Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types

published 1 month, 25 days ago, submitted by ericdcoolest 1 month, 25 days ago

atalasoft.com — When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't... read more...

2 comments | category: Architecture | Views: 243

How to set up your own free VSLab-based Matlab/Mathematica replacement

published 2 months, 23 days ago, submitted by Rickasaurus 2 months, 23 days ago

atalasoft.com — VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible release. In this article I talk about a bit about what exactly VSLab is and walk you through creating a free VSLab installation. read more...

add a comment | category: Visual Studio | Views: 122

What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?

published 2 months, 29 days ago, submitted by Rickasaurus 2 months, 29 days ago

atalasoft.com — The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder. read more...

add a comment | category: Tips & Tricks | Views: 254

Multilingual OCR

published 3 months, 25 days ago, submitted by tomdog 3 months, 26 days ago

atalasoft.com — The challenges of accommodating multilingual OCR engines - and what does "multilingual" really mean anyway when it comes to technical implementation? read more...

add a comment | category: Architecture | Views: 88

Developer Error or TFS Shortcoming?

published 4 months, 18 days ago, submitted by tomdog 4 months, 21 days ago

atalasoft.com — Steve summarizes a recent experience where he had to reinstall his system and apps to eliminate a problem with unmanaged debugging. Source control ended up not having all of his code which could have been a disaster. Steve was able to successfully restore his machine but it took longer than it should have - couldn't TFS have helped with this? read more...

1 comment | category: Team System | Views: 111

A Safe & Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL & Inheritance

published 5 months, 5 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 6 days ago

atalasoft.com — This post discusses ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams, including an explanation about how this is possible both through traditional inheritance and also through some indulgence in hacking of object protection levels by emitting custom IL. read more...

1 comment | category: C# | Views: 145

Queuing up Your Remote Invokes

published 5 months, 7 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 7 days ago

atalasoft.com — Serializing requests for remote invoke or multiple requests at will? Here is some sample code and a free download that can help with setting this up. read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 80

Visual C++ Compiler Bug Discovered

published 5 months, 16 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 17 days ago

atalasoft.com — This bug exists in the optimizer in VC 2003 and 2005. It does not exist in VC 2008. Code, etc. included. read more...

1 comment | category: C++ | Views: 140