Need to check these one day on Windows as they do not seem to work on a Mac, not even with the Hangouts plugin.
Create Google Hangouts quickly with these easy URLs – WP Media Pro.
–jeroen
Development tools should become more version control friendly, and version control tools more whitespace tolerant
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/28
There are a few more messages in the “Missed Schedule” backlog, and I really hope that WordPress is going to address this really annoying bug soon as I have to recheck my blog multiple times a day now.
Back on topic:
Development tools should become more version control friendly, and version control tools more whitespace tolerant
I’m taking Delphi and Bitbucket here as an example, but this holds for many more development tools and version control tools.
Ultimately, you want changes to be as simple as this one: only the relevant changed lines show up as an actual change.
But often changes include convoluted non-relevant information.
A few things development tools should not do: Read the rest of this entry »
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Delphi .dproj files: FrameworkType and FormType (via: Embarcadero Discussion Forums)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/28
One more of the “Missed Schedule” series, this time it was originally scheduled for October 1st, (2013 that is).
Delphi XE2 and up introduced the FrameworkType and FormType elements in the .dproj files to distinguish between VCL and different flavours of FireMonkey.
Actually, Delphi XE1 already had the value
NoneforFrameworkType, so some cross-platform changes trickled into the Delphi builds early.
Though the IDE writes these values to the .dproj files, you [Wayback/Archive] cannot change their values from within the Delphi IDE, not even through the Open Tools API.
There is no documentation about the values in the .dproj files. the only places I could find were these about FrameworkType in combination with [Wayback/Archive] Actions:
- [Wayback/Archive] Changes in Implementation of VCL Actions – RAD Studio.
- [Wayback/Archive] Framework-Independent Action Features Are Implemented in RTL – RAD Studio.
- [Wayback/Archive] Support for Managing Actions in IDE – RAD Studio.
- [Wayback/Archive] System.Actions.CreateAction – RAD Studio API Documentation.
- [Wayback/Archive] System.Actions.EnumRegisteredActionsProc – RAD Studio API Documentation.
that basically tell this:
FrameworkTypeDefines whether an action is created for the VCL or FireMonkey (FMX) framework. The default of this parameter is
VCL(for compatibility with legacy applications).This parameter is used to avoid situations when VCL actions are used in FireMonkey applications and inversely; this can lead to a serious increase in an application’s size and to execution errors, for example, calling of Windows API under MacOS.
But it is incomplete, and there is no documentation about FormType. Read the rest of this entry »
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DLL call forwarding: learned something new today!
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/28
Learned something new today:
the effect of a DLL forwarder. The code for the function DsAddressToSiteNameW doesn’t live in netapi32.dll. Instead, netapi32.dll has an export table entry that says “If anybody comes to me asking for DsAddressToSiteNameW, send them to logoncli!DsAddressToSiteNameW instead.”
–jeroen
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.NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 support ended 20131008 (via: Microsoft Support Lifecycle)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/27
WorPress did it again to me:
2013/10/08; Missed schedule
Anyway:
If you still have a coded base in the .NET Framework 1.1 / Visual Studio 2003, then you should note that after 20131008, the extended support has ended.
Though the introduction of both feels like yesterday to lots of us, they have been supported for more than 10 years. An era has ended. Time to move on to newer versions has passed long ago.
The next important date is about 2.5 years from now: 2016-04-12, when the support for the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 ends.
From the Microsoft Support Lifecycle: .NET Framework 1.1 and Microsoft Support Lifecycle: Visual Studio .NET 2003 pages (I formatted the dates into YYYY-MM-DD): Read the rest of this entry »
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VMware KB: Modifying the DHCP settings of vmnet1 and vmnet8 in Fusion (via: VMware KB 1026510)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/27
So I won’t forget: VMware Fusion 4+ keeps the vmnet1 and vmnet8 settings in this file:
/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/networking
–jeroen
via: VMware KB: Modifying the DHCP settings of vmnet1 and vmnet8 in Fusion.
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Two ways of adding a classic .asmx WebService in .net 4+ using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and up (via: Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/27
As of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (I think it was there in the original non-SP1 version of VS2010), Microsoft has hidden the addition of classic ASCX webservices as they favour WCF over ASPX (there are quite a few differences).
It is easy to workaround though as Stack Overflow users User Cyberherbalist and User Alejandro Martin have shown, with a little bit post-editing from me: Read the rest of this entry »
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Subtle things on naming conventions (:
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/26
Sometimes a naming convention has been in place for quite a while, then new functionality breaks it.
One of the naming conventions in the JVCL is that all Delphi design-time packages follow the naming pattern *Design##.bpl
Until a package with run-time design functionality came along named (for Delphi XE3) as JvRuntimeDesign170.bpl. The actual design-time package for that is JvRuntimeDesignDesign170.bpl (:
I guess some of the reporting tools bumped into the same thing when they added run-time design support as well.
–jeroen
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.NET/C#: Getting volume free space from UNC path requires PInvoke of GetDiskFreeSpaceEx in Kernel32.dll
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/26
For some remote monitoring, I needed to get information on UNC paths.
Though suggested, you cannot do this using the System.IO.DriveInfo class (not through the constructor, nor through the VB.NET FileSystem way) as that is about drives, not UNC paths. The System.IO.DriveInfo constructor clearly indicates it doesn’t work with UNC paths. And if you still try, this is the error you will get:
System.ArgumentException was unhandled)
HResult=-2147024809
Message=Object must be a root directory ("C:\") or a drive letter ("C").
Source=mscorlib
StackTrace:
at System.IO.DriveInfo..ctor(String driveName
Same for WMI: that only works when the UNC path has already been mapped to a drive letter.
You could do with adding a temporary drive letter but since there is nothing as permanent as a temporary…
P/Invoke
The actual solution is based on calling Windows API functions using P/Invoke. Read the rest of this entry »
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Optimize your Delphi installed disk size
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/26
Another instalment in the WordPress Missed Schedule series (:
Each version, Delphi gets more features, and grows bigger.
Especially in testing environments (where you want to have a cut-down base machine you can clone from), it is wise to cut down on the installation size.
A few directories you might want to consider compressing for your Delphi installation:
C:\Users\All Users\{*}
The directories with GUID names contain the installer cache. You can ditch the whole installer cache if you keep ISO images of all installations. I prefer just to compress these directories.
Compressing usually saves 50% of the storage there, which can count for 5+ gigabyte of savings for the newest Delphi version.C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio
Contains (among others) the help files and SVN examples, and (for the most recent version) the Platforms SDKs.
Saving is usually a couple of 100 megabytes for less recent Delphi versions until about 1 gigabyte for the most recent.C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\#.0\lib
This contains all the precompiled files. Since they are readonly in nature, it pays of compressing them, usually saving 50% or more.
Saves 5+ gigabytes for the most recent Delphi version.
–jeroen
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