There used to be a button that would toggle you between the header file and implementation file that currently had the focus in Visual Studio. For reasons unknown to me, that feature was taken out in Visual Studio. Here is a macro though that brings that functionality back: I want my toggle button back!
Within a Visual Studio C++ solution, you can copy a file to a known location as part of the build process. To do that, you have so set the “Custom Build Step” parameters found in the Visual Studio project’s property page: Command line: copy “$(InputPath)” “$(TargetDir)” > nul Description: Copying $(InputFileName) Outputs: $(TargetDir)$(InputFileName) Note, the … Read more
I’ve been plagued with Apple Mail asking me for my password, over and over and over again. I switched over to Thunderbird when I thought there was no solution, but it seems that there might be a solution here.
I have an old Motorola RAZR that I wanted to power up, but I gave away all of the chargers during my town’s last e-cycle pick up. I wondered if I could charge up the phone via a USB cable, but all of articles I read pointed to this only working on a PC and … Read more
This is a good reference for me since I have to do this on occasion when I switch from my Mac to my PC to do some general coding work: Enabling Memory Leak Detection
Thanks to my co-worker for showing me this really cool trick in TextMate! I have this project I’m working on where I need to represent enum values as text for analysis purposes. The enum though is not set up to be easily iterated over (Dr. Dobbs) (James Kanze), so I added a stream operator to … Read more
I had to rebuild my workstation, and alone with it, install a new hard drive that is to be used for testing. Now both drives have Windows 7 installed. When the installation for the second drive started up, all I saw was: Windows 7 Windows 7 as my boot options… Shoot! Which one do I … Read more
For the past 3 1/2 years, I have used Xcode almost solely for my development work, but, recently, I have switched over to Visual Studio to use some of the nifty tools that Intel has for performance profiling. The folks over at Microsoft have some nifty bloggers and one of them have this cool chart … Read more
This is one of those things that has been really bugging me. I know it bugs other people but they have given up trying to figure out a solution. I have to hand it to the nikonians for showing me how to stop this problem on my computer. This trick may or may not work … Read more
This is something that is really easy to do in Important: FreeBSD features the growfs(8) command, which makes it possible to increase the size of file system on the fly, removing this limitation. Reference http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html