Category Archives: Development

MSDN Search now powered by MSN

Most people probably know this already, but it was new to me: the MSDN search is now powered by Windows Live (aka MSN Search). My Microsoft ISV buddy told me this (Hi K. :-)) and he is right about the increased speed and search quality.
I tried some search terms and got much better results than […]

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Adding SmartInspect logging to a Delphi DLL

Tobias wrote an article about using SmartInspect to add logging to a DLL and host application written in Delphi. Having logging in multiple application components is a bit more tricky if you want to log to the same log file, so Tobias described the process in the article. Here it is:
Using SmartInspect Logging in Delphi […]

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OnTime project management tool for just $5

I just saw that Axosoft is running a special discount for their project management/bug tracking/help desk software. The 5 user edition of OnTime normally costs $495 and is available for just $5 until Friday. I thought this might be of interest to some of you in case you are not already using such tools.

(I haven’t […]

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Test Driven Development

As you certainly already know, there has been a lot of discussion about Microsoft’s understanding of Test Driven Development (TDD) in the last few days. The entire discussion has been interesting to follow and in case you missed it, here are a few postings about the topic to get you started:

Microsoft Guidelines for TDD Wrong
Microsoft […]

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Improving System.Diagnostics tracing

If you are using the Trace and Debug classes of the System.Diagnostics namespace of the .NET framework, you might be surprised to see how easy it is to redirect their logging output to the viewer application of SmartInspect, the SmartInspect Console. I’ve written a short article about this topic today and in case you are […]

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Followup to Trying out Chrome

After being a bit disappointed about the registration process of Chrome the last time I tried it, the nice folks at RemObjects provided me with the latest beta of Chrome 1.5 (thanks to Marc Hoffman). One thing upfront: the registration wizard which popped up when starting the first Chrome project has been removed. That’s great […]

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Integrating assemblies into Visual Studio and Delphi

Today I’d like to share my experiences of programmatically integrating .NET assemblies into a couple of IDEs, mainly Visual Studio and Delphi. I think it might be useful for some of you.
Originally, the integration of the SmartInspect .NET assembly into the supported IDEs was simple. There was just a single registry key which needed to […]

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Trying out Chrome – sort of

We are currently waiting for the releases of Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0, so that we can do the final testing before publishing SmartInspect 1.2. Having a bit of free time now, I thought it would be a good idea to try out Chrome, an Object Pascal language for .NET. I like Pascal’s syntax […]

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Porting the SmartInspect library to .NET 2

In the last few weeks and months, there have been a lot of questions about our timeline to add support for the .NET 2 framework in SmartInspect. We therefore tested the current SmartInspect .NET library with the Beta 2 of .NET 2 and it turned out that it already works fine without changing anything (it […]

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Our dual screen setups here at Gurock Software

I finally had the time to add some photos to our articles. I originally planned to add them earlier but I never got around doing it.

Why Developers Need a Multi-Monitor Setup
Another photo has been added to Taking Advantage of Microsoft’s Empower for ISVs Program.

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