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Comment on How to Create a Pinned Cygwin Icon in Windows 7 by Senica

Senica — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:19:38 +0000

Perfect! Thanks

Comment on How to Create a Pinned Cygwin Icon in Windows 7 by Harry

Harry — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:37:33 +0000

it works!! thx

Comment on How to Create a Pinned Cygwin Icon in Windows 7 by michaellavoie

michaellavoie — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:24:40 +0000

I also had asdf’s problem, but I found a solution. I followed the steps exactly and the shortcut it created worked just fine. When i tried to pin it, though, all it would pin is a shortcut to the windows command prompt.

I un-pinned it and took another look at the properties on my shortcut. It looks like despite the fact that I pasted:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat

as the shortcut target, windows changed it to just “C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat”. All I had to do to fix it was re-open the shortcut’s properties and change the target back to:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat

Then I re-launched the shortcut and right-clicked the task bar icon and told it to pin. Now everything works.

No clue why windows changed the target path…

Comment on An HTML5 Music Visualizer for Dev:Unplugged by Andrew Becker

Andrew Becker — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:56:35 +0000

Would love to see the code for this!

Comment on Entity Framework StoreGeneratedPattern Bug Persists by Sarah McDevitt

Sarah McDevitt — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:03:32 +0000

Hi,
We have released a hotfix for the StoreGeneratedPattern issue. Try it out! Also great to hear you are enjoying Code First!

MSConnect: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=37957
Code Gallery: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB2561001

Thank you,
Sarah McDevitt
Program Manager, Microsoft

Comment on Installing Mercurial on Windows 7: “abort: no username supplied” by Andy West

Andy West — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:23:15 +0000

Glad you found it useful. By the way, I use TortoiseHg all the time now, and it’s great. The screenshots I link to in the article make it look more complicated than it is.

Comment on Installing Mercurial on Windows 7: “abort: no username supplied” by Ahmed Huq

Ahmed Huq — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:16:24 +0000

Many thanks for your tip. I have just started looking at Joel’s tutorial and your tip is very timely.

Comment on Entity Framework StoreGeneratedPattern Bug Persists by Andy West

Andy West — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:45:00 +0000

I don’t think it has been fixed yet, but the GUI designer is a much smaller part of my development workflow in EF since I wrote this article. I’ve been experimenting with “Code-First” and find it a lot more natural to use. In fact, it’s a bit more like NHibernate.

Comment on Entity Framework StoreGeneratedPattern Bug Persists by calabi

calabi — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:02:10 +0000

Can’t believe this is a bug…. I usually use nhibernate…. serves me right for giving EF a try. Do u know if its fixed at all?

Comment on How to Create a Pinned Cygwin Icon in Windows 7 by Chris Portela

Chris Portela — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:52:07 +0000

Those who are having problems should make sure not to use the batch file but to make sure they’re using the location said above which points first to the cmd.exe
I made that mistake

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