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Dundas Chart Help Hell

I thought Dundas Chart was great, so I recommended my company bought it. However, when I installed and used it, I found the help in fact helpless sometimes. I can provide an easy example. When a u...

Summer of Code: Google's Plan

It is so wonderful that Google holds Summer of Code every year. After subscribing to Monologue, I can see how SoC helps Project Mono. When those talent students join the projects during the summer...

Product Review: GhostDoc for Visual Studio

There are so many add ins for Visual Studio designed by MVPs and I can almost draw a conclusion that if you make a popular VS add in, you may become an MVP some day. GhostDoc is one of the best a...

Product Review: Windows Live Photo Gallery vs. Picasa

I have been using Picasa for a long time so you can see I am addicted to Google most of the times. However, you cannot double click on an image and open it in Picasa as you may expect. Picasa is no...

Product Registration Extras

I believe most people do not understand why registering your purchased products is important. I was one of those people until CodeGear provides extras for its registered users of Delphi 2006. Since...

GrapeVine Voice: M5 Is Drawing Near

Because of You-Will-Soon-Know-It, I am planning to release a new Milestone of GrapeVine. Main changes are in the installer. It should be able to tell if you installed necessary Update of Delphi/C++...

Windows Live Writer Welcomes Blogger.com

I have said in an old post that *.blogspot.com domain is blocked here in Shanghai. The only workaround is that I can log into *.blogger.com to publish posts. It is really inconvenient to copy conte...

Innovations Behind Blackfish SQL

If you are now reading this post like me, scroll to the third paragraph, and you can see why it is version 8 here. Yes, it is wonderful that a Java to C# translator does exist and produce this won...