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Live From My Office, Its PDC 2008!

dotnetgeek — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:56:56 GMT

I was left off the train that recently left for PDC 2008. Had I not gotten to go to Tech Ed this year I may even be really bummed. Lucky for me Microsoft has really made it easy to attend by bringing up the site microsoftpdc.com. The site has the entire PDC schedule listed and every (at least everyone that I have seen) session was recorded and viewable online. So far I have been impressed with the content that is out there. If you are serious about staying on top of technology, I highly suggest going to the site and checking out the content.

Quiet Down UAC

dotnetgeek — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:58:20 GMT

I recently was sent a utility by a friend called 'TweakUAC', which he claimed could quiet down UAC such that it could still protect the system but stop prompting you for all the “Windows needs your permission to continue” boxes. Skeptical of this being some Trojan horse, I decided that I would figure out what it was doing in a VPC. Turns out it was writing a simple set of registry keys. So if you want to quiet down the UAC prompts you can set these registry settings. One is for the admin and one is for users:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin”

and

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“ConsentPromptBehaviorUser”

By default the value is set to 2. If you set it to 0 then you should be now operating with a quiet UAC. After the fact, I did some more googleing and found this article. Julie Smith basically calls out the same thing as my long protracted process came to the conclusion of. Next time maybe I should google a bit longer :$.

Where Did Appear Offline Go?!? Office Communicator 2007

dotnetgeek — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:27:40 GMT

My company upgraded to Office Communicator 2007 as our standard messaging platform from Communicator 2005. One of the features of 2005 that was nice was the 'appear offline' mode. This allowed me to get work done without people bothering me but I could monitor for when someone came on that I may need to talk to; the classic lurker situation.

Enter Communicator 2007. With this I quickly realized that the feature was not there. Bumming I quickly went to find out if it was possible. Turns out the team left it off on purpose but like any good programming team made it so that it can be enabled. First though, the reasons why they did not enable it are worth noting so here they are:

Microsoft's Tom Laciano writes on his post:

It reduces the value of presence if everyone is lurking/hiding as “Appear Offline” (e.g. imagine if everyone in the company did it). Within working hours there is no reason to use “Appear Offline” as opposed to DnD
Once you go beyond OC as an IM client and think about OC as a phone it doesn’t make much sense to use “Appear Offline” as that will cause all phone calls and such to go to voicemail. It is also not a very good way to hide anymore given than everyone is expected to have a phone and so you won’t see very many people as offline anymore (i.e. there is no reason to see someone as offline as their phone should always be connected so at worst they should be away)

Ok. Now that you know why and you have given it careful consideration, here is how to re-enable it:

Open registry editor and go to the following registry entry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
Add the following key to above mentioned entry
EnableAppearOffline (Type:DWORD), set value to 1 to enable status option
Now close the registry editor and restart Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, new status option should now be available.

One thing to note, this can be overridden by group policy.

Enjoy your newly found lurker status.

Using the Copy Database Wizard - Upgrading from SQL 2005 to 2008 Database

dotnetgeek — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:24:17 GMT

I spent the better part of today messing with Hyper-V and cloning to my heart's content. I am now officially running 2K8 / IIS 7 on all my dev servers. While this is not a big deal, one thing I wanted to do was also get and play with SQL 2K8. This was certainly an eye opening experience. Since I am not one to RTFM, I just went for it. First, after reading the differences between all the new versions of SQL, I decided that I wanted to try the Web version since it was all I seemed to need. I got this running on one of my clones and immediately tried to migrate over some of the databases I had on my 2005 dev machine. I first tried to use the Copy Database wizard and this failed; I was getting permissions issues. I then detached the database and physically moved the files over to the 2K8 SQL Server. When I tried to attach this time, I got an error saying that the file was read only. I checked the file and indeed it was *not* read-only.

So what is the issue? It turns out that I had logged in with Windows Auth to the server and as such, my user account did not have modify rights on the log file. Once I changed the CACLs on the file and retried the operation everything attached correctly and I was immediately up and running in my dev environment.

