I would like a software product that would allow me to define “profiles” of windows services to be running or stopped. For instance, there are times when I’m not on my LAN at home and want to code on my laptop. That entails having my sql server instance up and running. But I don’t want it running the vast majority of the times hogging resources.
So if I could have this little app and just click a button to start/stop a group of services, that’d be great.
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Not a bad idea, easy enough to implement. A little XML to define the profiles, a little HTA app to read the XML file and start/stop the referenced services. Probably fit in about 500 lines of code, max.
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[…] Ok folks, you can all stop your typing and/or compiling. Mr. Scott Fenstermacher has heeded the call (unexpectedly, I might add since it was a wish-list item type of thing) and delivered a perfect little utility for this very thing. […]
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[…] Ok folks, you can all stop your typing and/or compiling. Mr. Scott Fenstermacher has heeded the call (unexpectedly, I might add since it was a wish-list item type of thing) and delivered a perfect little utility for this very thing. […]
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[…] In the same vain as another post, I or someone needs to write a Visual Studio 2005 add-in for managing the Break on Exception feature. Specifically, be able to create profiles that can easily be switched between during debugging sessions that would enable/disable breaking into the deubber on certain types of exceptions but not other. […]
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