We take spell-checking for granted in most applications today. Microsoft Word, Outlook, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, and even HTML/Text editors on web design tools have built-in spell-checking and syntax error highlighting capabilities. Wouldn't it be nice if your application did it too? The quest...

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Following the path to bring together their 2 main .NET programming languages, Microsoft has introduced several language enhancements to C# in their just released version 4.0 Some of these features have been available for VB (.NET) for quite a while but now add comfort and transparency also to C...

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Almost every developer/sales rep has been in the situation where the customer asks which programming language the product is written in. If your application is written in C#/VB.NET, running on .NET, you're fine. No further questions. But what if you have to answer "SAL, using Unify Team Developer"? ...

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Visual Studio 2010 - More of a pleasure to work with when you are used to TD We are now working with Visual Studio 2010 on the PPJ Framework and also started using it on some migration projects. Well... Coming from years of Gupta/Centura/Gupta/Unify development I'm pretty sure that VS 2010 is simpl...

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I recently stumbled upon this weird white paper from MD Consulting: http://www.md-consulting.de/PortalData/2/Resources/download_techn_infos/Migration_bestehender_TD-Anwendungen_nach_C_.pdf It's in german, but the translation is quite clear to understand. MD talks about the differences between port...

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