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Over the years, I and others have provided instructions for turning off the AutoCAD InfoCenter (or Communication Center in older versions). The instructions are different depending on the AutoCAD version. To make things simple, I decided to roll them all up into a single one-size-fits-all MSI file that disables InfoCenter for any and all versions of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT in one fell swoop.
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I have more or less completed the task of migrating my internal projects to Visual Studio 2010. Native C++ programmers are pretty low on the totem pole of programming coolness these days, but Microsoft did throw us a few bones. At this point I have to say I’m ambivalent overall with VS 2010, but I really like some of the architectural changes and I’m excited about the future.
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I was hoping that Microsoft would address the need to target earlier versions of Visual Studio within the Visual Studio 2010 IDE, but since they decided to punt (https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/570466/vs-2010-native-build-cannot-produce-ansi-response-files), I tackled the problem myself. I’ve released my solution as an open source project named Daffodil for Visual Studio.
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