John Luif

After many late nights in paper shoes walking up hill in the snow I’m proud to announce the release of CR_ClassCleaner 1.1.  Honestly I’m happy to make a plugin that makes developers more productive throughout their day.

The latest release expanded and improved functionality from the original release. Instead of just having regex's there is now code groups defined by LanguageElementTypes. This greatly increased performance and reliability. A list of other improvements is listed below.

- Add property to CodeGroup for Comments
- Add Code Group property for type string (ElementType, Regex)
- Organize by Element Type
- Add add new dialog
- Finish UI to manage Element Types (Sort list of Language types)
- Select actual selected Language Types in list on UI
- Handle comment for import and export
- Add visibility to Element Type
- Organization of operators (==, !=, <, >), IComparable
- Limit remove regions to active class
- Create Action to Select/Cut Current Member

Go download it now!

Please let me know any comments or suggestions you may have. 

A few weeks ago I installed Reporting Service 64 bit.  One of the things I ran into that I thought is worth mentioning is make sure IIS is running the 64 bit version of the .NET 2.0 framework.

To switch between 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the framework for IIS follow this Kb article.

I have ran into this for a while and it is such an easy solution I don’t know why I did not see it sooner.  I tend to remote desktop into a machine (my laptop) that is running VMWare workstation.  When working inside the VM (while remote desktop’d into the host) the mouse is very jerky and slow.

Solution:  Make sure the hardware acceleration is set to max in the VM.  Right Click Desktop->Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshoot->Hardware acceleration

I recently received a new Dell D820 and the hard drive is very slow.  I updated all the drives to see if that would help, nope.  I have an external drive with a Hitachi 2.5” drive in it that I purchased from newegg which is a faster drive than what dell ships, but I think something is just plain wrong with the drive dell has chosen to put in the D820’s.  I took the drive out of the external enclosure and rebuilt the laptop with it.  Below is the difference in speed as told by HDTach.

The blue line is the original hard drive dell shipped with the D820 and the red line is the new drive I dropped in there.  What a difference; average speed is higher and just look at the difference in burst speed.  Finally I have a laptop again that can run VM’s, no thanks to Dell.

UPDATE:  The new drive I dropped in is a 7200 rpm drive which accounts for some of the performance increase.  I have another benchmark on an ATA100 5400rpm drive that is still faster than the Dell D820 stock hard drive, so I still believe there is something wrong with the drive Dell ships with these laptops.