For some projects I create resources that can be reused in other projects. Such as dialog boxes, images, etc…

It’s waste of time to recreate those resources again and again for each project you use them in, so after some investigation I have found a way to add custom resources in VS 2003 “Add Resource” dialog box.

Open C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\VCResourceTemplates\1033\mfc.rct in VS 2003. Open a resource file from wich you want to get some resources. Right click on the resource you want to copy and from the popup menu select “Copy” then paste the resource in mfc.rct. Or just drag selected resource to mfc.rct.

Note: mfc.rct may have different path. It depends on your VS 2003 instalation!

Fairly simple:

On source computer

1. Start Registry Editor (Start->Run and type regedit)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio\7.1
3. Right click, select “Export” and save the reg file
4. Navigate to C:\Document And Settigs\$USER_NAME$\Application Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\ and compress (add to zip, etc…) the folder named 7.1

On destination computer

1. Start Registry Editor (Start->Run and type regedit)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio\7.1
3. Create backup by renaming the 7.1 folder
4. Exit the Registry Editor and navigate to previously exported registry settings, right click on them and select “Merge”.
5. Navigate to the archived folder (see step 4 in “On destination computer”) and extract it in C:\Document And Settigs\$USER_NAME$\Application Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\

Start Visual Studio and review your configuration if everything is as it shood remove the registry backup you created in step 3.

Recently I has encountared a problem where I was not able to type cyrillic characters in web forms using Iternet Explorer 6 web browser. It was very furstrating for me, because I participate in greate number of web forums, news grous, etc… where I write using cyrillic characters. After some hacking around it turns out that the problem lise in the BitComet extention for Internet Explorer, I disabled the extention (Add-On) and everything now is back to normal.

To disable an Internet Explorer Ad-On:

1. From the menu bar select Tools and then Manage Add-0ns….
2. In “Manage Add-ons” dialog box find the Add-On (in this case BitCommet Helper) select it and then click Disable in “Settings” below the Add-ons list.
3. Restart Internet Explorer

Here is a list of faulty Add-ons I have tried. I will try to keep this list updated as possible:

• BitComet
• Google Toolbar

You may suggest faulty Add-ons using the comment system.