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Details on how to configure Visual Studio to use WinMerge for merge and compare operation is documented in  http://blog.paulbouwer.com/2010/01/31/replace-diffmerge-tool-in-visual-studio-team-system-with-winmerge/ .

From VirtualBox manual, paravirtualized network adapter provides the best performance. To get this interface from working within VirtualBox, you need to download the drivers separately/manually. Note that Windows driver online update utility does not have it as well. Since driver is open source it can be found in few locations. A good source is from Red Hat, download it from this location  http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ . Download virtio-win*.iso, mount it and install driver for your OS.

Sample code to create a file in VBA using FileSystemObject which is part of Microsoft Scripting Runtime. See this link on how to reference MSR. Option Explicit Sub TestMe() Dim fs As FileSystemObject Dim ts As TextStream Set fs = New FileSystemObject Set ts = fs.CreateTextFile("C:\tmp\file.txt", True) ts.WriteLine "Header1, Header2" ts.WriteLine "1," & CStr(DateTime.Now) ts.Close Set ts = Nothing Set fs = Nothing End Sub

From Visual Basic for Applications IDE, do Tools | References... then look for Microsoft Scripting Runtime or browse for C:\Windows\System32\scrrun.dll. Microsoft  Scripting Runtime provides the following classes: Dictionary Drive Drives Encoder File Files FileSystemObject Folder Folders TextStream

Do File | Options | Customize Ribbon | select Developer option.

C:\>powershell PS C:\>[System.Net.Dns]::gethostentry("8.8.8.8")

For the Linux/Unix geeks, ssh is preferred way to establish an interactive session to a remote machine. In Windows ssh can also be used but you have to install extra software. To perform interactive task on remote machine (though not as cool as ssh) one can try Powershell. So, to connect to a remote machine MACHINE1, do: C:\>powershell PS C:\>Enter-PSSession -ComputerName MACHINE1 For this to work, you need to have proper credentials on MACHINE1 (I have only tried with users members of domain admins).