I’ve written before about the amazing power of CodeRush and why I prefer it over other tools. A lot of people still ask me what its all about, what are the things that keep popping up on their IDE? Well, On October 1, Mark Miller (Chief Scientist IDE Team and all round cool guy!) and … Read more
How cool is it to think that you can write one application (albeit in HTML5/JS) and deploy it to all three major Mobile OS’s, using DevExtreme, I will be creating an application that targets iOS, WM8 and Android. One thing I wanted to do was to access the hardware layer of the device with the … Read more
Before everyone starts messaging me and telling me 110% is not possible, just listen ! For weeks I’ve been watching the countdown over at DevExpress promising to announce something cool. Well tonight 6pm AEST all was revealed – DXTREME In a nutshell, 3 tools in 1 – developing rich cross platform applications, and it looks … Read more
Normally when I need to present a complex lookup I would spawn a new form have the user select a row from a carefully crafted UI and return the single value result back to a combo style element on my main form. When less complicated lookup’s are required a drop down list with concatenated fields … Read more
Ok, it was a simple enough feature to add. A viewer that would allow PDF’s to be shown on screen. Already in my toolkit I had the SyncFusion control, but after a couple of quick tests I found the speed to be woeful and thus started the painful process of looking for a control to … Read more
The debate as to CodeRush or ReSharper has been undertaken by many people of the years, in fact prior to writing this post, I read through a number of older comparisons which put forth good arguments for both camps. For me, it is part of the 100% DX campaign. For years I was an avid … Read more