Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

To continue the humor of my Bug Fix Bingo post, here’s another illustration to show you how (software) project workflows currently work these days… =0)

Just in case your (or company’s) software development life cycle needs fixing… =0)

We use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for sharing and collaborating between departments at work; it’s been working fine except when IE (both v6 and v7) would, most of the time, crash when opening a document, i.e., IE would just exits abnormally.

After some investigation, I found that the issue seems to happen when you have multiple versions of Office installed. At the moment, my machine still has some Office2k3 remnants, such as the Office11 folder under Program Files; however, I use Office2k7 full-time.

Anyway, here’s what you can do/try to resolve those crashes:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office12.

2. Rename OWSSUPP.DLL to OWSSUPP.DLL.bak.

3. Run Microsoft Office Diagnostics, under Start > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools.

Hope this helps.

In the first release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft introduced a new web application model called the Web Site Project for C#, which had many differences with the old model. Riots ensued, and in VS 2005 SP1 they were forced to introduce the Web Application Project for C# that worked much the way the old ones did.  Go here for more details.

Web Application Projects provide a companion web project model that can be used as an alternative to the built-in Web Site Project in Visual Studio 2005. This new model is ideal for web site developers who are converting a Visual Studio .Net 2003 web project to Visual Studio 2005.

So just an FYI to .NET developers: In any future C# Web Services you build (in VS 2005), you should be using the new Web Application Projects model.  (Thanks to Anton Sipos for reminding me.)

Cheers!

I had to find another way to open the command prompt in a specific, working folder, and the Windows Key + R, type cmd keystroke was no longer efficient. Thankfully, there’s a way around this - two ways, actually…so here they are:

Method #1 - Add a Registry Key

1. Open regedit. (If you don’t know how to do this, I wouldn’t suggest you do this then.)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > Folder > Shell.
3. Create a new key and call it Open command prompt (type whatever you’d like as this is what will be shown as the “menu” option).
4. Create a sub key and name it CMD Here.
5. Set the command default value to cmd.exe /k cd %1.

Method #2 - Add via Windows Explorer

1. Open Windows Explorer.
2. Go to Tools > Folder Options.
3. Navigate to the File Types tab.
4. Select File Folder under the File Types.
5. Go to Advanced, then click New.
6. Fill out the fields as show below then hit OK.

After you’ve followed either method #1 or #2, you should get the option to right-click on a folder an open it in the command prompt.

Take it easy and get back to work! =0)