Believe it or not, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is important in more ways than one. To most PC users, Windows Live Writer is simply the best tool that gets the “job” done. More importantly is how “job” is defined though, because WLW does things quite well and quite thorough.
Windows Live Writer has a huge range [...]
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Microsoft’s .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 20 CommentsComplete .NET Portability with Wine & Mono?
Published by September 19th, 2007 in Alternatives, Linux, Programming, Software, Windows 3 CommentsMono is the open-source version of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. It implements most of the backend framework features, but unfortunately, falls flat on its pretty little face when attempting to display the user interface – which is what desktop apps are all about.
Wine on the other-hand, is a Linux port of (major parts of) Microsoft’s [...]
Managed Pointers to Managed Objects (or Aliases for Objects) in C# and Visual Basic .NET
Published by July 30th, 2007 in Programming 2 CommentsOne of the biggest advantages of managed frameworks/platforms like Microsoft’s .NET Framework (and it’s Linux-counterpart, Mono), and Java is that you, as a developer, have a choice of not mucking around with pointers. To be totally honest, with Java you’re forced not to – in C#, it’s a choice you have to make.
There’s plenty of [...]
Please Microsoft, Stop Holding .NET Back!
Published by April 23rd, 2007 in Alternatives, Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 49 CommentsAs dedicated developers, end-users, and champions of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, we’re making a final plea to Microsoft and the .NET Framework team to save .NET and make it a real multi-platform framework. Please!
Sun could (and did) do it with Java, so why can’t Microsoft just swallow the pill already and provide real support for the [...]
“People Hate Making Desktop Apps…” Since When!?
Published by April 8th, 2007 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Yahoo! 31 CommentsWhat a crazy day for technology. It all started with Paul Graham’s ridiculous link-bait article “Microsoft is Dead,” earlier today. Since then, the web has been in an uproar – just how do you define success, innovation, power, creativity, and can companies just “die” anyway? Never mind that conversation – Paul Graham surprised us there [...]
One of the nicest things about Visual Studio and the .NET language is choice. You have plenty of choices, plenty of options, and plenty of different ways to confuse and confound yourself. Take, for instance, icons/images as “labels” for buttons: what’s the best way to do that?
At face value, there are two options, either of [...]
