http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk a collection of online post-it notes Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:52:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have ReSharper installed and think it is a great tool for productivity, but occasionally I find it useful to temporarily disable it to speed up Visual Studio (especially so on my old slow laptop). This is achieved in two different ways, depending on the version of ReSharper. In versions prior to ... http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk/?p=66 A few years ago, I posted about how to extract the contents of an MSI file without having to go through the process of installing it. The tool used to do this was called Less MSIèrables. This tool does do the job, but the UI is a bit clunky to ... http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk/?p=64 Following on from my last post on the MDSN Low Bandwidth View, Scott Hanselman recently tweeted about the beta version of MDSN Lightweight View. In a similar way to adding (loband) before the .aspx part of the url, putting (lightweight) before the .aspx part of the url will use the new ... http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk/?p=62 Several months ago, I read a tip about passing an extra parameter on the url to MSDN documentation to put it into "low bandwidth" mode. I remember doing it at the time, but almost immediately forgot the url switch. That was until last week when I read Eric Nelson's post ... http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk/?p=61 Service pack 3 for SQL Server 2005 was released last week. In it, they have fixed a curious bug that I reported back in January. The bug occurs when trying to delete rows from a table that have a NULL value for an image column. This works fine normally, but if ... http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk/?p=60