MSDN Nuggets from the UK

MSDN Nuggets Don’t have the time to read a 10-page how-to article or watch a full length webcast? Try an MSDN Nugget, a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer topic, all in 10-15 minutes. View them online or download for later reference. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/nuggets.aspx The few I’ve watched so far were “not lame.”

NMAKE – Reversing the error code from findstr or grep

If you’re using nmake, you’ll be familiar with this problem… I have logged some process, now I want to check for an error string in the log and terminate my build if it appears, and I don’t want to have to create a .CMD file to do it. The problem is that tools like grep and findstr return a success code when they find something, and that’s the opposite of what we want. Continue reading