles with the Properties window in his Visual Studio 2005... The customer reported a weird behavior within the Visual Studio IDE in particular Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:57 PM by Carlo Cardella | 7 Comments
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Why should we care about symbols?

I already touched this topic a while ago , but since it's an important part of the debugging process (and your debugging techniques may vary a lot, depending if you have or not good symbols for your dump) I though would be a good idea to give some more Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:59 PM by Carlo Cardella | 6 Comments
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SyncToy not working on Vista x64?

I've been using SyncToy for quite a few months to keep in sync some folders between my laptop and the other two machines I have in office, and it always worked just great for me (I know, I should be using Groove instead but I'm not happy to have services Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:35 PM by Carlo Cardella | 3 Comments

Something you need to know before start debugging

It may appear as a contradiction after my previous post , but the first thing to do to start analyzing a memory dump is ask yourself: do I really need a dump?!? Let me explain: when you need to troubleshoot an error there are a number of things to do Read More...
Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 5:31 PM by Carlo Cardella | 3 Comments
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New to debugging? How it all begun (and how could begin for you, too...)

When I joint Microsoft and the EMEA Internet Dev Support Team in late 2004, I soon realized that I had to build a new skillset to have a future in my new role; before that I was a kind of "self made" developer, in the sense that almost everything I learnt Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:27 PM by Carlo Cardella | 6 Comments
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Visual Studio as the definitive text editor?

That's a clever question and I have to admit I've never thought to Visual Studio in this way, even if I tried different text editors and I still have more than one on my machine ( Notepad2 , Notepad++ , PSPad ). Anyway, while you thing about it take a Read More...
Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 11:56 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Quickly arrange icons on your toolbars

This is a trick I learnt a few years ago in Office (don't remember exactly if was 97 or 2000 ) since I like to customize my working environment "in my way" (like everyone else, I guess ), but I don't like to waste time digging into menus, config Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:35 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
 
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