November, 2008

Here’s a useful technique for finding the location of configuration files.

Each AppDomain has a base directory from which it loads assemblies – when you double click a WinForms or WPF application, the new process that starts up has an AppDomain whose base directory is the directory in which your exe is located.

This morning I discovered that our StarTeam server was being uncooperative – refusing to accept check-ins because of a lack of available storage space.

Users were receiving this message:

A quick look at the appropriate network share revealed plenty of space – while the hives were configured to use up to 99% of the available space, the share was only 86% full.

Weirdness.

Delving into the log file, I found this message (formatted for this post):

A recent question on StackOverflow.com asked Why use Monospace fonts in your IDE.

One of the answers referenced the use of Comic Sans as a font for coding. I couldn't quite believe it, so I tried it out - and found that Comic Sans is actually very readable at small font sizes, easy on the eye and very compact. Check this out:

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