Archive for April, 2009

19 Apr

Visual Studio 2005 Crashes while using DataGridView

Sometimes Visual Studio (VS2005) crashes while using DataGridView.
There is a simple solution which is applicable in certain scenario.

Solution:

Please make sure that the path for the project file does not contains the ‘&’ character.
A very small thing you might not be knowing and it might make you reinstall the VS.

13 Apr

How to increase hard disk size of a VMware workstation or VMware server

If you work with Microsoft Virtual Machine then knowing how to increase its VHD size will always help.
It often happens that you start building your virtual machine hard disk with something in mind and after few days or months you realise that the new technology that you want to give a try needs a bigger [...]

13 Apr

Using VHD Resize tool to increase size of Virtual Hard Drive

1.
Make sure that the virtual machine is shut down and not in a saved state.
2.
Download a VHD resize tool. There are many available for free download.
3.
Create a new VHD of desired size. Say you want to upgrade from 10GB to 40GB then create the 40GB VHD using Microsoft Virtual PC.
4.
Use the VHD tool, and provide [...]