Archive for June, 2008

One of the nice things about not being employed by Microsoft is that I need not live in fear of receiving an email like this from Bill Gates.  This email from Bill Gates to the people responsible for Windows is worth a read if you have time.  It is a nice little rant on Windows from the guy most responsible for making Windows the most ubiquitous operating system on the planet.  The next time you get ready to verbally abuse Bill Gates when Windows frustrates you, take a deep breath and relax with the knowledge that BIll is using the software too and giving ‘em hell when it needs to be improved.

Note:  The Microsoft Mullet and other funny mullet pictures can be found at http://www.mulletmadness.com/.

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A year or two ago I read a book that changed the game for me.  The book was called .NET Gotchas and it made me about  10x more effective as a developer.  The book details 75 common pitfalls with .NET development and explains how to avoid them.  I was knee-deep in a few of those pitfalls when I found the book at my local library.  In fact, I was at the library specifically to get help for a few problems I was having with a PDMWE Addin project that I was working on at the time.  The addin was written for continue

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Writing Add-ins in SolidWorks can be tricky stuff as it involves class libraries, COM, interfaces, etc…  It can be argued whether it is easier or harder in .NET (ease of use of .NET versus pain in the rear of COM Interop) but your good friends at SolidWorks set out to make it easy on all of us by creating Visual Studio templates for quickly creating SolidWorks Add-ins.  continue

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