Prism RC Released

dotnetgeek — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:13:07 GMT

Glenn Block has announced that the Prism RC has dropped. You can get it from here.

Prism is the next generation in composite application guidance. If you are building clients for the desktop, this framework can help you tremendously. It was built to be agnostic of any frameworks. So you can chose your own IOC container, your own logger etc. For those of us who did not like CAB for some of these reasons this looks to be the way to go.

I got the chance to chat with Glenn at the 'Ask the Experts' series given at Tech-Ed this year and was impressed with all that they had done to make it so that shops could continue to use the application services that they are used to using. I am sure once I get into it, there will be something I don't like, but it sure beats writing it from the ground up.

Go out and get it....and let me know what you think.

Migrating from Virtual Server to Hyper-V Tips and Gotchas

dotnetgeek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:24:46 GMT

So since my recent shift to Server 2008, I have noticed some subtle but important nuances between Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V. The main thing I have noticed is that the "Integration Tools" (hyper-v term) also known as Virtual Machine Additions in Virtual PC/Server world is not compatible with Virtual Machine additions. This means that the following has to be done for each virtual machine that you are 'Migrating':

Make sure that you are at the terminal since you can not use mouse capturing in over RDC when using Hyper-V VM. (gotcha #1)
Open each VM that you want to install Integration Tools on.
Uninstall Virtual Machine Additions (Start>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs) (reboot required).
From the action menu of an open session choose 'Insert Integration Services Setup Disk'
The auto installer then runs and has told me every time that I needed to upgrade my HAL for that to work...One more reboot.
Then when it comes back the integration services finishes running.

You now have a machine that everyone will be able to terminal serve into. Some additional notes.

The integration services disk does not support Vista 64 bit. All vista machined need to be service pack 1 and xp needs to have service pack 3 installed.

In the end, the pain I am going through in changing this is over to Hyper-V based virtual machines will hopefully be worth it. Of course I am not sure how portable the images will be if I try to take them locally with my and my laptop running Virtual PC. I hope the next version of Virtual anything supports the proper formats.

[UPDATE]

I was thinking I may have missed something in my own learning adventures so I decided to Google around and see if I did. I came across these links:

Drew Hill's post with his own experiences. He calls out to remove static IP's. This is a good tip, though I did not fall into the trap since I have a MAC assigned IP. I did need to emulate the MAC again on each of the machine's adapters.
Aaron suggests that it will be a pain to migrate between the two platforms. Something I was afraid of.

My Hyper-V Setup

dotnetgeek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:51:32 GMT

So in trying to keep up with the hardware aspects of my job, I have recently taken the plunge into Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. I first started with my laptop. A Dell Latitude D630. After I converted it and played around with Hyper-V I was convinced that I was ready to upgrade my main file server to the 2K8 OS. In it's current form it was a dual proc 2.8Ghz with 8GB of RAM and my 2.75TB RAID 5EE array. I thought it would be the perfect machine to house my virtual home network (shared PC's, web servers, active directory etc.). So I went through the hassle of installing all that and came to find out that the Opteron 280 series processors do not support virtualization.

I was bummed. I had such grand plans. Luckily I had a spare XW9400 lying around. The specs on it were much better. Dual Dual core 2218 series processors and 14GB of RAM but it only had a mirrored 500GB drive. More importantly it was my main home workstation and I had all my multimedia apps and codecs installed on it.

I decided to take the plunge and move all the hardware around; to move the mirrored 500GB drives from the 9400 to the 9300 and the 6 750GB drives and the raid controller and put that in the 9400. Once that was all done, I had to do some reconfiguring and such but I finally had the 9400 Installed with DC, Hyper-V and File Server roles (I will probably also make this a backup server as well since it has the storage array attached.

My 9300 needs to be re-installed now with Vista 64 and I will need to upgrade the video card to run my multimedia applications. I will continue to use this to process images and videos.

