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ILMerge... Pffft.
In Release build only, compress your .DLL's and load the compressed copies into the apps Resources. When needed, find the .DLL in resources and decompress to a MemoryStream and return the requested Assembly.
Results in a much smaller executable.
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Microsoft Ignite is coming and the Microsoft Mechanics Twitter account is running a promotion where they are giving away a brand-new Surface Pro 7+ if you merely tweet using their hashtag. What's the first prize?
(Mostly) Worldwide - I'm surprised.
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"Worth" is a relative term...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Visual Studio 2019 offers remote debug support for MSBuild and CMake projects targeting Windows and Linux "Reach out and touch somebody's hand. Make this world a better place, if you can."
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Why do I expect you to post bugs and security holes regarding this in relative near future?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Survey shows DevOps on the rise, and may have helped boost IT productivity during the great corporate dispersal Well, we're doing 'dev', and we're doing 'ops', so that counts right?
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DevOps is itself a virus.
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In this post, and future posts, we’re going to discuss the WinUI and Project Reunion projects and how these aim to address this problem by unifying the Windows developer ecosystem. "Here be dragons"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Here be dragons" I rather go for dragons than unifying WinUI.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Good for you.
TTFN - Kent
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Not directed at your post, just the article itself.
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Ah well - apologies then
TTFN - Kent
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The more I read about the future of Windows development, the more confused I become.
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I'm starting to think that's the plan.
TTFN - Kent
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So it's another case of the New Way of Doing It (tm) being a new project/solution type that apparently doesn't have an automagic (tm) way to convert existing applications to use (assumption based on the xaml islands style interop reference[1]); and with an unspecified old versions of windows compatibility status. The latter makes me suspect it'll be as much of a dumpsterfire as MSes last few efforts[2] where the whole doesn't work on old versions of Windows thing was a huge impediment to getting developers to support it since they would either need to abandon a chunk of their customers or maintain the legacy app indefinitely in addition to the new one.
[1] Previously this allowed embedding bits of WPF inside a WinForms app; and might have allowed something similar with WPF/WinForms and UWP. Not sure, I never had an opportunity to play with it.
[2] Win8 apps not working on Win7, UWP not working on W7/8, and UWP feature updates being tied to W10 updates.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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As folks are aware we added a new kind of heap in .NET 5 called the POH (Pinned Object Heap). "Oh Pooh, you silly old bear"
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Is this a game of "pin the tail on the donkey"?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Windows 10X, Microsoft’s Windows-based Chrome OS alternative, is expected to make its debut on education-focused devices very soon. Because that branding worked out so well for Coke
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I predict that this isn't going to end well.
I just don't understand why Microsoft thinks it will be different this time. As I mentioned before on the subject of 10X (see The Insider News[^]), they've done it (the VERY same thing) before[1] and it didn't work because people who buy Windows and Windows machines inevitably want... well, actual Windows apps. Calling it or marketing it as "New Windows" won't help when people want "Classic Windows"... or just "Compatible Windows".
If Microsoft are serious then I think they need to leave the Windows name behind for operating systems or devices that are not in reality Windows-compatible. If they hadn't used 'Surface' as the name for their portable devices I'd have said that 'Surface' would be a great name for a new touch-centric operating system with no Windows compatibility.
Footnote:-
1: Windows RT, Windows 10 S, and Windows Phone.
modified 1-Mar-21 10:00am.
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Agree completely. I've been saying that "W10X" should be pronounced as "Windows Ten Times Worse" for a while now.
Mostly because the rumor mill has implied that unlike Windows 10 S(tupid); Windows 10X (Worse) won't have the ability to be converted into a full normal Windows install. Meaning when our less tech savy friends/family members buy a machine with it because they don't know any better we won't be able to fix it for them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Windows 10X (Worse) won't have the ability to be converted into a full normal Windows install. Meaning when our less tech savy friends/family members buy a machine with it because they don't know any better we won't be able to fix it for them.
Yes, I definitely see this happening in the future. I think there will be some very unhappy 10X device buyers.
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The only ways I can see it not being a disaster are if they relent and allow converting to standard Windows; at which point it's no more of a dumpsterfire than Win 10 Stupid was; or making it an education/enterprise only product not available to normal consumers. I could see some people in those groups wanting a chromebook equivalent that they could administer using their existing active directory infrastructure.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I could see some people in those groups wanting a chromebook equivalent that they could administer using their existing active directory infrastructure.
I have to admit that that might make sense with web apps.
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