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I found a copy of TofW 2 at MotoCorsa today.  The woman’s Ducati needed a transmission adjustment.  I have avoided MotoCorsa for a while now.  The sales pressure is a bit much. 

When I got back into the office, I threw it into the DVD drive of my desktop machine.  Having watched about 30 minute of it, I’m really impressed.  Being able to see the real world result of mistakes makes it much easier to understand.  Then being able to see the difference correct execution makes finishes off the lessons.  I think this is one DVD that I will have to watch over and over and over again.  Anything that helps me be a better rider is a good investment in time and money.

http://www.twistofthewristdvd.com/

Now, if my VS2010 help files would finish updating, I’d be ready to start my vacation!  What do you mean?  Doesn’t everyone write code on the plane to Maui?

I’m not 100% sure why this happened, but it did. The real issue was rolling the change back out.

I have a Win2008 Small Business Server at the office. I can remote into any machine in the office with the Remote Web Worker feature, which is one of the few things I love about having an SBS box.

Tonight, I wanted to setup One-Click web publishing via VS2010. I downloaded the Web Deploy tool and installed it on my server. (Keep in mind, I’m doing all of this remotely from home.) I checked the box to require SSL to do updates. The Web Management tool requires a server restart at this point.

Restarting isn’t the same as a stop and start. I’ve learned that one the hard way. So I hit stop… Oh shit.

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I downloaded another code snippet tool this morning.  Let’s see if this looks any better…

<ResourceDictionary
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:theme="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Themes;assembly=PresentationFramework.Aero"
    xmlns:ui="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Documents"
    >
    <Style
        x:Key="ButtonFocusVisual">
        <Setter
            Property="Control.Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate>
                    <Rectangle
                        Margin="2"
                        StrokeThickness="1"
                        Stroke="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlTextBrushKey}}"
                        StrokeDashArray="1 2"
                        SnapsToDevicePixels="true" />
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>

This one is the PreCode Snippet. You’ll need the installer add the plug-in to WLW and the Highlighter stuff to have everything you need to add to your headers. More brushes are available from UnderMyHat.org.

I think this needs more work. I generally like this one, but I need something I can automate.

Has anyone played with the old PresentationFramework.dll themes?  I usually use the WPF Themes from CodePlex, but I wanted to see how these themes would look.  After all, why wouldn’t I want my app to look like a windows app instead of some quasi-cartoon thingy?

I know I’ve been AWOL for a while.  I’ve been busy with the business.  Monday I searched for a charity.  Tuesday, my new laptop arrived.  I was too busy working through router issues.  Wednesday, I started playing with my laptop and researching a version control solution.  TFS will not work at the office.  I ended up with a free online service.  We’ll see if it works as planned.  Today was more laptop work and adding projects to Subversion.  Tomorrow, I have another new client meeting and a laptop to fix.  My old netbook migrated to my employee.  After Tuesday’s issues he can no longer connect to the network cleanly.

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