dev

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General versus Special Case Tension

One of the blogs I subscribe to is by Reginald Braithwaite. He was recently interviewed on InfoQ and part of the conversation related to the development process of generalizing in programming: ……so...

software-engineering programming design-patterns professional-development
September 19, 2008
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dynamic_cast and accessible base classes

We recently upgraded to using Visual Studio 2008 for compiling our MacroView source code on Windows. Previously we had used Visual Studio 2003 so there was a jump over the 2005 compiler version.

cpp visual-studio object-oriented macroview
June 5, 2008
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Ranorex and Screenscraping/Automation

After many web searches looking into screen scraping technologies for automating legacy Windows applications, I came across a testing automation product from Ranorex.

testing automation legacy-code video
January 23, 2007
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Weird ImageListStreamer InvalidOperationException

One of our MacroView Studio customers sent a strange stack trace from an application crash yesterday. It's strange in that the standard Windows Forms ImageListStreamer class is where the exception...

debugging winforms exception-handling
January 11, 2007
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Line Margin Selection Edit Control Request

This post is a request to Syncfusion for an additional feature in their Edit Control functionality. The blog was just a convenient place to put a screencast related to the feature request submitted...

development-tools video
January 5, 2007
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