My next goals are to install a farm of machines that I can use to do some skunk works type of training on some of the latest MS has to offer. I will start with SharePoint development; focusing on how one can create generic deployable features that can be used to act on data in lists etc.

I also want to look into how Groove works in the enterprise. I have used it in the past for years and loved the ability to keep different PC's sync'd with each other. In the enterprise it could me even more real time collaboration within the distributed team.

Windows 2008 Server on Dell D630 Notebook

dotnetgeek — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:00:17 GMT

So in trying to stay relevant and on the tail end of some sessions that I saw at tech-ed about some of the new IIS7.0 features, I have decided to install Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 on my Dell Inspiron D630 as a host operating system. When it finally RTM's I will also install SQL Server 2008.

The install went flawlessly and I was up and installed in minutes.

Next, I wanted to get it to run like a workstation. I had heard of some sites that told you how to do this and came across what I think is the most comprehensive. Here it is. This covers everything from disabling shut down tracker, to setting up the aero desktop experience and more.

I added the following roles to my machine:

Application Server
File Services
Hyper-V
Network Policy and Access
Web Server (IIS)

I also added the following features:

.NET Framework 3.0
Desktop Experience
Remote Server Admin Tools
Telnet Client
Windows Power Shell
Process Activation Service
Wireless LAN Service

Since I want to save my host OS to only run SQL 2008, I decided that I would create some VM's. So I started by creating a Vista 64 bit machine and another Windows 2008 Machine. When I went to install the integration services (the mouse and keyboard integration) on my Vista machine, it said it was not supported. Bummer since having to press Ctrl+Alt+<ANYTHING> is too many keys. So I installed the 32 bit instead. I will use this as my environment when I need word processing and presentations and the like.

Next I need to figure out how base images on vhd files works. Hopefully it is the same as in 2005 so I can just migrate my server to Hyper-V. More on that later.

Installing TFS 2008 on Windows Server 2008

jsmith — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:58:00 GMT

I just completed the install of single-tier Team Foundation Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 Standard environment. This installation is slightly different from installing in a Windows Server 2003 environment. I ran into the dreaded 28100 error, but after rebuilding again and changing a few items, the install worked fine.

For the most part, follow the TFS install guide to the letter. There are a few slight deviations:

When installing IIS, follow the Reporting Services 2005 requirements. This includes a few additional things that need to be installed.
When installing the .NET 3.0 components, only install the .NET 3.0 framework. Do not install any additional features!
Note that in Windows 2008 you must install Sharepoint WITH SP1 before installing TFS 2008. After following the instructions, navigate to both the Central Admin and site on port 80 and ensure that your "TFSAdmin" account has admin rights in both locations. In my setup, it was configured correctly in Central Admin, but not on the main site. I had to add the TFS Admin account as a site collection administrator.

Good luck!

Using CopyAsHtml Addin with VS 2008

dotnetgeek — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:53:00 GMT

Using the CopyAsHtml Addin with VS2008 is not difficult. The standard installer will install to the VS 2005 Addin location. Generally c:\<userName>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins.

To run this in VS 2008, simply copy these files to the same place in the Visual Studio 2008; I had to create the 'Addin' folder. Then open and edit the '.addin' file and replace the value of 8 in the two 'Version' elements with the value of 9. Then save the file and restart VS2008. That should be all there is to it.

Vista - User Profile Was Not Loaded Correctly

dotnetgeek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:12:37 GMT

My problem was solved using this technique:

Restart your PC to release the locks on your profile.
Log on with another administrative account
Delete C:\Users\%username%
Delete C:\Users\TEMP
Delete the registry key matching your SID from NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make sure you pick your own profile.
Restart once again and then you're done!

Hope this helps someone using domain accounts instead of local ones!

Go Dell Support (Latitude D630 Made Clicking Noise On Projector)

dotnetgeek — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:49:53 GMT

So I have to say that my most recent experience with Dell Support has been a good one. I have a D630 that would make any projector I would plug into make a clicking sound. I used the Dell chat support service and after explaining that it was happening on multiple projectors, she put in for a replacement of the motherboard. One week later the support rep showed up, put in the new mobo and no more clicking.

