Scott Hanselman

I was at a local fast food joint today and a fairly large individual in front of me order a Double Cheeseburger, Large Fries, and a Diet Coke.  The irony was as big as his backside.

An hour later at work a fellow identified an opportunity to reuse some code (Diet Coke = Good) but in the interest of schedule, ease of deployment, the differenting contexts the original code was used in, changes to the installer, etc. etc., the quickest way to use the code was by copying and pasting (Large Fries = Bad) from one subsystem to the other.

Ordinarily this would have killed me a little inside, but...sigh...at least it was a Diet Coke.

Was I wrong?

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Travis, who works with me, sent out a useful Gotcha today that was too useful to not blog.

We have a VM that requires the Host OS to use the Microsoft Loopback Adapter in order to create an internal subnet that is local to that machine.  It keeps the VM sequestered. 

However, due to the way the Loopback Adapter works, Visual Studio Web Setup Projects (MSIs) will fail.  To fix it, disable the Loopback Adapter, run the install, then enable the adapter.

(The problem is that, on install, the installer looks at the path it's going to install to and it comes back like http://machinename/http://machinename/targetpath <http://machinename/http:/machinename/targetpath>  - note the looping back going on there.  The installer doesn't like that.)

Interesante, but that's what you get when you do unusual stuff, eh?

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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"Don't misunderestimate me!"

"Oh...I won't. :) "

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Hey Portland folks, Pioneer Courthouse Square - Portland's Living Room - launched their new site today.

I did their BrickFinder application in C# and VB.NET a while back as a demo application.  They had the whole thing in Excel until they hit the old 64,000 row limit.  They upsized to Access 2.0 and went on their merry way.  I updated them to VB6 about 7 years ago, and .NET last year.  This recent face lift was easy, and for me just involved stylesheet changes and no major recompiles.  It includes caching and a dynamically generated map of the square with your personalized brick highlighted.

If you are ever in Portland, check out the Elvis Brick. :)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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James Avery has a great article up in MSDN Mag called Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now.  He's right.  Although, I'd have named it Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Know How To Use. 

It's a very good article that reminds us that world of Windows Programming has changed, and it's about more tools than just Visual Studio.NET.  I'm continually surprised at the number of folks that haven't even heard of NUnit.  I look forward to the tools to come!

I'll need to check my list of Ultimate Tools and make sure all these are on it!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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