1. MistyLook
2. Ocean Mist

Have fun!

Hope you can find it useful.

1. Select a text and Ctrl-F3
   Search for selected text.
   Very useful when you browse the codes, meet some references (method, properties, variable, …) that you want to quickly see other locations it appears.

Nam.

<Image Source="/My.Asembly.Name;component/Path/to/my/image.png" ... />

Image path  is in the formation of <AssembleName>;component/<Path2YourImageWithinTheAssembly>.

Useful tips:

• To get the formation of the image path, just open design mode, add an image and select its source as an image in your project/solution and see the result.
• We can omit the AssemblyName part if the code and the image are in them same assembly.
  i.e. Only keep <Path2YourImageWithinTheAssembly> in the image path.

<Image Source="Path/to/my/image/without/assembly.png" ... />

Enjoy!

1. Search Work Items for TFS 2010
   Add searchbox when browsing the work-item query results.
   .
2. CodeRush Xpress
   Code block highlight.
   .
3. CoolX
   Locate current-opened file (in Text Editor) in Solution Explorer.
   Collapse all projects in Solution Explorer – especially useful when your solution has teens of projects and updated very often.
   .
4. Team Foundation Server Power Tools April 2010
   (trying-on) Support finding files under version control by status or wildcard.
   .
5. Microsoft.VisualStudio.XAMLIntellisensePresenter
   (ALT + ,) toggles namespaces filter.
   (ALT + .) togges narrowing filter — only show Intellisense which contain your typed-in Pascal leters.
   Locating an assembly using the xmlns Pascal case IntelliSense.
   .

6. Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools
   Searchable Add Reference Dialog.
   Highlight Current Line.
   Triple Click to select whole line.
   Ctrl + Click Go To Definition.
   Move Line Up/Down Commands (using Alt-up/down)Align Assignments.
   Colorized Parameter Help.

   Tab Arrange.
   .

Enjoy!

Got home, I started to search about the unity container. Not so bad, finally I have understood it. And here now I sit back and write these lines to tell you about this pattern. I wonder why people trying to talk about it so mysteriously! When you got what they are trying to say, you see it very simple. Here is how I got the idea from Unity – Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container.

The context is that you have written a program using a bundle of classes. Problems occur when you wanna update your classes or even worse when you wanna change/replace some of your classes. In that case, it would be so nice if you would change/update/replace easily by updating just dozen of lines of code! Unity Container is what you need right then!

Using Unity Container, you create the object/instance of your class using a container. The class you use is an interface only. The concrete class is loaded from configuration file by the container. You can also load your class at run-time if you want to. So, later on, whenever you wanna update/change the concrete class, just go for the configuration file!

Moreover, when initing an instance, you may have arguments for its constructor which are again objects of other classes. The nice thing here is that the container will take care about loading those stuff for you as long as you register them (in the configuration of course)!

And more, you can have a property whose type is a class. You can have it loaded by the container too (using property [Dependent]).

Yeah, that’s what I feel great about Unity Container. Without understanding it, the codes are nightmare to me! Got it now and the codes are just… puppies ^_^

It’s in here: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download.

Enjoy!

In brief steps:

1. Open user folder (C:\Users\<user name>).
2. Open Properties page for ‘Desktop’ folder.
3. Choose tab Location.
4. Enter the new location for your Desktop.
5. (your Desktop folder now no longer resides inside the user folder, it lies in the new path you’ve entered)
6. Done.

Summary:

1. Create a new Search Folder, e.g. named as Gbox, and choose Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Draft.
2. Open Gbox
3. Customize the view: add column Conversation, then group by Conversation.
   Do not select any fields for sorting.
4. Done

Enjoy!

[WARNING: Changing the Windows user's folder may stop your current application from working properly!!!]

Summary:

1. Log in as another administrator user other than the one need to rename.
2. Go to C:\Users\<Your current user name>, rename it to the new name.
3. Start – Right click “My Computer” – Manage – User and Group.
4. Select you username and change it to the new name.
5. Open registry (Start – Run – regedit)
6. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
7. Go to the SID which has the “ProfileImagePath” value as your current user name.
8. Change it to the new name.
9. Done

(Be sure to back up your registry first)