Bite my bytes

Piknik mstech.si v sodelovanju s skupinami SloDUG, SloWUG, SloCUG in SBSC

David Vidmar — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:07:08 GMT

First event related to Slovenian CRM Users Group will be a party!

Here is the official invitation:

Vabimo vas na že drugi jesenski piknik, ki ga organizira Microsoft tehnična skupnost mstech.si v sodelovanju s skupinami SloDUG, SloWUG, SloCUG in SBSC.

Sponzor piknika je Izid Internet Explorer 9 Beta.

Kdaj & kaj: 15. september 2010. S piknikom pričnemo ob 16h, poskrbljeno bo za hrano in pijačo, prijetno druženje, športne aktivnosti ter zanimivo in zabavno presenečenje.
Kje: Ježica (Gostilna Štern)

Prosimo, da se zaradi planiranja števila udeležencev na pikniku OBVEZNO PRIJAVITE.

Zadnji dan za prijavo je 10. september.

Matjaž Šircelj
Vodja upravljanja odnosov s tehnično skupnostjo

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Syncing Visual Studio settings

David Vidmar — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:12:25 GMT

I finally took time and figure out how to keep Visual Studio settings in sync across different machines (work, laptop, home, virtual,…) as I really grew tired of importing color schemes and fixing mixed up shortcut keys. Bonus is, you get easy backup of your most important settings which you will love next time you reinstall your machine!

Actually this is really simple task. What you’ll need is some kind of syncing program, I currently run DropBox, but I believe Live Sync would also work. Same procedure works for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Might also work with previous version, but I don’t have them installed, so I can’t check.

First, export your settings into a file. I choose to sync only color and font setting and keyboard settings.

Documentation says you should put this file on UNC share and use it from different computers. But nothing is stopping you from syncing it over the internet! Save exported settings file in a folder you will sync across computers, so in my case this is somewhere under “My Dropbox”.

Then, in Visual Studio use “Team Settings” feature in Options / Environment / Import and Export Settings.

What is does is, every time you lunch Visual Studio, it’ll check timestamp of .vssettings file and if it is updates, it will apply settings from that file! Done!

Just remember: If you change and of your synced settings on any machine and you would like to use those changes across all computers, you should manually export settings again!

Another tip… Use different file for different Visual Studio versions. I run 2008 and 2010, so I have SharedSettings and SharedSettings_2008 files synced.

Links of the week #127

David Vidmar — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:31:28 GMT

Development

BizBert - XPath â€“ the hidden language of BizTalk? - And link to DanSharp XmlViewer, simple XML visualizer and xpath expression tester.

Android

Android Icons - 30 Free Android Menu Icons

Android

Design

Software

WebServiceStudio - SOA testing tool.
WikidPad - wiki notebook/outliner for windows

Software Updates

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 12 is available

David Vidmar — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:37:26 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 12 has been release few days ago. It includes update support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and a regular nuch of updates and fixes.

Important link

I also updated MS CRM 4 build numbers table for easy CRM version reference.

Thanks to all who reported slight bug with Rollup 11 version. It has been fixed too.

Links of the week #126

David Vidmar — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:08:11 GMT

Development

Blueprint: A CSS Framework - CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript
Visual Studio 2010 Dark Expression Blend Color Theme
Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Posters

Media

System

phpvirtualbox - An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP.

Software Updates

Links of the week #125

David Vidmar — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:26:39 GMT

Android

Software

Free Music Streamer - Fantastic! Running in my basement and I'm loving it so far.
HashTools - HashTools is an application that calculates hashes for given files. It can calculate CRC32, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hashes. HashTools can also add itself to the Windows Explorer context menu for easy access if desired.

System

OSX in Virtual Box - Tested and it works. Now what?

Web

When Will I Be Mayor? - So silly i'ts great! Foursquare Check-In Tracker. Figure out how many more check-ins you need to become a mayor.

Software Updates

Links of the week #124

David Vidmar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:27:22 GMT

Little short this time around, I was offline for two weeks. More next week! 1000+ unread posts still waiting in Google Reader.

Android

What are the Android display screen icons

Multimedia

Zedge - Lots of cool basic ringtones (not just music!). Just search a little.

Software Updates

Site troubles

David Vidmar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:50:31 GMT

This site has been experiencing technical difficulties in last couple of days. As far as I can see, it’s been some hackers playground. Things are returning to normal.

Thank you all for your patience.

