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I have a habit of bookmarking pages as I feel that I need to go back and review the content. 

So, I’m a bit too OCD to have that many random links in my book marks and I’ve had it happen more than once where stuff I bookmarked later disappeared from the web.  Let me share them with you… and at the same time give ma  point of reference!

PC Usability Hacks

• Display Background Image across multiple monitors – View PDF
• Register Firefox Portable With Default Programs in Windows 7/Vista – View PDF
• Siphon - Add-on Synchronizer [beta] :: Add-ons for Firefox
• Five Best Fax Services
• Clonezilla

Programming Tips

• Prepare web.config for HTML5 and CSS3 – View PDF
• Scaling With Distributed Cache in Windows Server AppFabric – View PDF Page 1 Page 2
• Windows Phone 7 Toolbox
• Four Helpful Features to Add to Your Base Page Class – View PDF
• memcached
• elmah
• How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config – View PDF
• Web Developer's Toolbox
• 11 Best Web Developer tools for Firefox and Internet Explorer – View PDF
• John W Powell : 10 Tips to Boost Your Productivity with C# and Visual Studio 2008 – View PDF
• Visual Studio 2005: Cool Debugging Tricks – View PDF
• Joe White’s Blog » Blog Archive » Blog event: The 31 Days of ReSharper – View PDF
• OutOfMemoryException Fix - ReSharper – Confluence
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
• ASP.NET Session State Partitioning using State Server Load Balancing – View PDF
• ASP.NET load balancing and ASP.NET state server (aspnet_state) – View PDF

Fun Tips

• Mango Lassi – View PDF
• Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling – View PDF

Hacks

• Tethering LG Quantum  – View PDF
• -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Nirvana" - Google Search

Tech Links

• ChevronWP7 
• Make Web 2.0 Buttons and Graphics
• The Making of an Expert  – View PDF

Political/Opinion

• Mini Ice Age coming  – View PDF
• Is it OK to Hire People from your Friend's Company? – View PDF

Last week I came into the office to find my box was completely hosed.  I kept getting a compile error that the webengine.dll could not be found. 

I tried many different uninstalls and reinstalls of .NET but it wouldn’t fix the problem.  However I notice that even though .NET was uninstalled, it wasn’t.  I went looking for a tool to completely uninstall .NET and found this website.

After using that process to uninstall .NET and then rebooting, I reinstalled .NET and was good to go.

Was one of the most frustrating work days I have had in some time, have never been so close to being beaten by a technical problem like this.

I’ve been doing some work on the DotNetBlogEngine and recently I would get this error when I tried to debug.

Thankfully after an online search I found this solution.

In short, open up your .SLN file in notepad and edit the VWDPort entry to a lower number.  You should be up and running after that. 

Thanks to JBERKE for the help!

Ran across this post a while a go, figured I’d share.  It is 11 Tips for Visual Studio.  Take a moment and go over to Stephen Walther’s site for an explanation of them.  I really like number 1 and 4.  I already knew 6, 7, and 11.

Tip #1 – You don’t need to select a line to copy or delete it

Tip #2 – You can add a namespace automatically by pressing CTRL-.

Tip #3 – Never create properties by hand

Tip #4 – You can remove and sort unnecessary using statements

Tip #5 – Use CTRL-k+c to comment out code

Tip #6 – You can close all documents except the current one

Tip #7 – You can open a database by double-clicking the database file in App_Data

Tip #8 – You can copy a file or folder into a project by dragging and dropping

Tip #9 – Use CTRL-SPACE to perform statement completion

Tip #10 – Add new items by pressing CTRL-N or CTRL-SHIFT+A

Tip #11 – You don’t need to type file extensions when adding a file