I am writing this post to help those that like me could not find any information on the issue. The support forums that Dell has were not conclusive. So if you have a latitude with the NVidia chipset and you hook up to a projector that starts clicking oddly, call support and have them replace your motherboard. You won't be sorry.

Tips to Speed Up Your Outlook 2007 Search

dotnetgeek — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:39:00 GMT

One of the cool features (if you ask me) of Outlook 2007 is the integration with Windows Search Services. This gives me pretty powerful access to be able to find mail from someone. Brad Meador just posted how you can make this powerful feature even faster by turning off the search as you type functionality. I have often been annoyed by this and can't believe that I had not seen this option before. Thanks Brad!

On a side note, if you are not using Clear Context (the product Brad pimps) and you get more than 20 emails a day, you don't know what you are missing. Good news is that they offer a 30 day free trial.....No I am not paid for my view, their product is that good and has given me back at least a few hours of my life. Think I'm kidding, you won't once you try it out.

Enable PAN Profile for Your Dell D630 With Toshiba's BT Stack

dotnetgeek — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:34:47 GMT

When I first upgraded to Windows Vista with a Latitude D630, I was saddened to find out that the default Microsoft Bluetooth stack did support many of the profiles that I got from my XP OS. Namely, it did not support the PAN profile which is needed if you want to connect your laptop to your phone (such as the Samsung i607 a.k.a. Blackjack). On my Dell D810 the Dell card was using a Toshiba Bluetooth stack which did support a list of Bluetooth profiles.

No thanks to Dell Support, I finally found a somewhat recently released Bluetooth stack from Toshiba, that I could install on my machine and would recognize the PAN profile. The installers can be found here. This link has the both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Unfortunately, the download speed is a bit slow so be patient. You can find the 32 bit version on the US site.

The process seems to be quite straight forward with a bit of a twist. Here is what I did.

Downloaded the proper version of the Bluetooth stack from Toshiba's site.
Remove the current Bluetooth stack.
1. From device manager, right click on the Bluetooth radio's and click 'uninstall'. In my device manager I saw both the Dell 360 Bluetooth Radio and the Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator. I removed the Dell entry first then the Microsoft entry.
Run the installer for the Toshiba stack.
Once the stack installs you may need to restart.
After your install is complete you can get your phone ready to be 'found' and initiate the sync.
The laptop finds the phone and finds the 'Network Access Point' profile (PAN).
The from there you can use the Internet Connection application that is on the phone. Set it to use Bluetooth instead of USB and initiate the connection from the notebook.

Lastly, there is the issue of being able to Active Sync your phone with your laptop. On the initial discovery the laptop is missing the profile of 'Active Sync'. Instead it simply says 'Serial Port'. Thanks to someone else that had the same problem I found that if I could make an edit to the registry and viola. The key is:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\

Change the 'Serial Port' key from what is probably 'bluetooth' to the COM port that Toshiba uses for serial communication; COM7 in my case. You can read more about it here.

Update: I also found this link has a decent set of screen shots.

Enable RSS Option for Outlook 2007

dotnetgeek — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:57:24 GMT

I am posting this for those that would like to learn about options that can be restricted (or unrestricted) from an Office 2007 installation. First a little background. After installing Outlook 2007 I realized that I could not use RSS. I would get a message stating something to the affect that "You cannot use RSS. Your system administrator has turned off the feature." To me it sounded a bit like the Office Policy Templates that I had heard about. Turns out this was not the case. Big Brother really didn't seem to care. What was really happening here is that my registry needed a bit of adjusting. Thanks to Jose Barreto's experience with something similar I was able to deduce that I needed to tweak HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\RSS\Disable = 0 from 1. Thanks Jose!

web.config File Format Differences

dotnetgeek — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:25:16 GMT

I was reading across an oldie but goodie site (4 guys from rolla) and came across this great write up that has detailed information on how 2.0 and 3.5 web.config files differ. Nice job Scott.

