Month: March, 2007

Sexy Screenshots

7 March, 2007 (22:38) | Recommended Software | No comments

Want to take really nice screen shots for documentation and the like? Check out Window Clippings by Kenny Kerr at http://www.windowclippings.com. Kenny’s Window Clippings application allows you to capture Aero Glass windows in Windows Vista, including the drop shadow as rendered by DWM, without interference / artifacts from the desktop background or other windows.

Recycle Bin Properties

Not bad eh? If you download the above image - you will see that the alpha channel has been retained.


MSBuild process can keep build output open - solved.

3 March, 2007 (00:43) | .net | No comments

It seems that the msbuild process can hold output files open when building projects that contain resource designer code. This causes problems when you want to sign your output assemblies using the SignFile task for example.

There is a work-around that is discussed in the forum thread below (follow the related link). You need to add the following to your project files…

<PropertyGroup>
    <GenerateResourceNeverLockTypeAssemblies>true</GenerateResourceNeverLockTypeAssemblies>
</PropertyGroup>