Excellent sidebar content for web developers!

Thursday, May 25, 2006

A friend showed me a great resource for web developers using the Opera web browser. There are several panels that provide instant links to technical references, such as CSS 2.1 attribute specification. As soon as I saw them working in Opera I fell in love them. Once I was sure they were web-pages, I knew I could use them in Firefox as well.

http://people.opera.com/rijk/panels/css2.1-online/prop-visual.html

Open the link above in Firefox, create a bookmark out of it. Open the properties of the bookmark you've just created and select "Load this bookmark in the sidebar". Click on the bookmark to load the page in the sidebar..

Now, that great resource is available in Firefox, too. I don't really care about IE, sorry. 8^)

There are several additional, really good pages here: http://people.opera.com/rijk/panels/

File permissions for normal users vs. locked-down users

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

This table details the permissions and ability to write files in the specified folders per user.

All versions of Windows		SYSTEM account		Locked-down user		Normal user
C:\		Yes		No		Yes
C:\Windows\		unknown		No		Yes
C:\Windows\System32		unknown		No		No
C:\Program Files\		No		No		Yes
Windows 9x specific		SYSTEM account		Locked-down user		Normal user
C:\Windows\Profiles\		Yes		Yes		Yes
C:\Windows\Profiles\<user>		Yes		Yes		Yes
C:\Windows\Profiles\<user>\Application Data		Yes		Yes		Yes
C:\Windows\Application Data\		Yes		Yes		Yes
Windows NT/2000/XP specific		SYSTEM account		Locked-down user		Normal user
C:\Documents and Settings\		No		No		Yes
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\		Yes		No		Yes
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data		Yes		No		Yes
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\		No		Yes		Yes
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data		No		Yes		Yes

Using shared C# source files between multiple Visual Studio.Net 2003 projects

Monday, May 15, 2006

I have tried hacking this many times and no one seems to think it was possible. But, alas.. someone was paying attention to the details.

The following article describes how to include an existing "common" .cs file in your Visual Studio.Net 2003 projects. "... right-click your project in Solutions Explorer, and select Add Existing Item. Browse to your shared C# source file, then click the unnoticeable little dropdown arrow next to the Open button. See the ctxmenu item entitled "Link File"? That's your man."

http://weblogs.asp.net/savanness/archive/2003/07/22/10417.aspx

Disable built-in support for zip files in Windows

Thursday, May 11, 2006

I am tired of waiting for Windows Explorer to load and cache every zip file in the folder I am trying to display. So, John sent this to me:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/RegistryTips/Disable-Hide/DisableWindowsXPsbuiltinzipsupport.html

In short, run the following command to disable it:

regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

But, you'll need to rename or delete the zipfldr.dll file to make it permanent, see Chris' comments at the end of the article.


Maybe I'll go searching for a setting to disable checking if every network share is connected when I haven't clicked on them.. ?

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