How big HTML images / CSS / JS / png / etc. should be to fit network packet (MTU) efficiently

List of little things that will make your website much faster. Not every webmaster knows, that 1 extra byte in jpg image, can cause 100% speed reduction / penalty for your website visitor. When you learn that MTU for Ethernet is 1500 bytes with actual data / payload size of 1460 bytes, you can calculate …

Visual C++ 2010 fails to embed manifest on FAT32

Today I tried to figure out why one of my Visual Studio Projects failed to embed a Manifest. I had Generate Manifest and Embed Manifest enabled under Linker / Manifest tool, but manifest was not embedded. Long story short, after 2 hours of configuring, rebuilding, creating, deleting, I had the following state: – Move project …

Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC

The new Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC. Transition from old good HTML help to new Web Browser Based Approach thing is painful, but the inability to search using index made this thing unusable. Luckily, I am not alone, and people are talking about these shortcomings everywhere – Microsoft Connect, …