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When Environment.CurrentDirectory Isn’t

I have been using Environment.CurrentDirectory for years as a way to programatically access the folder the application is running out of.  In most cases, I was just displaying this information somewhere, or maybe defaulting a Save or Open File Dialog box. I my current project however, I wanted to Process.Start a batch file residing in [...]

Batch Files Revisited

The network at my company is locked down pretty tight, (I would say waaaaay too tight) so I am not able to do certain things like connect to CodePlex via Team Client or Subversion. Normally not a big deal, except that I am working on BookShelf during my lunch break (when I take a lunch [...]

Installer Etiquette

To anyone and everyone who creates installers for software. Please name your installer setup.exe. This goes for you too Microsoft.  I don’t want to have to hunt through 1001 files in a folder looking for some cryptically named EXE.  I had to install three pieces of software today, and all of them were named differently.  And [...]