My new favorite feature of Visual Studio: the Class View search box. Ever been working on a large solution with hundreds of files, looking for a file that you know is there, but can’t remember which project its in? You know the name of the file, but can’t remember where its at. I needed a way to be able to search my solution for a file name. Voila! Ctrl + K, Ctrl + V pops open the Class View and puts the focus in the search box and lets you search for the class you need. The only caveat is that it searches through the .NET framework assemblies too, so it can be moderately slow at times, but I’ve not noticed a real problem with that so far. I’ve never had a search take longer than maybe a couple of seconds. Anyway…I found it very useful…though you might too.

WARNING: What follows is a rant. If you don’t feel like listening to me complain about my problems with Windows Vista, you should probably just skip this one.

I’ve been using Windows Vista for…oohhh…I dunno, about a year now or so, something like that. The experience has been…uuummm…OK. There are some things about it that I like, and definitely some things about it that I don’t like. One thing that I will say for certain though, is that there is one thing that I don’t like about it SO much, that it may just end up being the deciding factor of whether or not I continue using Vista or not.

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Computers are so unreliable. You’d think that with as long as I’ve been working with computers that I would’ve learned my lesson by now and gotten some sort of reliable backup and recovery plan in place at home. Unfortunately, if you did think that, you’d be wrong.

I’ve said for a long time that I was going to get some sort of plan in place. As a matter of fact, I’ve been working on writing my own application for backing up data off and on for quite a while now (I’ve run into a few snags that I’ve not been able to figure out how to get working, which is why its not done yet, but that’s another story for another time). Anyway, the system disk on my server at home crashed last week, which is why Yexley.Net was down for a while.

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