Here is the thing. DevExpress WinForms components support custom skinning. Out of the box there are plenty of skins you might use just by assigning a simple property […]
Bridging IPTV over wireless using two Linksys WRT54GL routers and DD-WRT firmware
The motivation I had a need to bridge IPTV using a wireless connection. Immediately I faced several problems which I finally managed to overcome and since not much […]
Enabling and understanding code contracts in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2
Code Contracts are a new way to do both runtime and static checking of your code coming with .net 4.0/Visual Studio 2010. Prerequisites Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. […]
Developer Express published roadmap for 2010
First new “feature” is stepping down from three releases per year to two releases per year. Regardless how it sounds, it makes sense. A lot of sense. Developers […]
Easy way to edit Visual Studio’s project file using XML editor
There are times one needs to edit a project file (csproj, vbproj or others) in XML editor or just text editor because all settings are not available through […]
A managed path to DirectCompute
About DirectCompute After NVidia Cuda, OpenCL we got DirectX’s version (of GPGPU parallelism for numerical calculations) named DirectCompute. All three technologies are very similar and have one goal: to […]
My blacklisted companies
Here is my current short list of two companies involved with hardware and/or software sale that I won’t buy from again due to the various reasons. First is […]
Want to try Parallel Extensions on .net 3.5?
Check out Reactive Extensions to .NET (Rx). Looks like it includes “a back ported (and unsupported) release of Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework 3.5 in the form […]
Adjusting DevExpress’ XtraTabControl’s page padding
Look at the picture below, it is a DevExpress‘ XtraTabControl (WinForms) with a single page hosting a normal Button. Both XtraTabControl and Button are set as Dock = […]
Adding features to Visual Studio 2008 SP1
While trying to compiling nVidia CUDA kernels on my Windows 7 x64 I realized that somehow I didn’t install the Visual Studio 2008 C++ x64 compilers and tools. […]