Tuesday 28 August 2012

Where is disco.exe?

Disco.exe location:
On a computer with Windows 7 installed and Visual Studio 2010, the Web Services Discovery Tool (Disco.exe) can be found under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin

Thursday 16 August 2012

Built-in View Styles

Where to find built-in View Styles? There is a ID, and to find the name of a style you need the following:
Go to 14Hive\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\VWSTYLES.XML

The name of a style will be in in this format: $Resources:core,ViewStyleBoxedName;. Now, look for a resource file, that translates all this to English or language that your SharePoint is installed in.
Location: 14Hive\Resources\core.resx

The built in styles are:

0 - Basic Table
6 - Picture Library Details

7 - unnamed
8 - unnamed
9 - unnamed

12 - Boxed, no labels
13 - Boxed
14 - Document Details
15 - Newsletter
16 - Newsletter, no lines
17 - Shaded
18 - Issues Boxed
19 - Issues Boxed, no labels
20 - Preview Pane

Sources:
[1] Where to find strings for $Resources:core

Tuesday 14 August 2012

Why you should not install Windows Essentials 2012

If you are using Windows Live Mesh to synchronize your folders between several computers and The Cloud or work remotely on your home/work computer, do not upgrade to Windows Essentials 2012 just yet.

As Mary Jo on ZDNET reports, if you decide to upgrade, your Live Mesh will be removed and replaced by SkyDrive. And SkyDrive does not yet have all the cool features of Mesh, like easy synchronizing your files across work and home computers, or controlling your computer remotely. 

However, if you do not need those features, and are already using Windows 8, you should consider upgrade. Especially the changes to Movie Maker are worth noting - it has now video stabilization feature, that will remove shaking effect on videos shot from hand. Interesting it would be to see, how much hardware resources  this feature eats up and how fast rendering is. BTW, YouTube already has this feature. After uploading videos, you can edit them and stabilize.

Saturday 11 August 2012

Quick way to switch back from Google+ profile in Blogger

I connected my Blogger profile with Google Plus, but I didn't like it. Mostly, because this would affect ALL of my blogs. So, how to switch back to the old Blogger profile?


Click this when you are logged into your Google account, and you will land directly on a page where you can switch back to your old Blogger profile.