Martin Spedding's BlogAdventures in a disconnected worldDo we learn from history Or when you started in the industry influences the solutions you propose- July 21, 2004 I have been thinking about writing about this subject for a while. However, the posting by Jason Sales prompted me to actually write a blog entry. When I started in computing there were no PCs, just mini computers and mainframes. The UI was mostly a green screen on a dumb terminal. As all the processing was actually being done on the main computer, you got very used to checking how many concurrent users were logged in to the system. Eventually, the PCs came along and it was possible to build.http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/07/21/189721.aspx How many versions of Visual Studio do I have to maintain- July 19, 2004 The most expensive part of any project is maintaince. You think everything is working well and suddenly you get a phone call and you need to resolve a bug in the application. The trouble is the application was written with an earlier version of the .net framework, for example v1.0 but you using Visual Studio 2005. This means you can open the project but if you compile it using Visual Studio you can only compile against the latest version of the framework which in this case is version 2.0. .http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/07/19/187591.aspx Embedding Gecko(Mozilla rendering engine) in a .Net application- July 19, 2004 Over the weekend I had some spare time, so I thought I wonder if you can use the Mozilla rendering engine(Gecko) within a .Net application as easily as you can IE This could be important in areas where people have concerns about using IE. It turns out it is as simple as a download, add COM component to the toolbar and if required adding a reference to the project. Even the intereface has been modelled on the IE model to make it simple to use. It is of cause unmanaged code but it...http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/07/19/187580.aspx Sourcegear Vault does not work after installing Visual Studio Express betas ( with solution)- July 8, 2004 I am using the excellent Sourcegear Vault product for version control and I was surprised that it would not work after I installed the Visual Studio Express beta products. The database seemed to be ok but I would get an error message if I tried to connect the Valut client or admin applications. It was strange as everything looked ok but it just would not function. The problem turned out to be very simple, which you install the vs express betas they change the framework version for all you...http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/07/08/176494.aspx |