my tech stuff

The CLI standard seems to have a nice section about that, at least it’s in the annotated standard book that I bought at PDC

Hmrg, try to help somebody a bit with a project that, unfortunaly, must be in Java so … after testing Eclipse I end up searching for something that writes me the UI and downloaded eclipse.org/vep
• Nothing that works with 3M5
• The other stuff just works with 2.1.2 and I just hat 2.1.0 so a lot of downloads and unzips
• A lot off thinks that are standard in VS seem to be complicated there
• I love the .NET style of building resizable interfaces even more
• they have a nice introduction as a swf building some small interface but is that crazy “get an event and, instead of doing work, – fire another event and to the work later” typical java programming style?

What I do not understand in J is the naming conventions in libraries… for example System.xxx starts big java.xxx starts small

handle
can you ^ c++:
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/slippman/

and (of course):
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx

Have a lot of interesting tech stuff to read, learn and try and new nice Ideas to code – and what’s happening I’m working myself trough a Project book.

Downloaded Fedora Core 1 today - lets see how it works in VPC
Updated My Eclipse to M5 - cost me some time to figure out that you need JDK 1.4.2 even if it says it works with Java 1.4

After letting Partition Magic work on my Hard disk for some hour's I was able to install some PDC stuff.
Longhorn: I really like the Installation procedure.
Yukon: Hmm Assemblies are not supported in the workbench.

Finally we (techs) have all the same problem – all or stuff maybe very cool but if you don’t see it in a fancy interface …

VPC 2k4: works wonderful except that I had to put the memory for NT4 down to the standard settings or I end up with blue screens.
Yukon: finally had the time to install it –cool so far.
Whidbey: Can’t change the Directory of the Installation from C and just 100MB free there so- moved it till x-mas
Longhorn: still something for x-mas

If you use VS.NET 2k3 it looks like it doesn’t generate wrappers for all Interfaces so – use VC6 and then just Copy the CPP files – works fine!

Had to do a Player that plays swf and mpeg2 but my old ActiveX hosting code didn’t compile with the VC7 ATL. And, surprisingly, I end up using MFC Dialog’s for my first time ever. Than I catch myself doing:
cDC->FillRect(&strpaint.rcPaint, new CBrush(RGB(0,0,0));
While it is wonderful in Managed Code – Yep you have a memory leak here ;-)

With a bunch of PDC books under my pillow I have to go back to more old stuff, the DirectShow API still Rocks should try to put some of my stuff from 1999 on my Webpage if I get it running next week. All that old programming that does funny thinks with Videos works fine with DV, Mpeg2 … so a hard time for my neck ;-).
Hope I can try some of that stuff in managed Code around x-mas.

Had to do a Screensaver – so back to good old c++ and win32 API for some days, and back to some old code – always a funny think to do.
It worked surprisingly good but on the end I had to do the Installer. Visual Studio can’t do a Component Dialog and don’t want to use Wise or so - so I started editing the msi file by hand (yes with orca) worked but the Visual Studio guys used GUID’s for almost everything, easy for them but I hate them for this – just try to compare 40 of them. So finally I end up exporting some Tables to Excel wrote some Makros …

On the PDC I decided to join the blogging community with a blog about my private and one about my technical live – this one.
I try to do this one in English just because it’s a tech blog so not just for Germans. Just hoping that my English is not too bad but sometimes my German won’t be much better anyway ;-) (tired, drunk, or just confused :-D )
This is about stuff I try, projects and of course tech thinks I hate so have fun with it.

Horst