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It has been a long time since I have written an article for this site. This is mostly due to the work I have been involved with in the past several years. About 2 years ago I began a new project, which required a tremendous amount of research and planning to support the development in [ ]
It has been a while since I put fingers to keyboard to write an article but it has also been a period of time where I have been able to observe from afar the ongoing developments in my profession from which I retired from in 2014 after 43 years as a professional developer and software [ ]
The other day I noticed as tried to prepare a selection of files to be packaged into a Zip file, after one or more selections on a random basis, Windows 10’s File Explorer would either hang or crash. In all the years I had been working with various Windows versions I had never come across [ ]
https://www.firebirdsql.org/ Author’s Notes… Though I have extensive database application development experience, I do not consider myself an expert with the Firebird Database Engine to any degree. The following article is completely based upon observations and experiences during my attempts to learn and understand this highly capable engine. As a result, if there are misunderstandings or [ ]
Many times when developing a desktop application we often find the need to provide the user with the ability to select a directory or upload or select a file. The often used technique is to simply use a file-dialogue pop-up form to enable the user such a selection. Since WPF does not have such a control [ ]
Overview This short article describes a technique (with source code provided) that provides a variant to the many recursive solutions for retrieving and searching directory structures that are now available to developers over the Internet on technical sites. It is by far not the most efficient solution and undoubtedly developers who download the code and [ ]
As one who is currently concentrating on developing desktop applications since I retired from corporate development in 2014, I have spent an enormous amount of time researching the best database engines to support such applications. And with current push for all things to be stored in the Cloud or large data-centers, little time has been [ ]
Introduction Admittedly it has been quite a while since I last released a document on my development adventures in military simulation design. I call it such as I rather dislike the term “war game” as the current capabilities of such software applications are now far beyond that of a “game”. And in reality have been [ ]
Due to the nature of my current development projects, I have gotten away from heavy SQL programming, which I did quite often when working in the many corporations I was employed by during my long career in professional development as a software engineer. As a result, with one of my new development efforts, I was [ ]
Black Falcon Software is proud to release its version 2.2.1 SQL Server Source Control for Developers as Freeware. There are no longer any licensing requirements for this software and there is no longer a need to install Microsoft s Shared Management Objects SDK since compatibility with SQL Server 2016 has eliminated this requirement for this SDK [ ]