Thursday, October 14, 2004

Goodbye X1 and Agent Ransack - Hello Google Desktop Search

If you weren't already convinced that Google was developed by extra-terrestrials from beyond the milky way, this might just do the job. From what I've seen so far, Google Desktop Search is simply amazing. I'm not saying that I have already uninstalled these applications, but it seems as though their days are numbered.

Scott Hanselman has a good explanation of how it works here.

I was amazed how quickly it indexed my hard drive. This is truly a momentous day for the computing world.

UPDATE: Okay well it seems like part of it's speed comes from the fact that it's picky about what it indexes. Of a possible 156,962 files on my C: drive, it has indexed 28,328 (emails, IMs, cached web pages, and “files“). I still think it's the coolest thing to come around in a while - but it seems as though I will be holding on to X1 and Agent Ransack for the time being. ;-)

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Monday, October 04, 2004

ASP.NET Version Switcher Rules!!!

Right now I’m running VS.NET 2003 and Whidbey side by side for some projects that I am working on. When I popped back into VS.NET 2003 to do some ASP.NET 1.1 stuff the other day I was met with these rather daunting errors.

VS.NET output:

Auto-attach to process '[3544] aspnet_wp.exe' on machine 'XXXXX' failed. Error code 0x8013134b.

Assuming that it had something to do with the fact that I had Framework 2.0 installed, I quickly brought up ASP.NET Version Switcher. Surely enough the virtual directories for my newly created VS.NET 2003 projects were using version 2.0 of the framework. Not sure exactly why this was happening or why it was preventing the debugger from attaching, but switching framework versions seemed to do the trick. Sweet!!!

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