Story Category: .NET
VOTEFlexCel is the perfect report generator for any frontend
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FlexCel is the perfect report generator for any frontendFlexCel is a powerful library for creating and manipulating Excel files in Delphi and .NET applic… … Read more
2 days ago in .NET, ASP.NET Core, linux, macos, Next.js, React, typescript, windows
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What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
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[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube Main takeaways for me: CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off there… … Read more
1 week ago in .NET, Assembly Language, C++, Delphi, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development
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Redux: Which Windows Resource Editor do you use?
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A long time I wrote about Which Windows Resource Editor do you use? containing a poll to choose between XN Resource Editor, IcoFX, ResEdit and Resource Hacker. In the meantime and betweentime more than 10… … Read more
4 weeks ago in .NET, 14, 16, 2100, Delphi, Development, Software Development, Windows Development
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File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn
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Oops, I thought this had been published a long time ago, but oh well: it is never too late to publish reflections on a C# programming language improvement. After recovering from my rectum cancer treatments… … Read more
5 months ago in .NET, 1509, 35690, 36566, 44201, About, C# 10, C++, Cancer, Delphi, Development, java, Java Platform, MSBUILD, pascal, Personal, Rectum cancer, region, Rider from JetBrains, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Visual Studio and tools, vscode Visual Studio Code
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Delphi “array of const” to “varargs” – Stack Overflow
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Just in case I ever think “oh, I might try want to go the Variadic function arguments way in Delphi” again, I must remember “maybe not a good idea” and re-read these posts: [Wayback/Archive] Variadic… … Read more
5 months ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Freepascal, pascal, Software Development
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From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube
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Nice historic perspective: [Wayback/Archive] From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube Via [Wayback/Archive] Zack Urlocker on Twitter: “Great interview with @ahejlsberg on the evolution of… … Read more
5 months ago in .NET, Borland Pascal, C++, Delphi, Development, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MS-DOS, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, typescript, Windows Development
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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) and some EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows tricks
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Earlier this months I wrote Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) promising I would rewrite the Delphi code into C# and… … Read more
6 months ago in __Unfinished, .NET, 46843, 51505, 600, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development
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For my link archive: Counting the leading zeroes and ones in a binary number with C#
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From a while back, but still interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Counting the leading zeroes in a binary number with C# [Wayback/Archive] c# – Getting the number of leading 1 bits – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly… … Read more
6 months ago in .NET, AArch64/arm64, algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C++, csharp, Delphi, Development, dotnet, dotnetcore, Software Development, x64, x86
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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too)
jpluimers
In the past, the Google Hangouts desktop app on Windows would integrate with the system “tray” (actually the notification area) and show you missed chats and calls. The [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat desktop app does not…. … Read more
7 months ago in .NET, 37, C++, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development
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Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard (on Windows systems)
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I unconsciously wanted a tool like this for a long time, and was glad I finally searched for it: A keyboard logging and presentation utility for presentations, screencasts, and to help you become a better… … Read more
7 months ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows Development
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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
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I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more
9 months ago in .NET, 1, 7, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Development, ekon, Event, History, LaTeX, LifeHacker, Mathematics, pascal, Perl, PL/I (a.k.a. PL/1), Power User, science, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Typesetting
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Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it
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For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “My Ubiquity setup stopped working (again). This happens way to often in my opinion. I have setup a monitoring environment to debug the issues… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN
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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)
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[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, MSBUILD, Software Development
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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow
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From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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Oh boy, VB.NET and JavaScript both have a `with` keyword too!
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Last year, within a week, I saw two tweets of languages that, like Pascal, have a with statement as well: [Archive.is] Shawn Wildermuth 💻☕🎸🎥🎮 on Twitter: “JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with)” [Archive.is] John Kaster #BlackLivesMatter on… … Read more
2 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Go (golang), JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, VB.NET, With statement
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