Vista
I've just started working through the Cardspace samples to learn some more about online identity layers (download them here if you're interested). The first example demonstrates a web service running on http://localhost:4123 requesting a certificate from a client. However, as a non-admin, I get the following error from Visual Studio when running the sample. AddressAccessDeniedException was unhandledHTTP could not register URL http://+:4123/HelloService/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace Coincidentally, the error is totally analogous to a similar problem I've had while trying out the CR_Documentor plug-in that Travis Illig has created and it's Travis and...
(Or rather "How a fixed bug and a rubbish COMException error dialog ended up making me take four months to learn that Web Application Projects running on IIS rather than Cassini can only be edited in VS when running with Administrative privileges" but that seems slightly long for a blog title post) I've been happily running VS2008 as a standard user since it came out. And with TestDriven.NET and VisualSVN, I'm motoring along quite well. Yesterday, I decided to upgrade VisualSVN to the latest version v1.5.1. And then bang!! I loaded up my current work and got this dialog. ...
Now as far as I'm concerned, the search box in the menu bar of IE7 is probably the feature I most use - Alt+D, Tab gets me there in half a second - but it takes up some screen realty I'd rather use for other purposes when it comes to taking screenshots for the book, so here's how to remove it and then add it back again should you ever need to do so. Open RegEdit Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions or create it if it isn't there already. Add a DWORD key called NoSearchBox. To turn off the search box,...
Over the past few months, several people has posted some dark themes for Visual Studio, most notably Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood. There's even a community on Ning now for VS theme settings. There's a lot to be said for working light on dark rather than the other way around, so why not try setting up Windows that way too? Standard Vista and Aero themes don't really support this inversion of colour, but the windows classic theme does. Once you've switched your desktop theme to Windows Classic you can switch settings for menu bars, standard text,...