Windows applications written using the .NET framework do not have a clean way of making the startup form initially invisible or hidden. Setting the Me.Visible property to False in the Load event of the form does not work. In this post, I show you a sample application that starts up invisible and uses a timer to become visible after 10 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »
Function List is one of the many cool features of Notepad++. But the latest version requires extra steps to set up Function List properly. This 2-part article shows how to install Function List and how to configure the new parser rules for your own favorite language.
Windows CE 5.0 doesn’t have a full-featured Task Manager. The included Task Manager only lists processes with visible windows. I needed an app that could list Window-less tasks and let me kill the tasks. I did find an excellent application by Viktor Toth which has the same feature set as the XP/Win2k Task Manager, but the free version only lists process – it doesn’t let you kill a process. I am making available for download a binary that will let you both list processes and kill a process in Windows CE 5.0.
When you develop a new piece of test code or scratch-an-itch code as a developer, most often, you just need to run the software on the same computer that you developed on. That keeps things easy because you already have the linked libraries installed. But every so often, you need to install the software on a machine ‘out there’. For such occassions, you need to create a Setup Project in Visual Studio. Read the rest of this entry »
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