A simple walkthru on how to remove the GRUB loader from your Windows Vista machine if you tried to install a linux flavour that promised dual-booting and other great things.

The Visual Studio IDE has an very extensible framework, allowing developers to tap into the inner goings-on of just about anything imaginable that the IDE can do. The attached code provides two features: Stopping a build on the first error and logging the total solution build time.

A potential requirement of an application might be to retrieve lookup data from a seperate server/database. Castle ActiveRecord provides 2 mechanisms that allow the developer to connect to multiple databases, and the third option I've listed here, making use of SQL2005 synonyms, could be an easier alternative. I've included a sample project download that demonstrates the first two options in this post.

This is a really quick method to do a find and replace in VS2008 to replace your get/set properties to the new syntax, using regular expressions. You can even use this for C#2.0 targetted projects, the main requirement is the VS2008 (or msbuild.exe from framework 3.5).

After installing the ADO.Net entities designer tools for Visual Studio 2008, a wierd bug has cropped up that causes my app.config file to close whenever I hit Ctrl-S. This also happens for web.config files.The behaviour dissapears just as quickly when you uninstall it :)