Archive | November, 2008
Scams Not Good Enough? Now Download Sites Are Stealing Your IP Too!

Scams Not Good Enough? Now Download Sites Are Stealing Your IP Too!

by Scott Kane on November 30, 2008 in Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

If you are a regular reader of this blog you’ll know I detest and loathe download sites.  I won’t reiterate all the reasons for this in this article, if you’re curious please see the Download Site’s Are Spam category of this blog. I try to follow these scum merchants and their proclivity for the advancement [...]

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The Move From Delphi To Visual Studio

The Move From Delphi To Visual Studio

by Scott Kane on November 27, 2008 in Audio Software, C#, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Microsoft, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design, VB.Net, VisualStudio, Windows

As I’ve outlined here in previous posts recently I took the major step of switching development environments “midstream” as it where from Delphi, after 13 years, to .Net and Visual Studio…

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Fair Warning To ISV’s Auto Installing IE Toolbars In Their Applications!

Fair Warning To ISV’s Auto Installing IE Toolbars In Their Applications!

by Scott Kane on November 23, 2008 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Internet Explorer Search Bar, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design Hall Of Shame

I did so tonight and the company concerned should be bloody ashamed of themselves for installing – hereby known on this blog – CRAPBAR – into Internet Explorer without my permission…

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Not Drowning – Waving…

by Scott Kane on November 21, 2008 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design

Basically I’m converting code in MixAction across to C# in VisualStudio 2008. It’s nowhere near as painful as I envisaged. In fact many of the issues I found I had to code around, as I mentioned in my last post, in Delphi are no longer needed. So as far as audio is concerned it’s going along swimmingly…

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…And The Code, They Are A Changing..

…And The Code, They Are A Changing..

by Scott Kane on November 13, 2008 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design

Last week I blogged about the fact that I’d signed up for Microsoft’s BizSpark program for ISV’s. It’s been a great experience so far and it’s already paying off massively in just information alone…

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