Category Archives: Programming

Porting Delphi applications to Vista

By Dennis Gurock | Published: October 19, 2006
If you read DelphiFeeds.com or some of the existing Delphi blogs regularly, you already know the following article. If you haven’t seen it yet and use Delphi, this article is highly recommended: Creating Windows Vista Ready Applications with Delphi The article describes some code changes to make Delphi applications take advantage of the new Windows [...]
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How do you rate on the Joel Test?

By Dennis Gurock | Published: October 9, 2006
Joel Spolsky laid out the Joel Test back in 2000 as a highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team as he calls it himself. Being a MicroISV, I didn’t expect us to rate that high on the test as some of the “rules” are obviously more appropriate for bigger teams. [...]
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MSDN Search now powered by MSN

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 5, 2006
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 [...]
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Adding SmartInspect logging to a Delphi DLL

By Dennis Gurock | Published: June 17, 2006
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 [...]
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OnTime project management tool for just $5

By Dennis Gurock | Published: February 22, 2006
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 [...]
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Test Driven Development

By Tobias Gurock | Published: November 26, 2005
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 [...]
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Improving System.Diagnostics tracing

By Tobias Gurock | Published: November 18, 2005
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

By Tobias Gurock | Published: October 26, 2005
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

By Tobias Gurock | Published: October 24, 2005
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 [...]
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Trying out Chrome – sort of

By Tobias Gurock | Published: October 17, 2005
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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