Visual Studio 2008 New Features Links

dotnetgeek — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:43:03 GMT

Just starting to play with VS2008 and wanted to keep a list of links that would help me keep track of the new features.

More to be added.

Remove Reminders That 'Cannot be removed' From Outlook

dotnetgeek — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:45:56 GMT

From time to time I run into issues of removing reminders from my Outlook because I would remove it via my handheld device. When this happens its a bit annoying because it becomes a challenge to remove it. A little Google-ing finally came up with a solid answer.

Issue:

Past Reminders keep firing with below errors every time Outlook is opened.
while dismiss them- "Cannot turn off the reminder. You may be reminded again. the end date you entered occurs before the start date"

Here is the solution for future reference:

Download MFCMAPI tool from http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=291794
1. Run MFCMAPI on the desktop
2. Go to Session->Logon and Display Store Table
3. Select your profile
4. Select Mailbox
5. Expand "Root Container"
6. Right click “Reminders" and select "Open Contents Table"
7. New Window Launches with Title Reminders
8. Select all the reminder items listed there, Right click and select "Delete Message"
9. Close MFCMAPI
Ø Reopened Outlook and don't find the past Reminders firing again. The issue got resolved.

Vista 64 Bit on Latitude D630

dotnetgeek — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:34:52 GMT

So I finally got my new Latitude D630 Today. I like it. Sleek, light and runs much cooler than my D810. It did not come without some challenges though. I was having an issue where on a soft restart (not powering off first) vista would BSOD. While the article below did not pertain to my laptop it did solve the issue that I was specifically facing. I am now running Vista 64 bit 4GB ram. With an Experience Score of 4.0. Gotta love that.

Stop 0x0000007B on Select Desktop and Portable N-Series Systems with AHCI Enabled in BIOS

Journal ID:
07313KLDCV

Article ID:
328881

Date Published:
9/4/2007

Last Revised:
10/28/2007

Table of Contents

Overview

Change the SATA Operation Setting from RAID Autodetect / AHCI to RAID Autodetect / ATA in System Setup

Dell Solution Network: Knowledge Base Article

» Overview

Some Dell™ N-Series systems ship with both ATA and AHCI support. Both are methods for communicating with the hard drive. AHCI has benefits above standard ATA mode that increase performance. Microsoft® Windows® XP does not support AHCI mode by default, which causes the STOP 0x0000007B error message if AHCI mode is enabled before the AHCI driver is installed. Also resetting the factory defaults in the System Setup will return the value to AHCI.

AHCI mode is enabled by default from the factory and AHCI mode is the default setting in System Setup on the following N-Series systems:

Dimension™ E520
OptiPlex™ 755
Latitude™ D630
Inspiron™ 1420
Inspiron 1520
Inspiron 1720
Vostro™ 1400
Vostro 1500
Dell Precision™ Workstation M1330

To work around this issue, enable ATA mode.

» Change the SATA Operation Setting from RAID Autodetect / AHCI to RAID Autodetect / ATA in System Setup

To change the SATA Operation settings in the System Setup (BIOS), perform the following steps:

Restart the computer.
Press the <F2> key on the keyboard immediately after the keyboard LEDs flash to enter the BIOS (System Setup).
In the System Setup screen, press the <Up> or <Down> arrow keys to highlight the Drives section, and then press the <Enter> key.
Press the <Up> or <Down> arrow keys to highlight the SATA Operation section, and then press the <Enter> key.
Press the <Left> or <Right> arrow keys to highlight RAID Autodetect / ATA, and then press the <Enter> key.
Press the <Esc> key to exit the System Setup.
Press the <Left> or <Right> arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press the <Enter> key. The computer restarts.

Why Copying Code Can Be Bad

dotnetgeek — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:10:28 GMT

So here is an annoying thing that I was helping a friend sort out. They were getting an error message that had then stopped in their tracks for a day or so. It was something like:

The base class includes the field 'WebUserControl1', but its type (common_WebUserControl) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.common_webusercontrol_ascx)

So the application was a asp.net 2.0 app but they were converting it from a 1.1 app. They created the file then copied its contents from the 1.1 app. Well a little google-ing found this article.

