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  • Productivity

    The Object Relational “Impedance Mismatch”

    Now I know that most of you are familiar with this “as old as the world” problem, so to ease the uprising tension I will not go into the theoretical and architectural kind of stuff. Rather I want to remind to all of us why the (O)bject (R)elational mapping software domain exists nowadays. In general there are few major obstacles to overcome when designing an efficient N-Tier application. The persistence storage of a modern application is usually a RDBMS. These kinds of systems store information in a highly efficient way and allow fast retrieval, information queries and scalability, and all that...
    by Dimitar Kapitanov
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Productivity

    Wrapping a .NET user control as an ActiveX

    Before even asking why one should do anything like this, let me clarify that this is a good technique to spice up a bit your VB6 application. Now I know this is not cutting edge but still it is important to a lot of people (as I found out already). So let’s start then... Create a new solution that includes a Windows Forms application (to test easily the functionality provided by the user control). Then add a library project that will wrap our user control. What is demonstrated by this example is a very simple example that includes a label, and a...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Tooltips unplugged: How to use multiple monitors with Visual Studio efficiently

    It is no urban legend that having more monitors results in greater productivity, and most of all tremendous increase in developer’s comfort. Even the Myth Busters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters) dudes know that. So imagine that your group’s budget allows installing a brand new (say 22 inches) TFT display as your second, or even better you already have the setup. What are your options with VS 2005/2008 for efficient management of the screen estate to bust productivity? Better code access You can vertically split the Visual Studio screen estate in two, and position the divider down the center of the two monitors. This can be done...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Tooltips unplugged: Drag and Drop code artifacts to Toolbox General Tab.

    I bet you never thought about this feature! Me either… It’s good that there is a marvelous blog about all goodies in VS maintained by a nice lady. I will be monitoring and making comments on the topics there that have excited me most. So what is on today’s menu? As you’ve probably figured it out already, I will comment on a fine (but unknown to me) feature of dragging and pasting code artifacts straight to the VS toolbox. At first I was a little bit skeptic, but it really worked out, let me show you how: 1. Mark a code segment...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    You said Windows 3.11? Did I hear right?

    Well folks that's right - MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is pretty much still alive and kicking. First when I found out that this 15+ years old OS was still popular in the embedded segment (please forgive my ignorance as embedded systems are not my core competency) I couldn't believe my eyes. According to John Coyne this fact changes starting October 1st, 2008 - from this date on OEM's will no longer be able to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11. The comments and the flame that started at ArsTechnica are very interesting though. It looks like the guys that...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
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