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Luc announced it yesterday, and it was so hectic around the office and at home that I forgot to do the same. Yesterday, Data Dynamics released Data Dynamics Analysis! This product has been a blast to demo at shows, even if I’m not as slick at using it as Luc is. Just like many applications … Continue reading
On Friday we released another beta build of Data Dynamics Reports, this build fixes a few issues including several customer report issues and a regression introduced in a previous release. I keep saying it, but this is likely to be the last beta release before we put out another production build; coming after the new … Continue reading
We’re fast approaching the first point release of Data Dynamics Reports and I decided it was time to put a beta out there. New in this release is support for hiding the main menu and toolbars of the end user designer control as well as the ability to fire those commands on the designer. I’m … Continue reading
While reading my feeds today I came across a post by Scott Guthrie showing how to use the null coalescing operator with LINQ. What really caught my eye was a feature I had never heard of before; the null coalescing operator. A quick look at Scott’s links and I see it was introduce in C# … Continue reading
A while back a note was added to the documentation of the System.Drawing namespace stating: “Classes within the System.Drawing namespace are not supported for use within a Windows or ASP.NET service. Attempting to use these classes from within one of these application types may produce unexpected problems, such as diminished service performance and run-time exceptions.” … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve written code all through the night. I think the last time I managed to do it I was tweaking the database generator that creates one of the sample databases for Data Dynamics Reports. I also discovered why its sometimes a bad idea to do so. I have a 40+ … Continue reading
An unedited version of the first chapter of Nish’s book C++/CLI In Action has been released. I reviewed the book a few months ago and I can say that it’ll help anyone familiar with C++ looking for how to use .NET or WinFX* functionality in their apps. It should also be somewhat useful for C#ers … Continue reading
Cheez commented that he was having an issue where he had to remember to set all of his resources to copy the content or he would get File Not Found Exceptions at run time. Once the project gets beyond a certain size this may not be desirable; especially once his project gets underway copying that … Continue reading
Thread.Sleep(0); that is. Joe Duffy explains why Thread.Sleep(1) is better than Thread.Sleep(0). Thanks to Jason for the heads up.
As a gamer I’ve always longed to be a game developer — it’s what got me into programming in High School — but I never did much outside of minor Quake 3 mods that my university roommate and I made and a few small projects using the Allegro library. Now I eagerly wait to see … Continue reading
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