Why I wrote #USBLib and why I don't work on #Develop instead? The answer is as simple as obvious: Chamaeleons. I'm getting two Furcifer Pardalis (Pantherchamaeleons) and I want to give them summer/winter cycles. Therefore I needed a control unit ... in my case an old PC does this job. I used the SIS-PM from Gembird (http://www.gembird.com/) a programmable USB power switch (In germany you can get it from pearl). If you're more interrested in chamaelons (but you need to speak german :)) you can visit my page at ambanja.homelinux.org. There you can download the control software too.

After a long enough wait, the first edition of the book is available as a free ebook from the publishing rights holder Apress.

You can find details about the book, links to the download including source code and a list of errata on our book page:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/insidesharpdevelop.aspx

Mike did it again - scratching an itch he programmed a .NET wrapper library for usblib. Now you have #usblib at your disposal, a USB library for low-level access to USB ports, working under Win32 / .NET and Linux / Mono.

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!