September 2006 - Posts - Rudolf Henning

September 2006 - Posts

On many occations I have found myself in need of having an application save application and user settings at Run-Time. In .Net 1.1 there was no built in way of doing it easily and therefore I and many others created custom libraries to do exactly that. Each implemetation had its strengths and weaknesses. Luckily with .Net 2.0 they built something in to help solve this problem but not everyone might be so aware of it. 

Thanks to the Start page of Visual Studio (that I also mostly ignore most of the time) I saw an article about this functionality. 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/SettingsCS_RL.asp

At least this solves a few issues with some implemetations of custom settings handlers around support, security and integration into the VS IDE.

 

 

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It seems that even astronomers can have a little humor as well. Those not aware of it the IAU recently declared that Pluto is no longer considered a planet (dwarf planet now) and therefore we now only have 8 planets in the solar system.

Today I visited the web site www.nineplanets.org looking for some info and then saw their 'quick and easy' correction for the name/number of planets... Very clever!

The nine..err eight planets
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At last the actual download of Borland's Turbo range of development tools are available now.

 http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_turbo.html 

 Now  to find the bandwidth to download it...

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