He just changed the 'CodeFile' to 'CodeBehind' and all was good. Thank God for other people's mistakes.

Clear Context IMS Pro 4. As close to perfect as it gets!

dotnetgeek — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:29:59 GMT

It's no secret, I have been a fan for a long time. Clear context has saved me countless hours on managing my inbox. Now they have gone and one upped themselves (actually may two or three upped ;-)). For those of you who are not familiar with Clear Context, it is a 'full featured information management system'. As an add-in to Outlook, it helps in situations when you are bombarded by emails.

How does it do this? It quickly allows you to identify what is important, manage messages that come in, quickly act on what is important and defer what is not. With a newly streamlined toolbar, you can now easily assign topics, create tasks, and schedule appointments.

Another one of the coolest new features include the ability to automatically mark an item as read while it is filed away. This was always an annoyance to me since a lot of times I would read the message in the preview pane and it would never get marked as read.

Ever get distracted by email messages coming into your inbox? Just turn on the new Do Not Disturb feature. It lets you turn off Outlook's new message functionality for a certain time frame. If you are like me I am a bit like Pavlov's dog when it comes to seeing a new message so I am looking forward to really taking advantage of it.

Lastly, the coolest feature I am excited about is the new Dashboard view. It is kind of like the over priced Franklin Covey plug-in but it is really part of IMS. How freakin' cool!

Here is a pic from their site:

You can see that given any Project (or all) you can see all the tasks and messages in one concise place. This will go far to help me get ready for each day as I work on getting organized for it.

DRM-Free MP3 Music Downloads

jsmith — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:21:00 GMT

Amazon has opened its DRM-free music store! You may download music from its store that is not copy protected, and it is in 256 kbps! Here is what Amazon says:

* Selection: Every day we add new music to our collection of over 2 million songs from independent and major label artists. We're continually working with music labels to offer more and more content in the MP3 format.

* Quality: Our MP3 tracks are encoded at 256 kbps, which gives you high-quality audio at a reasonable file size. This means your music sounds great and downloads quickly.

* Freedom: Because we sell MP3 files with absolutely no rights management software, you're free to listen to your music on any device you'd like. * Value: Amazon MP3 offers high-quality DRM-free downloads at low prices. Find full albums as low as $4.99 and tracks as low as 89 cents.

Visit amazon.com.

I Can Give WMP Some FLAC!!!

dotnetgeek — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:15:48 GMT

Over the years, I have tried more and more to just go with tools that come with the OS and as such I have adopted WMP as my main audio player. I know its not the best, but since its just part of the OS, I go with it. Well one thing that I used to use WinAmp for was to be able to play FLAC files. FLAC is 'Free Lossless Audio Codec' which is a bunch of whooey to be able to say its a recording that has been put in a format where no bits and pieces of the audio signal were lost from the original recording. This makes it good for audiophiles who spend tens of thousands of dollars on microphones and DAT machines to get a live show recorded.

I recently found a way to listen within WMP to some formats that were not supported before and can also make them part of my music library. Here is the link.

Application Architecture Patterns

dotnetgeek — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:20:37 GMT

A co-worker of mine took the time to write a great article on some of the various model-view application patterns out there. You can check out his article here.

Keep Your Code House In Order

dotnetgeek — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:04:49 GMT

In addition to following naming and other such standards, I also feel it is important to keep your code files in order. This can sometimes pose a challenge because when you are being agile, it can sometimes be difficult to keep your methods, properties, constructors, all nice and tidy. A co-worker sent me a link to a tool called Regionerate. From the site:

· Regionerate (pronounced ri-jeh-neh-rate) is a new open-source tool for developers and team leaders that allows you to automatically apply layout rules on C# code. It’s really cool since it organizes your messy code automatically for you Watch how it works.

I am excited about this tool since I often spend time after the code has been written to do similar code clean up. Do you use it?