Darren McLeod

 I had gotten a new laptop at work and had gotten everything transferred and working except when I tried to debug a web application in Visual Studio it would immediately stop and in the output window I could see the message "The program has exited with code 4294967295". I searched the internet and most of the solutions involved Docker issues but I wasn't running Docker. I discovered that I could run it in release mode and then attach a debugger to the process. It was clunky but at least I could debug again. A couple of weeks later my laptop got a Windows update and then I couldn't launch a browser when clicking on URLs in e-mails or in Teams. Searching for a solution on the web for that suggested looking at my default browser settings. Turns out my default browser was set to Internet Explorer 🤯. I use Edge and Chrome from links on my Windows Taskbar.  I changed the default browser to Edge and I could launch a browser from URL links again and finally debug a web appli...

Some windows dialog's allow you to highlight part of the text in the dialog and press ctrl-c to copy that text which is great. But some dialog's do not allow this for example this one: I wanted to copy the the compile error but it won't let me. What you can do in this situation is just click on the dialog title bar to make sure it is selected and press ctrl-c . This copies the whole dialog and then just open Notepad and paste it in Notepad like this: Then you can highlight the text you want and carry on.