Archive for December, 2008
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
I've had some reports that installing the Windows Vista SP2 beta (or "CPP") breaks Paint.NET v3.36.
You'll get an error message like so:
Contrary to the error, Paint.NET v3.36 does not require .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
There are two ways to fix this:
1. Install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. I recommend doing this ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
The very cool thing about Paint.NET v3.5 is that it installs quite fast on a fresh Windows XP SP2 machine. And that includes the installation of prerequisites like Windows Installer 3.1 and the Client Profile version of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Even on my new little Atom 330 box* ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Sadly, I fried my Pentium 4 test system a few days ago, which had proven invaluable in my performance testing of Paint.NET v3.5. I went to turn it on* and the screwdriver missed by a few millimeters, shorted the wrong pins, and ... bzzzt. No more P4.
* Since this system ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Brad Wolff recently wrote a comment on my earlier post, "Change of plans - here comes Paint.NET v3.5" :
"Rick - You mentioned that 3.5 will have “Improved rendering quality when zoomed in”. Can you elaborate on this? My fear is that we will end up having to look at the ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Fluent programming gets a bad reputation, since some developers like to write code like the following:
var time = 7.Days().Plus(4.Hours())
Barf. However, when used properly, I think it's very powerful. Let's look at a typical method with some parameter validation:
// Copy src[srcOffset, srcOffset + length) into dst[dstOffset, dstOffset + length)public static void ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Currently, the minimum version of Windows that Paint.NET will run on is XP SP2. Unfortunately, it's starting to show it's age and it's making a big hassle for the installer. The issue is that a "fresh" installation of XP SP2 does not have Windows Installer 3.1, whereas XP SP3 ...
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