Links of the week #123

David Vidmar — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:11:39 GMT

Development

MSBuild Launch Pad (mPad) - his is just another shell extension for MSBuild to enable quick execution of MSBuild scripts via Windows Explorer context menu.
MSBuildShellExtension - MSBuildShellExtension lets you build .NET projects without ever opening Visual Studio or the command prompt. MSBuild targets can be executed from your favourite file system tool like Windows Explorer or Total Commander. The possibility to extend MSBuildShellExtension with your own targets and editors, makes it a very flexible and useful tool for all .NET developers.
The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions

Software Updates

Links of the week #122

David Vidmar — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:32:24 GMT

Development

A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010 - Thumbnail Previews - This hidden feature gives you thumbnail previews on the Ctrl+Tab UI (IDE Navigator). To enable it a registry setting is needed
oxm - OXM is a framework for transforming .NET objects from/to XML.
SQL Server APPLY Basics

Design

Free Icons Search Engine - Fantastic icon search engine. Search by keyword, size, color and more.
Symbol Signs

Football

Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner - So far the best planning tool. And it's offline, which is a plus.
FIFA Football World Cup 2010 Wallpapers - Minimalistic football world cup wallpapers for all 32 competing nations including Slovenia! Go Slovenia!

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

XML-Generator for Picklist-values to use with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Generate XML and manually merge it into customizations.xml for speedier picklist generation. Nice idea.

Software

OutlookTools
RecycleBinEx - Enhanced Windows Recycle Bin Manager

Software Updates

World Cup 2010 Schedule

David Vidmar — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:01:47 GMT

Watching one month of football is not an easy task. One should really plan it in order to enjoy it as much as possible. Here are ~~three~~ four totally different but usable resource for planning your football month!

Official Fifa World Cup 2010 Schedule on official Mundial web page.

Interactive World Cup 2010 Schedule is a Flash-based schedule. Must see!

Fantastic Excel FIFA World Cup 2010 planner. You will not believe it’s Excel! This on is for you, PeterK!

Import World Cup Schedule in Outlook Be sure to use “overlay mode” for World Cup calendar!

Bonus:

32 world cup nation wallpapers

via Smashing Magazine

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 11 is available

David Vidmar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:42:00 GMT

It’s number 11. This time around, Outlook 2010 integration is big news. Here are links to download and what’s new documents.

And yes, my MS CRM 4 build numbers table is updated too.

SloCUG – Slovenian Dynamics CRM Users Group

David Vidmar — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:46:22 GMT

Yesterday afternoon, after some initial help from Microsoft guys, eleven Dynamics CRM experts from different Slovenian companies sat down in well know beer hours in Ljubljana.

I’m really pleased to announce, that we founded an informal Dynamics CRM users group called SloCUG, which is short for Slovenian Dynamics CRM Users Group.

We will model our work after two well established groups SloDUG and SloWUG (developers and IT guys respectively) and main goals of this group will be exchanges of ideas and knowledge. And beer or other drink of choice with some laughs, of course.

After the summer, we will start with meetings which will be 2 months apart and I will be coordinating the whole operation.

There are lots of details we still have to figure out and lots of things we have to do, but let’s take in one step at a time. More in months to come… If you have any ideas to share, please drop me a note!

Thanks to all who came yesterday! To everyone else - if this is something you are interested in, please leave me a note. Everyone is welcome to join!

Links of the week #121

David Vidmar — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:55:07 GMT

Development

DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator

Software Updates

Presentations from NT konferenca 2010 CRM customizations workshop

David Vidmar — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:25:31 GMT

As promised, here are presentation downloads from CRM customizations workshop on NTK 2010:

Bite my bytes

Piknik mstech.si v sodelovanju s skupinami SloDUG, SloWUG, SloCUG in SBSC

Syncing Visual Studio settings

Links of the week #127

Development

Android

Android

Design

Software

Software Updates

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 12 is available

Links of the week #126

Development

Android

Blogging

Dynamics

Media

System

Software Updates

Links of the week #125

Android

Software

System

Web

Software Updates

Links of the week #124

Android

Multimedia

Software Updates

Site troubles

Links of the week #123

Development

Software Updates

Links of the week #122

Development

Design

Football

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

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Software Updates

World Cup 2010 Schedule

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 11 is available

SloCUG – Slovenian Dynamics CRM Users Group

Links of the week #121

Development

Software Updates

Presentations from NT konferenca 2010 CRM customizations workshop