It seems we hit the high border some days ago: the overall download counter at SF is above one million for the favorite newsreader ... Thank you all, that love the project - you are the real motivation engine!...
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You may have noticed we released v1.5.0.17 of my favorite feed reader (and refreshed the installer meanwhile) - for the coding guys we now have even more: Thanks to the folks at atlassian we are now have the comfortable source browsing tool running on the SF repositories ( CVS with the CLR 1.1 code and...
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Is I wrote recently , I worked to get RSS Bandit running as a portable application. Now it is time to test it: you can download the ShadowCat Beta 2 release installer, then read how you get it done ....
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I read about portable apps (applications, that are running from a stick without any further installation) in my favourite magazine and it just took a hour to set the sources to get RSS Bandit running from a stick : There is at least one issue left: the .NET framework must be installed at the machine...
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Just because requesting the Handle (IntPtr, see remarks section) will create the handle internally in case it is IntPtr.Zero and may cause issues on disposing or closing! How to get around? Just use the this. IsHandleCreated property......
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I really like the two Sudoku games (one easy, one heavy) ever saturday in our local newspaper - there are yet only three heavy games I could not solved over the last months and it is really fun. So maybe they are not really "heavy" - who knows. But now I read this post about how to solve every...
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Today I could track down an annoying issue: on some installations of the newer version of RSS Bandit (starting with the first betas of 1.5.0.x) it starts using 100% CPU time on a thread. As we started also to use lucene.NET with this new release I guessed it was a related issue, I was right. But as we...
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Today I stumbled over a wired issue in both VS.IDE 2003 and VS.IDE 2005: they did not compiled my project anymore! Error was: Compiler Error CS1583 (CSC583.tmp is not a valid Win32 resource ... I just refreshed the french resources, so my first thought was it also caused that error, but I'm wrong...
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Recently we migrated our software dev. to use CLR 2.0. One part of the migration was to rework the usage of XslTransform class to the new XslCompiledTransform class. Reading the " Migrating From the XslTransform class " MSDN paper, it was not much work, just minutes. But then I got this strange...
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I'm now again at BASTA! 2006 , Mainz - Germany. Had alreda some interesting discussions here with some of the speakers, also the SOA architecture day yesterday was very interesting. Lesson learned: SOA is not really new, and it is not a technology. Just a idea to live. Most interesting session today...
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