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March 2010
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Two way interaction with JavaScript in Winforms using Webbrowser
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– In a recent project I had to integrate Google maps into a Winforms application. To use Google Maps from a desktop client you must be able to call the Javascript in webpage, which can be done with the Webbrowser component. Calling JavaScript from C# Calling JavaScript in a Webbrowser ...
January 2010
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Connecting (struggling) to Oracle database
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– This week I have been working (read struggling) on connecting a C# .NET application to Oracle. In the end I was trapped between 32 bits vs 64 bits, .NET Oracle providers and 32 bit OLE DB providers. First of all I challenged this task, not bothered by any knowledge about Oracle. I did know that if ...
November 2009
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Casting lists using LINQ #2
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– In my previous post I showed the LINQ way to cast List<SomeDeriveType> to List<SomeBaseObject>. Code highlighting produced by Actipro CodeHighlighter (freeware)http://www.CodeHighlighter.com/-->IEnumerable<BaseObject> baseObjects = ...
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Casting lists using LINQ
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– I have been doing lately much work on a .NET 3.5 application using LINQ. LINQ is a great way to manipulate data. I still consider myself a 'LINQ rookie' so I discover everyday something new. One thing that floated around my head a while was the problem that you can't cast a ...
August 2009
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Go see Delphi 2010
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– The first Delphi 2010 sneak peek video's showed up on the Internet. The first sneak peek shows some new IDE features like IDE insight, an everywhere context sensitive IDE navigation system. Anders Ohlsson has a nice sum up of all the related Delphi 2010 blogposts.
June 2009
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CodeRush for free, not for Delphi Prism
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– As blogged before you know that I think DevExpress CodeRush totally rocks! Did you know that you can get a lot of this functionality for free? Mark Miller has got a very nice list of features that are available in CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008. All for ...
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The future of Delphi
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– I haven't had much time lately to follow everything on the Delphi side of the fence, but there is a lot going on. Stefaan Lesage has a nice write up on this future, The future of Delphi looks brighter than ever before. A very nice read, sums up everything that is cooking in the labs, ...
May 2009
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Applying Domain-Driven Design - Book review
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– Before this weekend I got my copy of Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson. Althought the title, in my opinion should be "Applying Domain-Driven Design, Test Driven Design and Patterns", because beside DDD it covers a great deal of TDD also. Design patterns ...
April 2009
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Exploring Test Driven Development
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– A few weeks ago I attended a software event organized by the dutch Software Developer Network SDN. This time I followed a few sessions about Test Driven Development presented by (among others) Alex Thissen, Thomas Huijer and Dennis Doomen. I must admit that before this sessions I was convinced ...
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Free ebook: Illustrated C# 2008
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– Found this really BIG (20mb) free e-book on C#: Illustrated C# 2008It has more then 700 pages, so I guess it covers all about C# and .NET development.Quote about the book:If you're a C++ or VB programmer migrating to C# 2008, Added :(or a Delphi developer doing .NET development either in Delphi ...
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CodeRush, when code smells...
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– At the beginning of this month Devexpress released the new version of their DXPerience products for .NET (Version 2009.1) With the release of this components they also released a new version of their coding assisting tool CodeRush and Refactor Pro. We use CodeRush for a couple of years now in ...
March 2009
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New release for Delphi Prism
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– There is a new release of Delphi Prism available, according this edn article. The Delphi Prism February 2009 release (Build 3.0.17.591) as it is called wasn't it already March?) contains the following changes.
January 2009
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TIOBE language of the year not Delphi
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– In october Jim Mckeeth reported that Delphi could well be the language of the year in the TIOBE Community language index. Unfortunately this has not happened despite the efforts of the Delphi community putting "Delphi programming" on webpages. In january Delphi is fallen slightly ...
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LINQ with Delphi Prism #2 : Deferred Execution
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– As said in this previous post Delphi Prism supports LINQ all the way so all the LINQ feature just work in Delphi Prism. Deferred Execution One of the key features of LINQ is Deferred Execution. That means that a LINQ query does not execute until data is demanded, for except by an ...
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LINQ with Delphi Prism #1 : Sequences
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– I have been digging into LINQ this christmas. LINQ is a cool way to query data, whether it is an array, a list or a remote datasource. LINQ is a new feature of C# 3.0 that comes with Visual Studio 2008, but guess what, Delphi Prism, also supports LINQ all the way. If you want to play/test ...
