Disable the “Restart Now” Message from Windows Update

How to Disable that Blasted “Restart Now” Message from Windows Update:"Press Windows-R, type “net stop wuauserv” in the box and press Enter."

Ajax Debugging

XmlHttpRequest Debugging for IE: a bookmarklet for Ajax debugging.

Toggling The C# Navigation Bar

Born to Code has a macro for toggling the C# navigation bar on and off. Turning it off speeds up the C# source code editor.

Visual Studio Spell Checker

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog : Spell Checker for HTML and ASP.NET pages: "Spell checker works in Source view, it is able to extract text from markup elements and use Office 2003 spell checker to check the text. Spell checker is able to handle entities to some extent (they are considered whitespace for now). It is also able to spell check values of attributes that typically contain human readable text."

EclipsePalette

EclipsePalette: "EclipsePalette is a color palette and screen color capture program designed for not only web designers, but Visual Basic, C++, C#, and Java developers as well."

Browse the GAC

Browse the GAC

The following registry entry allows browsing the GAC with Explorer

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion]
"DisableCacheViewer"=dword:00000010

Set it back to 0 to go back to the orginal view.

140 Resources on Online Tools, Generators, Checkers

Here's a list of tools for web developers:
140 Resources on Online Tools, Generators, Checkers - Listible

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Macro

Coding Horror: Keyboard shortcut summary macro - Queries the Visual Studio IDE for the actual keyboard bindings and produces a web page that lists your keyboard shortcuts.

Everything you always wanted to know about Task Manager but were afraid to ask

Coding Horror: Everything you always wanted to know about Task Manager but were afraid to ask

Visual Studio 2005: C# Code Snippets

The C# code snippets equivalent to the VB snippets that shipped with VS 2005 are finally out.
Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

New PC

I'm in the progress of migrating to my new Dell Precision 380 Pentium D with dual flat screen monitors at work so I figured I'd post some links to info I've found useful when switching machines.

Disable Windows Server 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker

Command Prompt Here

Internet Explorer 5 Web Developer Accessories for the view partial source feature.

WMF Vulnerability

Microsoft Security Advisory (912840): Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution.

Here's a patch for the WMF vulnerability that the SANS institute is recommending.

VMTN - Browser Appliance Virtual Machine

browse the Internet with Firefox in a virtual machine

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

A list of some useful free utilities including anti-virus software.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

24 Ways to Impress Your Friends

The 24 ways site appears to be posting a cool web development article a day that you can use to impress your friends.

Day 1 was on the Prototype Ajax library.

intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

Here's some possibly useful CSS Templates
intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

Don't know if I'd dare try this but we've got HP printers at work.
Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

10 Useful JavaScript Functions

Here's Dustin Diaz's list of the top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time. They look like they could be useful.

Dactyl Fractal Zoom

A flash animation of Fractal Fingers.

PromptSQL: SQL Intellisense for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET 2003, Management Studio and VS 2005

PromptSQL: SQL Intellisense for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET 2003, Management Studio and VS 2005: "PromptSQL provides SQL Intellisense style word completion for various Microsoft SQL editors, and UltraEdit."