Our bugtracker now runs on the latest version of Gemini. Sorted out are a few browser issues, caching problems, and we now have full Unicode support in the bug tracker. Of course not to forget full HTML reporting via FreeTextBox. Neat.

#ziplib has been moved from the #develop source tree into a new, separate repository. This is intended to remove restrictions from #ziplib's source tree (ie 'always stable'), because #develop depended on #ziplib - something that doesn't work quite well when two projects are on different release schedules.

The new repository is located at http://svn.sharpwt.net/SharpZipLib/, the usual checkout guidelines apply.

Finally I got around to make the slides we presented at the VO DevCon Europe available to all of you. First we have an introduction to #Develop:

SDintro.pdf (128,75 KB)

And an overview of the architecture, plus sample code for various types of AddIns:

SDdesignArchitect.pdf (128,05 KB)

Demo.zip (142,73 KB)

Digging around my harddisk, I found again the banners and buttons I did for #Develop quite some time ago. And as there recently was quite a number of requests for things like that, I decided to just post them for you to show that you are a proud user of #Develop:

And of course, there is a button for #ZipLib, too:

I know that somewhere, on a backup far, far away in time there also are some tiny buttons for embedding in about boxes. I will get them posted here as soon as I find them again.

For now, if you want to let the world know that you are a proud user of #Develop, grab those buttons and use them!

See the announcement in our forums.

Mike brought back a new feature for the text editor from the conference: font size changing using the scroll wheel on a modern mouse. In the wake of this new feature, work is commencing on the Buffer Options / General tab:

To see the mouse wheel zooming in action (press the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel to see for yourself), download the video ctrlmousewheelinaction.zip (81.06 KB)

Give it a try when we release 1.0.2, or grab 1688 now!

Mike and Bernd currently attend the DevCon Europe 2004 (German site). They are presenting two talks - one is an overview of #develop, the other an in-depth talk on the architecture of #develop. To better visualize the idea of the addin infrastructure, Mike revamped the Addin Scout.

There is now a real tree view of the addin tree, where you can see which tree node is extended by which addin:

The addin view in contrast tells you exactly what tree nodes are extended by an addin.

Pretty neat tool for explaining the concept of the addin tree.

We are currently mulling the possibility of a public build server (CruiseControl.NET-based). Anybody willing to step up as a sponsor (hosting, advertising, ...)? Speaking of sponsoring: if you or your company wants to sponsor a specific feature, please contact me @ christophw at alphasierrapapa.com.

Roman fixed the problems with our source code control server. It is up and running again.