Windows 2008 guest has built in support for Hyper-V; however, when a Windows 2008 image is migrated to Hyper-V, “Detect HAL” option should be selected or Hyper-V drivers won’t work. The following screenshot shows the symptoms of undetected HAL in a windows 2008 guest:

I created with the following small stored procedure that becomes handy when it is required to start an Agent Job and wait until it finishes its work.

CREATE PROC [dbo].[usbStartAndMonitorJob]
(
	@JobName	VARCHAR(200)
)
AS
BEGIN
	IF 1<>(SELECT COUNT(*)
		FROM
			OPENROWSET(
			'SQLNCLI', 'Server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;',
			'EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_help_job  ')
		WHERE name = @JobName)
	BEGIN
		PRINT 'CANNOT FIND JOB: ' + ISNULL(@JobName,'')
		RETURN -1
	END
	DECLARE @StartTime DATETIME
	DECLARE @JobStatus INT
	SET @JobStatus = 0
	SET @StartTime = GETDATE()
	PRINT 'Execute and wait: '+@JobName
	EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_start_job @Job_Name = @JobName
	WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:03'

	SELECT TOP 1 @JobStatus=current_execution_status
		FROM
			OPENROWSET(
			'SQLNCLI', 'Server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;',
			'EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_help_job  ')
		WHERE name = @JobName
	-- This is just to flush the output messages while waiting
	RAISERROR ('', 10,1)  WITH NOWAIT
	WHILE @JobStatus <> 4
	BEGIN
		WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:03'
		SELECT @JobStatus=current_execution_status
			FROM
				OPENROWSET(
				'SQLNCLI', 'Server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;',
				'EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_help_job  ')
			WHERE name = @JobName
		PRINT 'Afert '+CAST(DATEDIFF(second,@StartTime , GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR)
			+' seconds, the status is: '+CAST(@JobStatus AS VARCHAR)
		-- This is just to flush the output messages while waiting
		RAISERROR ('', 10,1)  WITH NOWAIT 

	END
	PRINT 'Job executed ended'
RETURN 0
END

1. NPP includes most standard features other text editors have (i.e regex search and replace, bookmarks, macros, multi document, multi view, accurate zoom, etc…)
2. NPP does rectangular block text selection (Alt-Shift-Arrows or Alt-Mouse) and rectangular text clipboard operations. Rectangular operations becomes even more powerful when used with Edit->Column Editor
3. NPP includes syntax highlight and auto complete for popular languages including XML. Also, NPP highlights brace { } [ ] ( ) and indent guideline.
   
4. NPP is slim, low foot print and fast. It is able to load and handle large files
5. Includes many handy utilities including:
   • HTML and RTF syntax highlight export to file or clipboard
   • MIME tools and Base64 encode/decode
   • Converts DEC, HEX, OCT, Bin, Text, EBSDIC and ASCII to each other.
6. NPP includes a powerful hex/binary editor plug-in. The hex editor is flexible and offers many options. One key switches back and forth between text and HEX view/Edit: 

   

7. NPP supports many text file format including Linux, Windows and Mac format:
8. NPP monitors file system and notifies user when another program modifies the file being edited
9. XCopy is an option. It is included in Portable Apps as well
10. The last but not least, It is free!

The alternative method is adding the command line column to the task manager:

using System.Reflection; 

 namespace PrivateMembersExposed 

 {
     class Program
     {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ClassWithPrivateMembers c = new ClassWithPrivateMembers();
            c.PrintThePrivateString();
            FieldInfo fieldInfo;
            fieldInfo = c.GetType().GetField("privateString", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            fieldInfo.SetValue(c, "Yes, I can!");
            c.PrintThePrivateString();
            System.Console.ReadKey();
        }
     }
     public class ClassWithPrivateMembers
     {
         public void PrintThePrivateString()
         {
             System.Console.WriteLine(privateString);
         }
         private string privateString = "Can you aecess this?";
     }
 }
 

• Refelctor the Compiled Assembly
• Gacutil the class library
• Put a strong name key in the project directory. Once I use the .snk file, I make it read-only so it won?t be over written by running this command again

Google calculator works perfect. But when we don’t have internet connection or for some complex calculations javascript is the solution! Here is a sample:

So you think it is not powerful enough? Copy and paste this line to your browser’s address bar (one line) :

javascript:for (var x = 0; x <= 4*Math.PI; x+=.5) document.write("********************".substr(0,5+5*Math.sin(x))+ "<br/>");

It works in both IE and Firefox.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary\ VS2005ImageLibrary.zip

There are bunch of nice images and icons inside the zip file. Enjoy!

Putting an assembly into GAC is easy, but how about taking a copy of that assembly back? I needed to have Microsoft.Sharepoint.DLL on my development machine to compile a project and I had to take Microsoft.Sharepoint.DLL from the server?s GAC. Assemblies are stored in:

C:\Windows\assembly\GAC\{assemblyname}\{version}__{publickey}\

The easiest way to access that location is using command prompt.