Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

TFS Express done right

Posted on September 14, 2012 by erictummers

In my previous post about TFS Express I installed it side-by-side with Visual Studio 2010. This gave me some compatibility issues when running unit tests with code coverage. To be able to demo some things offline I did needed a … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Build, mstest, test runner, testsettings tfs preview, tfs express, vs2012 | 1 Comment

No Hyper-V for you!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by erictummers

I want to use Hyper-V from Windows 8. But the “Turn Windows features on or off” wizard has Hyper-V platform grayed out. Telling me the processor misses SLAT in the tooltip. My machine has an older Core 2 Duo T5500 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Core 2 Duo, Coreinfo, EPT, Hyper-V, SLAT, windows 8 | Leave a comment

Windows 8 Release Preview to RTM

Posted on August 31, 2012 by erictummers

Up first: an upgrade from Release Preview (build 8400) to RTM (build 9200) is not possible. As so many people I installed the Developer Preview, the Consumer Preview, the Release Preview and the RTM. Every new version was a clean … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged 7-zip, clean install, consumer preview, developer preview, release preview, rtm, usb stick, USB/DVD download tool, windows 8 | 1 Comment

switch code snippet power

Posted on August 30, 2012 by erictummers

Today I discovered the code snippet with the best timesaving ever: switch. You can use it from the snippet menu (CTRL + K, X) or you can simply type switch and use code completion (CTRL + SPACE and TAB) Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged case, case statement, code completion, code snippet, enum, placeholder, switch, Visual Studio 2010 | Leave a comment

Recover lost photos with PhotoRec

Posted on August 21, 2012 by erictummers

My neighbour accidently deleted all photos on the camera without having them transfered to the harddisk. The SD card was never used before and the card was not formatted after deleting all photos. This should be recoverable. From lifehacker.com I … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged block, camera, commandline, console, diskscan, filetype, photo, photorec, recover, sd, sdhc | 1 Comment