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December 2005 - Posts

How a project max path and solution name length is calculated
You’ve may have noticed that sometimes your project name is too long where other times it is accepted in the New Project Dialog. As explained by Paul on the Visual Studio General Forums … The OS limit is 260 characters (MAX_PATH). However, the computation Read More...
My First Karate Practice as a Black Belt
Found out over the weekend that we had passed. Everyone going for shodan (1st degree black belt) had passed. Sweet. Technically, I’m not a black belt until the ceremony in mid-Jan when we have our belts and certificates handed to us. However, last night Read More...
Use devenv /edit to open any file in an existing Visual Studio instance (VSEdit functionality)
For those of you who used the VSEdit Powertoy for VS 2003, you’ll be happy to know that you can have similar behavior in VS 2005! Just run “devenv.exe /edit <filename>” from the command line to open any file in an existing instance of Visual Studio Read More...
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