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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/21
[WayBack] Top 45 Best Automation Testing Tools Ultimate List • Test Automation Made Easy: Tools, Tips & Training Awesomeness A few notes, partially related to Enable your device for development – UWP app developer | Microsoft Docs.
One research project I had a while ago, was to see how it was possible to use a generic testing tool like Katalon Studio (that can test many platforms), for testing Windows applications.
Katalon uses a Selenium interface that normally is used for web applications through the [WayBack] WebDriver protocol (formerly [WayBack] JsonWireProtocol) that continues to be updated: [WayBack] draft upcoming WebDriver protocol, which is more generic than just web applications:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/05
An interesting statement by Steve Maughan:
Looking at how many High DPI awareness or lack of is the developers Y2K of our time.
Looking at the trouble Windows and Windows applications in general have with High DPI (more in general: resolution independence). I think it rates even higher: as the EUR introduction problem of our time.
What do you think?
–jeroen
via High DPI awareness is must have feature for XE8. Not only for Delphi IDE, but….
Posted in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development, WPF | 12 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/11
Don’t increase your Windows Timer Resolution. And keep an eye on programs that do:
Raising the Windows timer frequency is bad. It wastes power and makes your computer slower. Routinely doing this in all sorts of programs that end up sitting idle for hours really needs to stop.
You can use ClockRes to monitor the time resolution and what programs changed it.
–jeroen
via: Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted | Random ASCII.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/11
A small duh moment when I found this out myself the hard way: when repeatedly drawing anti-aliased text, it will alter the background on each draw.
So you cannot do that. Not in Delphi, not in .NET, not in Cocoa, nowhere (:
–jeroen
via: delphi – “Additive” text rendering on TCanvas? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Software Development, User Experience (ux), WinForms, WPF, XNA | 7 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/15
A few weeks ago, Bill Karwin did a must watch webinar on the prevention SQL Injection titled “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies“.
Bill Karwin (twitter, new blog, old blog, Amazon) is famous for much work in the SQL database community, including InterBase/Firebird, mySQL, Oracle and many more.
He also:
Anyway, his webinar is awesome. Be sure to get the slides, watch the replay, and read the questions follow up.
Watching it you’ll get a better understanding of defending against SQL injection.
A few very valuable points he made: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/03/12
Handy when working with Microsoft Surface: install your development environment on a separate VHD that you can boot as your physical machine (Microsoft Surface SDK does not like being run in a Virtual Machine):
If you accept the constraints described above, I propose the following procedure, which I think is the easiest way to install Windows 7 on a virtual disk in multi-boot
Note: Within the VHD you can still access all the files on your physical HD.
–jeroen
via: How to install Windows 7 on a virtual hard disk (VHD) in 10 steps – Guides & Tutorials.
Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, WPF, XNA | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/22
Danny Thorpe recently wrote a very nice post on via Databinding Collection Properties in WPF that sometimes fail without warning.
The short summary is that this fails without warning when binding to properties that do not explicitly implement the IList interface, for instance when binding to a collection that supports only IEnumerable (because of yield return) or IList<T> (for instance when binding to a Dictionary<TKey, TValue>.Values, which implements IList<T>, but not IList).
Thanks Danny for blogging about this (he explains it way better than I can), and putting a warning that the workaround Dictionary<TKey, TValue>.Values.ToList() potentially can have a big impact on memory consumption.
Life would be so much easier if WPF could bind to IEnumerable or IList<T> :)
–jeroen
via: Databinding Collection Properties » Danny Thorpe.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/17
When you do some maintenance on old projects, you sometimes bump into things you have completely forgotten about.
This time it is in Visual Studio 2005, with a WPF app, and messages about App.xml.
Since there are few threads covering this problem, so I’m not sure how many people bump into this.
I know that the problem does not limit itself to C#; I have seen people in VB.NET and Delphi.net bump into this as well.
This problem is not limited to Visual Studio 2005, some people also have it in Visual Studio 2010.
Some people also have it with other objects than App.xaml (like Windows1.xaml, etc).
If you get this error, the solution is simple:
- perform a “Clean Solution”,
- then run your app again.
This trick has worked for me every time I bumped into it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools, WPF | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/07
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/13
When you want to deploy WPF, it is important to check if you have sufficient hardware acceleration for your apps.
The most important things to check is the RenderCapability.
It gives you the Tier on which graphics is rendered.
The Tier tells something about hardware acceleration support, including a broad estimate of the pixel shader and vertex shader levels and DirectX versions.
Currently, there are 3 tiers: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Development, Software Development, WPF | 1 Comment »
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