Teracopy

I saw this tool mention in a LifeHacker post last month and thought I’d try it out.

Copying large (or lots) of files with Windows Explorer can be an interesting experience, but Teracopy improves on this quite a bit.

I like it.

Compiling the NHibernate 2.0.x branch

I downloaded the latest code for NHibernate 2.0.x from the Subversion repository.

When I ran nant to build the code, it was displaying a whole bunch of errors as soon as it got to the Iesi.Collections.Test project:

NH2.0.x-branch\src\Iesi.Collections.Test\Generic\HashedSetFixture.cs(7,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'NUnit' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Turns out because I’m using a current nightly build of nant, it defaults to .NET 3.5. Forcing it to use .NET 2.0 (using the –t argument) seems to do the trick. eg.

nant -D:with.core.only=true -D:skip.tests=true -t:net-2.0

Error installing SQL 2008

I just had the following error appear near the end of installing SQL 2008 management tools:

The following error has occurred:

Unable to get installer types in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.PSProvider.dll assembly.

Not sure what that means.