HOW TO: Turn Off Google Buzz

February 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Mike

If you’re like me and you don’t really like Google Buzz, know that you can easily turn it off by scrolling at the bottom of any page inside GMAIL.

Yeah, it’s that easy…

“Edit WCF Configuration” is missing from Visual Studio 2008 context menu

February 4th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Mike

So this morning I format a laptop and install a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2008. I then try to edit the Web.Config using Edit WCF Configuration, but wait it’s missing! What the hell?

So I look around in VS menus and find Tools -> WCF Service Configurator Editor. I clicked it and modified my Web.Config…But I really liked to have the option to just open this in the Context Menu! I clicked again just to humor myself and it was back!

I don’t know what happened there, it’s actually the first time I see this, but I don’t play much with WCF! I was actually able to reproduce this first hand on a virtual machine….

How To: Remove Workspaces from Visual Studio

January 25th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Mike

I usually work using Team Foundation Systems over VPN. And sometimes my VPN access is revoked because I no longer work for a particular client, when this happens my Visual Studio Workspaces is stock there, I can’t reuse the same folder. I’ve been looking into this and found a fairly simple solution from Greg.

  1. Open the Command Line ( Start -> Run -> cmd)
  2. Go to:  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE (or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE for Visual Studio 2005)
  3. Execute: tf workspaces /remove:workspace

This probably works with Visual Studio 2010, I should update this post whenever I try it!