November 2004 Entries

Fix for the Broken VS Wizards

I posted this Visual Studio error the other day, which shows up when you uninstall a VS add-in that tries to take a few critical dll's with it (which seems to be about half of the add-ins I've tried). Pete Davis explains what to you can do to try to fix this problem, without reinstalling all of Visual Studio. I should point out one minor difference I noticed. In my copy of Visual Studio 2003, extensibility.dll and VSLangProj.dll were both located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies rather than C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\.

posted @ Monday, November 29, 2004 8:53 AM | Feedback (1)

Traveling for Thanksgiving

The season is upon us and I have to travel. I will be leaving Thursday monring for Philadelphia, where I will be heading straight to Northeast, Maryland to spend Thanksgiving with my East Coast half of the family. From there down to Washington D.C. on Friday to visit with mother, and then back up to Newark, Delaware for my highschool reunion on Saturday. After that party, back down to BWI to head home. I imagine I will be pretty tired come Monday morning. Oh, and btw, Emily and I just launched our wedding website. Check it out if you get the...

posted @ Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:55 PM | Feedback (16)

If you suck at writing Visual Studio plugins...

...Please stop. Now. I'm really tired of dealing with when I uninstall your crappy add-in. Thanks.

posted @ Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:46 PM | Feedback (19)

Amazon Web Services and .NET

Thanks to my new phone I am now a web surfing fool (or perhaps just a regular fool). However I've had one problem... I can't surf Amazon.com too well. While I occasionaly shop at Amazon.com I usually perfer to use it as a research tool too look up reviews of products I'm interested in, or just sometimes price compare. But I've not had much luck so far on my phone. The main site is too design heavy and slow to be practical on a phone. The PDA version doesn't render correctly on mobile explorer for some reason and the phone version is just way to limited and doesn't...

posted @ Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:26 AM | Feedback (8)

New Phone

I'm loving my new Audiovox 5600 Smartphone (thanks Scoble), and it does just about everything I hoped it would do. One of my main reasons for getting this phone was to be able to do research on the fly. I want to know which c# refactoring book to buy while i'm standing in Borders. I want to know the difference between the Linksys WET54G and the WGA54G (the Netgear M0WEG101 is working out great btw), while I'm standing in Best Buy. Yes I'm that lazy. To that end, this has so far been the perfect phone for me (it's only locked up once,...

posted @ Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:31 AM | Feedback (3)