I recently acquired a MacBook Pro for my mobile development and played around in Mac OSX before getting Boot Camp and Windows 7 installed. While exploring I kept reading text files in the Monaco font. I’ve known about it for a while and never liked it as a programming font. But I did like it for the console and SSH apps. But surprise when installing Windows, Monaco was not a available as a console font – even after downloading it an configuring it for Notepad. So a little digging with Process Monitor I found the registry key needed to make it available:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont]
"000"="Monaco"

Mmm….much nicer console.

When an application crashes on Windows 7 where Visual Studio is installed, you’re normally prompted to Debug the application (after waiting for it to check for issues :( ). However some applications always get caught by Dr. Watson and never give you a chance to debug. There are a few articles out there on disabling Dr. Watson for XP, but Vista and Windows 7 are different enough that the other techniques often fail to help.More...

On occassion one might have the need to browse .NET’s Global Assembly Cache – to manually update a file during development or to remove an assembly left behind by an installer. Normally you’d use gacutil to add or remove assemblies from the GAC during testing and development. However if the assembly was added by an installer, gacutil refuses to remove it. More...