- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls… Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .Net, there is Java, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear. Is there a way to edit a code block without having to run those heavy development…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…
- Tidycode Pl/Sql Formatter 2.4.2, Making It Pretty — This utility can seem «just a small helper», but detailed analysis can say you it is really smart and really helpful (I’ll even say indispensable) for almost any database programmer. Its functionality can be easily guessed by name: it just formats PL/SQL code (as well as plain good SQL), and the way he does it can be characterized as «just right». OK, then WHAT is right about Tidycode…
- Managed Extensions for VCL - a great solution of the Delphi Win32/.NET communication problem — Anyone familiar with software development knows how different the .NET framework is compared with older development platforms. The problem of framework interoperability has been vexing many developers who wanted to use .NET components in their Delphi and C++ applications. Finally, there is a solution for the problem. Managed Extensions for VCL enables you to interact with any .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.Net, JScript.Net, Delphi .Net and others) from your…
- Bersoft HTML Print - probably the easiest way of printing HTML documents from the command line — Initially, the very task of printing HTML documents may seem too easy. You’ve done it a million times and it never seemed a challenge that required a non-standard solution. But what if you created or are using an application that generates HTML data files or reports and would like to be able to print them easily, Bersoft HTML Print will be just the tool that you have been seeking for so long! Bersoft HTML…
- ZZEE PHPExe - the easiest way to turn your PHP applications into standard Windows .exe files — If you always treated PHP as a web-based language, you were quite right. However, you did not know the whole truth. If you are a PHP developer and have created a number of great PHP applications that you’d love to use on your desktop, rejoice — there is now an easy way to turn them into standard Windows applications. All you need is ZZEE PHPExe! ZZEE PHPExe is an amazing tool that compiles PHP…
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