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Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by DCam

DCam — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:33:12 +0000

@Dude: The server didn’t change at all when I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. I took that to mean the problem was client side. I only had to use a different port because the RDC service was running locally, and so Putty couldn’t have bound to :3389.

@Eric: Glad to hear that local ports do not need to accept from other hosts.

Fortunately, I haven’t had to RDC for several years.

Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by Dude

Dude — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:09:56 +0000

It is not a port issue and doesn’t have anything to do with how putty accepts the connections on your client machine. Quite simply, the server doesn’t like it if you connect on 127.0.0.1. The connection establishment succeeds, but the software refuses to communicate (without dropping the connection). (You can telnet to localhost 3389 on a Windows 7 machine and you get a connection.) If you use 127.0.0.2, the connection not only succeeds but the RDP session is established.

Comment on measuring msbuild performance by Momchil Stefanov

Momchil Stefanov — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:09:17 +0000

Very nice article! Thanks : )

Comment on in C# 3.5: interface + extension methods = mixin by willem

willem — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:18:25 +0000

Nice

Comment on the viewport meta tag, and iPhone by Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:03:30 +0000

Actually, what happens is mobile Safari thinks that device width is the width from when the document first load. So, when switching orientation the browser isn’t able to readjust the layout properly. To avoid this mess, just set your viewport meta tag like this:
name=name=”viewport” content=”initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;”
This will allow the layout to rescale from portrait to landscape mode the way native apps do.

Comment on the other thing about “using” blocks by DCam

DCam — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:19:23 +0000

@Teevus: You’re right. I try to speak to anonymous scopes in the very last example, but yes, they can be free standing as well. I wouldn’t want to use a “using” statement only to produce a scope, because an anonymous scope would do the same job more simply. Even when I am tempted to use an anonymous scope to limit some variable, I try to think up a good name for the scope and turn it in to a method.

Comment on the other thing about “using” blocks by Teevus

Teevus — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:51:06 +0000

Or you can just enclose the variable declaration and usage in a pair of curly brases (also works for non-IDisposable variables):

{
var f = File.OpenText(“/path/ro/file”);
contents = f.ReadToEnd();
}
f.ReadToEnd(); // Unknown identifier at compile time

Comment on the other thing about “using” blocks by ross

ross — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:13:49 +0000

good point.

Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by Eric

Eric — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:25:25 +0000

Confirming, you do not need to enable “Local ports accept connections from other hosts”. Just change the IP as above to 127.0.0.2 and continue to use as normal.

Very happy, thanks for this!

Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by Fred

Fred — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:13:44 +0000

Thank you! Very helpful indeed.