The Open Disc

Well I stumbled somehow across the site at www.theopendisc.com and thought I would download it and take a look. Anybody wanting a free set of software would do well by downloading this disc.

On another note, I found out that the owner of www.portableapps.com has also registered www.theopenkey.orgso maybe he will put together a site of the same software but portable.

What is on the disc?

The disc contains the following software:

• Design
  • Blender
  • Dia
  • GNU Image Manipulation Program
  • Inkscape
  • Nvu
  • Scribus
  • Tuxpaint
• Games
  • Batlle for Wesnoth
  • Enigma
  • Neverball
  • Sokoban YASC
• Internet
  • Azureus
  • FileZilla
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Pidgin
  • HTTrack
  • RSSOwl
  • SeaMonkey
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • TightVNC
  • WinSCP
• Multimedia
  • Audacity
  • Celestia
  • Really Slick Screensavers
  • Stellarium
  • Sumatra PDF
  • VLC
• Productivity
  • GnuCash
  • MoinMoin Desktop Edition
  • Notepad2
  • OpenOffice 2
  • PDF Creator
• Utilities
  • 7-Zip
  • Abakt
  • ClamWin
  • GIMP Tool Kit (GTK+)
  • HealthMonitor
  • TrueCrypt
  • Workrave

MFC Apps with Feature Pack

Well I finally installed the new Visual Studio 2008, primarily because I wanted to look at the new feature pack for MFC. But before I installed the feature pack, I thought I would take a look at what was available as MFC applications. These are shown in the following screen shot.

Once you install the MFC feature pack, two more project styles become available.

If you choose to create an Office type project, then you get the following framework once you compile.

If you choose to create a Visual Studio type project, then you get the following framework once you compile.

Overall I like the new features. According to what I can find on MSDN, the full feature pack should be up in March 2008

C# 3.0 Tutorials

After looking at a previous post on another blog in spanish, I thought I would post a link to the .NET University Course Materials.

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Microsoft have released a beta of their feature pack for C++ 2008.

The VC++ 2008 MFC libraries have been extended to support creation of applications that have:

• Office Ribbon style interface
• Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP look and feel
• Modern Visual Studio-style docking toolbars and panes
• Fully customizable toolbars and menus
• A rich set of advanced GUI controls
• Advanced MDI tabs and groups

and much more.

Here is the link to download it

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en

WPF Links

Well I am beginning to take the plunge and look into the whole WPF Thing. Browse Browse, and there is tons of stuff online. So a few of my links so far.

• IgorShare Weblog
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• Windows Presentation Foundation on Wikipedia
• Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor
• XamlPadX V3.0
• Jasema – The XAMLPadX plugin for building Path Geometry
• WPF Tutorial

My Website

Well I began working on an updated version of my website today. Find it at www.publicjoe.com. Not a lot works, but thats OK for now.

On another note, I started using dreamweaver to write my new updated site with. I am impressed, I love it, but not the cost, so when the 30 days run out, I may need to find something else. Maybe 1st Page 2006 might do the job.

70-526 Section 1-2

Manage Control Layout on a Windows Form (Link)

Group and arrange controls by using the Panel control, GroupBox control, TabControl control, FlowLayoutPanel control, and TableLayoutPanel control

Use the SplitContainer control to create dynamic container areas

MSDN Links

Panel Control Overview

GroupBox Control Overview

TabControl Control Overview

FlowLayoutPanel Control Overview

TableLayoutPanel Control Overview

SplitContainer Control Overview

I will put up the next section soon.

Paint .NET Portable

OK, I’m a happy man this morning. After some searching for a portable html editor, I stumbled across a version of Paint .NET that has been recompiled to be portable. You can download it at http://yerdenizden.blogspot.com/2008/01/portable-paintnet-322.html.

GIMP Portable

While I think about it, when I am not at my standard machine, I use the GIMP for Windows to edit images. What I love about this is that there is a portable version.

You can download it from http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable.

Paint .NET

I am absolutely impressed by this piece of software, fully written in C#, and full source code available.

You can download it from http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#Download. My only gripe is that it is not portable.