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I don’t have any answer for all the data I’m about to write here, but I thought it would be interesting to share with you the results of my performance tests using Bitmap objects under the .NET Compact Framework. My Windows Mobile applications use a custom-made control library, where controls perform their own painting based on templates and ...

I promised it a very long time ago. It was asked recently. That gave me the kick I needed to finally open the doors to the slimLAUNCH.Passwords extension, so everybody can check the sensitive code it’s made of, in case I’ve goofed somewhere. The sources for the slimLAUNCH.Passwords extension are now available on CodePlex. For the moment, it’s ...

Brant, a fellow developer and slimKEYS user was asking me how slimKEYS was auto-updating itself. I thought this would make a good blog post, so here is my answer, Brant! The installer Because I’m exposing a plug-in interface (and I’m too lazy trying to figure out how click-once would fit in this scenario), I’m not using click-once, but instead ...

I have a few VS.NET 2008 projects that share usage of libraries I made for Windows Mobile. I used to include the libraries’ projects directly into each solution, but this is leading me to rebuilding those libraries each time, even if the sources do not change often. It also could cause two applications to look like they’re using the same build of ...

In case you haven't heard yet, slimKEYS is now free to use. Totally free. No catch, No ads, no malware, nothing. Why would someone earning money from a product decide to make it suddenly free? Because I never made any money with slimKEYS. Now, you're probably thinking "slimCODE decided to make slimKEYS free so they can stop putting energy ...

A new version of slimKEYS was released yesterday. The main two new features involve slimSIZE and slimVOLUME, in somewhat related features. New with version 1.4.9255, you can tell a slimSIZE hotkey to grow or shrink a window, instead of only forcing a specific size. In a same thinking, but opposite result, you can now create slimVOLUME hotkeys ...

Like many others, I was getting an error code 29506 when trying to install SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 on my Vista x64 machine. Searching for a fix kept sending me to posts talking about running the MSI as administrator from the beginning, but this didn't solve it for me, neither did it solve it for many other commenters out ...

There's a new slimKEYS release around town, version 1.3.9063. Why the "3" in "1.3"? Simply because there was a minor change in the plug-in programming interface, and I'm a purist. But I'm not ashamed of increasing the minor version number, since there's also a new plug-in: slimZOOM. The default hotkey is Win-A. Move the ...

I’m back from PDC 2008, sitting at my computer, trying to apply in more concrete ways what I’ve learn there, and evaluating how this will affect my projects in the near future. Indeed, Windows Azure was a great announcement, and seems a great platform, though I haven’t worked with it yet. During the PDC, what seems a great product idea popped up ...

Today, I released a minor update to slimKEYS, version 1.2.8479. The three most important new features are: slimSEARCH: You can configure any web search entry to replace spaces by a specific character instead of the default “+”.   This is particularly useful for Wikipedia and Wiktionary searches, since those web sites require spaces ...