My previous article http://t.co/XamFah9e8V shows how to install Microsoft XNA 4.0 refresh without VS 2010 for VS2013. In the meantime, Microsoft is kind enough to release a Community Preview version of VS 2015. And boy it looks amazing. It is fast, has a lot of functionality, and I basically am in love with it! Also Microsoft has released VS 2013 Community Edition which again is amazing. In short, Microsoft is going a very long way to please individual developers/hobbyists like me to lure them back to developing Windows (Store/Phone/Game) Apps. And I am happy that they are doing it. But back to the topic, installing XNA 4.0 refresh is a breeze for VS2015 as well. Of course we need to change the script a little bit. So here it is.

This is for all my friends who want to try out the new VS2010 from Microsoft. It is available for download from Microsoft’s site at: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2. You can also download team elements and other stuff. Start coding and testing early. The Beta will expire on 30th June 2010. So it is a lot of time to do some serious coding with this package. This definitely is one of the good things that Microsoft is doing. Of course the final version might be incompatible with this Beta but hey, I can’t rant in this case :).

Refer to my post on MultiDoc2HTMLv0.1 and I explained why I had to develop this software. The initial version that I started writing ran into some problems which I guess happened because of a corrupt installation of office on my PC or maybe the associated ActiveX libraries. Then I got an innovative mechanism running so the code worked fine. The only problem was that there were 2 executables reading and writing to an anonymous pipe and waiting on each other wasting (precious ;)) computing cycles. So I re-wrote this version in C# with .NET 3.5. This version is a single lean/mean executable of 15KB.

Now-a-days everybody has a Multi-core environment and you are required to code threads and/or multiple processes to be scalable and fully utilize the current hardware systems. And yes, it also proves that you are a good coder and are keeping up and committed to development of multi-threaded, multi-core applications. Now, now, I am talking a bit silly since threading is a concept existing since the dawn of computing. It was pretty much explicit and you can feel the power when you code in C or C++. But when it comes to high level frameworks and languages like .NET, C#, VB.NET, etc. the simplicity of using threads might become a big problem and lead to no understanding of how things actually operate. Of course execution context is something to learn about and a good programmer should always be aware of what execution context his/her thread/process is executing in otherwise he/she would find himself/herself in a lot of problems related to thread synchronization, deadlocks, etc.

As I am working a lot with .NET these days, I was looking for some .NET obfuscators along with their license types, features, URLs, etc. I got a link to a nice URL which gives all the Info at: http://www.csharp411.com/net-obfuscators/

Enjoy & have fun computing…