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We all want our Windows applications to stand out, and I think most people would like to believe that there are a few distinct approaches to achieving this. You can either have an app that does great things, one that does things great, or one that does...
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Welcome to the ninth of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. This application...
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Welcome to the eighth of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. This application...
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Last time I talked about how to nest existing elements in your custom NAnt tasks. Now that you've had a good look at that, and Jacob's custom task, there's only one other thing to cover in this subject: a new type. Types end up looking a lot like a new...
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If you follow the Atalasoft Blogs by whatever means, and you're reading this, it's quite possible you've also read Jacob's blog post about extending NAnt . If you haven't already, go check it out since he's covered a huge amount of ground related to what...
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I have a new CodeProject article up which details how to make a Debugger Visualizer in the case where you need to custom serialize the object. The actual classes I build in the tutorial are only useful with our DotImage project line. However, the process...
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Working as a Build Engineer for about 9 months, I've had the opportunity to push NAnt build scripting to the limits. Our DotImage product is made up of both managed and unmanaged code, third party libraries with .NET wrappers, code that sometimes differs...
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Welcome to the 7th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. Just in time for the...
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You may have seen my post in the 31 Apps in 31 Days blog. If you haven't already seen the 31 Apps in 31 Days blog, definitely check it out! There's already a week's worth of applications you can make using the Atalasoft family of tools in one way or another....
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I was playing with the Product Box Generator and created the following bit of fun: I love software. Thanks, Lou, for tolerating me. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Welcome to the sixth of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. This app is a frivolous...
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I was working on some prototype code that needed to be super fast. After getting basic functionality up and running, I found that the biggest chunk of time was getting lost in operator new. In this particular chunk of code, I had some simulated recursion...
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Finally, the Atalasoft Batch Watermarker , the cure to all your watermarking woes! With this application, you no longer need to spend hours toiling in Photoshop repeating the same action over and over again! No more--::Mute:: While this application might...
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I will be doing a presentation on build automation using CruiseControl and NAnt at the Western Mass .NET Users Group meeting on May 6th at 6pm. The presentation will cover the basics of CruiseControl and NAnt as well as developing custom tasks to stretch...
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This application is a command line tool for generating thumbnail images. To use it, unzip the executable and run it from a command prompt. The typical usage is: thumbnailer /maxwidth width /maxheight height folder1 folder2 folder3 Thumbnailer will open...
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Welcome to the third of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. This application...
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I’ve been doing a lot of work in the PDF space lately. While implementing Binary Cross Reference Streams I was surprised to see that they could be encoded with PNG Predictors. This was surprising to me because binary cross reference streams aren’t images,...
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UPDATED : May 7 - see Dave's blog to see what's new Welcome to the second of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of...
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Today, we launched 31 Apps in 31 days , where the engineers at Atalasoft are going to deliver one application made with DotImage each day in May (including weekends). Steve is first up with a Motivational Poster generator . At Atalasoft, if you break...
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The first in a month-long series of quickly made applications using Atalasoft's DotImage SDK: a motivational poster generator with smart typography and image automation....
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Question: Wouldn't it be really nice if Atalasoft had a TWAIN device certification program? Answer: Sure would. Yep. That's right. Pretty soon we'll have a certification program in place for manufacturers of scanners, and other capture devices to certify...
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A post on CRAp4dotNet is long over due -- my sincerest apologies for those of you that have been holding your breath. From last time I mentioned that one of the two hurdles to get this working for .Net was computing the code complexity. There aren't any...
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This is Part 3 of a multi-part blog series. The OnDemand method The Interval method The Interval Opacity method On the previous two slider examples, I used a YUI slider that had a range from -100 to 100, with a total of 201 possible values. Both of these...
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Writing a custom web service for SharePoint, I ran into these two great articles which walked me through the process, but it still wasn't enough to tame the beast. Check out Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint Products and Services on MSDN and...
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Synopsis I gave an hour long talk today, here at Atalasoft, on Concurrency in F# . It featured some slides and a small ant colony simulation to demonstrate different kinds of threading. Overall, I liked developing in F# quite a bit; however, puzzling...
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