James Finnigan : Cool

Flat Solution Explorer

jamesfinnigan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:46:00 GMT

Here's a great tool for folks that use Visual Studio with large projects - it gives you a flat view of all the files in your solution. Quick word-wheeling allows you to filter down to a set of files and get at exactly what you're interested in. It's now available for download up on its codeplex site.

[update: fixed the link]

Virtual PC 2007: Released, as free download

jamesfinnigan — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:39:10 GMT

How cool is that - we're releasing Virtual PC 2007 as a free download. Why should you care? Here's the things I've found Virtual PC to be useful for:

Putting a working server/client/multitier configuration on a laptop for demoing
Testing/debugging setup for RegNamespace (the undo disks are a godsend here).
Doing something sketchy (e.g.. looking at dancingpigs.exe that your friend emailed you)
Running lots of different versions of an OS, or multiple different OSes at once

That's what I've found it useful for - it's used for tons of other stuff. Read more on the Virtual PC site.

[via Robert Burke's blog]

Microsoft CES website - Group Shot pictures

jamesfinnigan — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:09:25 GMT

Here's Microsoft's CES website. There's a ton of interesting stuff on here. The one that will probably impact me the most is Group Shot. Not that the rest isn't incredibly cool, it's just that I have the groupshot problem a lot. :)

These two images becomes combined (source can be seen bottom left) to look like bottom right. How cool is that for group pictures (particularly those involving small children).

OldNewThing - Raymond Chen's new Book

jamesfinnigan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:12:48 GMT

Okay, I changed my mind, I wrote a book after all

Back in 1993, I wrote that I'm doing this instead of writing a book. That was true then, but last year I decided to give this book thing another go, only to find that publishers generally aren't interested in this stuff any more.
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James Finnigan : Cool

Flat Solution Explorer

Virtual PC 2007: Released, as free download

Microsoft CES website - Group Shot pictures

OldNewThing - Raymond Chen's new *Book*

Okay, I changed my mind, I wrote a book after all

OldNewThing - Raymond Chen's new Book