Author Archives: Chris C

Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes Addendum

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Chris C

You can read part one at Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes post. One item that I feel has been neglected by Visual Studio is the Setup & Deployment projects.  There has been little improvements to them since Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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Signed up for PayPal Micropayments

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Chris C

I just signed up for PayPal’s new Micropayments.  PayPal seems to be rolling this out slowly as you have to sign-up and then you will be notified in 2 days if you are accepted or not.  In theory it should … Continue reading →

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Extra Memory for my Virtual Machine

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Chris C

All my development work is done on virtual machines (VM), Virtual Box to be exact.  In the past I’ve only needed one VM open at a time and only one version Visual Studio, or other IDE, running in the VM.  … Continue reading →

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Coming… Later

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Chris C

A realistic video about software development: Exclusive How the Gold Master Was Delayed: Part I If, like me, you typically work on business software for a single large client, aside from (shameless plug) Mini-Compressor, then make the following substitutions: Publisher … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Chris C

My notes on upgrading Mini-Compressor from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2008 to 2010) and also upgrading NUnit and NAnt. 1) Run the automated VS 2010 upgrade process.  Appears that there are no error but appearances can be … Continue reading →

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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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