Category: How-to

  • Using Visual SourceSafe 2005 with Visual Studio 2010

    You may notice that when you attempt to add your solution to a source control in Visual Studio 2010, that it only shows a TFS server as a choice. Don’t be alarmed, however, just: 1. Go to Tools > Options. 2. Click Show all settings if not checked, then go to Source Control. 3. Go…

  • How-to: Bypass a WSUS server

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    As long as you have administrative access on your work computer, all you have to do is change the following key to ‘0’ (from ‘1’): UseWUServer under the following location in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU Hope this helps someone out there.

  • How to enable or disable Quick Launch in Windows 7

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    Just adding this for archival purposes… http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html

  • Import mail and contacts into Gmail

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    I just recently switched to using Gmail as my universal e-mail for manageability purposes, which means (1) I can now send e-mail using my Yahoo! or Hotmail account within Gmail and (2) All my e-mails in Yahoo! and Hotmail is now archived in my Gmail account.  I was able to accomplish #1 easily by adding…

  • Hash class using System.Security.Cryptography

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    Adding for archival purposes… <span style="color: blue">using </span>System; <span style="color: blue">using </span>System.Collections.Generic; <span style="color: blue">using </span>System.Linq; <span style="color: blue">using </span>System.Web; <span style="color: blue">using </span>System.Security.Cryptography; <span style="color: blue">namespace </span>Classes {     <span style="color: blue">public class </span><span style="color: #2b91af">Hash     </span>{         <span style="color: blue">public </span>Hash()         { }         <span style="color: blue">#region </span>Hash Choices         <span style="color: gray">/// &lt;summary&gt;</span><span style="color: green">The wanted…

  • Reference for jsSHA

    jsSHA – A JavaScript implementation of the complete Secure Hash Standard family             (SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512) by Brian Turek About ————————- jsSHA is a javaScript implementation of the complete Secure Hash Algorithm family as defined by FIPS PUB 180-2 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2withchangenotice.pdf) With the slow phasing out of MD5 as the standard hash to use…