Author Archives: Chris C

New Tools Require New Standards

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Chris C

“An old belief is like an old shoe.  We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.” – Robert Brault As developers we all have standards, even if they aren’t that well defined.  Of course … Continue reading →

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Starting Any Method in a New Thread Using .NET

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Chris C

The main problem I encountered was creating a function to accept any function pointer along with an unknown number of arguments.  I got around this problem using the ThreadStart and delegate() features in C# (.NET 3.5).  First off create your … Continue reading →

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Use Fun Addresses when Demoing your Software

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Chris C

Next time your entering data for a software demo try spicing it up and sneak some your famous real or fictional addresses.  Often you can’t use the fictional state/province but the street addresses are easy to sneak into a demo, … Continue reading →

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Save Your Envrionment

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Chris C

Do you remember VB Commenter?  Probably not because all the cool kids, like you, where using C# so you had no need for it.  See, way back in the Visual Studio 2003 era only .NET’s favorite child, C#, had support … Continue reading →

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Building for Both 32 and 64 Bit Architectures

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Chris C

My latest task has been getting Mini-Compressor to work on Windows 7.  In the end no code changes are actually required to get Mini-Compressor working on Windows 7 but the installer required a bit of work.  The amount of work … Continue reading →

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