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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....

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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...

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January 5, 2007
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Syncfusion Tabs and iTunes

I discovered a strange display problem when using a Syncfusion based application layered over the top of iTunes. Occasionally the whole application window gets repainted if an iTunes window is below...

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November 22, 2006
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Viewbox scaling in ElementHost

This post relates to the following forum post: I'm attempting to be able load XAML files into a Windows forms application at run time but for the WPF graphics to be automatically scaled to fit into...

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September 14, 2006
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ClickOnce Adventures

I've been experimenting with the Microsoft ClickOnce technology that is part of .NET 2.0. Its intended use is as a deployment option for a new package called MacroView Windows Desktop that is being...

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September 8, 2006
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Delegators mount up!

Following on from a previous post on event subscription related memory leaks, I've implemented a set of classes that provide Weak Delegate support....

August 5, 2006
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.NET Memory Leaks

Conceptually I knew that eventually there would be a need to diagnose a memory leak problem in a .NET application. Sure a garbage collected environment automatically sorts out whole sets of memory...

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July 18, 2006
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Sysinternals to the rescue

What do you do when you see a Java windows application complain that there something wrong with its pdf reader? Well you look at its console output of course. Console output? ... Yes console output....

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July 1, 2006
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