Joe
Git is intimidating. It’s a distributed revision-control system, so it’d work online or off, and it’s got tons of cool toys (like git-bisect to automatically figure out which commit introduced a bug). But good luck… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, funny, git, mercurial, programming0
Joe
Not all MenuStrips will exhibit the scrolling bug. In a nutshell: if you ever hide any menu items, you’re living dangerously. Visible and Available First, an aside on how you go about hiding menu items…. … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming0
Joe
In .NET 2.0, Microsoft added MenuStrip and ContextMenuStrip controls to replace the old MainMenu and ContextMenu. The new ones support images next to menu items, edit boxes inside menus, etc. Fairly cool. However, they’ve got… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming0
Joe
Still reading the SmartInspect license agreement. Now, it’s normal for a license agreement to, in effect, say “We don’t promise the software actually works”. It’s frightening when you think about it, but it’s become standard… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, eula, Life, programming, smartinspect0
Joe
We just purchased a couple of licenses for Gurock Software’s SmartInspect. I’ve gotten as far as the license agreement. Their license agreement aspires to dizzying new heights in legalese. Take this sentence, from the third… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, eula, Life, programming, smartinspect0
Joe
I ran across a great article about how to do multithreading without (or with very few) locks. If you’ve done concurrency, you already know about locks. You probably also know they’re expensive, and you’ve probably… … Read more
17 years ago in .NET, Delphi, programming0
Bob Swart
Sometimes, you need to install something on a machine, and you need to know if the .NET Framework (and which version(s)) is installed on that machine. … Read more
20 years ago in .NET0
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Joe
Not all MenuStrips will exhibit the scrolling bug. In a nutshell: if you ever hide any menu items, you’re living dangerously. Visible and Available First, an aside on how you go about hiding menu items…. … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming
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