- paxScript.NET .A Script Might Be Everywhere — The implementation of many software projects requires at least two different languages: an industry-level one for the project’s core, its powerful «engine», and a scripting language, which would be interpreted when the program is running. Scripting languages are typically simpler and slower than the industrial ones, but they have their own area of application. These languages are often used when the advanced users or third-party…
- Smart Install Maker 2.70. Just Do It. — Modern traditions and honest for Windows software say any program wanting claim itself «serious» and «professional» must have an installer. Despite of how large a program is, how many resource files, libraries and components it uses, and how deep its system dependencies are, user wants to just download a single «SetupMyProgram.exe» file, run it and have it ready to go. Preparing an installer…
- Setup Builder Version 6.03 — Who of us has not spent hours and hours in front of a monitor installing and reinstalling once again software in your PC? If you study or work and your life is has anything to do with PC, no doubt you can’t manage it without a good software installation. All you need for that is the software suite called Setup Builder, quite an all-inclusive and flexible software installation product that would…
- MultiSet Unattended Installer 4.0, No Boring Work! — MultiSet Unattended Installer is a representative of those precious kinds of software that can save huge amount of time by «automating all worth automation». The software, as you can guess from its name, works in the area of software installation. There are many cases, when you need to install the same program with the same configuration again and again (for example, if you are experimenting and reinstalling your…
- 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 VC++ MFC, 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…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- Instant Housecall, Support 'em All! — If your work is about providing support to users of some computer system (for example, you sell the system or sell consulting services, etc.), you can think of it as of almost unsolvable problem. Typical users have an extremely wide range of qualifications and experience, so your recommendations (provided through email, phone or some messaging service) can be easily misunderstood, ignored, forgotten and…
- Setup Builder 6.04, Which Sets the Things Up — Any respect-worth program should help user not to think «where it is and how to run it»; once your user has downloaded the software from the Internet (or bought it on a CD), he should be only few clicks away from having the program running. In the simplest case, of course, you can say something like «just unpack the files and take them to any place you wish», but it prevents your program from the…
- Tarma QuickInstall: Simple Way to Assembling Setup Files — The main idea of using setup software is to make the installation of your application on your user’s computer quick and hassle-free. But the setup builders themselves, unfortunately, don’t demonstrate the simplicity of operation, often requiring users to be proficient in scripting languages and possess other essential skills. Isn’t there a way to leave that procedure plain and clear, as it was meant…
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