HOWTO: Build Increment Add-on for Visual Studio 2010

Tired of manually incrementing major, minor, build and revision numbers for your software application?

There is another way! I've found a great add-on where the major, minor, build and revision numbers can be incremented or set to a predefine value whenever a build or rebuild of the application source code occurs.

BuildVersionIncrement is an add-on you can download and install in the Visual Studio IDE and setup how you want the major, minor, build and revision numbers to change whenever a build or rebuild event occurs for Debug or Release solutions.

The add-on adds a GUI element where many BuildVersionIncrement parameters can be changed.

I've installed BuildVersionIncrement on Visual Studio 2010 Professional for Windows 7 and thus far experienced no stability issues. Works like a charm.

Thanks BuildVersionIncrement!

You can download the latest version of BuildVersionIncrement here http://autobuildversion.codeplex.com/

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HOWTO: Codec Pack for Mac OS X

Looking for K-Lite Codec Pack for Mac OS X? Sorry to say there is no such thing. But don't worry, there is another way. Perian "A Swiss-Army Knife for QuickTime", enhances QuickTime to play other popular video and audio encoding formats available on the net.

Perian supports:

• File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
• Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
• Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

You can download Perian directly from http://perian.org/ or http://download.cnet.com/Perian/3000-2139_4-100532.html

Just mount, follow the instructions and enjoy!

Source: http://www.coderetard.com/2008/10/22/where-to-download-k-lite-codec-pack-for-mac-os/

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HOWTO: Select Columns in Notepad++

Notepad++ is a great text editor for any sort of file. You name it, it can handle it. For engineering related files, Notepad++ allows you to select columns of text within the file. This is great for captures defines!

Here is how to do it:

“Alt + Left Mouse Click”

Hold the Alt key and then with the Left Mouse Click, select your column text. A tip, if you still want the text to retain its column structure, then first paste the select text in a new file and then copy that text into your destination file. If not, then when you paste the copied text from Notepad++, it will be pasted as a single line.

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HOWTO: Disable Annoying Content Preparation Progress in Acrobat 9

Are you using the new Acrobat 9 reader from Adobe? Have you realized that whenever you open a PDF, a window pops up showing the content preparation progress? This is a annoying window that pops up every time you open a PDF file and it does not prepare the content fast enough. So you are waiting for this window to disappear before you start view the PDF file.

There is a workaround! In Adobe Acrobat 9, do the following:

1. From the top toolbar, click Edit and then select Preferences or Ctrl+K.
2. From the left pane, select Reading.
3. Under the Screen Reader Options group box, under Page vs Document, select Only read the currently visible pages.
4. Click OK.

Now you will never see the content preparation progress window ever again!

Source: http://www.zerohacks.com/2009/02/how-to-stop-the-annoying-content-preparation-progress-in-adobe-reader-8/

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HOWTO: Update all References fields in Word 2007

I've found a macro that can update all linked-cross references in a word document.

Here is a macro code:

Sub UpdateAll()
Dim oStory As Range
Dim oField As Field
For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
For Each oField In oStory.Fields
oField.Update
Next oField
Next oStory
End Sub

Works great in Windows XP SP3.

Source: http://www.technotaste.com/blog/word-macro-update-all-fields/

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HOWTO: Create a Strong Password

need a strong password? try http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/
this site allows you to define the length of the password and will include letters, numbers, and symbols.

to check the strength of your new generated password, try http://www.passwordmeter.com/
this site will compare your password against its own formulation and deduce its overall strength and weakness.

and to tie it all together, use securelogin, a firefox extension to manage all your online passwords. no need to remember!

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HOWTO: Speed Up TightVNC Viewer Performance

Have you noticed that tightVNC is kinda slow over the network? Ever wonder how to speed up the performance of tightVNC. I found a quick solution. Install DFMirage display driver.

This drivers will make tightVNC behave like a terminal service, only broadcasting changes in the current screen, not the entire screen itself. I've tried it myself and I noticed the improved performance right away!

Try it out!

I found the original article here: http://www.pcmech.com/article/speed-up-tightvnc-performance/

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