How to Fix a Failing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install | Microsoft Windows 7 | Tech-Recipes

How to Fix a Failing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install | Microsoft Windows 7 | Tech-Recipes

Sometimes Windows patches or service packs simply will not install successfully. Following the definition of insanity and going back to Microsoft Update to try again and again does not usually fix the problem. Here are 3 things you can do to get that update installed.

I recommend completing all of the following, in order, before trying to re-install the update:

1. Check the system drive for filesystem errors:

-Open an Administrative command prompt (hit Windows key, type cmd, hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter)

-Type: chkdsk c: /f

-Hit “y” when prompted

-Reboot and wait

2. Run the System File Checker:

-Open an Administrative command prompt

-Type: sfc /scannow

-Wait for completion

-Reboot

3. Download and run the Windows Update Readiness Tool:

-Read and then follow the appropriate download link here

-Run the downloaded Update Readiness Tool

-Wait patiently for it to complete, this may take some time with little indication of progress until the end

-See the logs after it finishes: %systemroot%\Logs\CBS\CheckSUR.log and CheckSUR.persist.log

A Visual Studio 2010 Extension which provides JavaScript code analysis using JSLint.

JSLint for Visual Studio 2010

Features

• Simple .vsix double-click installation. Also available on the Visual Studio Gallery website, and downloadable directly from within Visual Studio using Tools->Extension Manager.
• Configure from the Tools menu. Screenshot
• Import/Export Options.
• Analyze all JavaScript files when building the project or solution (also supports analyzing HTML files containing JavaScript).
• Analyze selected JavaScript files from the Solution Explorer. Screenshot
• Analyze a selected JavaScript snippet or the complete file while in the Code Editor window. Screenshot
• Output as Errors, Warnings, Messages or Tasks. Screenshot
• Skip validation of certain script files and folders when building (e.g. non-user code). Screenshot
• Skip validation of a file section. Screenshot
• Predefine JSLint global variables, per file or globally.
• CSS validation.
• New: Detection of constants (optional)

jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Found it on John Sheehan blog.
I love Visual Studio code snippets. I’ve always wished that Visual Studio had them for HTML and JavaScript so I was thrilled to see that feature added in VS2010. I also love jQuery. jQuery is shipping with VS2010, but that’s about the extent of the official support for it. I thought there needed to be code snippets for jQuery and couldn’t find any, so I created 131 of them and started an open source project. You can find links to the project/downloads/docs below.
If you have any suggestions, issues, etc. Please let me know. You can follow me on Twitter for updates on the project. Thanks to Dave Ward, Jonathan Carter, and Rick Schott for testing them out and providing feedback.

Original Post Here

BIG Thanx to John Sheehan.

Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications

Today we’re going to look at the end-to-end tools and options you have for building large-scale enterprise jQuery applications. Although jQuery is an excellent JavaScript library and provides a well-designed set of tools for development, it’s focus on staying compact and making the DOM easy to use has meant that it doesn’t provide a significant infrastructure for building large-scale apps.

jQuery does however normalize things across browsers and serves as a great way of doing DOM manipulation. Using it to it’s strengths, you can select some excellent tools to use along-side it as a toolkit for your larger-scale app development.


Some developers have argued in the past that building RIAs using Dojo, MooTools or YUI may be more suitable for large-scale JavaScript applications than simply opting for jQuery, however, I believe you can implement a solution using it that is equally as good without too much extra effort.

In this post we’ll be looking at ways you can put together a toolkit for large-scale jQuery application development by identifying the options you have available at the moment for dependency management, MVC with jQuery, templating, testing, minification and more.

Original post here

Use an old Satellite Dish as a Wi-Fi Range Booster

Use an old Satellite Dish as a Wi-Fi Range Booster

My Favorite Programming Fonts for Visual Studio Development

I spend almost 6 hours everyday, working on Visual Studio. That makes me experiment with the type, color and size of the fonts I use in my IDE, to make my development environment look hot and fresh! Here’s a list of my favorite programming fonts. Please note that this list is just my personal preference.

Original post from DevCurry.com here.

Consolas

DejaVu Sans

Monaco

Lucida Console

 

 

Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery

Create and share Visual Studio color schemes.
Great growing community of Visual Studio Styles and Themes. You can create, import and export themes in your browser!

Some of the Top-rated schemes: